Amanda Tells Story of Tuskega

On November 14, 1984, Tuskega, the home of Thomas Howard Callaway's (Joseph Woodson, Thomas Jr., Thomas, Joseph Callaway) descendants was burned to the ground. It's destruction left many people, including my family in shock.

Last year my Mother saw an article in a magazine asking children to tell a story about their family's history. Knowing my family's feelings about Tuskega, I wanted to write our history in the Callaway home.

In our house, we have many family pictures and each picture holds a story. My favorite picture is the old Callaway home, Tuskega, which is in Vonore, Tennessee. The history of the Callaways in Tennessee is very interesting and one of my famorite tales is about how a certain Callaway (we're not sure which one!) got some land from a Cherokee Indian chief. The story is called "Indian have dream" and this is how it is told:

A certain Indian chief owned a big island which Callaway had been eyeing for a long time. The Indian refused to sell. One day Callaway bought a new pony, blanket, and rifle which caught the red man's eye. The Indian came to Callaway and said, "Paleface, Indian have dream last night." "What did you dream?" asked Callaway. "Indian dream that Paleface give Indian pony, blanket, and rifle." "What Indian dream White Man must do," Callaway told the chief and gave him the pony, blanket, and rifle. A short time later, Callaway went to the Indian's island and told him he also had a dream. "What you dream?" asked the chief. "White Man dream that Indian give him island," Callaway told the Indian. The chief scratched his head and replied, "What Paleface dream Indian will do. But Paleface and Indian dream no more!" (This story had been passed down many generations and every generation has enjoyed it!)



Now the story of the Callaway home, Tuskega, begins around 1859 when Charles McClung McGhee selected the old Cherokee Indian town homesite of Tuskegee to build his home. (Tuskegee was a famous Indian village where Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee's Alphabet, was born!) There are many interesting stories about this village and about a secret Indian tunnel that ran near the house and down to the river. Indians used this tunnel as a runner to escape from attacks on the town. Our family has always heard stories about this secret tunnel and to this day it is still a mystery as to where that tunnel is!

To build the house, Charles McGhee hired an architect from Louisiana and McGhee's slaves molded the bricks for Tuskega from clay found right on the property. (You should see these bricks - they are different because they are square with a hole in the middle!) McGhee used most of the wood for the house from the trees found on the land and everything was taken "off the land" except for the marble for the fireplaces. Because of the start of the Civil War, McGhee left for the city and never finished building the home. His slaves, however, did stay at Tuskega and continued to work for the next owners.

During the Civil War, both the Confederate and Union troops stayed in Tuskega! There are several stories passed down in the family about a secret trap door at the house that the slaves hid in when hostile troops came. Many times this door was used to hide people as well as food and valuables. There were also bullet holes in the house as well as a cannon ball found in one of the fireplaces! My Great, Great Aunt Polly even told us about a blood stain that remained on the front porch where a soldier died! (They buried him out in the front somewhere, but his bones have yet to be uncovered.)

After the war in 1870, McGhee sold all the land and the unfinished house to my Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather Thomas Howard Callaway (whew that's a lot of Greats!) He was then the President of the East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railroad. My five times Great Grandfather Callaway and his wife, Susan Jane Lea, felt Tuskega would be the house of their dreams. But sadly, Thomas Howard died before he was able to move to Tuskega. Maggie Lea Carson, Susan Lea's daughter, wrote "That her Mother felt she could carry out all of the plans for life which Thomas and she had made together." So, in December of 1873, the family left for Tuskega. Thomas Howard and Susan Lea had 11 children and Maggie Lea, who was 11, (just like me!) wrote down the story of the arrival at Tuskega so that future generations would remember the beginning of the Callaway's at Tuskega. In Maggie's story called "The Arrival" Susan Callaway and her children rode a riverboat down the Little Tennessee River in weather that was so cold there was ice on the river. The Captain of the riverboat (Captain Red) was concerned about Mrs. Callaway and her children arriving at Tuskega in such bad weather, but he realized she was determined to start a new way of life for her family. Maggie Lea's story tells how their servants were waiting for them and the excitement they felt to spend their first Christmas in their new home. Susan Lea's youngest son, Frank, had been very sick on the journey and sadly died at Tuskega in January. My Great, Great Aunt Alice Carson has always said that Susan Lea was a true Pioneer Woman because she stayed on at Tuskega even after the death of their youngest son.

