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THE CALLAWAY FAMILY ASSOCIATION Volume X No. 1
Always regard
with esteem the name you were given; The Editor's Corner
Starting CFA's 34th year and the 10th year of the CFA Newsletter! It's Time to Join or Renew Your CFA Membership for 2009 In 2008 we welcomed over 45 new CFA Newsletter Subscribers! In case any of our new subscribers aren't members of CFA, now seems like a great time to invite them all to JOIN. We would welcome you, and hope that you will submit your family information to CFA, so we can identify your Callaway/Kellaway ancestry. And to all our existing members, here is a reminder that it is time to RENEW your membership. We need all of you in order to remain one of the finest genealogy societies in the world! And the Conclusion to our American West Story Part I of this
article can be
found in the
November 2008 CFA Newsletter. OPENING
THE AMERICAN WEST
About 80 miles out from Yuma, Confederate troops were discovered destroying hay at Stanwix Station, a stop on the Butterfield Stage route. In the brief exchange of gunfire, a Californian was wounded and the Texans eluded pursuit. A larger and more important action took place on April 15, 1862, when scouts brought word of enemy activity near Picacho Peak (pictured left), a barren watering spot about halfway between present day Phoenix and Tucson. Calloway determined to capture the Confederates by sending a detachment of cavalry around to the east to attack on the flank, while he marched directly ahead with the main body of infantry. The 16 Confederates, however, under Lt. Jack Swilling, sprang a trap of their own on the Federal cavalry. When the shooting started, Lt. Barrett ordered an immediate charge into the thick mesquite and a fierce firefight ensued. Calloway and his infantry a few miles away heard the gunfire and advanced at the double quick, but the skirmish was over by the time they arrived. Lt. Barrett was dead from a neck wound. Two privates were also killed and three more were wounded. Two Confederates were wounded and three captured; the remainder escaped back to Tucson. Nearly 50 skirmishes and affairs occurred in the West between 1861 and 1865, but the Battle of Picacho Peak is generally considered the western-most battle of the Civil War. The Federals buried their dead and spent the night on the battlefield. The next day Calloway ordered a 100-mile withdrawal to Stanwix Station. Given the superior numbers and equipment of Calloway's force, there is little doubt that he could have taken Tucson if he had advanced immediately as his officers wished. But one must remember that two reconnaissance forces had been sent out and both had been ambushed and had failed to secure additional information about the enemy. Consequently, when Colonel West shortly joined forces with Calloway, he too acted with caution, gathering troops and supplies and resting. In the meantime, Canby's Union forces in New Mexico had finally turned on Sibley and defeated him soundly at Glorieta Pass on March 22, 1862. This battle was the "Gettysburg of the West," for it forced the retreat of all Southern forces from the area. At Tucson, Hunter had slowed the advance of the California troops and prevented them from gaining useful information about the Confederate forces, but when his picket returned from Picacho Peak with news of the skirmish and the presence of a force nearly three times larger than his own, and when he heard news of Sibley's defeat, he abandoned Tucson and retreated toward the Rio Grande on May 4. A charge of Union cavalry into Tucson on May 20 found the town almost completely deserted. With the withdrawal of Sibley and Hunter from Arizona and New Mexico, the Confederate dream of Western expansion was finished, never to be seriously revived. After the threat of Confederate invasion passed, California troops were used to suppress the general Indian uprising that followed the removal of the U.S. Army at the start of the Civil War. Calloway and his men participated in several major expeditions in 1862 and 1863. The brief confederate government in the Southwest had determined to resolve the Indian problem by issuing an extermination order. General Carleton's solution was only slightly less brutal; he proposed concentrating all the Indians in the Territory at one spot and killing any who refused to come. Kit Carson and William P. Calloway played a major role in rounding up the hostile tribesmen and herding them to Fort Sumner in central New Mexico, where the nomadic Indians were to learn how to become civilized farmers by growing their own food. An important individual in this ambitious, but ill-fated, project was Captain William P. Calloway. He was posted to Bosque Redondo, as the Indian Farm was called, late in 1863, and he escorted the first group of Indians, including the famous Navajo chief Delgadito, to the area. When he arrived he was selected by Carleton to be Indian Farm Superintendent. He commenced work immediately, digging irrigation ditches and canals, and leveling planting plots. The task was made even more difficult by the fact that the Indians had only fifty spades to work with. Mesquite had to be cleared from the land, and the Indians literally grubbed the plants out by hand. But Calloway admired the perseverance and industry of the Navajos, who carried the work rapidly forward. By the end of June three thousand acres of corn, beans, melons and pumpkins had been planted, and the prospects were good for a plentiful harvest. Suddenly, however, a small worm appeared in the corn and within a month destroyed half the crop. The loss was a severe blow, since the government had depended on the Indians feeding themselves with what they grew, and no contingency plans had been made for crop failure. But the loss of the crop was not the only problem. The whole Bosque Redondo experiment was the source of bitter controversy between General Carleton, who introduced the plan, and his political and personal enemies in New Mexico and Washington. The authorities at the farm had difficulty getting the Navajos and the Apaches to live and work side by side in peace, and the government refused to appropriate the money and supplies necessary to keep the Indians well fed, adequately clothed, and housed. Hungry and angry Indians left the reservation and ate the livestock of local citizens, further increasing popular dissatisfaction with Carleton's policies. Eventually, the government saw that it would be easier and cheaper to keep peace between the whites and Indians in the Southwest if the Indians were allowed to return to their remote desert homes and the Indian Farm abandoned. But between 1864 and 1865, Calloway worked hard to make it successful. Two major historians