Hon. William Richard Callaway 1826 - 1897

A Journey From Delaware to Oregon
Hon. William Richard Callaway (William, Jr., William, Ebenezer, John, Peter Callaway), was born in Sussex county, Delaware, December 3, 1826. In 1831 his parents moved to Illinois. When 21 years of age his father gave him a farm in Scotland county, Missouri, from whence in 1849 he crossed the plains to California. In 1851 he returned East, and in 1864 came to Oregon; in 1866 to Benton county and purchased his present beautiful farm of 1285 acres. In 1877 Mr. Callaway represented Benton county in the State Legislature.

The above biography from History of Benton County Oregon, D. D. Fagan, pg. 509, 1885.

William married Abigail Jane Cecil on April 25, 1847 in Memphis, Scotland Co., MO. She was born Dec. 5, 1832 in Tennessee. They had 14 children; 4 sons and 11 daughters.

James Granvel Callaway was born Mar 17, 1848 in Scotland Co., MO. He married Martha Elizabeth Warren on 10 AUG 1874 in Brownsville, Linn Co., OR
Martha Anna Callaway was born Aug 25, 1849 in Scotland Co., MO
Laura Jane Callaway was born Apr 21, 1851 in Scotland Co., MO
Emma L. Callaway was born Oct 1, 1852 in Scotland Co., MO
Mary Ellen Callaway was born Feb 7, 1855 in Scotland Co., MO
Virginia Belle Callaway was born Mar 11, 1858 in Fillmore, Andrew Co., MO, and died Aug 18, 1875 in Benton Co., OR.
Lillian Leah Callaway was born Apr 2, 1860 in Scotland Co., MO
William Samuel Callaway was born Aug 6, 1861 in Scotland Co., MO. He died in 1861.
Eliza W. Callaway was born Oct 5, 1862 in MO. She married Milford H. Drummond Mar 13, 1884 in Benton Co., OR. They had one son, Leslie Callaway Drummond. She died Jul 11, 1885 in Benton Co., OR.
Elizabeth Callaway was born about 1865 in Benton Co., OR
Allen Burl Callaway was born May 31, 1867 in Benton Co., OR
Carroll Cecil Callaway was born Jan 18, 1869 in Wells, Benton Co., OR. He married Ida May Wells on Dec 17, 1894 in Portland, OR. They had 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on May 6, 1930 in Anchorage, Alaska, and was buried in Vancouver, WA.
Clarrissa Lee Callaway was born May 4, 1871 in Benton Co., OR
Frances May Callaway was born May 15, 1873 in Benton Co., OR

span style="color:#3333cc;">The article below from WPA Historical Records Survey, Linn Co., OR
Interview - 2 Apr 1940
Interviewee - Burl Callaway
(Burl died only 6 months after giving this interview, on Oct 19, 1940.)

"My name is A. B. (Allen Burl) Callaway. I am the son of William R. Callaway who was born in Sussex County, Delaware, on 3 Dec. 1826. He moved with his parents to Illinois in 1831. In 1845 when he was just 19 years old he married Miss Abigail Cecil.

"When father was 21 years old father and mother moved to Missouri, to Scotland County, where he took charge of a farm given him by his father. In 1849 he left his wife and family in Missouri and joined in the gold rush to California. He was captain of the train in which he traveled. After he reached California he worked in the gold mines for a time but in 1850 he returned to his family in the East having done well in his mining adventure.

"Father stayed in Missouri until 1864 and then, with his family accompanying him this time he again started for the Pacific Coast. This time his destination was Oregon. He first bought a place in Linn County, between Albany and Corvallis, but in 1866 he again moved, this time to Benton County where he bought a farm consisting of 1285 acres a few miles north of Corvallis. There he lived until about 1896 when he retired to a home in Corvallis. He died at Corvallis Jan 6, 1897.

"Father owned considerable interests in Eastern Oregon at various times and worked there himself but he never could take his family there. For one thing, there were no schools and the country was full of bad Indians. The Indians killed his horses, burned his house and destroyed his property generally. The only thing that they did not destroy was the juniper corral which would not burn. They killed all the horses in corral, however, and drove father out of the country a couple of times. There was no easy way of getting from the country then but to ride out.

"My mother was Abigail Cecil. She was born in Tennessee on Dec 5, 1838 or near that date. She was 47 years old when she died about 1885. Her birthplace was Tenures, Tenn. Father and mother had 14 children. All except the three or four youngest of us were born in Missouri and came to Oregon with our parents. I cannot give you the exact birth dates but the following are their names: (Names are copied from obituaries and are not complete - L.H.)

Mrs. Fred Hammel, Davisville, Cal. (Frances Mae Callaway)
Mrs. William Childs, Davisville, Cal. (Clarrissa Lee Callaway)
Mrs. William Hogan, Harney County, Ore. (Mary Ellen Callaway)
James Callaway, Brownsville, Oregon
Mrs. John Smith (Emma L. Callaway)
Mrs. J. R. Ripley (Elizabeth Callaway)
Mrs. Rickard (Laura Jane Callaway)
Mrs. J. D. Taylor (Lillian Leah Callaway)
Burl Callaway - Informant
Mrs. Alexander Smith (Martha Anna Callaway)
Carroll Callaway

All were born in the East except the last three.

"My father was acquainted with the James family in Missouri of whom Jesse James was one. During the Civil War father and his neighbors suffered a great deal of loss from the Federal Soldiers who came through or were stationed near. One man, our neighbor, happened to see Jesse James and complained of his losses and Jesse James said to him, 'Give the Federal Soldiers this message. We will call on you tomorrow.' He did come the next day but the soldiers had already left.

"After the family came to Oregon we had for a distant neighbor, north of us in Polk County, a man named Jim James. He was a brother of Jesse and Frank James' father. When I was about 8 years old Jesse and Frank James came to Oregon. I believe that they were lying low between their raids. They stayed with their uncle, Jim James in Polk County. During that summer they worked for their uncle and built a brick house on his place. It was situated on the James farm on the banks of Polk Creek. It stood there until last year when it was torn down.

"The James boys had made plans to rob a bank in Portland while they are here but after looking over the ground carefully they decided that the get-away would be too difficult and so finally gave up that plan.

"My brother, James G. Callaway, also came to Oregon in 1864. He was much older than I am and was born in Memphis, Scotland Co., Missouri on Mar 17, 1848. He remained with our parents on the first Linn County farm but finally located permanently at Brownsville, in Linn County. He spent a few years in California and three years in Crook County. He became acquainted with the Andrew Warren family of Brownsville. Warren's wife was Eliza Spaulding, the daughter of Henry Hart Spaulding, the pioneer missionary to the Nez Perce Indians. In August 1874, brother James married Martha E. Warren in Crook County. His wife died on Nov 9, 1882. They had three children as follows:

Daughter, died 1894
Maud Callaway, married a man named Childs.
Logan Callaway, born Nov 7, 1877. Died Jun 19, 1926. Logan Callaway married Miss Minnie Shea who survives him, now living in Salem. Their two sons, James and Warren Callaway also live in Salem.

"There was a third James Callaway of whom mention should be made. He was a brother of my father. Uncle James was a Methodist preacher and a school teacher. He preached in the Methodist Church here at Brownsville and at Lebanon.

"My father was a South Methodist and a Mason.

"Logan Cecil, my mother's brother was a race-horse man in early Linn County. Way back in the days when the town of Boston, on the Calapooia, east of present Shedd, was an active town they used to have race meets there every year. At that place my Uncle Logan Cecil bought a horse from a Mr. Hughes for which he paid $3000. It proved to be a very good investment for it won at many meets, especially at a matched race in Dawsonville, California against a horse owner by the name of Fred Warner. The winnings in that race were $10,000.

"My name is A. B. Callaway. the B stands for Burl. That is a contraction of Burlin, an old family name. As I have already stated my mother's name was Abigail Cecil. The Cecil family came from England where they were closely related to Lord Cecil and Lord Burleigh from whence comes my name.

"I was born in Linn County in 1867. When I was about six months we moved from Linn to Benton County as already stated. My home from that time on until maturity was north of Corvallis near the pioneer town of Tampico now long gone. Tampico was about three miles west of what is now known as Wells Station in Benton County, and about nine miles north-west of Corvallis. It was about one and one fourth miles west from the present highway. Jean Beagles now owns the land there but at one time it was owned by my sister's husband, John Smith, son of the large owner, Greenbury Smith. Greenbury at one time owned 36 sections in the valley, the most of it near the place called Greenbury, south of Corvallis. He had, by the way, only two sons and both of them married sisters. John Smith married my sister Anna Callaway.

