Florida CFA Picnic - Saturday, April 12, 2003 from 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.

The picnic will be held at the Alfred B. Maclay State Park in Tallahassee, Fl.  From
1-10 take exit 203 and go north on SR61 and US 319 - approximately one mile to the Park entrance. Park admission is $3.25 per vehicle (limit 8 passengers per vehicle).  Leaving Ranger Station, proceed into the Park and take the first road on the right to the Lake Hall Recreation Area.  We've reserved the West Side of the Picnic Shelter containing restrooms and picnic tables.  We'll have signs posted to help you after entering the park.  Florida's weather will be perfect for a picnic.

We'll prepare and serve lunch (grilled hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, baked beans, assorted beverages and other fixin's and ask you to contribute a free will offering to help defray expenses.

We hope the Tallahassee location will encourage our bordering states' cousins to join the fun also.  If you are in touch with cousins in Fl, Ga. or Al. please have them contact us for information.  Motels (Cabot Lodge, Hilton, Residence Inn and Hotel 6 are available at 1-10 Exit 203 for those interested.

In addition to Food and Fun our President, Pat Schnurr will be there and we will have
genealogical research materials, copies of the CFA information available, order blanks, etc.  You will have a chance to discuss your C/K  lineage and learn more. Mark your calendars now.

Go to http://www.floridastateparks.org to get complete information on this beautiful garden and park. There is a playground for children as well as garden tours and entrance to the Maclay home.

Please RSVP (for meal planning) to:
Brooks and Judy Callaway
e-mail bjcallaway at earthlink.net

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The President’s Corner

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As a child I could not understand why I did not have "Cousins" like my friends. When told that it was because my Aunts had no children I invented my own. My dolls and Teddy Bears all had the first name of "Cousin".  Cousin Anne, Cousin John, etc.

Learning that I did have a few distant cousins living in another state I began to ask questions and got my first introduction into genealogy.

Down through the years, I found "Cousins by the dozens "albeit distantly related.  I wanted to put faces with the names so I turned to records.  A clue from my Grandmother while talking with our Episcopal Rector revealed that her Uncle had been a Rector. Today facts about this man gleaned from distant records have given him life and his Gr-Gr-Grandchildren are my third cousins.

The Rev. Charles McKendie Callaway (second son and fourth child of Charles Callaway, Jr. , Capt. Charles Callaway, Col. William Callaway and Joseph) was born in 1828 in Campbell Co. Va.

By 1850 he was sent to Shawnee Territory, Ks where he is listed as Mins. P,.E.Ch.
in Topeka township. I learned that large groups of Virginians had moved to Ks.  He
returned shortly thereafter to Alexandria, Va. where he was married July 18, 1850 to Martha Holtzman. He remained in this area through 1857 but by 1858 he had returned with his wife and children and a record in the Southern Churchman reveals that he had conducted the marriage of Sallie K. Callaway to George Meade, also an Episcopal Minister in Topeka, Ks.  He is listed in the 1860 census in Ks. with wife Martha, Charles L. 8, Davidson K. 5, Annie B. 3 all born in Va. and Maggie l born in Ks.  His real property is valued at $2,000 and personal property $5,000.  Sometime after the 1860 census he left Ks. and while enroute home a daughter Frances H. was born in Mo.  "Bleeding Kansas" at this time was a violent and turbulent place. Many Southerners left the area.  He apparently spent the war years (1861-1865) in Md. as I find no record of him.

In 1868 he is listed in "The History of Charleston, W.Va." as Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church.  The 1870 census lists him there with his entire family. A sixth child, James S. was born in 1865 in Md.  He resigned as Rector in 1875 because of poor health.  He does not appear in the 1880 census but records in the Southern Churchman show his marriage and also that of a daughter.  Annie Beckwith Callaway daughter of the late Rev. C.M. Callaway was married July 26, 1882 at the home of her Mother in Baltimore.

These few records give us a good look at this man's short life and bear out the historical facts we know.  How many of you have similar stories of Uncles or perhaps Cousins?  Why not share them with us?
Pat Schnurr
CFA President

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The Technologist’s Corner

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The CFA has gathered information about ancestors of Calla/oway's and their relations for over 27 years. This collection has cost over $100,000 of donated funds. The Association does not attempt to regain these funds in its publications like the printed census, and the recently published documents on Peter and Joseph Callaway. The usual way is to charge enough for the printing and mailing to the members.