of the Bosque Redondo period (Bailey: 1964, 1970; and Thompson: 1978), who have written otherwise insightful books, suggest that Calloway was implicated in the theft of certain government property, and that he was subsequently court-martialed and dismissed from the service in March 1865. A careful examination, however, of the available service records and correspondence reveals a somewhat different set of circumstances. First, Calloway's term of enlistment expired in September 1864, and the military records make it very clear that he was honorably mustered out at that date, along with his entire company. Since the war was not yet over, some men were persuaded to re-enlist, others took up civilian life in New Mexico, and some undertook the long walk back to California, rather upset that the army chose to discharge them a thousand miles from home. Second, it is clear that Calloway did not re-enlist in the military after his discharge, although he apparently did continue his duties as Farm Superintendent at Bosque Redondo in a civilian capacity. Moreover, court-martialing an officer, a captain with a good military record, is a serious matter, and careful records of these proceedings are made. Captain Prince Morton was said to have been court-martialed at the same time as Calloway for the same offense, but while the Adjutant General's office has a very detailed transcript of Morton's trial, there is no record at all of such an action against Calloway. Indeed, Calloway is listed as a civilian witness in the record of the Morton case. Finally, a letter from Calloway to his army employers dated June 21, 1865, thanks them for accepting his resignation and complies with their request to report on the condition in which he leaves the Indian Farm for his successor. There is nothing in the content, tone or voice of the document to suggest that Calloway left his association with the military on anything less than the best of terms. Moreover, contemporary newspaper accounts soon show him involved as a local citizen in making bids for government hay contracts. The last child of William and Delilah was born in January 1861, a few months before the start of the Civil War. When Calloway left with his company for the Southwest, there appears to have been an estrangement between him and his wife. Mrs. Calloway took a job as a cook at a way station called the Mountain House on the shores of Donner Lake. The young daughter remembered winters at the lake when the snow gathered in huge drifts and a fire constantly roared in the stone fireplace. Calloway appears to have wanted his wife and family to come to the Southwest, but she evidently refused. Jessie Calloway reported that in 1864 her mother obtained a divorce from W. P. Calloway, and during the winter of that year she met and married Charles E. Roberson, a millwright who helped build sawmills. Calloway seems to have been unaware of this development, since a letter written in 1865 describes silver and jewelry sent by him to his wife. After Calloway left the military, he built a homestead on the Pecos River about ten miles north of present day Santa Rosa, New Mexico. In 1970 Dr. Albert Ward, of the New Mexico Anthropological Center, excavated the homestead as part of a salvage archaeology program sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, because of a reservoir the Corps was building in the area. The ruins of the site were well known to local residents as the "Old Calloway Homestead," and excavators uncovered myriad details of how Calloway and earlier and later inhabitants of the site lived. Calloway appears to have lived at his Pecos Bend homestead for about four years, between 1865 and 1869, during which time he built his substantial adobe and stone house and perhaps married a Spanish girl, Manuela Ensenas. Although Calloway and many of the former members of the California Column stayed in new Mexico and married local Spanish girls, this was an era of racial tension between the newly arrived Anglo-Americans and the original Spanish-American colonists who had first started coming to the area in the 1600s. In December 1868 a notice was published in a local newspaper which described how two Texas cowhands from a local ranch had been murdered in cold blood while they slept and their naked bodies left in the sun. The letter warned that, if the offenders were not promptly apprehended and punished, vigilante justice would have to compensate for the law's neglect. A few weeks later a letter from the leading citizens of Anton Chico, a small village north of Calloway's homestead, was published in El Nuevo Mexicano. The letter described how a mob of Anglos had descended upon the town and taken away all the men they could catch. The captives were marched to a spot about 10 miles away, where one was shot, another hanged, and the rest allowed to escape amid a hail of bullets. Named among the major perpetrators was William P. Calloway. The Mexicans demanded protection and justice from the civil authorities, and the governor of the state soon announced a $200 reward for Calloway's arrest. Calloway thus left the area early in 1869, and it is very likely that he is the W. P. Calloway listed on the 1870 census for San Saba county, Texas, about 400 miles to the east. At any rate, there is no record of his having been prosecuted for his alleged part in the vigilante raid on Anton Chico, and he apparently felt safe to return to the state to participate in a Civil War veterans reunion at Mesilla in 1876. At present there is no clear record of where or how or when Calloway died. For many years W. P. Calloway was confused with one Oliver P. Callaway, who was killed by Indians near present day Blythe, California, in 1880. Jessie Calloway also thought it possible that Calloway died at Silver City, New Mexico, or that he was killed by Indians near Prescott, Arizona. So far all of these leads have proven fruitless, but no doubt the information will one day be found. Nevertheless, what little is known about William P. Calloway's life clearly demonstrates that he had a significant role in the opening of the American frontier. Calloway also left a large posterity: Lily Grace Calloway, Sarah Craddock's daughter, married J. C. Jasper of Wheatland, California, and had seven children - one of whom is still living at this writing (July 1982). Delilah had two children who lived to adulthood: the son, Dudley, left one child in the Pacific Northwest area, and the daughter, Jessie, had seven children. Finally, the Ensenas family in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, says that Calloway and Manuela Ensenas had a son and a daughter. ~ From Wikipedia - photo above of Picacho Peak at sunrise on March 16th, 2005, taken by Christopher Morrison.
