Thomas Callaway - Stanly County, North Carolina to Hill County, Texas

Thomas Callaway (Parham, John, Isaac, Edward, John, Peter Callaway), a prosperous farmer of Hill county, was born in North Carolina, in April 1851, a son of Parham and Nancy Callaway, also natives of North Carolina. The father was a soldier in the late war, was a successful farmer, and was a prominent man in his county. He died in 1864, and his widow still resides at the old homestead in Webster county, Missouri. The parents had ten children, of whom our subject is the fourth child, and the only one now living in Texas.

The latter moved with his parents to Webster county, Missouri, when two years of age, where he grew to manhood, and was reared to farm life.

In 1870, at the age of nineteen years, he engaged in farming for himself on rented land, and in 1874 he came to Texas, locating first in McLennan county. Seven years later he came to Hill county, and in 1886 bought his present farm of 152 acres, sixty-five acres of which is under a fine state of cultivation.

Mr. Callaway was married in 1870 to Miss Rebecca Shook, who was born in April 1854, a daughter of William Shook, a native of Tennessee, who moved to Webster county, Missouri, at an early day, where he died in 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Callaway have had seven children: William R., born December, 1870, is a farmer of Hill county; James T., born in November, 1875, is at home; Lemuel C., born in April, 1878; Thomas L., born in November, 1880; Joseph, born in November, 1883; died in February, 1888; Josephine, born in May, 1887; and Mary, in March, 1890. Mr. Callaway is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church.

The above biography from A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas, Lewis Publishing, Chicago, pp. 380-1, 1892.