The CFA CD is the compilation of all the computer data into one place and utilizes a program especially written for the CFA by a hired programmer. This was done with a grant from the PIONEER TRAILS CHARITABLE TRUST OF $8,000. Hundreds of hours have been given by a few people to provide this wonderful source of research data. To date we have shipped over 75 of these CD's to our members for their use at a price of $25. NOTE, I did not say COST.

Our goal in the CFA is to provide research data we find to the members at a reasonable price. I am so proud to be a small part of this huge wonderful effort.
Russell Callaway
CFA Technologist 

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The Director’s Corner

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 This note is submitted by Bruce Callaway. It is with sadness that we report the loss.

 DEATH OF PROF. SIR FRANK CALLAWAY

Acknowledged as known by more people in music education throughout the world than anyone else, Prof. Sir Frank Callaway died in Perth Western Australia Feb.22 2003.aged 84.

Knighted in 1971, he was honoured by Queen Elizabeth 11 no less than three times. 

Succeeding Yehudi Menuhin as president of the International Music Council of UNESCO, in 1997 he was awarded their Music Prize, the musical equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize “in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the cause of music in the world.” 

Although born in New Zealand, he was a fifth generation Australian and had meticulously traced his roots in Cornwall to the 16^th century (See CFA Journal Vol XV1 1991). Foundation professor of music since 1959 at the University of Western Australia after study at the Royal Academy of Music London, and in New York with an award from the Carnegie Corporation. He was founding editor of several important music journals including The International Journal of Music Education whilst the Callaway International Resource Centre for Music Education (CIRCME) at the UWA will remain a lasting tribute to his remarkable life. 

Our thoughts are with his family, and in particular his wife, Lady Kathleen. 

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Braggin’ Rights

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Bill and Rosemary Callaway send us this exciting news about Jeff Hume from the championship skiing world. Well done! Are they proud grandparents, or what?

 

Jeff Hume talks to reporters following his third-place finish in the men's downhill at World Championships

GUAY, HUME FINISH 1-3 IN MEN'S DOWNHILL TRAINING AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Melanie Turgeon is third after second women's downhill training at St. Moritz

St. Moritz, SUI - Another snowy, foggy day dawned on the FIS World Alpine Ski Championships 2003 downhill training in St. Moritz, but that didn't slow down the Canadian men's speed squad who continue to be the talk of the town as two of them roared into the top-3 on Wednesday.

Fresh off his sixth-place finish in the men's Super G on Sunday, Mont Tremblant, Quebec's Erik Guay was the fastest man in the downhill training run, finishing in a time of one minute, 50.33.

"It's good to get a good result in the training run to build on your confidence, but you have to remember that it's just training. I was a little surprised - I think a little luck was involved," said the 21-year-old Guay, who's been consistently improving on his results since breaking the top 30 in World Cup racing last December.

Teammate Jeff Hume, 23, of Whistler, B.C., crossed the finish in 1:51.40 - the day's third-fastest time for the men's downhill training.

"My confidence just went straight up there," said Hume as he left the finish area with an ear-to-ear smile. "It's not a real result because of the crazy weather, but the guys around me aren't even close so I guess I did pretty well. If I can do this again on Saturday, I can be in the top 15."

Hume, who was disappointed with Sunday's Super G where he missed a gate trying to tackle a tough roll too aggressively, is competing in his first World Championship.

Both Guay and Hume recorded some of the day's fastest intervals.

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Notorious "Callaways"

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Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel
Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Categories: Comedy, Western
Running Time: 81 minutes

Synopsis: Callaway Went Thataway is an amiable spoof of early television's "Hopalong Cassidy" craze. Fred MacMurray and Dorothy McGuire star as Mike Frye and Deborah Patterson, advertising copywriters who have pulled off quite a coup by purchasing the old "Smokey Callaway" westerns for TV. Trouble begins when the sponsor wants to meet up with Callaway (Howard Keel) and sign him to a long-term contract. But Smokey, a notorious boozer and womanizer, has dropped out of sight and left for parts unknown. In desperation, Mike and Debbie hire a Callaway look-alike named Stretch Barnes (also Howard Keel), whom they give a crash course in the art of being a boyhood idol ("You're a cowboy star. You have two expressions: hat on and hat off"). Barnes not only pulls off the ruse with the greatest of ease, but also takes his responsibilities to his young fans quite seriously. The plot thickens when the real Smokey Callaway emerges from a 10-year bender to demand a piece of the action. Callaway Went Thataway is full of wonderful moments, not least of which is a climactic fistfight between Callaway and Barnes, adroitly edited and photographed so as to make it appear that Howard Keel is actually punching out himself! The supporting cast includes future TV favorites Jesse White, (the acerbic sanitarium attendant in Harvey)