Editor’s note - 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/Kellaway" 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.
In Memory We are sorry to hear about the death of Len Barbe, one of our Callaway cousins from Guernsey. Our condolences go to Carol Sturdevant and all of Len's family. Dear Donna, In Memory We were sorry to hear about the death last September of Jessie Bridges. Our condolences go to all of the family for their loss. One hundred years is quite a milestone. What a remarkable life she had. Jessie was the wife of Samuel Trent Bridges who descends from the Joseph Callaway line through Nancy Elizabeth Trent Callaway.
In Memory I would like to thank Teresa Snyder for sending us a copy of Mildred Golofsky's obituary. Our condolences go to Teresa and all her family for their loss. Donna,
Please Welcome the Newest Little Callaway Our best wishes go to Lloyd Callaway and all his family on the birth of his grandson, Boone Allen Callaway, born June 4, 2008.
Hi
Donna,
Joseph
Callaway A Response to - A Callaway Stocking Stuffer
I would like to thank Ruth Kent
for sending us some information that may identify the
Callaway whose name was on the envelope mentioned in
last month's newsletter.
Donna,
I don't have
anything on the family of Thomas H. Callaway and
Susan (lnu). The second article indicates he had a
daughter who married James A. Johnston.
Ruth Kent
eruth at swbell.net
From
http://www.tngenweb.org/monroe/newspaper/FILE3.TXT
September 1, 1870 Death of President Calloway---This estimable Christian gentleman and valued citizen breathed his last at half past two o'clock Monday morning at White Cliff Springs in this county. His many friends had been for some time prepared for the sad event, although they hoped to the last that kind and skillful attention might prolong his life for several years. Colonel Calloway was born in Knox County on the 15th day of January, 1812. About the year 1821 he removed with his father, Joseph Calloway, to this county. In 1838, having been appointed one of the surveyors of the Ocoee District, he removed to Cleveland. Shortly after this he married a daughter of Hon. Luke Lea, then Entry Taker of the Ocoee District. On the 5th of February, 1852, he was elected President of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, but resigned in September, 1853. On the 25th of July, 1865, he was re-elected to the same position, and on the 27th of November, 1868, he was elected President of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad. On the 29th of November, 1869, the East Tennessee and Georgia and East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Companies having been consolidated, he was elected the first President of the consolidated companies, and was holding this position at the time of his death. Colonel Calloway was an active and consistent member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and in all the relations of life set a bright example to those who would win respect and love. We know of no other man in East Tennessee whose loss would be so generally and sincerely deplored. His remains were taken to Cleveland on Tuesday and buried with Masonic honors. The number in attendance at the funeral was very large, comprising delegations from along the line of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad. January 26, 1871 Dots From Madisonville---The only notable event of the past week was the arrival on Friday last of James A. Johnston, Esq., and his "fair young bride." The latter is a daughter of the late T.H. Calloway, Esq., of Cleveland, Tenn., formerly President of the E.T. Va. & Ga. Railroad. The bride and groom have just returned from a trip north and northwest. A brilliant reception was given on Friday night at the residence of Joseph Johnston, Esq., the father of the groom. Some of our Sweetwater beaux were on hand. Our old town cannot supply a sufficient number of unmarried gentlemen to get up a good sized party. Miss Carrie Johnston, sister of the groom, who for several months has been visiting her sister in Cincinnati, returned with the bridal party, and is as bright, pretty and lively as ever.
