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THE CALLAWAY FAMILY ASSOCIATION Volume XIII No. 1
Always regard
with esteem the name you were given; The Editor's Corner
Happy New Year Everyone ! http://callawayfamily.org/cfanetarchives.htm There are over 18,000 ancestors in the Peter Callaway Master file, and almost 9,000 ancestors in the Joseph Callaway Master file.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=cfa-peter For our English ancestors, Lesley Haigh has created a web site with an enormous amount of genealogical data about our English ancestors. The work done by the CFA is an extraordinary accomplishment and one that will benefit researchers of C/K genealogy for the future. To all who have contributed to this feat, I say Well Done and Thank You !
We invite everyone to take
advantage of the wonderful work done by the
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.
The 2012 Annual CFA Meeting will be in Athens, Georgia October 11-14 2012
Read all about this
year's meeting on Facebook. Sam Geer, meeting
coordinator, has given us a wonderful itinerary.
CFA 2012 Annual Meeting on Facebook A
new year begins and CFA needs your support. Please
remember that it is annual dues time. It only takes a
minute to
fill out the form and send it with your check to
CFA.
We are
very sorry to hear of the passing of Richard B. Callaway. We send our condolences to all
his family for
their loss.
Below is the obituary for my father Richard B. Calaway. My mother indicated that you put together a newsletter. Richard Burr Calaway, 75, died November 3, 2011 at his home in Fuquay-Varina, NC. Mr. Calaway was born December 11, 1935, in Toledo, Ohio to Dr. George A. Calaway and Mildred (Maffet) Calaway. He attended DeVilbiss High School. Graduating in 1954, he studied at the University of Cincinnati before graduating from the University of Toledo in 1962. He enjoyed playing cards with family and friends. He loved sailing, cars, and all things Toledo. He served in the U.S. Army Reserves while also being active in SCCA and Rotary. He is survived by his wife Nancy (Cook) Calaway and three sons; Mark, Scott, and Todd, and five grandchildren. Editor's Note - Richard Burr Calaway is a descendant of the Connecticut Calaways. The earliest information we have on this family line was published in the May 2009 CFA Newsletter. In Memory
His double Callaway Descent on the Peter line:
Peter Callaway
John Callaway
Edward Callaway Job Callaway
Jacob Callaway
Seaborn Callaway
Sarah Ann L. "Sallie" Callaway = Dr. Reuben Strozier Callaway Reuben Hillyer Callaway Malcolm Hillyer Callaway Malcolm Hillyer Callaway, Jr. John Callaway Rev. Enoch Callaway Dr. Reuben Strozier Callaway = Sarah Ann L. "Sallie" Callaway
U. S. Joseph Callaway Line The following family story is an excerpt from a booklet about Oscar Monroe Callaway (1885-1962) for his great grandchildren and other descendants who never knew him. Written by his son, the booklet also includes a partial family lineage and data about the ten children of Oscar Monroe Callaway. It originally was published in the 1994 CFA Journal. Life With Papa Oscar Monroe Callaway was born in Lampasas, Texas, January 9, 1885, the son of John William Callaway and Emily Elizabeth Strader. When he was 3 months old, his parents took him in a horse-drawn wagon on a 28 month trip from Texas to California and back. There was no road and much danger. John hunted and killed wild game for food; they bought flour, salt, sugar, etc. at trading posts along the way. By the time they reached California, Oscar M. could walk very well. The family only stayed in California for a few months before returning to Texas. When Oscar was 7 years and 10 months old and in the second grade of grammar school, his father died. Being the oldest of five children, Oscar was forced to quit school and find whatever work was available. He did not discontinue his education, but from that point became a self-educated man very proficient in math, reading and spelling. In 1909 Oscar married Cara Ella Graham. Ollie M. was born in 1917 and the following are some of the humorous memories of a father he knew loved him, and whom he loved and respected. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, many people made bootleg liquor to keep the wolf from the door. One day two Federal Revenue agents came to our place and asked Oscar if he made illegal booze. He said, "If you care to follow me, I'll show you where I get all my drinks." They gladly accepted his offer. He took them down to Brushy Creek bottom, through brush, thick briars and chiggers; sometimes having to crawl on hands and knees through and under the briars. He finally guided them through the pasture, arriving back at our barn about sundown. He pointed to our jersey milk cows and said, "That's where I get my drinks." We never saw the revenue agents again. Oscar was the most impatient man I ever knew. He would sit down at the dining table, ask the Lord's blessing and start eating before the rest of us could sit down. He was always the first to finish eating. We lived about 2 miles from our church. He would be dressed and walk to church instead of waiting to ride with the family. When we went to Rockdale for our weekly shopping, Oscar would say, "Ollie, I'll walk on. Pick me up