Callaway Name Finds Its Places - Calloway Station, Indiana

Calloway Station, Indiana - This town was located in Monroe Township, Jefferson Co., Indiana. It was first established as a post office on May 22, 1893 and was discontinued on April 15, 1901. The town was located on the old Madison Railroad, and the first and, apparently only, postmaster was Isaac C. Williams. The town was probably named for Thomas Calloway who owned three tracts of land in Section 25 Township 15 Range 9 of Jefferson Co., IN, which he puchased between 1835 and 1850. The obituary of Thomas Calloway was found in an old Madison, Indiana newspaper and was dated 2 May 1889: "Died, Thomas Calloway, brother of B.F., at North Madison residence of son-in-law Right Patton; born near Dover, Delaware, January 4, 1804; came here in 1835, a year later to Calloway Station."

The first Calloways arrived in Jefferson Co., IN by 1840 when Thomas, Benjamin, Jessee and Eliza Calloway are found on census records. Jessee was aged 60-70 and was probably the head of the clan. He is probably the Jesse on the 1810 census of Kent Co., DE in Murderhill Hundred who was not on succeeding Delaware census records. This may be the Jesse Callaway who appeared in Fayette Co., KY briefly and was enumerated on the 1810 census. A Jesse Callaway was in Dearborn Co., IN in 1820, but he was not there for the 1830 census.

The 1850 census shows that children of Thomas Calloway were born in Ohio, so he may be the Thomas Calloway who was enumerated in Hamilton Co., Ohio in 1830.

This article was originally published in the 1988 CFA Journal.

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