"But to return to the Ghost Town of Tampico. That was where both my wife and myself attended school. Tampico was certainly one hot town in its day. It had, when I remember it, a store, a Post Office, a saloon, a hotel, a blacksmith shop and, at one time, a newspaper.

"The town of Tampico and the saloon there was a favorite gathering place for the soldiers stationed at Fort Hoskins in Kings Valley to the west. There they would come to drink and to fight and to race horses. The fort was situated close to what is known as the Kings Valley Store. It was established there in 1846 when Capt. Auger came with one company of soldiers.

"I was married to Ada Hunter on May 30, 1889. She was born in Benton County, near what is known as Granger Station on Sept. 3, 1866. We were married by Rev. S. G. Irvine D.D. of Albany.

"We first lived near my old home in Benton County but in 1900, we purchased a farm about two miles north of Brownsville in Linn County. There we lived until I retired from active farming a few years ago. I still own that farm which is now worked by our son Ned Callaway.

"We have had only three children. They are:
Ned Hunter Callaway. Born July 3, 1890 in Benton County. He now lives on, and works my farm north of Brownsville.
Bea Callaway. She married William K. Johnson who died in 1927. She now makes her home with her parents here in Brownsville.
Ione Callaway. Born Feb 11, 1906. She is a teacher in Eastern Oregon."

Much of the information in this article was provided by The Benton County Oregon Genealogical Society.

William Otis Callaway, MD 1888 - 1965

San Mateo county is fortunate in having within its borders so able and efficient a physician as Dr. William Otis Callaway (Eugene Lloyd, Abraham Aaron, Joseph, Job, Sr., Edward, John, Peter Callaway), of Burlingame, who as a specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases has gained an enviable reputation and a large and remunerative practice.

He was born in Engleville, Colorado, on the 23rd of October, 1888, and is a son of Eugene Lloyd and Mary Etta (Detamore) Callaway. His father was born in Alabama January 28, 1858, and became one of the early pioneers of Colorado, in which state he located in the early '70s. He there became successful as a wholesale merchant, having business organizations in Denver and Pueblo. He died April 18, 1921, in San Francisco, California, and is buried in the Cypress Lawn cemetery in that city.

The mother was born in Virginia, October 18, 1862, and is a daughter of Peter Detamore, who later became a cattle king in Colorado. When she was a little girl the family went west, traveling by train to Kit Carson, Kansas, and thence by ox team to Colorado. She now makes her home with her son in Burlingame.

William Otis Callaway attended the public shcools of Colorado, graduating in 1906 from the Grand Central high school in Pueblo. He attended the University of Colorado, from which he was graduated, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1910, and then matriculated in the medical school of Tulane University, at New Orleans, Louisiana, where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1914. He served his internship during 1915-16 in Charity Hospital, New Orleans, and became resident surgeon at the Hotel Dieu, in that city, where he remained until the United States entered the World war. He immediately enlisted in the United States Medical Reserve Corps, in which he was commissioned a first lieutenant, and was later ordered overseas, serving with Base Hospital No. 102, which was attached to the Sixth Italian Army. He was located in the town of Vicenza, province of Venetia, northern Italy, until after the close of the war, and in 1919 returned to the United States and was sent to the Army Medical School in Washington, D. C., where he took a postgraduate medical course. On graduating therefrom, he was commissioned a captain in the medical corps of the regular army and was ordered to the Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco, where he served for two and a half years as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist. He then resigned from the army and came to Burlingame, where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. Thorough educational training and extensive experience have made him more than ordinarily efficient in his special field of work and his reputation as a successful physician extends far beyound the boundaries of his home county.

The Doctor is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon college fraternity, the Omega Upsilon Phi medical fraternity and the Alpha Omega Alpha honorary fraternity, and he also belongs to the Burlingame Rotary Club and the Burlingame Country Club. Cordial and friendly in manner, he has formed a wide acquaintance since coming to San Mateo county, and his professional ability and strong personality have gained for him a high place in public esteem.

The above article is from History of San Mateo County, California, Roy W. Cloud, S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., Chicago, Ill., pp. 2-120-2-124, 1928.
As of the 1930 census, at the age of 41, he had never married. He died October 3, 1965 in San Diego, California.

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.

John T. Callaway of Greene County, Illinois

John T. Callaway (Edwin H., John, John, Richard, Joseph Callaway), whose activity in business affairs has made him one of the representative men of Greenfield, was born near this city, May 1, 1855. His father, Edwin H. Callaway, was a native of Kentucky, was reared to manhood there and after arriving at years of maturity wedded Matilda Matlock, a native of Ohio. Removing to Greene county, Illinois, he cast in his lot with its early settlers, his father, John Callaway, having entered land from the government and sharing in the arduous task of developing a new farm, the family home being near Greenfield. There he reared his children, providing for their support through his careful conduct of general farming interests. His death occurred there about 1864, while his wife, who long survived him, departed this life about 1886. In their family were four children, the eldest being J. T., of this review, while the others are Minnie, the wife of F. G. McChesney, of Greenfield; Ella, the wife of A. N. Williams, of Mobile, Alabama; and Iola, who died in infancy.

J. T. Callaway, reared under the parental roof, has been dependent upon his own resources from an early age, not only for what he has acquired financially, but for his education, supplementing his early school privileges by many valuable lessons learned in the school of experience or by facts gleamed from reading and observation.

When a youth of about thirteen years he began clerking in the employ of N. C. Woolley, and thus he had a thorough business training, being employed as a salesman for a number of years. He then purchased a third interest in the business, his partner being E. K. Metcalf, and the relation between them was maintained for about twenty years. On selling out the business at Greenfield, Mr. Callaway, E. K. Metcalf and A. O. Auten engaged in business at Jerseyville, conducting a store under the name of the Callaway & Metcalf Company, and there our subject remained for three years. On the expiration of that period he sold his interest in that mercantile enterprise and formed the Belknap & Callaway Company. In a short time Mr. Belknap sold out and soon afterward the R. L. Metcalf Dry Goods Incorporated Company was formed and has since had a prosperous existence.

The business organization was effected in 1895 and Mr. Callaway has since been active in control of the mercantile interests of the company at Greenfield, where they have a large double store building, carrying an extensive stock of dry goods, clothing and carpets. An excellent trade has been built up and the house sustains a very enviable reputation for the line of goods which it carries and its fair dealing. Mr. Callaway has been president of the company since its incorporation and the success of the house is largely due to his enterprise, discernment and unflagging perseverance. The company is now building a new store forty by one hundred and thirty-five feet, said to be one of the best of its kind in central Illinois.

In November, 1881, Mr. Callaway was united in marriage to Miss Lillian Woolley, a native of Greene county, reared and educated here, her father, N. C. Woolley having been one of the early settlers of this portion of the state. They lost their only child in infancy and with this exception theirs has been a happy married life, and Mr. and Mrs. Callaway have made their home a hospitable one, it being a favorite resort with their many friends.

Politically Mr. Callaway has been a life-long Republican and though he has never sought or desired office he keeps well informed on the issues of the day, maifesting a public-spirit citizenship in his interest in political questions.

He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and he served as a member of the building committee at the time of the erection of the new house of worship and was a generous contributor to the fund that was raised for building purposes.

He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, being affiliated with the blue lodge and chapter at Greenfield and the commandery at Carrollton, while he is also identified with the Mystic Shrine at St. Louis. He has passed through all of the chairs of the lodge and chapter and is now a past master and past high priest.

Without extraordinary family or pecuniary advantages he seized the opportunity that lay before him and today is recognized as a man of sterling ability and high character who has gained success and at the same time won the confidence and esteem of all. Greenfield classes him with its representative men and he enjoys in high degree the friendship fo those with whom he has been associated as the years have gone by.

The above biography is from Past and Present of Greene County, Illinois, Hon. Ed. Miner, S. J. Clark Publishing Company, Chicago, pg. 489, 1905.

Hobble Creek Canyon, Utah Territory

In the spring of 1848, Oliver B. Huntington and Barney Ward, an old trapper, came to Utah County on a hunting and trapping expedition, and while encamped on the banks of the local stream, their bell mare got loose from her hobbles and the band strolled away and were captured near the mouth of Springville Canyon, hence the name Hobble Creek. In Huntington's diary he recorded the following:

"I moved temporarily into Hobble Creek Canyon, six miles from Springville, having taken up about 80 acres of land there. For company I shared the land with Levi Callaway and he moved there with me, where we spent the summer working jointly, cultivating what land we could clear and kept a herd also. We lost all the crops by the lawlessness of wicked men turning their stock into Our field, and by the frost, which came uncommonly early. We did save potatoes enough for the winter and twelve bushels of wheat. In September we moved our families down out of the canyon. Bears were so plentiful we deemed it unsafe to remain."

