THE CALLAWAY FAMILY ASSOCIATION
CFANET e-NEWSLETTER
  January 2003

Volume IV  No. 1

As most of you are aware, I have volunteered to take over editorship of the CFA e-Newsletter. I have some very big shoes (metaphorically speaking of course) to fill, but I will do my best. It will be a big challenge, but also rewarding in so many ways. I will be able to meet many of you, at least on-line, and I will enjoy that very much. So here we go – starting out with a big Happy New Year wish to all of you. 

I encourage each of you to send in articles for the e-Newsletter. It doesn’t have to be lengthy. It could be some “Callaway” news, a family story, a family photo, a favorite family recipe, results from your family line research, or any item you think would be of interest to our readers. Send them to me, and I will take care of adding them. My email address is , and I look forward to hearing from you. 

And finally, there is now a new section in the e-Newsletter called “The Query Corner”.  If you would like to post a query about your “Callaway” Family Genealogy for our readers to see and hopefully respond to, just send it to me. Include your contact information if you would like to be contacted directly.  Otherwise, they can send their response to me and I will post it in the next e-Newsletter.       
~ Donna Morgan

From the President's Corner

Happy New Year!  A new year always  means a new beginning.  We pause to reflect on what we have accomplished and we make plans for the future.  Our top priority for 2003 is growth in membership.  I challenge every CFA member to recruit one new member this year.  Look around you -- recruit a family member or a friend with C/K connections.  Our membership has declined.  In order to keep CFA a vibrant, active, working organization we must continue to recruit new members.

We have achieved much but there is still more to be done.  We are fortunate to have our excellent bulletin, visit our CFA website, read our wonderful Journal.  Avail yourselves of our magnificent research materials.  Order the new CFA CD-Rom.

We continue to abstract the C/K names from the 1930 Census.  As soon as it is completed it will be released for your use.

In January you will receive your renewal form.  Send your dues in promptly.  Let us know if you have a change in your mail address or in your e-mail.  Send us your family news or share a short C/K story with us.  Keep in touch - Keep active and Keep working with us. Thank you.

Pat Schnurr
CFA President 

From the Vice President’s Corner

I hope that all of the CFA membership had a Happy Christmas.  Ramona and I certainly did! (Despite a couple travel complications with the airlines.) Now back at home and the New Year is upon us, it is the time I use to reflect on the past year and look forward to the upcoming year.  As part of this, I thought about the CFA, and wanted to share some of these thoughts with you. 

While Ramona and I were visiting my parents over Christmas in Des Moines, I noticed a restaurant with a sign saying “established in 1974”. It caught my eye because that is close to the year that I graduated from High School in Des Moines, and I realized that it is also close to the year that the CFA was formed.

 Let’s all take a moment to remember and say thank you to all of those who took an idea and made it a reality. It took time, money, and determination, and a special pioneering spirit to start the CFA, and to keep it going.

 If a generation is about 20-25 years, then our CFA is in its second generation of existence, and this means that the challenges, as well as opportunities for our association has changed from early forming, maturing, and growing days.

 Our CFA is primarily a genealogical association with a diverse membership. We have skilled genealogical researchers, genealogical enthusiasts, and social and family members.

 Our skilled genealogical researchers have traced some lines of study back almost half a millennium to England, and there is possible genealogical link that could trace back a line over a millennium to France. I find this a fascinating possibility, and who knows what research discoveries we will find over the next quarter of a century.

 It is the research of the CFA, which entices our genealogical enthusiasts, which includes me, to be a member of the CFA and provide technical, administrative, and financial support, for its activities.

 It is the fellowship of the CFA, which entices our social and family members, to renew their membership to the CFA This is probably our largest segment of membership, and just by their membership, provides funds for our CFA researchers. It is the well-planned annual CFA meetings, along with the state’s CFA picnics, which provide its social activities that melds this group with our genealogical researchers and enthusiasts.

 As we are in the next generation of CFA, we need to have something of interest to the generation that has been born during first generation of our association. While we do not have the resources to be in the education business, we can provide some materials that help young people appreciate how genealogy relates to other fields of study and maybe entice them to find an interest in genealogy.

 Could we put together some files on our CFA web site that relates an element of genealogy with an element from another related field of study?

Geography and Math:

How many miles are there from England to Virginia?
How many miles from Virginia to the city that you live in?