When the family settled in, Susan Callaway and her oldest son, Joseph, hired a builder to help repair the damage done during the Civil War and to finally complete Tuskega. When the work was done Tuskega was described by newspapers as "a beautiful gothic mansion." "The house has 13 rooms, two great halls, marble mantels, and a curved stairway suspended from a wall." From the pictures we have I think Tuskega is the prettiest house I've ever seen in all my 11 years!

All of the Callaways tell of a "mysterious disappearance" at Tuskega. In those days a tailor came to the house to make clothes for the family. One tailor came and he just suddenly disappeared overnight and no one ever saw him again! My Mother says her family pretended his ghost was around but I never saw it!

For 84 years the Callaways lived at Tuskega. My family says that Susan Lea Callaway passed on her love of family and home to each generation because everyone always returned to Tuskega to be together and to meet new family members.

Before Susan Lea died in 1900, she was able to see one of the most memorable weddings at Tuskega between her daughter Annie and Humphrey Gray Hutchinson. Mr. Hutchinson was a very well known Doctor from Virginia and Atlanta and we have a whole book that is written about him! This book tells about his life and his love for Annie Callaway. It also talks about their married life at Tuskega and how they continued to make the Callaway home a well known place to visit.

Annie Hutchinson and Maggie Lea had inherited Tuskega from their mother and when Annie died she left the Callaway home to Maggie Lea's family. My Great Great Aunt Alice Carson, Maggie Lea's daughter-in-law, was the last Callaway to live at Tuskega and her recorded interviews about the history of the family should be read and enjoyed by everyone!

When my Mother was little, she remembers the family making trips out to Tuskega to visit her Great Aunt Alice Carson. The whole family loved those visits and especially the fun they had exploring "the old home".

In the 1970s, Tuskega became condemned by TVA's Tellico Dam project. Because she felt that her Grandmother, Elizabeth Callaway, would want to save the Callaway home, my Mother started writing to TVA to find out what would happen to Tuskega. In January, 1981, she said that she "found a person whose love and work on the house's preservation she would forever be grateful for". This person is Mr. Jesse C. Mills, then TVA's Chief Librarian. Mr. Mills told my Mother that Tuskega had become "a living thing" and that the house "is the epitome of so much history and so much life; it must go on telling it's story through the years".

For three years, Mr. Mills and my Mother wrote to one another gathering Tuskega's history. She and several Callaway descendants exchanged as much information as they could to help Mr. Mills' research. Mrs. Ann Morris, Maggie Lea's granddaughter, exchanged many old letters and pictures with my Mother and they both were excited about trying to save the home. Mr. Mills also met with other Callaway descendants at Tuskega to listen to all the many family stories. (It was Mr. Mills who taped my Great, Great Aunt Alice Carson's memories of Tuskega.)

Finally, on August 3, 1984, the State of Tennessee and TVA agreed to the restoration of Tuskega!! Everyone in our family was so excited! All the hard work had at last been rewarded and I had fun just looking at all the newspaper articles about the famous Callaway home!

The next date of November 14, 1984, was a very sad one. The phone rang and my Grandmother Johnson told my Mother that Tuskega was gone . . . that someone had burned the house to the ground . . .

My Mother never again brought out all the papers she had worked so hard on until last year (1990), when she saw the article in the magazine. We decided it was time for Tuskega's history to be told, and Mr. Mills said, "go on telling its story through the years".

Afterward - July 1991

This past summer when we returned to the ruins of Tuskega, we wondered how many more stories or memories there were which should be written down before they are lost. As we walked around we thought about all the people who had loved this house! What happened to the children who were born here and had grown up at Tuskega? What memories could each of them pass on?

My story of Tuskega is only from my Mother's line. How many other Callaways can add to Tuskega's history? Yes, we know the beautiful house is gone . . . but its many stories and memories will stay within our hearts forever.

Written by:
Amanda Callaway Miller
Age 11
July, 1991

The above article was originally published in the 1992 CFA Journal.

Photos courtesy of The Callaway Family Association Collection, Troup County Historical Society Archives, LaGrange, Georgia.