The above article is from Daughters of Utah Pioneers. An Enduring Legacy, Vol. IX - Utah Rivers, Utah Printing Company, 1978.
Above photo of Hobble Creek Canyon from utahmountainbiking.com.

The listing below is from Sons of the Utah Pioneers - Utah Pioneer Companies.

The following family arrived in Utah October 9, 1852:
Captain - J. C. Snow
Levi Callaway
Mary Callaway, his wife
Lucy Callaway, his daughter

These records of people coming into Utah were to be turned into Brigham Young upon arrival. Though many records were not turned in, between 1846-68 more than 15,000 records were accumulated.

Who was this pioneer, Levi Callaway? What were his beginnings? Family history indicates that about 1790, in the small settlement of Mayslick, Mason Co., KY, George M. Callaway was born. No proof of this has been found so far and nothing further is known about George Callaway's ancestors at this time. The only Callaway I am aware of in this area at this time is John Callaway (James, Joseph Callaway) who married Peggy Mitchell in Mason Co., KY on Feb. 9, 1796.

Records do show that a George H. Caloway married Lucinda Doggett on April 2, 1821 in Mason Co., KY. Lucinda was born in 1794 in Mayslick. Her parents, Elmore Doggett and Elizabeth Roberts had come from Lancaster Co., VA, where they had married on March 30, 1786. They were in Kentucky by 1794, as Lucinda was born there. Elmore Doggett was born in 1765 in Lancaster Co., VA and died in 1805 in Mason Co., KY. He served in the Virginia Navy during the Revolution, as noted from the records below:

History of Virginia's Navy in the Revolution, Richmond, VA, Mitchell & Hotchkiss, Printers, 1934.
Doggett, Elmore (Elmer), Hero Gallery, Feb. 13, 1778. NBJ. Tempest, Dec. 7, 1779.

Revolutionary War Records, Volume 1, Virginia. Washington D.C.: 1936.
Section II (17) [Document No. 43] A list of non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the VA State Line, and non-commissioned officers and seamen and marines of the state navy, whose names are on the army register, and who have not received bounty land for revolutionary service, Richmond 1835. John H. Smith, Comr, &C.
Doggett, Elmore, Seaman

George and Lucinda had a son, Levi Hamilton Callaway. He was born September 19, 1824 in Mayslick. He died on April 28, 1899, at the age of 74, leaving behind 12 children as his descendants. During his lifetime, he joined the Mormons, migrating across the country and ending his days in Manti, Sanpete Co., Utah.

Utah Cemetery Inventory
Name: Levi H. Callaway
Gender: M (Male)
Birth Date: 19 Sep 1824
Birth Place: Maysville KY.
Death Date: 28 Apr 1899
Cemetery: Manti City Cemetery
Grave Location: Lot 12 Blk 2 Plat A Grv 1
Relatives: Father Geo. Callaway
Mother Lucinda Daggart

It is not known for certain how Levi ended up in Iowa in 1850, but the 1840 census shows a head of household, George Calloway, age 50-60 in Louisa Co., IA. There is no George Callaway listed in KY in the 1840 census records. So it is possible that Levi's family left Kentucky and migrated to Iowa.

Levi married twice in his life. His first wife was Mary Frances Van Buren. She was born in Trenton, Oneida Co., NY, the daughter of Cheney Garrett Van Buren and Lucy Phillips. Levi and Mary Frances married on November 17, 1850 in Garden Grove, Decatur Co., Iowa. It is interesting to note on the 1850 census, taken only 2 weeks before Levi and Mary Frances married, that Mary Frances was living with her family in Decatur Co., IA, and Levi was working as a day laborer and living in Pottawattamie Co., IA. This is a distance of 115 miles as the crow flies and seems a great obstacle for a betrothed couple to have overcome.

As we know from the Mormon records cited above, Levi and Mary Frances left for Utah in 1852. It is likely that they were invited by followers of Brigham Young to go to Utah to help settle the new Mormon home, for they traveled there in one of the documented Mormon Companies. Times were very difficult for the Mormons. They were greatly persecuted during this time for their religious beliefs, and had been fleeing locations in Ohio and Illinois to escape the persecution. Brigham Young often used his own money to fund and supply these companies, in order to bring settlers to Utah. Levi and Mary Frances lost two children along the journey from Iowa to Utah; Lucy Elizabeth born Sep 20, 1851 in Garden Grove, Decatur Co., IA, died Sep 20, 1852 on the plains of Wyoming, and Lucinda Jane born Nov 7, 1852 less than a month after they arrived in Little Cottonwood, Salt Lake Co., UT, died a month later in December.

Levi and Mary Frances settled in Utah and lived in several different locations throughout the state. Levi was always listed as a farmer on the census records. They had 7 other children.
Mary Frances Callaway born Jan 31, 1854 in Little Cottonwood, Salt Lake Co., UT.
Levi Cheney Callaway born Mar 10, 1857 in Springville, Utah Co., UT. He married Caroline Adolpha Grange in 1880 and died Dec 29, 1925 in Panaca, Lincoln Co., NV.
George Washington Callaway born Feb 8, 1859 in Springville, Utah Co., UT. He married Raphine Sevine Nielsen and died Jun 8, 1928 in Richfield, Sevier Co., UT.
Julia Ann Callaway born Jan 24, 1861 in Springville, Utah Co., UT. She married twice; William Pratt Stephens, and Archibald McNeil, and died Aug 16, 1940 in Orangeville, Emery Co., UT.
Samuel Rollo Callaway born Jan 23, 1863 in Manti, Sanpete Co., UT. He was listed as a miner on the 1910 Utah census. He married Ida Keate in 1888. Ida's father was born in England, and her mother was born in Denmark. They had 5 children, two daughters and three sons; daughter, Georgia born 1889 in UT, son, A. Walter born 1891 in Utah, daughter, Nevada born 1895 in UT, son, Sheldon K. born 1901 in UT, and son, Robert Cecil born 1903 in UT. By 1920 they had moved to Los Angeles, CA. Their daughter, Nevada was a stenographer for a Moving Pictures company in Los Angeles. Ida and Samuel were separated by 1920 and divorced by 1930. Samuel died in Los Angeles, CA on Jul 31, 1939.
Silas Milton Callaway born Feb 7, 1865 in Beaver, Beaver Co., UT. He married Loretta Merriam on Oct 28, 1891. They divorced. She is listed on the 1920 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT census living with her daughter, Olive's family. Silas married a second time to Emily Louise Doolittle on Oct 28, 1908. He moved to Nampa, Canyon Co., ID and died Nov 3, 1945.
Ellen Ida Callaway born Apr 18, 1867 in Hebron, Washington Co., UT. She married William Wallace Crawford in 1886 and died May 9, 1940 in Ogden, Weber Co., UT.

Levi's daughter, Mary Frances Callaway, married Daniel Duncan McArthur, on Apr 10, 1871. He was born in Holland, Erie Co., NY, the son of Duncan McArthur and Susan McKeen. This McArthur family had come from Scotland and settled in New Hampshire by 1776. Mary Frances was his fifth wife. He was 34 years older. On the 1880 census, he is listed as having three wives at that time, Mary Frances being the third listed. Two of his previous wives had died by 1880.

There is an interesting story about Daniel recorded in, Utah, Our Pioneer Heritage, Volume 3, A Treasury of Indian Stories in Pioneer Days, 1996. "Daniel McArthur, a bishop in the pioneer settlement of St. George, was the owner of a field of corn and on several occasions discovered that a considerable amount had been stolen while he was presiding at Sacrament meeting. One Sunday he decided to catch the culprit so he hid among the stalks and waited. Before long he heard the sound of corn being pulled. He crept quietly toward the intruder and hit him over the back with a piece of wood. The Indian already had one bag full of plump ears and was proceeding to fill another when surprised by Bishop McArthur. He was asked why he took the corn and answered that he was very hungry. The Indian was then told to take the bags to the McArthur home where he would be given a meal, and that any time he was hungry to go there and he would be fed. He was a regular visitor, at least once a week, for many years. The Indian, Caboose was baptized by Mr. McArthur into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints some years after this incident, along with thirty-four other members of his tribe." - Emma Cottam McArthur

He was a devout Mormon and avid follower of first, Joseph Smith and then Brigham Young, and did much missionary work both in the United States and abroad. He also served in military positions as is described in, A Genealogy of James Bullock and Mary Hill, Latter Day Saint Pioneers, Kenneth C. Bullock, Provo, Utah, pg. 208, 1987. "At various times Daniel Duncan McArthur served to do military and police duty, notably during the troublous times at Nauvoo, Illinois. In Utah during the Walker, Ute, and Navajo raids and wars he took a part; also in the so-called Buchanan war. He served for some time as major under Gen. Daniel H. Wells, and was afterwards commissioned colonel of infantry by Governor Durkee. During the anti-polygamy raids he was hunted for six years. The officers succeeded in finding him in Apr. 1890. In order to save his family from exposure, insult and insolence of court officials, he pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful cohabitation, and was fined $321.00, which he promptly paid."