Language:

Are there short stories from Canterbury Tales, or works of Shakespeare, which are of middle English that we could relate to genealogy?
If we find a French line, can we “Parley-vous francais?”

How many ways can you spell the CFA namesake? 

Science:

Can we list science/building accomplishments by our lines of study?

History:

I know we have lines of study that can be traced to activities of significant  historical events.

Arts and Music:

Have there been any significant artists/musicians in our line of study?

Others?

What do you think? These are only quick suggestions. Is this something that we should consider doing?  Any volunteers to help contribute ideas and organize this?

Have a Happy New Year!
Gary Garnett
CFA Vice President

From the Secretary’s Corner

As I begin my 7^th year as Secretary of the Callaway Family Association I wish everyone a happy 2003.  I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for everyone who makes my job with this wonderful organization run smoothly.  Perhaps I should first explain what my duties are as Secretary.  I keep two databases of the Callaway Family Association, an “active Database” and what I call “CFA Master Database.” 

The “Active” listings include the names and information of everyone who is a member during the current year and during the past three years.  This is the list of members (and past members) who receive renewal notices, CFA Annual Meeting notices and Pioneer Trails notices every year.  Only the current year members receive CFA Journals.

The “Master” database includes the names and most current information

on everyone who has ever been a member of the Callaway Family Association since its charter in 1975. 

            Both databases are kept up to date as I receive new addresses, phone numbers, name changes, etc.  The categories that store information on each member are:  Name, Address, City, State, Zip (9-digit), Phone #, Fax #, E-mail, Spouse’s name, ID/Status (what type of member…ACTIVE, JOINT, SUPPORTING, LIFE or JUNIOR), a record of the amount for current membership, and a record of membership.  The record of membership on both databases include the years a member has paid dues.  For example, a reading such as C Member 75-79,83-90,96-98 tells me that this person joined CFA as a charter member and stayed active through 1979.  In 1983 they joined again (thus becoming a REINSTATED member that year) and remained a member through 1990 when they discontinued paying dues.  In 1996 they were REINSTATED again and paid dues through 1998, etc.

The year that a person became a member will be the first date of the membership record.

            Members change membership categories frequently.  Only the current category is recorded on the database as there is no need to keep them from year to year.  A person may pay dues to be an ACTIVE member one year and a SUPPORTING member the next year.  Or a couple will be JOINT members and the next year only pay membership for one. 

            As information such as address, zip and e-mail change frequently, it is very important that YOU report these changes to me as soon as possible.  I receive notes from irate members each year saying they did not receive their journal, etc.  When I check the records I find that they have changed addresses and have not reported it to the CFA.  I keep a duplicate copy of all labels I send for each mailing and can check readily to see if the mailings have included your label.

            Renewal notice labels for 2003 have been sent to Assistant Secretary, Rusty Callaway and you should be receiving this notice soon.  PLEASE fill it out and return it with your check as soon as possible.  REMEMBER, the CFA membership year runs from JANUARY through DECEMBER.  So if you just paid your 2002 dues in November of this year, you will still be receiving your 2003 renewal notice.

            In addition to keeping these databases, as Secretary I also send condolence notices on behalf of the CFA to families of members who have died.  I correspond frequently with those who have questions about membership or CFA in general and I up-date and type all membership and new member forms for the CFA. 

            As secretary, I send out a 5 page new member packet when new members join.  This includes a personal letter from me as well as memorabilia form, family

group sheet, 5-generation ancestor chart and a biography sheet.  These sheets are directed to Connie Sherrill, our Historian.

Judy Ostler
CFA Secretary 

From the Assistant Secretary’s Corner
 

Rusty Callaway
CFA Assistant Secretary

(Editor’s note: Congratulations Rusty, for not only doing so well in the race yourself, but for doing so much good for such a worthy cause.) 

From the Technologist’s Corner

The sales of the CFA Research Data CD are going well. We have over 55 of them  in the hands of our members. I will be setting up a newsletter for these users after the first of the year. The purpose will be to learn of any problems now existing with the CD operations and ideas of improvement in operation and content as well. The scanning of the 1790-1860 census is progressing well, albeit slowly. I have done 100 of the total of 270 so far. Because I am learning the OmniPro scanning program and the 'inners' of the MS WORD program, some page’s complexities have taken an hour to complete. Usually it takes about 6 minutes per page.  The purpose of this work is to provide an exact copy of the researcher's work on the CD. Originally this census was typed and never saw the computer until I had it transcribed into a Dbase file. This new work will allow the users to see the exact copy as it was originally presented by the researcher. I will also be asking for any possible corrections as I would like to make this set of files be the ultimate accurate record of all of the CFA
files. Often, we know more than the actual census canvasser.