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Mary Allen Callaway, M.D. 1878-1948

It has been given Dr. Callaway to achieve distinctive prestige as one of the representative members of the medical profession in the state which has been her home during the major part of her life, and in which she is a member of a most honored pioneer family. She is engaged in the successful practice of medicine and surgery in the city of Boise, capital of the state, and her precedence and popularity attest to her professional ability and to the high standing which is hers in the confidence and esteem of the community.

Dr. Callaway claims the Lone Star state as the place of her nativity, as she was born at Decatur, the judicial center of Wise county, Texas, on the 29th of December, 1878. The doctor is a daughter of Dr. Thomas Henry Callaway and Mary A. (Allen) Callaway, both of whom were born in Missouri and the marriage of whom was solemnized in Texas. Dr. Thomas H. Callaway was born in Boone county, Missouri, and was a scion of a distinguished old family of Virginia, representatives of the same having been allied by marriage with the patrician Lee and Early families whose names have been most prominent in connection with the history of the Old Dominion commonwealth. Both paternal and maternal ancestors of Dr. Thomas H. Callaway were found enrolled as patriot soldiers in the War of the Revolution, his paternal grandfather having served with the rank of captain and his maternal grandfather, John Markham, having been colonel of one of the gallant Virginia regiments in the Continental line; his wife was an aunt of General Jubal Early, one of the most distinguished officers of the Confederacy in the War of the Revolution. The father of Dr. Thomas H. Callaway was born at Lynchburg, Virginia, and in that state he was reared and educated. There also was celebrated his marriage to Miss Catherine Markham, and in 1820 he removed with his family to Missouri, where he bacame a representative and influential pioneer and where he and his wife passed the residue of their lives.

Dr. Thomas H. Callaway came to Idaho in the pioneer days and had his full quota of experiences in connection with the initial stages of development and progress. He admirably equipped himself for the medical profession and finally returned to the south, where he was engaged in successful practice for a number of years. After his retirement from active professional work he returned to Boise, Idaho, where he passed the residue of his life, secure in the high regard of all who knew him. He was summoned to the life eternal in 1905, at the venerable age of eighty years, and his cherished and devoted wife died at Caldwell, this state, in 1893, at the age of fifty-seven years. They became the parents of five children, concerning whom the following brief data are given: Dr. James R. is a leading physician and surgeon at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma; William T. is a representative agriculturist and stock-grower in the vicinity of Caldwell, Canyon county, Idaho; Ida E. is the wife of F. A. Braun of Boise; Malinda C. is the wife of J. A. Dement, of Caldwell, this state; and Dr. Mary A. is the youngest of the number. In politics the father was a staunch Democrat, and both he and his wife were consistent members of the Christian church.

As already stated, Dr. Mary Allen Callaway was born in the state of Texas, and she was about five years of age at the time of the family removal to Caldwell, Idaho, where she gained her preliminary educational discipline in the public schools. She was graduated in the College of Idaho, at Caldwell, Idaho, as a member of the class of 1897, and her professional education was secured under most favorable conditions, in the medical department of the Texas Christian University, at Fort Worth, Texas. In this excellent institution she was graduated cum laude as a member of the class of 1902 and from the same she received her well-earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. In April of the same year, upon examination before the state board of medical examiners, she was admitted to practice in Idaho, and she forthwith opened an office in Boise, where she has since continued successively in the work of her chosen profession, her extensive and representive practice giving tangible evidence of her fine technical ability as a physician and surgeon and also of her personal popularity. She is recognized as one of the leading physicians in the state and has the confidence and esteem of the members of the profession in general. She is identified with the Ada County Medical Society, the Idaho State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. The doctor finds time to enjoy social amenities and is a popular factor in the various social activities of her home city. She holds membership in the Christian church, and is affiliated with the Women of Woodcraft, the Order of Yeomen, of which she is secretary, and the Rebekah Lodge.

The above biography is from History of Idaho, Vol. 2, Hiram T. French, M.S., Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, pp. 610-1, 1914

The family line of descent is as follows:
Joseph Callaway
William Callaway
Charles Callaway
James Callaway
Dr. Thomas Henry Callaway
Dr. Mary Allen Callaway

Idaho Daily Statesman, Boise City, Idaho, December 11, 1902, the following advertisement for her medical practice appears:

PHYSICIANS
Dr. Mary Allen Callaway, Rooms 7 and 9, Noble building, Ind. 'phone 874.