Stan Freberg and (unbilled) Hugh Beaumont, (Leave it to Beaver) while several MGM stars make surprise cameo appearances. Perhaps to avoid potential lawsuits, the film ends with a timorous disclaimer, stating that most western stars are generous, upstanding individuals--and not at all like the bibulous, mercenary Smokey Callaway.

~ review written by Hal Erickson, for the All Movie Guide 

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Query Corner

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 Looks like our new query section is really working – here’s a response and a very nice compliment too!

Donna:
I received 2 answers to my queries before I even read the CFA Newsletter!  You are doing a great job and I read every word for fear I am going to miss something.
Keep up the good work.
Tevis Calloway Fitzpatrick 

Query # 4

I am a prime candidate for a query re: Callaway lineage as I have been searching for my line for a very very long time now. Here is all I know and what I have:

Willis Francis Calloway b 02 Jan 1810 in Coosa County AL m 10 June 1832 or July 4, 1836 Mary Elizabeth Hays  and he and her brother Enoch Hays moved to TX from AL about 1842  and built a water Mill there, named the town, now a ghost town, Milleville in Rusk county. He died in 1854 and I have visited his grave in Rusk county in the Harmony Hill Cemetery, His children were Saphronia Jane m Jay Walling; Virgil Rice m Sarah Kuykendol;  Christopher Columbus ( CC ) Calloway m Louise Caroline Atwood; Enoch Job m Leta Hays  and Mary Rebecca m Tom Crawford.   I also have names and dates on all these as well as children of the children.  My line is via CC Calloway and Caroline Atwood who had my grandmother Anolda Louise who m Robert Postell Fitzpatrick  and had my father Louis Grady Fitzpatrick m Maude Davenport Swann.  I have a lot more on these people; dates, wives, children, etc but am trying to be brief.  It is Willis's parents I cannot find.  A lady, Charlotte Boykin is also looking for these people and suggested a Beverly Turpin ( BT ) Callaway may be a brother to Willis.  She and Sherrill Williams corresponded and they talked about this with each other.  I have changed my e-mail address several times now and that may be why I have lost touch.  It is now anngraham at cox-internet.com.  I will anticipate hearing from anyone who might be able to help me.  I do belong to CFA.  Thank you, Ann Fitzpatrick Graham in Louisiana.

 

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“Callaways” In the News

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The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Georgia, January 2, 1890

Dalton, Ga, January 1 – (Special) A happy party of young people watched the old year out and the new one in at the residence of Mr. G. M. Cannon, of this city.  The beautiful place was turned over to the guests and the evening was spent in music, dancing, etc. Supper was served at half past eleven, and the party lingered over the table until late in 1890. No good resolutions were made. “The Gang” was formally organized and officers elected for the coming year. They propose giving their friends monthly entertainments and hope to make all as successful as the one last night. There were present, besides the host and hostess, Miss Hester Felker, Miss Belle King, Miss Blanche Bivings, Miss May McCutchen, Miss Nena Kenner, Miss Mary McCarthy, Miss Annie Horne, Miss Hattie Moughon. Messrs. Will Townley, Chad Callaway, Neal Trevitt, Al Hyatt, Louis Shumato, Guilford Cannon, Porter Walker, and Julian McCany. 

Denton Journal, Denton, Maryland, January 19, 1889

MARRIED
Dulin – Callaway – At 6 p.m., on the 16^th inst., at the M. E. Church in Hillsborough; by Rev. George W. Townsend, George W. Dulin, of Talbot County, and Miss Emma C. Callaway, of Queen Anne’s County. 