Thursday,
February 15, 1900
Mrs. Susan Calloway, one of the most prominent and highly respected citizens of Monroe County, died at the family residence on the Tennessee River, near McGhee, Monday. She was the wife of the late Thomas H. Calloway, who many years ago was president of the old East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway. The funeral occurred at Cleveland yesterday.
Kingston,
Tennessee, February 17
Rev. J.L. Bachman officiated at the funeral of three of Monroe County's oldest and most respected people last week, viz: Mrs. Susan Curd of Jalapa, 81 years; Mrs. Bettie Williams of Madisonville, 81, and Mrs. Susan Calloway of McGhee, 72 years. The Pioneering Spirit of Texas Women Two biographies follow - both Texas pioneering women who accomplished amazing feats and married Callaway men. Sara married
William Allen Callaway from the following line of descent:
As a witty and sometimes acerbic journalist, Mrs. Callaway inaugurated or advocated several successful social and public health crusades. In 1903 and 1904 she wrote several columns urging the establishment of a juvenile court system and a home for juvenile offenders. She initiated a campaign for pure drinking water and a movement for an anti-expectoration ordinance and wrote in favor of a pure-food law. She also promoted women's rights and women's organizations in her columns. She organized the first woman suffrage club in Dallas in 1894. She was a founding member of the Texas Women's Press Association in 1893 and helped organize the Woman's Congress, later the State Council of Women of Texas, in 1893. Among the many women who spoke before the council was sculptor Elisabet Ney. Through the State Council, Isadore Callaway fostered the establishment of the Women's Building at the State Fair of Texas. She was president of the Oak Cliff Quero Club and an honorary member of the Dallas Pierian Club. She served as seventh president of the Dallas City Federation of Women's Clubs in 1907 and 1908 and was a founding member of the Dallas Woman's Forum in 1906. While president of the Dallas Federation of Women's Clubs, she led the movement for supervised playgrounds for boys and for the employment of a police matron and a woman probation officer. She originated the annual Christmas empty-stocking crusade for poor children and helped organize the Dallas Free Kindergarten Association. She was a charter member of the Dallas Humane Society and the Jane Douglas chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a director of the Dallas Public Library, and the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce city-beautification committee. As an original member of the Rural Welfare Association, begun in 1913, Mrs. Callaway encouraged the establishment of the Dallas County Rest Room for country women. Child welfare expert Henry S. Curtis ranked her as one of four outstanding American women, along with Jane Addams, Anna Howard Shaw, and Carrie Chapman Catt. The Callaways lived in Dallas and raised two orphaned nieces. Isadore Callaway died on August 10, 1916, at St. Paul's Sanitarium in Dallas. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Dallas Morning News, August 21, 1916. Martha Lavinia Hunter, A Quarter of a Century of the Dallas Woman's Forum, 1906-1931 (Dallas: Cockrell, 1932). Jackie McElhaney, "Pauline Periwinkle: Crusading Columnist," Heritage News, Summer 1985. Megan Seaholm ~ The above article from: Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/fcaba.html(accessed December 8, 2008). Editor's Note - I would like to thank CFA Member, Don R. Brownlee for sending the picture of Sara Isadore Callaway. Jane married Moses Calloway, once a slave from Tennessee. ENDSLEY, JANE JOHNSON (1848-1933). Jane Johnson Endsley, who was born a slave in Jefferson, Texas, in 1848, rose to a successful life as a businesswoman and community leader in Dallas. After spending her childhood on a plantation in Jefferson, she married Moses Calloway in 1862 in Jefferson. Moses had also been born a slave, in Tennessee. They moved to Rowlett, Texas, sometime between 1865 and 1868. The Calloways became sharecroppers but ultimately acquired their own 100-acre farm there. They had eleven children. After her husband's death sometime in the late 1880s or early 1890s, Jane continued to manage their prosperous farm, which had been assessed at a value of $15,150 in 1882. She regularly delivered her own cotton to the local cotton gin. On one occasion, a white man attempted to steal her bale of cotton by grabbing it as it emerged from the gin. "Without thinking" Jane struck him with the cotton hook she was holding, splitting the man's skull. According to family accounts, a white man who witnessed the accident apparently took the blame for it, thus protecting her from prosecution. In 1894 she married C. F. Franklin. After eleven years of marriage they divorced, and she married Alonzo Jones. That marriage also ended in divorce. She entered into her fourth and final marriage to H. E. Endsley, a