In 1922, at the age of 43 she married Isham B. Joplin. There were no children of this marriage. Throughout her career, even after her marriage, she maintained her maiden name in her professional life. Following is a directory listing for her medical practice:

Boise City and Ada County Idaho Directory 1927

Callaway-Joplin Mary, Physician and Surgeon, 511-513 Empire Bldg, Tel 2562, Hours 9 to 12 a.m., 2 to 4 p.m., r 308 W State, Tel 1214-J

She died October 15, 1948 in Boise, Ada Co., Idaho. Her obituary published in the Idaho Statesman on October 16, 1948 follows:

DEATH CLAIMS DR. CALLAWAY
Distinguished Idaho Physician, Former Legislator, Succumbs
Dr. Mary Allen Callaway Joplin, since 1902 a Boise physician and surgeon and twice a member of the state house of representatives, died Friday evening at the Boise hospital. She had been in failing health for some time.

Although married to I. B. Joplin, Boise realtor, Dr. Callaway retained her maiden name in her professional life. Their home is at 308 West State street.

Daughter of a pioneer Idaho physician, Dr. Thomas H. Callaway, Dr. Mary Callaway was born Dec. 29, 1878, at Decatur, Texas, the youngest of five children. When she was five years old, the family moved to Idaho to establish their home at Caldwell.

A member of the College of Idaho graduating class of 1897, Dr. Callaway pursued her professional education in the medical department of the Texas Christian University at Fort Worth, Texas, from which she was graduated cum laude in 1902.

She was admitted to practice in Idaho the same year and established offices in Boise where she continued in her chosen work throughout her lifetime. She was a member of the Ada County Medical society, the Idaho State Medical society and the American Medical association. She served for some time as Ada county physician.

Elected as a Democrat, she served for two terms, 1932 and 1934, as state representative from Ada county.

She was a member of the Christian church, and had been identified with the Rebekah Lodge, Women of Woodcraft and the Order of Yeomen.

Besides her husband, she is survived by one sister, Mrs. J. A. Dement (Malinda C. Callaway) of Caldwell.

Services for Dr. Mary A. Callaway Joplin will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Schreiber & McCann chapel. The Rev. Murl M. Jones of the Christian church of Caldwell will officiate. Burial will be at Canyon Hill Cemetery, Caldwell.

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Identifying Agnes Kelloway

On page 53 of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for January, 1914, it is stated that the Thomas Pomeroy who died 29 December, 1493, "married Agnes Calwaye, or Kelloway, daughter of Thomas of Sherborne, co. Dorset - probably about 20 September, 1478, when land was conveyed by deed to Thomas Pomeroy and his wife from the latter's father."

I find upon examining into this claim of the parentage of Agnes made by the New England Register, that it is also false, to-wit: (1) The said Agnes was not the daughter of the said Thomas Calwaye or Kelloway. (2) The said Thomas Calwaye or Kelloway or any other man named Killoway neither conveyed to Thomas and Agnes Pomeroy by any deed of said date any right in any property in any place whatsoever; nor did the said Thomas (or John) Kelloway ever possess any right in any property at Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon, which he could convey as alleged in the authority quoted by the New England Register in support of its statement. (3) No such deed was ever made or recorded. (4) The authority quoted by the New England Register in support of its assertion, i.e., "Chancery Inquistion Post Mortem (Series II, Vol. 30, W. 14, as given in Vivian's Visitation of the County of Devon, p. 607,)" disproves the very claim that the New England Register makes.

The father of Agnes is named on page 607 of Vivian's Visitation of Devon as John Kelloway; thus the New England Register, in giving his Christian name as "Thomas," does not even quote its own authority correctly. Stranger still, not only was Agnes not the daughter of Thomas Kelloway, but she was not even the daughter of John; thus, neither the New England Register nor the authority it quotes are correct. If the Register had properly examined the page (607) it quotes it would have been seen that there was something wrong in the said Agnes being put down as marrying her great-grandmother's step-son, Thomas Pomeroy. Mental myopia seems to have afflicted the New England Register in the hour of its old age.