Russell Callaway
CFA Technologist

 While visiting a friend in Pensacola, FL, prior to Christmas, we were shopping in a Christian bookstore when I spotted a small paperback book by Phil CALLAWAY.  From the title I knew it somehow involved golf, about which I know very little, even though two sons play.  Although I didn't have time to scan it very well, I bought it anyway.... the last remaining copy on the Devotional shelf.  At this writing I still haven't read it
through, but here is a bit more about it and Phil. The name of the book is "With God on the Golf Course" (2002, Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, OR).  It is inspirational.

Quoting from the book: Phil writes books, speaks at conferences, golf tournaments, camps, marriage retreats, Promise Keepers.  A frequent guest on national radio and TV, partners with Compassion, an international Christian child development agency.  His writings have won more than a dozen international awards and have been translated into 5 languages. His five-part video series "The Big Picture" is being viewed in 80,000 churches worldwide.  Other HH books: "Who Put My Life on Fast-Forward?", "Making Life Rich Without Money", "I Used to Have Answers, Now I Have Kids". With humor and candor, sparkling, warmly told stories capture amusing and bemusing experiences of life while sharing timeless spiritual lessons.

He lives in Alberta, Canada, with his (childhood sweetheart) wife, 2 sons, and a daughter.  Website: www.philcallaway.com.  Booking info, email 3033 at pbi.ab.ca.  In the busy holiday season I have not had time to check these out.

(Note: Anybody out there know of him?  A potential speaker for a CFA annual meeting?) 

Cary Lawson Moore
CFA Director 

The following was graciously submitted by Sallie L. Nelson:
The Last Will and Testament of Ebenezer Callaway 

I copied this exactly like it was written with capitals, etc. One word I can't decipher. I have ELI b1753 d 1794 which would make him 36, about, when EBENEZER wrote his will. The others were younger. I feel so Blessed to be able to have this will and the inventories that go with it. And to know the state of EBENEZER'S 'heart' endears him more to me, his way down the road granddaughter.  Thanks for the opportunity to add a little more to the CALLAWAY saga.
Sallie  Nelson

Reg. 4545 Sussex County Register of Wills  Probate Records EBENEZER
CALLAWAY 1788-1790

EBENEZER CALLAWAY         HIS LAST
                        WILL
                Prepared Sept 7, 1789
                        paid for

In the Name of God, Amen the Fifteenth Day of December in the year of our
Lord God one Thousand Seven hundred and Eight eight I EBENEZER CALLAWAY,
planter of Sufsex [Sussex] County and State of Delaware Being Weak in body
But of perfect mind and memory thanks Be to God therefore Calling to mind
the mortality of my Body and Knowing that it is appointed For all men
once to Die Do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testamont that is to
say principally and first of all, I give and Recommend my Soul into the
hand of almighty God that gave it and my body I Recommend to the Earth to
Be Buried in Decent Christian manner at the Discretion of my Executors
Nothing Doubting But at the General Resurrection I shall Receive the same
again by the mighty power of God that gave it and as touching Such
Worldly Estate....
Wherewith it Hath been pleased God to Blefs [bless] me with in this Life.
I Give Demise and Dispose in the Following manner and form visz -------

First            I give and bequeath unto my two sons WILLIAM CALLAWAY
and EBENEZER CALLAWAY one tract of Land Called CONVIENIENCY Containing
one hundred and thirtyeight acres more or lefs [less] abond that I hold it
By Lying and Being in Sufsex [Sussex] County formerly Called
Worester [Worchester] County and on the East side of Nanticoke River and
on the North side of Broad Creek to be Equally Divided Bettween [Between]
them and to Be held By them and their heirs and afsigns [assigns] for Ever
and one Grey mare to WILLIAM CALLAWAY---

Item         I give and Bequeath unto my Daughter LEAH one Bed and
Furniture and one Cow and Calf and one Chest, and privilege To Live in my
house and as much ground as she can tend as Long as she Doth Live
single----   

Item        I give and Bequeath unto my Beloved Wife LEAH my Dwelling
plantation With Liberty to Cut timber of any of my land that is Near For
the use of the plantation and all the Remainder of my
moureable [measurable] Estate---