Denton Journal, Denton, Maryland, November 2, 1889

PUBLIC SALE
Of
Store Goods.
In order to reduce my stock before removing to Henderson, I will sell at public sale at my store at Hobbs’ Corner, on Saturday, November 9^th, 1889, beginning at five o’clock in the afternoon, my stock of store goods, consisting of Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Notions, Etc. There will be many bargains offered.
Terms Cash
J. K. Callaway
H. Irwin, Auctioneer
→ Persons who are now owing me will please call and settle without delay. 

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Genealogy Corner

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 J. E. Callaway is a 9^th generation direct descendant of Joseph Callaway of Essex Co., VA. He has graciously submitted his Callaway line of descent. For anyone wishing to contact him about this line, his email address is: judge75 at swbell.net 

My Callaway Line of Descent as follows:

1. Joseph Callaway (Essex Co., VA)
2. Francis Callaway
3. Francis Callaway, Jr.
4. William Abner Callaway
5. Larkin Cleveland Callaway
6. William Smith Callaway (Civil War Vet)
7. John William Callaway
8. Oscar Monroe Callaway (my father)
9. J. E. Callaway (me) 

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History Corner

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Our thanks to Bruce Callaway for pointing out this bit of Callaway Naval History – 

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Naval History Division • Washington

USS Callaway (APA-35)

A county in Missouri.

(APA-35: dp. 8,920; l. 492'; b. 69'6"; dr. 26'6"; s. 18 k.; cpl. 575; a. 2 5"; cl. Bayfield)

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USS Callaway

Callaway (APA-35) was launched 10 October 1942 as Sea Mink by Western Pipe and Steel Co., San Francisco, Calif., under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs. W. Manuell; acquired by the Navy 24 April 1943; and commissioned the same day, Captain D. C. McNeil, USCG, in command.

Callaway sailed from Norfolk 23 October 1943 for San Diego and training with Marines in preparation for the first of her five assault landings. Joining TF 53 at Lahaina Roads, Hawaii, Callaway sailed for her baptism of fire at Kwajalein, where she landed troops in the assault that overwhelmed the defenders 31 January 1944. After staging at Guadalcanal, she proceeded combat-loaded for the occupation of Emirau where her troops landed 20 March. Transfers of troops and cargo in the Solomons and Ellices, and training at Pearl Harbor continued until 29 May, when Callaway got underway for her third assault invasion, the bloody inferno of Saipan, on 15 June. Laden with casualties, Callaway returned to Pearl Harbor to embark army troops for rehearsal landings at Guadalcanal, for which she sailed 12 August. On 17 September, with battle-tried skill the transport launched her troops in the assault on Angaur in the Palaus, then returned to Manus and New Guinea to prepare for her assignment to the first reinforcement echelon for the northern Leyte landings. Arriving in Leyte Gulf 22 October, Callaway landed her troops with the speed and ease born of experience, then retired through the raging Battle for Leyte Gulf for a month of operations supporting the Leyte campaign. These brought the transport back to Leyte 23 November where she joined in driving off enemy air attacks as she disembarked her troops.

Preparations in New Guinea preceded in the Lingayen assault, in which Callaway distinguished herself as a member of the Blue Beach Attack Group. As the invasion force sailed north, desperate Japanese kamikaze attacks were launched in a determined effort to break up the landings, and on 8 January 1945, a suicide plane broke through heavy antiaircraft fire to crash on the starboard wing of Callaway's bridge. Cool and skillful work against resulting fires kept material damage to a minimum, but 31 of Callaway's crew were killed and 22 wounded. Despite this loss, the attack transport carried out her mission the next day with her usual competence. Temporary repairs at Ulithi put her back in action by early February, when she carried Marine reinforcements from Guam to Iwo Jima, and wounded from that battle-scarred island back to Guam, arriving. 8 March.

For the next 3 months, Callaway transported men and equipment between the bases and operating areas of the western Pacific, then embarked Japanese prisoners of war at Pearl Harbor, whom she carried to San Francisco, arriving 16 June 1945. After overhaul, she returned to Pearl Harbor 27 August, loaded occupation troops, and sailed to disembark them at Wakayama, Japan. Two transpacific voyages carrying homeward bound veterans ended with Callaway's own return to San Francisco 12 March 1946. The transport then sailed to New York where she was decommissioned 10 May 1946.

For service in World War II, Callaway received six battle stars.