With his five wives, he had 22 children. Daniel died in 1908 and was buried in St. George, Washington Co., UT. On the 1920 census, Mary Frances is still living in St. George, with her daughter, Ellen, son-in-law, Hargis Anderson, Jr. and four grandchildren. She died in 1928 and is also buried in St. George.

On February 14, 1869 Levi's first wife, Mary Frances Callaway died. She is buried in Hebron, Washington Co., UT. Eight months later, on Oct 5, 1869, Levi married his second wife, Anna Elizabeth Hall. She was born in 1853 and was only one year older than Levi's daughter, Mary Frances. Anna Elizabeth's father was Job Pitcher Hall who was born in Belmont, Waldo Co., ME and was a Mormon by the time of his marriage to Mary Elizabeth Jones in 1848, in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., IL. Nauvoo was the second Mormon settlement, the first being in Kirtland, Ohio. By the time he was 30 years old he had migrated from Maine to Utah, a staggering distance for that time period.

Levi and Anna Elizabeth had 9 children.
Gazchem Callaway (male) was born Jan 29, 1871 in Hebron, Washington Co., UT, and died at birth.
Anna Elizabeth Callaway was born Feb 26, 1872 in Panaca, NV and died Feb 21, 1887.
Mary Lovina Callaway was born Apr 1, 1874 in Panaca, NV and died Oct 12, 1892. She married Frederick Cheal, but died 4 months after the marriage.
Leva Lavina Callaway was born Mar 20, 1876 in Panaca, NV and died Jul 2, 1937 in Orangeville, Emery Co., UT. She married twice; Joseph Oliver Luke and Abinadi Olsen. She had seven known children.
Edna Rosella Callaway was born Aug 8, 1883 in Gunlock, Washington Co., UT and died Oct 23, 1962 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT. She married John Alma Winn and had five known children.
Effie May Callaway was born Nov 8, 1885 in Orangeville, Emery Co., UT. She married Leonard Asay and had seven known children.
Wesley Andrew Callaway was born Jan 27, 1888 in Escalante, Garfield Co., UT, and died in 1898.



Levi Hamilton Callaway was born Jul 28, 1878 in Panaca, Lincoln Co., NV, married Caroline Smith and died Oct 4, 1955. He spent many years in the state of Washington working as a cook at a logging camp. He had three known sons; Arthur, Leonard and Howard.

Above a photo of a logging camp in the state of Washington, circa 1921, courtesy of the University of Washington.

Eliza Frances Callaway was born Jun 2, 1880 in Panaca, Lincoln Co., NV and died Apr 27, 1962 in Panguitch, Garfield Co., UT. She married James Thomas Daly, Jr. and had one known son, James Laverne Daly.

The following biography of James Thomas Daly, Jr. from Utah Since Statehood, 4 volumes, S. J. Clark Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, 1919.

"James T. Daly, Jr., a jeweler and optician of Panguitch, where he has established a substantial business and has an attractive and well appointed store, was born at St. George, Utah, January 4, 1880, a son of James T. and Ellen L. Hale (Riding) Daly. He acquired a common school education in Panguitch and in 1904 entered the Stone School of Watch Making at St. Paul, Minnesota. The following year he pursued a special course in the Minneapolis School of Watch Making and Optics, being there graduated the same year. Returning to Panguitch, he established a jewelry and optical store in 1906 and as the years have passed he has prospered. He today owns a splendid brick business block and has a good stock of jewelry, optical goods, cut glassware and fancy goods. His sales have reached a substantial figure and his enterprise and close application are bringing to him very gratifying success. He is also a stockholder in the Social Hall Corporation.

On the 24th of November, 1897, Mr. Daly was married to Miss Eliza Frances Callaway, who was born at Panaca, Nevada, a daughter of Levi H. and Anna E. (Hall) Callaway. The father came to Utah in the early days. The mother was the first white child born in Paragonah, Iron Co., Utah. Mr. and Mrs. Callaway resided at Panaca, Nevada, and afterward settled at Orangeville, Emery county, Utah, while subsequently they removed to Manti, where the father passed away. The mother is still living in Panguitch. Mr. and Mrs. Daly have become parents of one child, James Laverne, born to them in Panguitch, November 25, 1900. He is now a student of Hile's School of Watch Making in San Francisco, California. Mr. and Mrs. Daly adopted Estella Hall, daughter of Charles and Sarah E. Babcock Hall, on the 23rd of June, 1908. She was born at Soldiers Canyon, Carbon county, Utah, July 23, 1902.

Mr. Daly holds membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is superintendent of the north ward Sunday school and member of the social advisory committee and has served as first vice president of the Utah Association of Optometry. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he has filled the office of town marshal, while at the present writing he is serving his fourth term as a member of the city council and is chief probation officer of Garfield county. His duties have ever been discharged with promptness and fidelity and his capability is widely recognized. In business circles, too, he has made an enviable name and place by reason of his progressiveness and thorough reliability."

The 1880 census shows that during the 1870s, Levi and Anna Elizabeth lived in Lincoln Co., Nevada. Several of their children were born there. The census also gives us one small clue about Levi's ancestors. It states that his father was born in NC. While this could just be a census error and nothing more, it could also indicate that his ancestors were in North Carolina at some point.

By 1883, when Edna Rosella was born, Levi and Anna Elizabeth were back in UT. Perhaps they traveled to Nevada while following the Mormon movement, or for a chance at better land and opportunity. For whatever reason, it seems not to have worked out and they returned to Utah, leaving behind one son, Levi Cheney Callaway, who married, had children and remained there the rest of his life.

It appears that only Levi's daughter, Mary Frances Callaway McArthur, in following the Mormon faith, practiced polygamy. All other members of the family, including Levi, chose to remain monogamous. Levi must have lived through some very harsh times, traveling across the country in wagon trains, settling a new land, and suffering persecution from his neighbors. Yet still a large, strong family emerged and descendants can probably be found today in what was then the Utah Territory. A testament to the strong pioneering spirit of a Callaway.

Article written for the CFA Blog by Donna Morgan, August 2004.

William Francis Callaway, born 1844 in Sussex County, Delaware

WILLIAM FRANCIS CALLAWAY

William F. Callaway, of the firm Callaway Bros., was born in Sussex County, Del., September 11, 1844. He received an academic education, and followed teaching for a couple of years. Like so many young men before and since, he turned his face westward and resolved to win a name and place for himself amid new scenes, and in a younger land. In the fall of 1865, he was employed for a short time in a railroad office in Kansas City, Mo., and subsequently entered a law and abstract office, remaining there until November, 1866. At this date he came to Denver, making the journey across the Plains by wagon teams. On his arrival in Denver, Mr. Callaway obtained a position in a crockery store, and continued clerking in that establishment about six years. He engaged in the book and stationery business for about two years longer, in company with D. W. Richards. In the spring of 1878, he formed a co-partnership with his brother, Mr. George F. Callaway, the new firm being engaged in the queensware and crockery trade. Mr. Callaway has been engaged in this business ever since, and from a comparatively small beginning has built up a large wholesale and retail trade. He is emphatically a self-made man, having an abundant supply of that energy, enterprise and business sagacity necessary to success in this new and wide-awake Western country.

The above biography is from History of the City of Denver, Arapahoe County, and Colorado, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, pg. 389, 1880.
See additional information on these four brothers, William, George, John and Robert, in the May 2004 CFA Newsletter, and in an article about the Delaware Hotel on the CFA Web Site. Who are their ancestors?

The following article and the 1880 census show that William Francis Callaway was married for a short period of 2 years (1876-1878) and had one child. His wife Alice Reinhart Callaway died of the heat. It is not known what happened to the child, but no child is listed living with William on the 1880 census.

