From a Family Notebook, by Augustus Homer Callaway, 1920

My father, Elijah J. Marlow Callaway, had eight children, four boys and four girls. The oldest, a boy, died in infancy. The oldest girl, your Aunt Thenia, married Frank Stephens (Frank Stephens' father) in 1861. He was killed in the second battle of Manassas in 1862. The second girl, Angie L., died at our home in Gwinnett County, Ga., in 1889. She had never married. The third, Mary, married J. C. Sawyer. She had only one child, Willie, who is in Atlanta. She died in 1881. Martha J., the fourth, died in 1899. I am the sixth child and oldest boy that lived to be grown. I was born in Webster County, Ga., in 1854. Nickes W. was born in Henry County, Ga., in 1862. The girls all died between the ages of 45 and 52. All the old set of Callaways were Hardshell Baptists. My father was about the first to break off from that faith. Soon after his marriage to mother, she was Methodist, he joined the Methodist Protestant Church and soon became a preacher in that church. None of the Callaways that I knew of ever became very wealthy. None ever entered business to amount to anything. They were all of an agriculture trend of mind. They were all of a high moral character as far back as I ever learned except one of Uncle Burt's brothers (son?). You understand Uncle Burt was my Great Uncle. He had a boy named Allen that was of a low down character. He left Georgia in about 1858 and no one ever knew what ever became of him.

I guess we have no Callaway relations in Texas outside of your Uncle Nick's family, unless it be those three brothers near Tucker in Anderson County: John, Bill and Allen Callaway. My father had an uncle, named Joshua Callaway, who was a Hardshell Baptist preacher. He left Georgia several years before I was born. He went to Alabama, from there to Mississippi, later moved on west and was lost sight of. These brothers, that I spoke of, say their Grandfather came to Texas from Mississippi when their father was a boy and that his name was Joshua and was a Hardshell Baptist preacher and originally came from Georgia. So from their names we must be from the same stock.

Grandpa had several brothers and sisters. I never knew much about any but Great Uncle Burt (Gain's and John's father). Grandpa died in 1857, said to be 103 years old. My father had 2 brothers and 2 or 3 sisters. The girls died before I can remember. Pa was the oldest boy, Uncle Wilse next and Uncle Buck, the youngest, was killed in the war between the States in Confederate service. I think my father was born in South Carolina. He was born in 1804 and died in 1869. Most all of the Callaway genearations still live in Georgia, scattered along on both sides of the Flint River from near Atlanta to Ogletharp in southwest Georgia. Uncle Wilson, or Wilse as he was called, had 4 children.

End of Augustus Homer Callaway's Notes - The full context of these notes was originally published in the 1988 CFA Journal.

Augustus Homer Callaway was born in Webster Co., GA in 1854 and died in the little town of Montalba, TX from a heart attack, just after delivering a sermon for a revival he was conducting. He was a Methodist minister. He married Georgia Ann Jackson (b. 1855; d. 31 Jan 1919) about 1874 at McDonough, Henry Co., GA. At the time of their deaths they resided at Rt. 1, Palestine (Anderson Co.), Texas. After the death of Georgia Ann, Rev. Augustus Homer Callaway married in 1921, Florence Palmer, a school teacher in Palestine, TX. He had eight children by Georgia Ann, and two sons by Florence.

The children of Augustus Homer and Florence Palmer Callaway:
Augustus Homer Callaway, Jr. - b. 1922; d. 1976/7
J. E. Marlow Callaway - b. 1923; d. Nov. 17, 1997 in Athens, TX.

The above information and accompanying photographs were submitted to CFA by Ruth Foster Anderson, Rex, GA. Ramon W. Callaway of Crockett, TX (son of Cleophus Homer Callaway) also contributed much information on this family. Frustration has arisen in trying to interpret the NOTES of Augustus Homer Callaway. There is the feeling that he mixed up the generations. Regardless of the shortcomings of the NOTES, they did enable CFA to trace the ancestry of Augustus Homer Callaway.

His father, Elijah J. Marlow Callaway was the son of Elijah M. Callaway who, according to census records, was born in 1793 in Delaware. He married Sarah "Sallie" Leary in 1817 in Jones Co., GA. Augustus Homer Callaway said that his grandfather died in 1857 at the age of 103. He was confused here. Elijah M. did not die in 1857. It is possible that he confused his great grandfather's death. Levin Callaway (b. c1760, Delaware) would have been at an advanced age if he died in 1857. We have not found a record of Levin's estate settlement to determine his date of death, but he was not on the 1860 census. Levin Callaway married Elizabeth (Hall?, perhaps) in Delaware and some of their children were born there before the family made their move to Baldwin Co., GA during the 1790s. Levin Callaway (and his brother, Jehu, who also came to Baldwin Co., FA) were sons of Levin, Sr. and Mary Callaway, of Sussex Co., Delaware. Levin, Sr. died 1784 and Mary, his wife, died on 1 November 1793 in Sussex Co., Delaware. Of their eight children only two are known to have come to Georgia. The ancestry of Levin is shown on the CFA charts in the 1980 CFA Journal

This family line of descent is as follows:
Peter Callaway
John Callaway
John Callaway
Levin Callaway, Sr.
Levin Callaway
Elijah Marlow Callaway
Elijah J. Marlow Callaway
Augustus Homer Callaway

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