tailor, in 1914. Around that time she sold the family farm in Rowlett but kept the timber rights to the land and set up a railroad-yard coal and log business in the heart of Dallas. Jane Endsley ran the business with the assistance of her sons, Joe, Lube, and Emmett. The family company provided much-needed fuel for many Dallas residents and was considered the largest business of its kind in the city. The Endsleys acquired another portion of land close to the site of the present State Fair of Texas. Their wealth enabled them to build a fine home on Collins Street, with a veranda stretching the length of the house front, and to purchase a new Model T Ford. With other friends, Jane Endsley founded the Macedonia Baptist Church, which later grew to a 5,000-member congregation known as the Good Street Baptist Church. In the 1920s she helped establish a women's lodge called the Household of Ruth, for which she rented a building. The lodge provided funeral insurance for African Americans, who could not acquire insurance from white companies at the time. The Household of Ruth also offered them a network of "trusted friends" in time of need. Endsley had the only telephone in her neighborhood for a long time and welcomed her neighbors to use it. During the Great Depression she and her youngest daughter, Maggie, worked to feed hungry, homeless people. She also spent time "ministering to the sick and elderly." Endsley never learned to read or write but apparently developed her own shorthand. In the 1990s her descendants still had regular family gatherings and maintained records of the family roots. She died at her home on Collins Street in 1933 and was buried in the family plot in Rowlett. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Dallas Morning News, October 27, 1986. Teresa Palomo Acosta
U. S. Joseph Callaway Line I would like to thank Gene Lierheimer for sending us a Callaway connection that crosses both the Joseph and Peter Callaway lines. Donna, Please welcome new newsletter
subscriber, Pat Phillips Rhoades, of Lenox, IA. Pat is sending
us her family tree to be added to our master file. She descends
from the Joseph Callaway line through her great grandmother,
Judith Virginia Callaway as follows: Dear Donna, I know she has since died. I wonder if our chart was added to the family tree? I am not really good at the computer. But my great grandmother was Judith Virginia Callaway b.) 18 Feb 1860 probably in DeKalb Co., MO and d.) 30 Mar 1926 probably Clinton or Clay Co., MO. She was married to Benjamin S. Tester 15 Aug 1878. Their daughter Katie Tester Phillips was my grandmother. If the family tree does not include our branch, I would love to contribute the information. Thanks for all you and others do to keep our
roots available for us. U. S. Peter Callaway Line I would like to thank Sam Geer for sharing the following picture and information from the family bible of Joshua Sanford Callaway.
Hi Donna,
I found this bible
transcription online and used it as a reference on the
attached article that was submitted to the Wilkes county,
Georgia Heritage book.
Sam Geer
geergenealogy at aol.comat http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/monroe/bibles/callaway.txt This Bible was printed in Taylor County Tracer Vol 7 #11, November 2002 - the publication of the Taylor County Historical-Genealogical Society. Note: J. S. Callaway served churches in the Flint River Baptist Association from 1829 -1853 chiefly in Monroe and Pike counties. JOSHUA SANFORD CALLAWAY FAMILY BIBLE RECORDS
Joshua S. Callaway born May 30, 1789
CHILDREN Joshua S. Callaway & Elizabeth Smith were married November 15, 1827
CHILDREN Joshua S. Callaway & Mary McCoy were married November 15, 1832
CHILDREN
Thomas Geo Jordan born July 22, 1788
Ellen H. Jordan was born June 6, 1816 Elizabeth Clark Callaway daughter of James M. Callaway born Oct 9, 1842 Pitt Milner's List of Births and Deaths of the Family
Martha Milner born April 6, 1791
DEATHS
Peter Callaway Joshua was baptized at the age of 20 by the Rev. Jesse Mercer at Sardis Baptist Church in Wilkes Co., served during the War of 1812, where he was elected captain. He was ordained to the ministry in 1820 at the Sardis Baptist church in Jones Co., GA. Mr. Callaway served as moderator of the Flint River Baptist Association for 24 years, later ministering in Henry Co., Georgia and was for a time surveyor of Walton Co., GA. He died in Jonesboro, GA on May 29, 1854. He first married in Wilkes Co. on February 12, 1811 Mary "Polly" Milner (February 25, 1795 - September 12, 1826) daughter of Pitt Milner (1769 - 1839) and Apsilla Holmes (1770 - 1854) of Monroe Co., GA; secondly married in Jones Co., GA on November 15, 1827 Mrs. Elizabeth (nee Shivers) Smith (1798 - 1831) daughter of Willis Shivers and Elizabeth Cowan and widow of John C. Smith (d. 1823); and thirdly on November 13, 1832 to Mary McCoy (b. 1816), daughter of Abner McCoy (1773 - 1859) and Charity Matilda Lowe (1773 - 1869) of Thomaston, Upson Co., GA.