The error of Vivian's in naming John as the father of Agnes Kelloway perhaps rose from a misreading of the feminine name of "Johannes" (Joan) in the original Latin inquisition (vol. 30, m. 14) for "Johannes" the Latin for John; or the error may have arisen from the fact that a John Kayleway died at Collumpton, Devon, (ten miles from Cheriton Fitzpaine) in 1531, leaving a will naming a daughter Agnes, but she was a spinster at that date. The New England Register may, as well, have been caught in another "visitation quagmire," i.e. the Visitation of Dorset, 1565, published in the Genealogist (N. S. ii, 219). This copy of this visitation names no contemporary John Kelloway, but does give a solitary Thomas Keilwey of Sherborn, Dorset, who by wife (. . . .) Lewiston had a daughter Agnes, but without any indication as to their ages. As this Thomas Keilway was only two years of age in 1478, the date of the said alleged deed, (Hutchin's History of Dorset, v. 4, p. 194) and only in his seventeenth year in 1493 when the said Agnes Pomeroy was left a widow, with seven children, by her husband, Thomas Pomeroy, will the New England Register please explain in what trench of the genealogical battlefield it picked up its then unexploded evidence that Agnes, daugher of a Thomas Keilway, Cailway, or Kelloway, married Thomas Pomeroy who died before she was born?

The said deed alleged to have been made 20 September, 1478, was not executed between any Thomas or John Kelloway and any Thomas Pomeroy and wife Agnes. The truth concerning it is made clear in an official inquisition by the King's escheator for Devonshire, from which the following brief, translated abstract will suffice:
(Public Record Office, London.) Exchequer Inquisitions, Series II. File 155. No. 8: Writ dated at Westminster 25 January 6 Henry VIII (1514-15)

The jurors say the said Henry Pomerey, son of Edward, was seised in his demeasne as of fee of 1 messuage, 226 acres of land, etc., and 15s rent in Cheryton Fitzpayne . . . . and so seised thereof . . . . enfeoffed Oto Gilbert, esquire, Thomas Bowryng and John Snape, to have to them and their heirs forever, by pretext of which they were thereof seised in their demeasne as of fee. And so seised by their charter indented dated 20 September 18 Edward IV (1478) they demised, etc., to the said Henry Pomerey, esquire, and Anne his wife the said messuage and 80 acres of land and pasture in Cheriton Fitzpayne and . . . 160 acres called Wallen . . . to the said Henry and Anne and their heirs, with remainder to Thomas Pomerey, son of said Henry Pomerey and Agnes Kayllewey, daughter of Johanne, daughter of the said Anne.

Who then was the father of Agnes the wife of the Thomas Pomeroy who died 29 December 1493? She is not named in either the Visitation of Dorset, 1565, or the Visitation of Wiltshire, 1565, both of which manuscripts deal with the same Kelloway family and include the name of the man who was her father; but they do not name him in such a way as to even suggest that he had a daughter Agnes. Reference, therefore, is first had to Benolte's original Visitation of Devonshire, 1531. Herein Agnes Kayllewey is named not only as the wife of the said Thomas Pomeroy, but as daughter of William Cayleway of Sherborn, Dorset. She is also so placed in Hutchin's History of Dorset (v. 4, p. 194). Let us not accept, however, the evidence of such an Agnes in Benolte's Visitation, until it be supported by something more substantial in the way of a record. Fortunately the will of her grandfather, William Kayleway, senior, suffices:
(Principal Probate Registry, London.) Abstract translated from the Latin will registered on folio 27, Godyn. (Dated) May 21, 1469.

I, William Kayleway, senior, son of John Kayleway, of Sherborne, co. Dorset, bequeath to Salisbury Cathedral 12d, and to Sherborne parish church my new missal, and to the Abbot of Sherborne 6s 8d, and to his monastery 13s 4d, and to the Vicar of Sherborne 6s 8d. To the House of Alms of Sherborne 13s 4d, and to the priory of Henton 13s 4d, and to the Abbot and brothers of Bristol 13s 4d. To the Rector of the Grene, Sherborne, 3s 4d. To my son William my two best horses with their harness. To my servant William Glover, 40s and a horse. To my servant William Daniell, 10s. To John Preston to pray for my soul, 10s. To my son William my goods at my house at Sherborne. To John, son of my son William, all my lands and tenements in co. Bristol, and in Yeovil, co. Somerset, to him in tail male, and in default of such issue then to William, brother of said John, in tail male, and in default of such issue to my son William in tail male, with remainder in dafault of such issue to my right heirs.