if you pass me." He usually walked about 1 1/2 miles before we passed him. When he was ready, he couldn't wait. He was not impatient with children. He really loved them. I remember when I was small, he would sit on our front porch after supper and play his harmonica and sing cowboy songs. He was good at both. Oscar and a neighbor man would go down to the river that ran along the edge of our farm and fish from Saturday afternoon until Sunday morning. They would build a large campfire, make coffee and play dominoes. Some of us would sneak down to near the camp and hide. When they went to check, or "run" their fishing lines, we would empty their coffee pot and hide one domino. They finally caught us. Like Ma Bell, Oscar reached out and touched us. After that the only time we went to the field was to hoe cotton, hoe corn, pick cotton or pull corn. One of my earliest recollections involved me. I was approximately 4 years old, and we lived about 4 miles west of Rockdale, Texas. Oscar rode to town in a buggy with a neighbor. No one in our locale owned a car at that time. My mama had taken me out in the front yard, and she suddenly said, "Oh, my goodness! Look at that car speeding down that dirt road. It's really stirring up the dust." Instead of following the road a little farther and making a 90 degree turn to the left, that car turned left about 50 yards too soon. It went through the fence, never slowed down, crossed the corner of the pasture, went back through the fence again, onto the road, picked up more speed and came streaking toward our house. It slowed down a little, crashed through our white picket fence, circled the house two or three times, went through the white picket fence again in a different place. White pickets were flying through the air, the dogs tucked their tails and ran, the chickens cackled and ran for cover, Mama clutched me tightly to her bosom and nimbly leaned upon the porch. Here came that car again and skidded to a stop directly in front of my trembling mother and terrified me. It was my grinning dad, Oscar. He said, "Ella, get in. I'll take you and Ollie for a ride." She informed him that she had no intention of getting any closer to that car than she was right then. After much egging and pleading, Mama finally relented and Papa set me in the front seat beside him and away we went. As I sat there beside my dad streaking down that dusty road in a vibrating Model T Ford, I felt that no one else could handle a car like my dad. When I got home I told Mama that and she said, "No, Ollie, not exactly like him." It took me a few years to fully understand just what she meant. Years later while I was still living at home, Oscar, Ella and I were driving our car from Tracy to Rockdale. I was at the wheel. Quite a distance down the road we saw a telephone repairman up a telephone pole. Ella said, "Ollie, stop down there by that telephone pole." I did. She rolled her window down, leaned out the window and shouted to the lineman, "Sir, you can come down, Oscar isn't driving!" I never heard Oscar and Ella fuss or speak an angry word to each other. If one became a little disgusted or disgruntled, they might make a little snide remark to or about the other; however, I never heard a rebuttal from the other. I have told you quite a bit about Oscar's personality and habits. I am going to try to tell you about his lifestyle and his early environment. He was born in 1885 when life was much different and much more harsh than it is now. He was born in Texas which was then a frontier state recovering from the Texas War for Independence, the U.S./Mexican War and the Civil War. Indian wars were still going on and life in the Western frontier states was a dangerous adventure. When Oscar was growing up, there were no airplanes, no automobiles, the modern conveniences we enjoy today. Homes were lighted with candles and kerosene lamps, heated by simple fire places and wood stoves, wagons and buggies traveled on dirt roads and work days on the farm were long and not easy. Farm income was always a little low. The Callaway family was large, resourceful, well fed, poorly clothed, and a closely knit family. We were never hungry even during the Depression, and only hindsight tells me we were poorly dressed. I believe that growing up under a harsh environment and in turbulent times contributed toward building a strong character, physically, mentally and spiritually. Ollie M. Callaway's lineage: Editor's Note - Willis Elbert Callaway (Ollie's brother) was a WWII Hero, giving his life at the age of 20, while crossing the "Hump" to deliver war supplies from India into China and rescue people out. It was extremely hazardous duty. First the loss of Private First Class Willis Elbert Callaway is reported - From the
Caldwell News and Burleson County Ledger, Caldwell,
Texas,
From Abilene Reporter News, Abilene,
Texas, November 4, 1945: And finally the reasoning behind the no-parachute order is revealed - From The Washington Merry-Go-Round column by Drew Pearson,
December 1, 1945: I would like to
thank new newsletter subscriber, Kathie Dye Ordal, for sharing
some family ancestry with us. I especially like the picture of
the two sisters. Kathie descends from the Joseph Callaway line