Joshua Callaway was the father of
fourteen children, his first six with Mary Milner, two with
Elizabeth Shivers and six with Mary McCoy: 2) James Madison Callaway (January 1, 1815 - 1848) of Wilkes Co. was the father of Elizabeth Clark Callaway (b. October 9, 1842); 3) John Holmes M. Callaway (January 25, 1817 - December 9, 1893) married in Wilkes Co. November 23, 1841 Sarah Jane Douglas (1825 - 1897);
4) Beniter Arnold Callaway (February
11, 1819 - August 17, 1904 The Rock, Upson Co., GA) married on
September 19, 1833 James Lloyd Head (January 30, 1808 Putnam Co.
- August 11, 1863 Pike Co., GA). 6) Joshua Sanford Callaway, Jr. (November 18, 1824 - January 3, 1899) married in Barbour Co., AL on November 17, 1847 Melissa Ann Jordan (July 27, 1829 - December 14, 1916) daughter of Thomas George Jordan (1788 - 1872) and Mary Lovicy Chambless (1792 - 1857). They removed to Amarillo, Potter Co., TX; 7) Polly Milner Callaway (September 1, 1828 - January 10, 1883) married in Jonesboro, Clayton Co. William Oliver (February 24, 1829 Twiggs Co., GA - July 3, 1891). They removed to Wesson, Copiah Co., MS; 8) Willis Joshua Callaway (b. October 1, 1830);
9) Elizabeth Shivers Callaway (b.
September 21, 1833) married Rev. Aaron E. Cloud; Other C/K Lines I would like to thank CFA Member, Bill Piper in the UK for sending us this story of a very heroic Kellaway. As Bill tells us, sadly they did not get our Kellaway's name right in the story. He is reported as John Kellaway, but his name actually was Joseph Kellaway.
5. John (s/b
Joseph) Kellaway, Boatswain Once more we must return to the brave Lieutenant Burgoyne, one of the glorious deeds of whom we have already recounted. In the autumn of 1855, he was in command of the Wrangler, one of the vessels that formed Captain Osborn's little squadron. His vessel was cruising on the northeastern shore of the Sea of Azov. His orders were the same as those delivered to Osborn - that is to say, he was to burn and destroy everything that the Russians valued. There was a large colony of fisherman located near Marionpol, on the shores of a lake of the same name. Lieutenant Burgoyne learnt about this colony, and at once determined to do it as much damage as possible. But how to reach it was a difficult problem. The country was swarming with troops, and the task appeared an impossible one. Nevertheless volunteers were quickly forthcoming. Mr. Odevaine, mate of the Wrangler, was the first to offer his life in the service of his country, and he was quickly followed by three sailors and the hero whose name we have already given - John (s/b Joseph) Kellaway. These five heroically resolved to journey to Marionpol by themselves, and perform the task set them by Burgoyne.
The young commander had already had considerable experience in brave actions; but even he hesitated before he agreed to accept the proffered services of those brave five. He could not see how they were to escape in safety, and he naturally hesitated before consigning such heroic sons of England to an early and undeserved doom. Odevaine would, however, bear no denial. Though but slightly built, and of rather a feeble constitution, he possessed the courage of a lion. The task should be done, and he was the man who could do it. At last Burgoyne assented, and Odevaine set out, accompanied by the three seamen and Kellaway, the boatswain of the Wrangler. It was a task worthy of the sons of Old England, and worthily they endeavoured to perform it. A few moments sufficed for the five to reach the beach, and then, leaping ashore, they commenced their difficult task. On over the rough ground they went with the natural carelessness of British tars. In front of them lay the lake of Marionpol, and on the far side of it was a small fishing village. This village was their goal, and could they once reach that spot their task would be speedily accomplished. They could see no boat, so determined to skirt the side of the lake on foot. The road was soft and muddy, and at every step they found their feet sink more deeply into the oozing slime. Still they steadily persevered. On and on they went, every step being more wearying than the one that preceded it. Our jolly tars heeded not the weariness, however, but cheerfully pursued their way. Crack, crack! They paused and glanced anxiously around. They could not be mistaken, they were all too well acquainted with that sound. What to do they for a moment knew not. Then a party of Russian soldiers darted from an ambush. "Run, lads - run!" cried Odevaine excitedly; "we have been caught in a trap." The men knew it would be suicidal madness to dispute the order. They at once turned, but now the enemy were upon them. They fought bravely and well, with the result that the Russians were beaten off for the time, but they carried away as a prisoner one of our brave English sailors. The others made their way over the muddy plain as fast as they could, but suddenly Odevaine slipped and fell. For a moment the others did not miss him, but suddenly John (s/b Joseph) Kellaway paused. "Where is the lieutenant?" he asked. Nobody replied. The others were far ahead. Kellaway hesitated for a moment, and then commenced to retrace his steps. He heard a feeble voice crying for help, and at once recognised it. It was the voice of his officer. Kellaway at once stooped and endeavoured to raise Odevaine. Then he saw the officer was uninjured, although he had become so firmly fixed in the mud that he was unable to move. In a second Kellaway had extricated him from his embarrassing position, but at that very moment the Russians came down, and though he offered a brave resistance, the undaunted boatswain was at last made a prisoner. When peace was declared he was of course released, and then he received that honour highly prized by all brave British soldiers and sailors, the Victoria Cross. ~ the above article was printed in the Boys of England and Jack Harkaway's Journal of Travel, Fun and Instruction, London, Friday, December 17, 1897. Editor's Note - Read more about the ancestry of Joseph Kellaway in the genealogy report and treatise submitted to CFA by CFA Member, Warwick Kellaway from New Zealand. This is his family line. "Mystery Callaway", Thomas Russell Calloway, shown here in the 1929 Austin High School, Chicago, IL Year Book called Maroon & White.