Death From Heat
Mrs. Alice Callaway, wife of W. F. Callaway, died very suddenly on Sunday afternoon, Jul 21, 1878, at her residence No. 460 Champa Street. The extreme rarity of death from heat or sunstroke in this climate is a well conceded fact, but the death of this estimable lady is ascribed by her phyusician to excessive heat.
Mrs. Callaway had prepared dinner in a necessarily hot kitchen. It was a light dinner, her husband says. The meal being placed on the table, the meat course had been eaten when Mrs. Callaway, without saying anything, passed out of the dining room into the kitchen. Nothing was thought of this. A pot boiling over, burning meat, or some such trivial errand, her husband thought had called her. The wife not returning in five or ten minutes, probably ten, Mr. Callaway got up from the table and went into the kitchen. Looking through an open door into a back kitchen, he saw his wife lying on her back, and he says he supposes she was dead then. Dr. Whitehead was sent for, and his office being near by, was soon at her side, and the lady was pronounced dead. She was not subject to heart disease. She never had any symptoms of organic heart disease, or any of apoplexy. She was not a strong woman, and it is believed a thermometer in the room would have indicated at least 110 degrees. These facts, together with the fact that she had on other occasions felt the heat so as to be nauseated, leave no doubt in the mind of her physician that she died from the heat, the first case it is remembered to have been reported in Denver.
Mrs. Callaway was about 25 years of age, and had been married only two years. She was an esteemed member of society, both after her marriage and when she was Miss Alice Reinhart. Her father, Dr. Reinhart, who was known in Denver, died some two years ago. She leaves a little babe.

~ from the Denver Daily Tribune, Denver, Colorado, July 23, 1878.

Jonathan Wilson Callaway Biography 1834 - 1894

JONATHAN WILSON CALLAWAY
In reviewing the lives of prominent citizens of Little Rock, the name of Jonathan Wilson Callaway (from the Peter Callaway line) is justly given an enviable position, for it is difficult to find one of the present day more entitled to honorable-mention, or who possesses to such an extent the universal esteem of his acquaintances. Born in Arkadelphia, Clark County, Ark., January 27, 1834, he is the son of Jonathan O. Callaway, who came to Arkansas with his father John Callaway, in 1817.

John Hemphill, the maternal grandfather of J. W. Callaway, came to Arkansas from South Carolina in December, 1811, and in 1814 erected large salt mills one mile east of the present site of Arkadelphia. For this purpose he purchased about sixty sugar-kettles in New Orleans, which were used in the manufacture of salt. The labor employed was principally that of the negroes brought by Mr. Hemphill from South Carolina. These salt works were operated mostly by the family until 1851, and supplied a large territory. They were rebuilt in 1861, and were operated by the Confederate States Government during the late war, and several additional furnaces were erected at the same place during that time by private enterprise.

Grandfather Callaway came to the Territory of Arkansas from Fredericktown, Mo., and settled near what is now Arkadelphia.

***** The family were pioneers in Kentucky with Daniel Boone, and with him went to Missouri. Flanders Callaway, a brother of the paternal grandfather, married the daughter of Daniel Boone, and Callaway County, Mo., was named for Capt. James Callaway, a son of Flanders Callaway. *****

(Since this biography was written, it has been proven that this family is not related to the Flanders Callaway family, and the paragraph above stating this connection is false. This family descends from Peter Callaway, who immigrated from England to Maryland. The Flanders Callaway family descends from Joseph Callaway, who immigrated from England to Virginia.)

For many years Jonathan O. Callaway was engaged in the salt works of his father-in-law, John Hemphill, but at the time of his death, in 1854, was an extensive cotton planter.

At the age of sixteen years Jonathan Wilson Callaway was employed as copylist in the county clerk's office, and subsequently held the position of bookkeeper in a large establishment.

In 1858 he began merchandising in Arkadelphia, which was abruptly discontinued at the breaking out of the war, that active part might be taken in the struggle. He was appointed first lieutenant in Capt. Flanagins's Company (E), McIntosh's regiment, later being made commissary of subsistence in the regimental brigade and division. He was afterward assigned to duty as assistant to the chief of bureau of subsistence for the Trans-Mississippi Department, with headquarters at Shreveport, La., and Marshall, Tex. His final surrender was made with the Confederate forces, at Shreveport, at the close of the war, in May, 1865, following which he walked the whole distance back to Arkadelphia.

In October, 1865, Mr. Callaway embarked in the commission business at Camden, Ark., which he continued until 1872, a part of the time residing at New Orleans in connection with his business interests.

In 1874 he was elected clerk of the State senate, and in 1876 received the nomination of the Democratic State convention for clerk of the chancery court, to which position he was elected. Removing to Little Rock he held the office for five terms, or ten years, then voluntarily retiring, much to the regret of those whose interests he had so well and faithfully served.

The year 1867 witnessed his marriage with Miss Annie Vickers, and to their union three children have been born: Lizzie, Mary and Estelle.

Mr. Callaway occasionally acts as commissioner or receiver of the Pulaski Chancery Court, and is lending his valuable assistance in populating Arkansas with immigrants and developing the immense resources of the county and State. He enjoys a wide acquaintance and the respect and esteem of a host of friends.

The above biography is from Central Arkansas Counties - Biographical & Historical Memoirs, Chapter 19, History of Pulaski County, pg. 427, 1889.

J. H. Callaway of Peculiar, Cass County, Missouri

J. H. Callaway, of Peculiar, is one of the progressive young men of Cass County, and a native son of this county. He was born in 1886 and is a son of T. M. and Kate Callaway, natives of Tennessee. They were the parents of two children who are now living. A. G., Peculiar, Missouri, and J. H., the subject of this sketch.

When the Callaway family came to Cass County they bought a farm of one hundred and twenty acres three miles south of Peculiar where the father engaged in farming and stock raising. He has met with a reasonable degree of success and now resides in Union township.

J. H. Callaway, was reared and educated in Peculiar township and in 1906 engaged in farming on his own account on his father's place in West Peculiar township. Five years later he bought a farm and has since been engaged in farming, and also works at painting and paper hanging. Since attaining his majority Mr. Callaway has taken an active part in politics and is now serving as township collector.

In 1907 Mr. Callaway was married to Miss Clara, daughter of Peter and Sophia Theden. The Theden family came from Iowa to this state in 1898, and consisted of the parents and four children besides Mrs. Callaway, as follows: Mrs. Ella Ewers, Peculiar; Mrs. Rosa Callaway, Peculiar; Mrs. Hattie Knight, Peculiar; and Hugo, Peculiar. To Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Callaway has been born one child, James Vernon.

The above article is from History of Cass County, Missouri, Allen Glenn, pg. 795, 1917.

J. F. Callaway , Merchant of Peculiar, Cass County, Missouri

J. F. (John Farrar) Callaway, (William Sanders, John Farrar, John Farrar, Thomas, Jr., Thomas, Joseph Callaway) senior member of the firm of Callaway & Welborn, general merchants of Peculiar, Missouri, is a native of Cass County. He is a son of W. S. (William Sanders) and Elizabeth Callaway. W. S. Callaway, the father, was a son of John and Mary Callaway, natives of Tennessee, who settled in Cass County in 1844.

J. F. Callaway was reared and educated in Cass County. January 20, 1900, a partnership was formed with J. F. Garrett, and they engaged in the mercantile business at Peculiar. In 1902 W. A. Welborn succeeded to the interest of J. F. Garrett and the firm became Callaway & Welborn. Two years later, Mrs. Alice Hockaday became a partner in the business and since that time the business has been conducted under the firm name of Callaway and Welborn. They do an extensive business, carrying stock worth about ten thousand dollars. Their methods of square dealing have won the confidence of the buying public and they are rewarded by a large trade which covers an extensive scope of territory.

Mr. Callaway was united in marriage December 29, 1898 with Miss Ollie Welborn, a sketch of whom appears in this volume.

Mr. Callaway belongs to that type of successful merchants whose methods inspire confidence and spell success.

The above article from History of Cass County, Missouri, Allen Glenn, pg. 712, 1917.

William Sanders Callaway 1847 - 1921

W. S. (William Sanders) Callaway, (John Farrar, John Farrar, Thomas, Jr., Thomas, Joseph Callaway) a Civil War veteran, now residing at Peculiar, is a native son of Cass County. He belongs to one of the pioneer families of this section of the state. Mr. Callaway was born in 1847 and is a son of John F. and Mary C. (Marrow) Callaway. The Callaway family came from Tennessee in 1844, and the father entered six hundred acres of government land in Bates County, although the family lived in Cass, which at that time was Van Buren County. Some of the early member of the Callaway family came from North Carolina to Virginia. (This probably should read Virginia to North Carolina.)