Item        I give and Bequeath unto My son ELI CALLAWAY [after my Wife's
Difseece [Decease] Fifty acres of Land Called CALLAWAY FOLLEY and Where I
now Live and twenty five acres of Land Being part of a tract of Land
Called CALLAWAYS CHANCE With all my Warrant[?] Land that I hold By Virtue
of a resurvey made by WILLIAM POLK all to him and the heirs of his Body
Lawfully Begotten For Ever--

Also        I appoint my son ELI CALLAWAY my Whole and Sole Executor of
this my Last Will and Testament Ratifying and Confirming This and No
other to Be my Last Will and Testament and I Do hereby
______ly Difsanull [Disannul] Difsalow [Disallow] and Revoke all other
Forms Wills Legacies and bequests by me here to fore made in
Witnefs [Witness] Whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal affixed
the Day and year First above Written.......                             
          his
                                                                        
                      EBENEZER +CALLAWAY
                                                                        
                                        mark        seal
Signed, Sealed published [published] and pronounced
By the said EBENEZER CALLAWAY as his Last Will
and Testament in prevence [presence] of
JOHN WILLIAMS
x ELISHA CALLAWAY
           his                       [Note from Sallie: right now I don't know who these two men are]
x JEHU+CALLAWAY
         mark 

Stranger than Fiction 

The following was graciously submitted by CFA Member, Jim Calloway of Ruston, LA:
A news article published in the Mannsville Monitor Newspaper, Mannsville, OK on April 24, 1914

 “J. R. (John Right) Calloway, seventy-two years of age, died on Friday last and all the neighbors who were present mourned him for dead. Hearing that the old man was dead, "Squire" Fine came and examined the body which was cold as ice, but thought he could detect a little sign of the spark of life still existing.  He examined the tongue and found it
as dry as a chip.  He called for some whiskey and Miss Pearl Rich appeared with a bottle, and the "Squire" held the mouth open while Miss Pearl Rich poured the whiskey into his mouth.  Directly a little perspiration appeared upon his forehead, and then he looked around with wide open eyes.  He had returned to life to the joy of his wife, relatives and visitors.  Mr. Calloway is subject to these spells, and not long ago fainted and fell on the Rock Island right-of-way and was carried home.”

Uncle Right managed to survive this ordeal and lived another year or so afterward, passing on Feb 9, 1915.  His son, James Adams Callaway (also mentioned in the article) had already expired on June 25, 1912.

Squire (Vinett Alfanso) Fine was nearly related to J. R.  His wife, Lucinda, was a half-sister to my grandmother, James Adams Callaway.

Best wishes,
Jim Calloway

The Query Corner

Query #1

Subject – John Calloway b abt 1802-3 in NC, d abt 1863-4 in Knox Co., KY, m Anne Temple in Bertie Co., NC Jun 21, 1827.

From – Donna Morgan (dfmorgan at vnet.net)

Query – Does anyone have any connection to or information about Calloways/Callaways in the Bertie Co., NC area around 1800? I would be glad to share information.
 

What was Callaway Co., Missouri’s position on the Civil War?

Missouri, and the nation, were in turmoil. South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20th, 1860 and rapidly other southern states were following. In February of 1861, a state convention had been called in Jefferson City, and later moved to St. Louis, to decide Missouri's position in the conflict. On March 4, 1861 the convention published its results and found there was "No adequate cause to impel Missouri to dissolve her connection with the Federal Union."

Callaway County was pro-Southern in nature and was decidedly against war. Mass meetings had been held all over the county since President Lincoln's election in November of 1860. The outcome of all of the meetings was that while no one wanted to see the Union divide, if the South seceded, we should let them go without military intervention.

Many speeches were made and the overwhelming sentiment was that we could not support the Union in attacking the South and that we would defend our own state from Federal intervention.

~ Excerpt from:

The Civil War in Callaway County

By Mark Douglas

January is Renewal Month for the CFA. Please, if you haven’t already, renew your membership. And while you are at it, ask a family member to join as well. We only thrive through our members. In an effort to help the association grow, I sent an email invitation to each person who has signed our CFA Guest Book (95 in all) touting our laurels and inviting them to join. Hopefully, this will encourage some web site visitors to join.

Let Your “Callaway” Voice Be Heard!

Until next time,
Donna Morgan
CFA e-Newsletter Editor
Harrisburg, NC

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