Calhoun 408 "Tom"
I believe that census
records show he descends from the following line. Can anyone
verify or reject this, and tell us more about this family line? "Mystery Callaway" - George Lawson Callaway. Can anyone identify this family and tell us more about them? Descendants of George Lawson Callaway Generation No. 1
1.
GEORGE LAWSON1
CALLAWAY was born
20 Sep 1831 in OH, and died 04 Jun 1884 in CA. He
married AMANDA M.
CHURCH 07 May 1855
in CA, daughter of Notes for GEORGE LAWSON CALLAWAY: He is listed as single on the 1850 Fremont Co., IA census. They are listed on the 1860 Elliott, San Joaquin Co., CA census. They are living with Charles and Esther Lawless, perhaps a sister of George or Amanda. They are listed on the 1870 Dry Creek, Sacramento Co., CA census. They are listed on the 1880 Liberty, San Joaquin Co., CA census. Amanda's mother, Abigail Church is living with them. Children of GEORGE CALLAWAY and AMANDA CHURCH are: i. JOHN M.2 CALLAWAY, b. Abt. 1856, CA. ii. MARY E. CALLAWAY, b. Abt. 1858, CA.
2.
iii. JAMES
NELSON CALLAWAY, b. 07 Feb 1860, CA; d. 26 Aug 1929, iv. CHARLES L. CALLAWAY, b. Abt. 1862, CA. Notes for CHARLES L. CALLAWAY: He is single living with the Robert Brown family working as a farm laborer on the 1900 Liberty, San Joaquin Co., CA census. v. ELIZA CALLAWAY, b. Abt. 1864, CA; d. Bef. 1880, CA. vi. GEORGE W. CALLAWAY, b. Oct 1867, CA. Notes for GEORGE W. CALLAWAY: He is a prisoner at Folsom State Prison on the 1900 Granite, Sacramento Co., CA census. He is listed as single on the 1910 Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA census. He is listed as single on the 1920 Oakland, Alameda Co., CA census. Working as a laborer in the ship yard. vii. EDWARD F. CALLAWAY, b. Abt. 1871, CA. Generation No. 2
2.
JAMES NELSON2
CALLAWAY
(GEORGE
LAWSON1)
was born 07 Feb 1860 in CA, and died 26 Aug 1929 in Notes for JAMES NELSON CALLAWAY:
They are listed on the
1900, 1910 Liberty, San Joaquin Co., CA census.
They are listed on the
1920 Sacramento, Sacramento Co., CA census. Children of JAMES CALLAWAY and NANCY HUNTING are: 3. i. CLARENCE P.3 CALLAWAY, b. Abt. 1902, Liberty, San Joaquin Co., CA. ii. BLANCHE J. CALLAWAY, b. Abt. 1904, Liberty, San Joaquin Co., CA. iii. AMY GERTRUDE CALLAWAY, b. Abt. 1910, Liberty, San Joaquin Co., CA. iv. DOROTHY CALLAWAY, b. Abt. 1915, CA. Generation No. 3
3.
CLARENCE P.3
CALLAWAY
(JAMES
NELSON2,
GEORGE
LAWSON1)
was born Abt. 1902 in Notes for CLARENCE P. CALLAWAY: They are listed on the 1930 Sacramento, Sacramento Co., CA census. His mother and sister are living with them. Jack Chappell listed as stepson is living with them. More About CLARENCE P. CALLAWAY: Occupation: Book Binder for State Printing More About ANNE C. UNKNOWN: Immigration: 1909 Children of CLARENCE CALLAWAY and ANNE UNKNOWN are: i. HELEN J.4 CALLAWAY, b. Abt. 1924, Sacramento, Sacramento Co., CA. ii. HAROLD E. CALLAWAY, b. 9 Feb 1925, Sacramento, Sacramento Co., CA, d. 26 Apr 2005, Sacramento, Sacramento Co., CA.