W. S. Callaway has one brother living, Hugh Callaway, who resides at Carrollton, Missouri. The date at which the Callaway family settled in Cass County was an early period in the settlement of this section and at that time the settlements were confined to streams, as the pioneers in those days were not inclined to venture out into the open prairie to make their permanent home, for various reasons. Mr. Callaway spent his boyhood days amidst the primitive pioneer surroundings of considerably more that a half century ago. As a boy he has a distinct recollection of much of the pioneer life of Cass County.

In those days the broad prairies stretched out for miles until the horizon limited the vision, and there was not a sign of a fence to be seen. Mr. Callaway has seen deer by the herds. Various kinds of small game, such as quails and prairie chickens, were so plentiful that they scarcely attracted passing notice. Most of the supplies in those days were hauled from Kansas City, or rather Westport. The neighbors would arrange to make up a six ox team and wagon and in that way haul their supplies. They hauled their wheat and corn to Hickman's Mills to have their flour and meal ground. Mr. Callaway remembers when Kansas City, the present metropolis of the west, was no larger than Harrisonville now is. He says that the years of hardship which followed immediately after the Civil War were even worse than the pioneer days which preceded that period by several years.

Mr. Callaway was a mere boy when the Civil War brke out. However he served more than two years in the Confederate army, durying that long and fearful struggle, and gallantly fought for the right as he saw it. The principles of "the lost cause" have ever beena part of his nature and dear to him.

In 1873 he bagan life for himself as a farmer and has met with success both as a farmer and stock raiser. He now owns two hundred acres of valuable land which he rents, although he and his wife reside in their old homestead and retain ten acres of the home site.

Mr. Callaway was married in 1873 to Miss Lizzie Wills, a daughter of Alpheus and Lacy Ann Wills, who were early settlers in Missouri, coming here in 1857.

To Mr. and Mrs. Callaway have been born severn children, as follows: Mrs. Mary C. Wilburn, Peculiar; John F., Peculiar; Mrs. Cora J. Funk, Alberta, Canada; T. A., Peculiar; H. T., Harrisonville; Lacy, Fulton, Missouri; and W. S., Peculiar.

Mr. Callaway is one of Cass County's substantial citizens. The members of the Callaway family are prominent in the community.

The above article from History of Cass County, Missouri, Allen Glenn, pp. 710-1, 1917.
Photo of William Sanders Callaway family submitted to CFA by Linda Ann Ford, 8/2004.

Boonesborough Ferry 1779

THE BEGINNINGS OF RIVER COMMERCEKentucky River Navigation

The first ferry was authorized by an act of the Virginia Assembly in October, 1779, to operate from Boonesborough. This town was the terminus of Boone's Trace, and the point at which the extension to Lexington crossed the river.

Richard Callaway (Joseph Callaway) requested permission to keep a "public ferry" from the "Town Land to the land of this state" since "from the first seating of This town both the inhabitants and travelers" had found it very inconvenient to cross the river "only in dry seasons in the summer time" and "both this town and country" had become "very popular" and "much resorted by travelers."

The act granting the request reads in part:
"Whereas it is represented to this present general assembly that public ferries at the places hereafter mentioned will be of great advantage to travellers and others; Be it therefore enacted, that public ferries be constantly kept at the following places and the rates for passing same shall be as follows, . . . at the town of Boonesborough in the County of Kentucky, across Kentucky River to the land on the opposite shore, the price for a man three shillings (fifty cents) and for a horse the same; the keeping of which last mentioned ferry and the emoluments arising therefrom are given and granted to Richard Callaway, his heirs or assigns so long as he or they shall well and faithfully keep same according to the directions of this act; and for the transportation of wheel carriages, tobacco, cattle, and other beasts at the places aforesaid, the ferry-keeper may demand and take the following rates, that is to say, for every coach, chariot, or wagon, and the driver thereof, the same as for six horses; for every cart, or four wheel chaise and the driver thereof, the same as for four horses; for every two wheel chaise, or chair, the same as for two horses; for every hogshead of tobacco, as for one horse; for every head of neat cattle as for one horse; for every sheep, goat, or lamb, one fifth part of the ferriage for one horse and for every hog one fourth part of the ferriage for one horse, and no more."

A ferry keeper who demanded or received more than the legal rates must forfeit to the party aggrieved the "ferriage," and pay a fine of ten shillings.

The above article from The Kentucky River Navigation, Mary Verhoeff, pg. 50, J. P. Morton & Co., 1917.
Photo of Boonesborough Ferry, ca. 1930, Eastern Kentucky University Archives.

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Old Families of the Valley - Thomas Callaway, Jr. 1753 - 1819

Thomas Callaway came from Bedford Co., Va., and settled on the south fork of New River, then in Wilkes, now in Ashe Co., N.C. His son, Eligah (Elijah) Callaway, represented Ashe Co. in the House of Commons 21 years in succession. This Eligah (Elijah) Callaway m. (Mary Cutbirth), a niece of Daniel Boone. This fact is stated on her tombstone now in the family graveyard on New River. They had a family of six daughters who intermarried with the Faws, Hartsogs and Wilcoxen; and two sons - Dr. Joseph Callaway and Dr. James Callaway.

Dr. Joseph Calloway, M.D., lived in Lincoln Co., N.C. He m. a Miss Johnson, sister of Joseph E. Johnson, who was governor of Ala., and U.S. Senator.

Dr. James Callaway, M.D., came to Wilkesboro about 1835. He m. 1st Mary Carmichael (1815-1847) d. of Capt Abner and Fanny (Bryan) Carmichael; 2nd Mrs. Annie P. Yeakle of Hagerstown, Md. The three children of the 1st marriage were: (1) Abner Sidney Callaway (d. 1874), grad. of U. of N.C., class '57, capt in C.S.A.; (2) Frances Caroline Callaway who m. (1861) John R. Bowie, parents of Thos. C. (Tam) Bowie of Ashe Co.; (3) Virginia Callaway who m. Gen. Daniel W. Adams, C.S.A., afterwards a lawyer in New York City. The children of the 2nd marriage were four daughters, one of whom is Mrs. J. T. Hubbard, mother of Dr. Fred Hubbard, prominent physician of Wilkesboro. The old Callaway home, purchased from Gen. Wm. Lenoir, is now called the "Dodge" house. It stands in a dilapidated condition on the corner diagonally opposite the court house. This house was headquarters for Major Hambright when Stoneman's brigade came by Wilkesboro. Dr. (James) Callaway moved to Kansas for a while, then returned and built the home now occupied by Mrs. J. T. Hubbard.

Daniel Boone often visited his niece (Mary Cutbirth) in Ashe Co. Her son, James Callaway, would sit on his lap and listen to his stories about the Indians.

Above article from Happy Valley, History and Genealogy, Thomas Felix Hickerson, pg. 51, 1979.
The line of descent:
Joseph Callaway (U.S. Immigrant)
Thomas Callaway
Thomas Callaway, Jr.
Elijah Callaway

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Sir Humphrey Gilbert 1539 - 1583

"We are as near Heaven by sea as by land."
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, son of Otho Gilbert and his wife Katherine Champernoun, was born in Devonshire, at his father's house called Greenway, upon Dart river, about 1539; educated at Eton and Oxford, devoted himself to the study of navigation and the art of war; was wounded at Havre in fighting against the French, and afterwards saw much military experience in Ireland, where after defeating the celebrated McCarthy More, he was made governor of Munster in October, 1569; knighted at Drogheda by the lord lieutenant of Ireland, Sir Henry Sidney, January 1, 1570, and the same year returned to England and married Joan, only daughter and heiress of John Aucher, of Otterden, by his wife Ann, daughter of Sir William Kellaway; M. P. from Plymouth in 1571; commanded the squadron sent to reinforce Flushing in the autumn of 1572; returned to England in the fall of 1573, and was living at Limehouse in 1575-78.

He became greatly interested in making discoveries, and in 1566 petitioned the Queen for the privilege of making northeast discoveries, and in 1567 of making northwest discoveries.

He wrote a "Discourse of a Discovery for a new passage to Cataia," and conceived the design of planting an English settlement in the New World to countervail the power of Spain. Accordingly, he obtained a patent from Queen Elizabeth for this purpose, dated June 11, 1578; sailed in the fall of that year with seven ships and 387 men, but was soon forced to return; in 1579 he sent Simon Ferdinando and in 1580 John Walker to make preliminary explorations, and on June 11, 1583, sailed himself a second time with five ships bearing 260 men; August 3, 1583, he reached Newfoundland, of which he took possession in the name of Queen Elizabeth.

From here he sailed southward, but the desertion and loss of several of his vessels forced him to abandon the expedition and to attempt to return home with the two that remained. On the way a terrible storm on September 10, 1583, swallowed up one of them, the Squirrel, bearing Gilbert himself.