To my said son William a silver cup, a silver bottle, and a silver vessel given me by Joan, mother of Joan my late wife, and another silver vessel to him and his issues. All my jewels to John, son of said William, in tail male, with remainder as above.

To Agnes, daughter of my son William, 40 pounds and to Alice, another daughter, 40 pounds. Residuary legatees and executors: my son William and Thomas Cosyn, my clerk. Signed and sealed with the seal of the Abbey of the Virgin of Tarent. Proved: 1 July, 1469, by the executors.

The above article is from: Pomeroy: Interesting English records supplemental to the history and genealogy of the Pomeroy family, Charles Arthur Hoppin, London, pp. 16-18, 1915.

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Calloway Hill Texas - A Ghost Town

WHY WAS IT NAMED CALLOWAY?
Calloway, one of the earliest settlements in Upshur County, was on Calloway Hill, near Farm Road 49 some ten miles west of Gilmer. The settlement was established around 1853 as a way station on the road from Jefferson. In antebellum Texas, Calloway served as a shipping and trading center for farms and plantations in the western part of the county. A post office opened there in 1855, and by the eve of the Civil War the town had a cotton gin, a blacksmith shop, and several stores and saloons. After the war, Calloway continued to prosper. In 1885 it had an estimated population of 250, three steam gristmill-cotton gins, three churches, two blacksmith shops, a general store, and a district school.

Among the town's prominent citizens was James B. Cranfill, an influential Baptist leader. By the mid-1890s the population of Calloway reached 300. After 1900, however, the community began to decline. Its post office was closed, and many residents moved away. By the mid-1930s the town was no longer shown on the county highway maps.

Few people who now live on or near old Calloway Hill, know anything of the history and the tragedies of that little elevation. Calloway was one of the very earliest settled communities in Upshur county. Before the Civil War, it was a place of considerable note. The post office located there was one of only two or three post offices found in the whole county. A store or two and a saloon did a thriving business. In those days, there was no law against making whiskey, and anybody had the right to get drunk, if they wanted to. The first settlers of Calloway believed it was every man's natural right to get drunk and engage in fist fights just for recreation and amusement.

Calloway was the voting place for a considerable area in the western part of the county. An election was a great social occasion, celebrated by horse races, swapping horses, and drinking home-made whiskey. An old man, who was then a little boy, tells of going to an election at Calloway with his father, who was to help hold the election. He said a keg of whiskey was arranged at a convenient place, with a little tin cup for the accommodation of the voters. Undoubtedly, the whiskey was supplied by the candidates. This boy said he remembered that his father and the other men holding the election, had to close up the polls now and then and get out to help settle a drunken row.

The early citizens of Calloway could be identified by their manner of dress. The men wore high-top boots, with spurs, broad brim white hats, and a red bandana handkerchief around their necks. While some of these men were rough and rowdy, they possessed high ideals of honor, and believed in treating everybody fairly.

Tom Cranfill lived at Calloway and served as justice of the peace and a kind of lawyer. He had three sons, Luther, Albert, and Tom. The boys all left the county when they became grown and became leaders in the affairs of other parts of the state. Dr. J. B. Cranfill, an influential leader in the Baptist church, is a cousin to Tom Cranfill, and lived at Calloway for awhile when he was a boy.

Dave Barton lived at Calloway and served as justice of the peace and county commissioner. Mr. Barton lived near a large spring, which became a popular resort, and was known as Barton's Springs. Jim Barton, a druggist at Big Sandy, is a grandson of Dave Barton. Jack and Hans Finnie lived in the Calloway neighborhood and were noted horse traders. Dr. McClennon lived on top of Calloway Hill and practiced medicine as long as he lived.

There are no traces of the old Calloway Hill left there at the present time, for the place is dotted with nice, modern homes, whose inhabitants are happy, law-abiding citizens. Johnson's Chapel church is located near by, and the community is a prosperous one.

The above article is from:
"A Brief History of Upshur County", Gilmer Mirror, G. H. Baird, Gilmer, Texas, 1946.
"History of Upshur County", Texian Press, Doyal T. Loyd, Waco, Texas, 1987.

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