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Response to Query # 515 (Dec
2008 Newsletter) Hello Debby,
I think this is your Mary Ann in Cutcombe Somerset 1851
Mary Ann was still living with James and Mary Bryant aged 12 in 1861 census. Now that is interesting if annoying because we do not learn who her parents were. Mary Bryant was originally Mary Callaway and so it looks like Mary Ann was the daughter of Mary's brother. The visitor Sarah above is most probably Mary's mother. this is the family. Thomas Callaway & Sarah
Edwards m. 01.09.1807 Luxborough Originally another researcher told us that a different Mary from another family (also born 1808 but in Cutcombe) married James Bryant but now I'm fairly sure with these census records that he was wrong as this way it all makes sense. You said Mary Ann's father was James. Well I have found this birth registration in the correct area at the right time (the only one) and if you send for the birth certificate you can find out for sure and also the mother's maiden name will appear. This is Mary Ann's
Registration: Births Dec 1848 Callaway Mary Ann Williton 10 459 http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/ Anyway it would give you the information to link into this family group which is pretty well documented. It did occur to me that Mary Ann may have given her Father's name as James because James Bryant brought her up or of course the father could be the brother James. I wonder what happened for her to be living with the aunt? You can find a complete family list along with a huge amount of Callaway English Research on my web site at http://www.leshaigh.co.uk/kellawaymod/watchet.html Hopefully you can then follow Thomas Callaway back. Parents, John and Jane Bennett, Grandparents Francis and Sarah Woolcott, then Robert and Joan Cornish, Robert and Elizabeth, Robert and Ann Dodrige m. 1642 in Stogumber who were originally from Wellington. We have all been very interested in this important line and would love to have any input you can give us. Some appear to link to the Joseph line in the USA by DNA but the actual link has been very illusive! Anyway I have probably
swamped you with information. I hope it makes sense but please
let me know if you need explanation. Would love to know what you
know of Mary Ann and if you get the information from her birth
certificate.
Query # 518 Hi, came across the website - thought I'd drop you a line. I am Laura Fielder previously Kellaway.
My father is Paul Andrew Kellaway and grandfather
Editor's Note - Following is a very nice response from Lesley Haigh in the UK.
Hello
Laura, With a bit of guesswork that put Sydney as born around 1920-25 it took me to St. Austell in Cornwall where I found a Sydney J. Kellaway b. 1921. A lot of digging in records and census took the family back to link in with a well known group in Phillack Cornwall. So starting with Sydney we have: Sydney
Harper Kellaway & Matilda E Smith m. 1915 Then Sydney Harper Kellaway's parents: Edwin
Kellaway 1842 & Mary Ann Harper m. 1868 St Austell Edwin was the son of a rather well known character called Charles Kellaway in Phillack. He was married twice and produced 15 children. Charles
Kelway (Colyton 1805) & Grace Chinn m. 04.06.1826 d. 26.03.1837 Charles then m. Peggy Richards: Charles
Kelway/Kellaway & Margaret Mary Peggy Richards m. 07.06.1837
Helston Family in Tavistock 1851 d. 1875, 70 Tavistock The Edwin born 1843 is yours. Charles was born 1805 in Colyton Devon. Edward
Calway & Cecily Hallson m. 04.02.1795 Broadwindsor (Tinker) From there on the trail is fuzzy. I have all the references if you want to start sending to ONS for birth/marriage certificates. I also have my own web site http://www.leshaigh.co.uk where you will find all the Kellaway families. I have updated The Far West Cornwall families today in the light of where your enquiry took me. I hope
this helps. You have a rather bigger family than you perhaps
expected! I hope this looks right for your information and we
would love to hear any further details if you have them.
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CALLAWAY, SARA
ISADORE SUTHERLAND (1863-1916). Sara Callaway [pseud.
Pauline Periwinkle], journalist, suffragist, clubwoman, and
community activist, was born in Michigan on September 25, 1863,
the daughter of a Civil War
soldier and a suffragist. She began writing at age twelve and
later worked as a journalist and writer in Michigan and Ohio.
She married James Weston Minor (Miner) in 1884 and published two
books of children's stories and verse in 1890. After her husband
died she moved to Dallas, Texas, to be near her mother and
stepfather. She began working at the Dallas
Morning News
in January 1893 as society editor and editor of the women's
page, and for more than twenty years she wrote a popular weekly
column under the pen name Pauline Periwinkle. Later she wrote
and edited a weekly children's page in the News. She was
also editor of the Semi-Weekly Farm News, published in
both Dallas and Galveston. In July 1900 she married
William
Allen Callaway, an insurance agent and former newspaperman.
Joshua
Sanford Callaway, Baptist Minister, born in Wilkes County, Ga.
married Mary "Polly" Milner, daughter of Pitt Milner and Apsilla
Holmes Milner, of Monroe County, Ga. Rev. Callaway married
second Elizabeth Smith and third Mary McCoy. 