Throughout the whole expedition he showed an invincible spirit, and his last words will be kept in precious remembrance: "We are as near Heaven by sea as by land."

He is justly considered the founder of American colonization. He was the father of a number of children, among whom were John, Bartholomew and Raleigh Gilbert, all of whom were interested in the settlement of America.

The above article from Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I-II, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, New York, NY, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, pp. 12-13, 1915.
Photo of Sir Humphrey Gilbert from The National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
Photo of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Route from EnchantedLearning.com

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Inez Callaway Robb's Favorite Aunt

The late Inez Callaway Robb (1900-1979), a charter member of the Callaway Family Association, was a nationally known syndicated columnist. She returned every summer to Nampa, Idaho, to spend some time with her "beloved Aunt Kit." The following article was written by Earl Bule in his column "They Tell Me," for the Sun Telegram in San Bernadino, California. It is dated August 2, 1959.

INEZ CALLAWAY ROBB'S FAVORITE AUNT
I called on Inez Robb's Aunt Kit today, and a more charming little lady you've never met.

She is the aunt who cooks calves' brains and eggs for Inez when she comes back to Idaho every year. She also bakes a mean batch of salt-rising bread as you know if you read Inez' column in the Sun-Telegram - and who doesn't?

Aunt Kit, who lives alone in a little white cottage set in a garden of flowers is Mrs. Kittie Lee Hedden. She was born in Idaho and has lived here all of her life. She wouldn't have had it any other way, she tells you. Aunt Kit is "a gay old gal," who wonders what "the neighbors think about it all," but doesn't care. She's past 85 and, to her, age is just a figure of speech.

She is one of Inez' two aunts to whom the columnist's visits back home are the greatest things in their lives. The other is Aunt Kit's sister, Mrs. Nellie Sinsel of Boise. She is the one that smokes.

It was a Sunday afternoon and we talked for an hour - and you know about whom - Inez. No, she didn't exactly raise Inez, Aunt Kit said, but she added with a fierce note of pride, "we all had a hand in it."

Inez Callaway Robb is, in many newspapermen's books, the top woman reporter in the business who took up writing a column after a spectacular career as a writer of news wherever news broke - anywhere in the world. But hers was a modest beginning as a kid reporter right out of high school.

She started on the Caldwell, Idaho, Tribune and then moved on to the Idaho Statesman in Boise, where, Aunt Kit will tell you, "they asked her to do an awful thing. One winter night," she recalls, "there was a nasty murder out on the highway and I'll be darned if they didn't send that girl out to cover that murder." (Inez might tell that it was her biggest thrill.)

Inez, "always a good girl who wanted to know about her business," left the Boise newspaper field to enroll at the University of Idaho at Moscow. You'll recall she returned to the University in June to deliver the commencement address to the 1959 class. And in the very front row sat Aunt Kit, who describes Inez' address in a word - "wonderful."

After two years in the University of Idaho, Inez attended the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, from which she graduated. She went to work in Tulsa, Okla., where her sister, Cathryn McCune, is now a reporter. The sisters get together at least once a year in New York City, Aunt Kit tells you.

Now Inez might be in Russia one week (as she recently was), in Norway, in Monaco or in West Berlin - the aunts never know until they pick up the paper to read her column. And her husband, J. Addison Robb, a New York insurance executive, doesn't know much more, Aunt Kit says.

"Why, Inez has the grandest husband in the world," she said. "If he were not, he would have left that girl years ago. She's gone for a month at a time - all over the world - and he stays home waiting for her. He's a grand husband. When he comes out here with Inez, he warns me that if there isn't fried chicken on the table, he'll leave and go downtown to eat. The last time he was here, we had chicken every meal and I even packed a box of it for him to eat on the way home.

Aunt Kit smiles when you ask her if she is one of the Callaways who Inez wrote "raised her stright-laced." They all told her things she would need to know in life, Aunt Kit recalls, and "she was always a good girl - a perfect one."

Inez never got above her family, the Aunt says proudly, no matter what her honors were. And she still comes back home every year to see Nellie and Kit. What's more, Inez has had both of her Aunts as her guests in New York - for a whole month too, Aunt Kit recalls.

Had it not been for Inez' deep love for Idaho we might have had her for a Californian, Aunt Kit said. When her parents, Abner and Ada Callaway, moved to California to set up a cattle ranch at Corning, Inez flatly refused to go and lived with the aunts until her parents, their farm damaged by floods, came back to Idaho.

Aunt Kit is the kind of person you would like to have as a neighbor, Spry and sharp. She knows what is going on.

As a girl, she recalled, she used to go over to Wyoming to visit her brother on his ranch. The cowboys driving their herds out of the Northwest to the railroad would stop in the flats near the ranch.

"And nowadays," she said, "when I watch those westerns on television and they show those cowboys to be rough, tough men, I get so mad I could throw the darned thing out the window. Why those cowboys were nice young gentlemen in the West as I knew it. And that was years ago, too."

As I rose to leave, Aunt Kit's conversation turned back to Inez. "Had I read an article Inez wrote in the Cosmopolitan Magazine a few years ago?" she asked. It was "The White Glove." In the article, Aunt Kit said, Inez gave credit to her grandmother, Mary Jane Callaway, for much of her success in life. It was Grandmother Callaway who told Inez to "always wear the best you've got; keep whatever you wear neat and clean; be sure to keep your shoes polished and always wear white gloves."

"Inez keeps a stack of white gloves a foot high." Aunt Kit said, "She's never without a pair."

"She's still a Callaway," the happy little old lady said, as I stepped off the porch.

The above article was originally published in the 1983 CFA Journal.

Editor's Note - Inez Robb received the Headliner Award from the Association for Women in Communication in 1943 as a War Correspondent for the International News Service. Since the award was created in 1939, the Association for Women in Communications has presented over 200 distinguished professional members with the Headliner Award to recognize their outstanding achievements.

Inez Callaway Robb's family line of descent:
Joseph Callaway
William Callaway
Charles Callaway
James Richard Callaway
Abner Early Callaway
Abner Kenton Callaway
Inez Early Callaway Robb

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The Fox House

Probably no other one home has served its community in more capacities than has the Fox House. This house is not particularly significant because of its age or early architectural features; its interest lies in the part it has played in the life of the town. So simple in its lines and unobstrusive in its general appearance, this low lying house at 2 Burgess Street would not be suspected of having a varied past.

The "Fox House" as it is still called, though now the home of the Penix family, was not always a house. It had more modest beginnings as Mr. Kelloway's barn.

Mr. Kelloway, the proprietor of the jewelry store overlooking the park (now Elliott's Jewelry) lived in the double house at the corner of Main and Burgess Street. The building of the barn was a logical step as Mr. Kelloway had acquired a horse.

Affluent as the Kelloways may have been, they did not keep a horse and barn merely for the purpose of status. Mr. Kelloway also owned a small vineyard outside of the village. The horse was a necessity for carrying pickers back and forth and for hauling the crates of grapes during harvest season. The barn was used as a packing house. The horse passed out of the picture at some unremembered date leaving the barn to its future varied destiny.

In 1896 the village recognized the problem of crowded classrooms in the Dunkirk Street School (site of the present Municipal Building). Since there were no facilities for expansion, a second building for grade school children was proposed. In the interim, the Kelloway barn was chosen as a temporary school house.

Little in the way of structural changes was needed to convert the barn into a school. The double doors were done away with, an appropriate entrance was made, and windows were installed in the side walls. With the addition of desks, hooks for the coats, and a shelf for the water pail, it was an adequate schoolroom. There are people in town today who can recall sitting in those seats and drinking from that tin dipper; but not many! In the fall of 1898 the Babcock Street School opened (on the site of the present Main Street School parking lot), and there was no further need for this Burgess Street improvised school building.

At the time there were not the many churches that characterize the village now. There was no Baptist Church although there were many Baptists in town. These Baptists met from time to time for their own services in a private home although they regularly attended one of the other churches on Sunday.

As the weeks passed, the sight of the barn-school building standing unoccupied began to fire the imagination of this group. There it was, needing no structural changes, with its one large rectangular room, windows on either side, and improved vestibuled entrance. The idea caught like wildfire and in no time arrangements were made with Mr. Kelloway. The one time barn and erstwhile school was now a church - a church with dignity, respect, and reverence.

Services were conducted on Sunday afternoons by Baptist ministers from neighboring towns. Weekday prayer and other devotional services were held regularly and church life was as vigorous as it could be without a resident minister and leader. For the first winter and summer enthusiasm ran high, but by the end of the second winter the fact was reluctantly accepted that the group was too small to support a resident minister. The church was languishing. There was no alternative but to give it up.