as follows: Hi Donna, Thank you for your invitation to join CFA. I’ll happily join the CFA, just signed up for the newsletter to check it out. I’ve been doing family history research for about 15 years, yet haven’t explored very far on my Callaway family. I got the book “Boone” and have been reading it and it talks about Daniel Boone and his Callaway friends/family in Missouri which is where my Callaways came from, so I was Googling some things and found the Callaway Family Association. I haven’t confirmed this, but my ancestry may be a Joseph Callaway b. ca 1680 and died in Virginia, married to Catherine Unknown, parents of James C. Callaway who married Sarah Bramblett and had Flanders Callaway and James C. Callaway, Jr. James C. Calloway, Jr. was born in Virginia and died in Missouri, married Susanna White and one of their children was Ambrose Callaway who married a Susan Jackson This following part are people I am sure of and have info on: Their daughter Nancy F. Callaway was my 3rd Great grandmother Nancy married Burvadus C. Woods 18 May 1848 in Carroll County Missouri Among their children were- Their daughter Susie marred Levi Dye Their son James married Mallisa Kinnaman Their daughter Vada Jane married Albert Kinnaman And Nancy Woods married Norman Dye (my records say that Nancy was born in Texas and I need to figure that out with the Missouri family) Nancy and Norman were my 2nd great grandparents Their children were: Jessie Dye Frank James Dye Connie Lee Dye (my great grandfather) Lou Elsie Dye who married Ol Kinnaman Around 1900, the Kinnamans, Dyes and Woods’ moved to Tillamook County Oregon from Hale, Carroll County, Missouri. So many folks came to Tillamook from Missouri that Tillamookians developed a bit of a Missouri drawl. Burvadus Woods and Nancy Callaway Woods also came at that time and Nancy died shortly after they arrived on Dec. 5, 1900. She is buried in the Blaine Cemetery in Tillamook County.
I have tons more including
photos, headstones and newspaper clippings. It still needs to be
organized. Once I read your formats, I can write something up
about our part of the Callaways with references, etc. Charles Callaway's Obituary DIED - on the 30th of June, 1827, at his residence in Pittsylvania County, Virginia., Chas. Callaway, Sen. in the seventy-seventh year of his age - He was the youngest brother of the late Colonels; James, John and William Callaway, all of whom, were officers in the Revolutionary War, and aided in achieving those rights which every warm hearted American now holds so dear and sacred. In point of honesty, veracity and integrity, he was not surpassed by any of the Sons of Virginia. During the latter part of his life, he was greatly afflicted with a long and lingering disease, which he sustained with firmness and fortitude. Particularly in the closing scene of his life, he was calm, cool and dispassionate, sensible of his approaching dissolution - He was much engaged with his God, and gave satisfactory evidence to those that were with him in his last hours, that his sins were pardoned, that he was sincerely resigned to death, and that he hoped to rest in heaven with his Saviour and God. He has left nine children, many grandchildren, and a numerous connection to deplore his death, but their loss is his gain. Calm and serene his spirit led ~ from pittsylvaniacountyhistory.com Editor's Note -
U. S. Peter Callaway Line
Obituary
Visitation will be
from 4:00pm until 6:00pm Sunday, March 7, 2010 from the
Reidsville Chapel. ~ from Bradley B. Anderson Funeral Home web site, Reidsville, GA
Editor's
Note - Other C/K Lines Can anyone identify Jack Cecil Callaway, Sr. and tell us more about his family line? Jack C. Callaway
April 23, 1935 - June
28, 2010
~ published on the Macon Memorial Park Funeral Home web site, Macon, Georgia I would like to thank CFA Member, Warwick Kellaway who lives in New Zealand, for sharing this Kelway story which takes place in the time of King Henry VIII. For some wonderful pictures of the ruins of Rathmore Castle and to read about its history and the role John Kelway played in it, see the Abandoned Ireland web site at: http://www.abandonedireland.com/Rathmore.html JOHN KELWAY A TALE OF OLD IRELAND Although only a short distance across the Irish Sea, and closely involved with the History of England, Ireland has only rarely appeared in the history of our family. In 1269 William de Kayleweyt, perhaps of the Wiltshire family, was given one years “protection” by King Henry III, possibly for service in Ireland. Later, in 1321, John Caylwy, presumably John le Calewe of Dorset, received protection from King Edward II, for services there. Presumably Military Service, perhaps the campaign in Ireland against the brother of Scottish King Robert the Bruce. We know how turbulent Irish History has been from the earliest times, from the Vikings and Normans to the present day. In Tudor times it was no different. Among the amazing notes of our three lady researchers in England in 2000-1, transcribed by Sherrill Williams, we have the story of John Kelway, the Constable of Rathmore Castle in Ireland. Rathmore Castle was in Kings County Limerick. Built in the late 1400s by Tadhg O'Carroll, it was a huge four towered fortress that covered over two acres of land, although only one tower remains today. O'Carroll, referred to as the “Dark Prince of Ely”, was said to have been a ferocious warlord, with “vampiric” tendencies regarding his prisoners. After cutting the throat of his elder brother, a priest, he was said to have been condemned to remain forever as a vampiric ghost. Although the recorded names and dates seem to evidence some “Irish” confusion, and there appear to have been several Tadhg O'Carrolls, it is clear that by the reign of King Henry VIII (1509-47), Rathmore Castle was in English hands. In late 1530s John Kelway was Constable of the Castle. Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane, second son of Thomas Grey 1st Marquess of Dorset, was Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1536 to 1540, before his possibly unjustified execution in 1541. (The Lord Lieutenant was Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, the illegitimate son of King Henry VIII.) During this period, Grey, in Tudor English, made reports to King Henry VIII from a visit to the country of Ely Okarrell (O'Carroll), a location then on the English “borders” with the Irish Tolys (O'Tooles), concerning a serious incident affecting the King's castle of Rathmore and the settlers there. It seems that in May 1538 John Kelway, Constable of Rathmore, went to parley with Turlough O'Toole. There was no agreement, O'Toole fled towards the Tolys mountains, but turned to ambush Kelway and his followers. Kelway and his party of “gentlemen, farmers, and husbandmen” sought refuge in a neighbouring town called Three Castles. There, with no protection in a thatch roofed building, they were burned out, surrendered, and Kelway was “cruelly murdered”. Apparently John Kelway had earlier hung two of O'Toole's servants, when caught taking meat. Apart from Kelway, O'Toole's men killed more than three score others. O'Toole was himself later killed by fellow Irishmen, but we know of nothing more of Rathmore, until the castle, held by Spanish and Irish troops between 1579-80, was retaken by the English in 1580. Irish Border lands were undoubtedly just as dangerous as were the Scottish Borders, if not more so, and Rathmore was on the edge of, if not “beyond the pale”. We do not know who John Kelway was, nor whence he came. He had been recorded in the Irish Army Accounts in 1536 as John Keylewey, but does not seem to match any of the families in Dorset or Wiltshire. Possibly he came from Devon. But did he have, or leave any family in Ireland? References to Rathmore also include mention of nearby Galway, which is thought to have been linked to the Scottish Galloway, and perhaps therefore of some Viking/Norman origin. In Gaelic, C, G, and K, also could be interchangeable, for the same location, or name. But who was John Kelway/Keylewey, born perhaps between 1480-1510, died in 1538?
Warwick Kellaway
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Response to Query # 578 (Dec
2011 Newsletter) Hi Margaret, I have
checked the 1910 census for Mills County Texas and Frank H
Calaway is listed as the son of James B & Matta Calaway. He was
born about 1899 which would have made him 18 or 19 when he gave
the information for his father's death certificate. James D &
Viola Calaway are also on the 1910 census for Mills County.
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Current News
Malcolm
Hillyer Callaway, Jr., age 85, of Union Point, GA, died
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at St. Mary's Hospice in Athens,
GA. Mr. Callaway was a native and lifelong resident of
Greene County. He was born March 20, 1926, the son of the
late Malcolm H. Callaway, Sr. and Lillie Mae Flynt Callaway
who were the founders of Callaway Funeral Home in Union
Point, GA. He graduated from Union Point High School and
Gupton Jones Mortuary School in Nashville, Tennessee in
1948. Malcolm served his country in the United States Army
during World War II. He married the former Mary Reynolds on
October 13, 1945. Along with his wife, he owned and operated
Callaway funeral Home in Union Point until 1990 and the
ambulance service until 1976. After he sold the funeral home
he continued to sell monuments until the time of his death.
After retirement he enjoyed raising goats and gardening on
his farm. He also liked cooking bbq and stew for family and
friends and enjoyed the companionship of his good friend
Margie Edwards. 
jcordal at mind.net
Mr.
Ben H. Callaway, age 92,
passed away Thursday, March 4, 2010 at the East Georgia
Regional Medical Center. The Tattnall County native had
lived in Collins all of his life. He was a farmer that
loved to fish and hunt. He was a deacon at New Anderson
Primitive Baptist Church and is preceded in death by his
wife of 70 years Lorena Jarriel Callaway and a
son-in-law, Calvin Rushing.
Macon,
GA – Jack Cecil Callaway, Sr. 75, passed away on Monday, June
28, 2010. Funeral services and a celebration of his life will be
held on Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 11:00 AM at Macon Memorial
Park Funeral Home. Burial will be in Macon Memorial Park
Cemetery with Dr. Aubrey Sheats officiating. The family will
greet friends on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at
Macon Memorial Park Funeral Home. The family suggests that
donations may be made to Bellevue Baptist Church, Building Fund,
5925 Price Road, Macon, GA 31210.