Sheldon Cadwell was a farmer who like so many of his generation succumbed to the urge to move westward from the old Colonial lands to the frontiers of La Salle County, Illinois. Five of the seven children they raised into adulthood continued that westward movement migrating to Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and California. included herein are biographical sketches for the subject person and his adult children, a four-generation compilation of their known descendants, and indexes of their known descendants and their known spouses.