Once more the building was vacant. Mr. Kelloway converted it into a most acceptable house with a hall, parlor, sitting room, dining roon, pantry, and kitchen on the first floor and with five bedrooms on the second floor. This was the beginning of a new era for this building.

Among the first occupants of the house were Dr. and Mrs. Herron. He was Silver Creek's first veterinarian, and he used one section of the house as an office and treatment room for his animal patients.

After the Herrons left town, Mrs. Christina Fox, a widow, with two sons, Montford and Eugene, bought the house. Mrs. Fox rented the unused bedrooms to teachers from the nearby Babcock Street School and provided them with meals.

In 1914 Mrs. Fox moved to the Dr. Burgess home on Main Street, and her son, Gene, kept the home for himself and his family. Gene and his wife, Edith Ellicott, had three daughters, Evelyn, Jean, and Elizabeth. The "Fox House" became a popular dropping in place for Edith's old school crowd - Helen Morse across the street, Julie Martin (Howson), Helen Quale, and Alice Montgomery, all from Main Street. With Sadie Chapman Cleeten, this group made up the "Stitchery", an afternoon sewing club, which gaily rocked on verandas, with work bags and embroidery hoops in the foreground.

The above article from Once Upon a Time, Silver Creek, Chautauqua Co., NY History, Marion Thomas, pp. 99-101, 1987.

Kelloway, W. M., p.o. Hamilton, was born in Hamilton, Madison county, NY, a son of Isaac Kelloway and Ann Maria Elliott, natives of England. He was educated in the old academy under Professor Campbell, and began his business career as a dry goods clerk for A. T. Slocum, and subsequently studied medicine for a time with Dr. Oakes; but the death of this physician terminated Mr. Kelloway's medical studies. He then opened a restaurant and became a prominent caterer. In 1882 he embarked in the grocery business, which he has since conducted successfully. Mr. Kelloway is one of the oldest Masons in Hamilton, having joined that order when twenty-one years of age. He is a member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Commandery and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason; he is also a member of the order of Odd Fellows. On June 28, 1872, Mr. Kelloway married Hattie M. Foster, and they have one daughter, Lyra C., who is a trained nurse in the Utica hospital.

The above article from Our County and Its People, Madison Co., NY History, John E. Smith, pg. 165, 1986.

On April 7, 1834 Isaac Kelloway, age 30 arrived in New York from London, England on board the ship "President". His occupation was listed as a joiner. He settled in Madison Co., NY and married Ann Mariah Elliott. They had the following sons; James born about 1840, William born about 1843, Charles born about 1847, and Franklin J. (about whom this article is written) born about 1853. Isaac is found listed on the 1860 and 1870 Madison Co., NY census, Hamilton Township. He apparently died before 1880. Frank is listed on the 1880, 1900, 1910 and 1920 Chautauqua Co., NY census. He married Mary Cushman and had one child, a daughter Gladys. He apparently died before 1930 as Mary is listed as a widow on the 1930 Chautauqua Co., census.

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A Woman Who Moved Amarillo

In 1890 a slender, strikingly beautiful woman named Melissa Dora Callaway Oliver (Joshua Sanford, Joshua, Edward, John, Peter Callaway), accepted the invitation of her merchant brothers, John and James Callaway, to visit Amarillo for the first time.

The wife of industrialist Capt. William Oliver, principal stockholder of Mississippi Mills, the South's largest textile manufacturer, Mrs. Oliver returned to the Texas plains on several occasions and, in 1891, purchased land in Potter and Randall counties. After her husband's death in 1895, she relocated permanently in the Panhandle.

Mrs. Oliver's arrival with her fine horses, carriage and household help, said to be the first blacks to come to live in Amarillo, created quite a stir.

Dressed in a black English riding habit with a small derby perched atop her head, she and her spirited chestnut mount soon became a familiar sight on the city streets. Her elegant attire and somewhat aloof public manner were such that townspeople began to refer to her as "the Duchess." To her family and close friends, however, Mrs. Oliver was known for her gentleness, warmth and great generosity.

Amarillo in 1895 was a town of about 500 people, and like the rest of the nation, was in the throes of economic depression. With a personal fortune which exceeded the combined capital of all the area banks, Mrs. Oliver began to inject funds into the town at a time when money was sorely needed for growth.

As the entrance of a woman into the financial world was virtually unknown, most of her early transactions reflected the name M. D. Oliver. Thus, those to whom the banks loaned money in her behalf were rarely aware that the actual lender was a woman.

At age 38 and after being widowed for 11 years, Dora Oliver remarried in 1902 to O. M. Eakle, an organizer and director of Amarillo National Bank and first president of the Amarillo Board of Trade (predecessor of the Chamber of Commerce). The marriage was destined to be rocky, as Dora was independent and acustomed to making her own decisions. The couple was often estranged until Eakle's death in 1914. One child, Oliver Rea Eakle (pictured above with her mother), was born to the union.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Oliver-Eakle, as she was known after her second marriage, continued to vigorously pursue her business affairs.

In 1903 she filed with the city a residential plat which comprised part of the land she had purchased in 1891. The initial development of the Mrs. W. D. Oliver-Eakle Sub-Division extended from 15th Avenue to 34th Avenue and from the Santa Fe Railroad tracks to Washington Street. The land on which Amarillo College and Memorial Park are located are part of the original holdings. She gave the city Oliver-Eakle Park with its colored fountains.

Operating in a more traditional woman's role for the period, Mrs. Oliver-Eakle, herself an 1879 graduate of Georgia Female College, worked constantly to bring culture to Amarillo.

During the fall of 1900, for example, she encouraged her niece, Pearl Bethune Lawrence, to organize a girl's club to collect books for the town library. Seven years later she helped to finance the Amarillo Opera House, where there appeared such famous artists as Amelia Galli-Curci. When, following the Galli-Curci concert, the Amarillo chorus performed an original compostion to commemorate the occasion, Dora remarked, "Tonight, Amarillo enjoyed cornbread after the cake."

Besides her business and cultural interest, Mrs. Oliver-Eakle was also active in the temperance movement. The success of the campaign in Amarillo culminating in the prohibition of intoxicants was due in no small measure to her support and influence.

Dora's buiness affairs also continued to prosper. In 1927, at age 63, she completed Amarillo's first office skyscraper, the 10-story Oliver-Eakle Building (later renamed the Barfield Building). It was also during the "Roaring 20s" that Chicago mobsters made several kidnapping and extortion attempts on Mrs. Oliver-Eakle, prompting her to carry a pearl-handled revolver in her purse for protection.

Mrs. Oliver-Eakle's death on Nov. 17, 1931, was headlined and reported in area newspapers for four days. Long identified with the growth and development of Amarillo, and one fo the city's largest taxpayers at the time of her passing, Mrs. Oliver-Eakle's many contributions did not go unnoticed.

In 1938, the Amarillo Globe-News noted that, "When and if the Panhandle ever has a Hall of Fame of its own, the name of Mrs. M. D. Oliver-Eakle, pioneer builder of Amarillo, will be among the first to be honored.

More recently she was among the distinguished Panhandle women to be featured in an exhibit at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum. A collection of Mrs. Oliver-Eakle's papers, furniture and personal effects have been donated to the museum by her grandson, Bourdon R. Barfield. In addition Mrs. M. D. Oliver-Eakle is the subject of a forthcoming biography.

The above article was submitted to CFA by Bryon Price, Director, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, and originally published in the 1983 CFA Journal.

Oliver-Eakle Honored in Texas
Melissa Dora Oliver-Eakle was recently honored by the state of Texas with an historical marker located in Amarillo. A descendant of two prominent 17th century families, she was the daughter of Joshua Sanford Callaway (1824-1899) and Melissa Ann Jordan (1829-1916). Her brothers were John and James Callaway.

Oliver-Eakle Park had been dedicated in her honor and it was there that the state marker was placed in 1985 to commemorate her 125th birthday. The mayor, the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, William P. Hobby, and other local and state dignitaries were present. Her grandsons, Oliver Eakle Barfield and Bourden Rea Barfield, were on the speakers' platform. Her six great-grandchildren were present at the unveiling of the marker. The 5,000 invited guests were served birthday cake made from one of Melissa Dora's recipes. It was topped with sparklers. Guests were encouraged to dress in early period costumes.

The Amarillo Public Library planned an exhibit of early newspaper accounts, artifacts, and memorabilia relating to Melissa Dora Oliver-Eakle's involvement with the early development of Amarillo.

Excerpts from an article originally published in the 1986 CFA Journal.

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