I would like to thank Gary Miller for sharing more information with us about the Callaway connection to Stephen Austin's Old Three Hundred.

Donna -

Thanks so much for the article on Mary Ann McFarland. Mary Ann is my Great Great Grandmother. This was the first picture I had ever seen of her so I was quite surprised and delighted to see her picture. I found the article very interesting. I can also provide you a little more on a further Callaway connection to the Austin Old 300.

My Grandmother Corda Callaway was a direct descendent of two of the Austin Old 300 settlers. Corda was the daughter of Thomas Callaway and Leona May Brown. Thomas is the son of Francis Willis Callaway and Mary Ann McFarland. Leona May Brown is the great grand daughter of Old 300 settlers Zadock Woods and Sylvanus Castleman.

Leona's mother was Amanda Woods. Amanda was the daughter of Montraville Woods and Maria Isabella Gonzales. Montraville is Zadock Woods son. Leona's father was Andrew Jackson Brown. Andrew was the son of Alexander Brown and Sarah Castleman. Sarah Castleman is the daughter of Sylvanus Castleman. The Castleman's and Woods both came to Texas from Missouri and took their land grants in present day Fayette County near La Grange. The Woods and Browns moved to DeWitt county in 1856 where Leona Brown met and married Thomas Callaway in 1872.

Gary Miller
gary.miller at idearc.com

Editor's Note - Additional information about the Callaway connection to the Old Three Hundred was published in the Oct 2005 Newsletter and the Apr 2008 Newsletter.

Please welcome a new CFA Newsletter subscriber, Ginger Hamilton. She has shared her Calloway ancestry with us. Ginger's grandmother was Gertrude Calloway from the following line of descent:
Joseph Callaway
Francis Callaway and 1st wife Frances Gaddah
Francis Callaway, Jr. and 1st wife Sarah Brewer
William Abner Callaway
Abner Benjamin Callaway
Abner Josephus Calloway
Emmett Clarence Calloway
Gertrude Calloway who married Vaughn T. Watson

Donna,
I found my grandparents, Gertrude Callaway Watson and Vaughn Watson under the Joseph Callaway family tree on roots web.

I thought I would send additional information to add to it if you would like. My grandmother, Gertrude died in the spring of 1991 at her home in Monroe, LA.

Please sign me up for your newsletter. I would appreciate it.
Thanks again,
Ginger
gingerkhamilton at gmail.com

I would like to thank Martha Truax for generously sharing her memories of Charles Clinton Callaway, who was her friend and neighbor when she was a child in Eagle Rock, CA. Charles Clinton Callaway's line of descent is as follows:
Joseph Callaway
James Callaway
James Callaway, Jr.
Charles Riley Callaway
Stephen Callaway and 1st wife Ann Edwards
Charles Clinton Callaway

Dear Callaway Family Association:

I have information about Charles Clinton Callaway, son of Stephen Callaway and Ann Edwards, born Howard County, Missouri, 1860.  Charles lived most of his adult life in Yavapai County, Arizona, where he was a farmer.  There he married Matilda Wingfield in 1895 and had two daughters, Ann E. and Mary L.  I believe his first wife died, then in 1907 he married Virginia Florence Weatherford, a school teacher in Yavapai.  Sometime after 1920, they retired to Los Angeles.  When I was a child in the 1950's, he was my neighbor and friend.  He and Virginia lived in an old clapboard house at the back of a bungalow court at the intersection of Eagle Rock Boulevard and York Boulevard in Eagle Rock (Los Angeles).  He was very fond of history and had many stories to tell.  These included that he was born in 1860 in Missouri and made a train trip west from St. Louis when he was young.  He talked about the capture of Geronimo and may have been present for it.  He also discussed farming in Yavapai and hiring Navajo as farm hands, stating that they were very good people always living on the edge of starvation.  His house was decorated with many Navajo rugs and artifacts.  It was his habit to walk "downtown" everyday, probably down York Boulevard to central Highland Park, until he was in his late 90's.  Otherwise he spent time whittling simple string puppets, reading, and writing his memoirs. When he was 98 or 99, his daughters moved him and Virginia back to Arizona by ambulance.  My parents had some phone contact with them for awhile, so I know that Charles received a letter from President Kennedy on his 100th birthday, of which he was very proud.  A copy of the letter is probably on file at the Kennedy Library and would say precisely where in Arizona he died, at 101 or 102.  He outlived Virginia, who was ten years younger, by a year or two.  I have a picture of them that we took, probably about 1957 or 1958.  I would be happy to email it, if you archive such things.  I only hope that his memoirs, penciled on small, ruled paper, still remain with his descendants.

Sincerely,
Martha Truax
mtruax1 at san.rr.com

Editor's Note - see additional information about Charles Clinton Callaway in the June 2008 CFA Newsletter.

I would like to thank Shirley Whipple of Spokane, WA for sending me the link to the Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution web site. Posted there now are over 3000 pension applications which have been transcribed by volunteers. These pension records hold a wealth of genealogy information. I am including two applications in this month's newsletter. The first is for Peter Callaway from the following line of descent:
Peter Callaway
Peter Callaway II
John Callaway
Peter Callaway

Pension Application of Peter Callaway: W10564
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Georgia} SS
Newton County}

On this twenty fourth day of March in the year eighteen hundred & thirty four personally appeared before the honorable Superior Court of said County, now sitting, Peter Callaway a resident in said County of Newton & State of Georgia aged Seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7 1832. That he was residing in Carteret County in the State of North Carolina when it was required that one man should be sent into the service of the United States from a specified number, and that a Major Eli West was one of the number who was required under that regulation to serve in the army of the United States for the term of nine months. That this deponent who was then acting as an overseer for said West went into the army of the United States from said County of Carteret N.C. in the nine months service as a substitute for said West in the summer of 1777 as well as deponent now recollects. The company was commanded by Captain William Dennis who deponent thinks was a Continental officer. That deponents company rendezvous at Beaufort in said County of Carteret. From thence he was marched to Newbern [sic: New Bern] in the County of Craven from thence to the town of Halifax on Roanoke river North Carolina. This deponent saith that after having served at least two month as a substitute & private as aforesaid he by consent of his officers enlisted with sixteen others under a recruiting officer who was called Captain to the best of deponents recollection was named Cassall Medicy [sic: probably Cosmo de Medici]. This deponent as well as he now recollects enlisted in the year 1777 at Halifax in the State of North Carolina in a company of horse for the term of three years as a private. One of the names of the sixteen who enlisted at the same time was Mosely – another was John Renn. That he was put under the Command of Edward Gamble [possibly Edmund Gamble] who was an Irishman by birth – Major Pinkney [Pinketham] Eaton (who was called Pink) Colonel [James] Armstrong. That some time after his enlistment he was marched with the army from Halifax to Purysburg on Savannah River in the State of South Carolina and there joined the army commanded by Gen Lincoln. Governor [John] Rutledge also was in Command at that place. deponent does not distinctly recollect the time he joined the army of Gen. Lincoln thinks it was in the first of the year 1779 [Gen. Benjamin Lincoln took command 3 Jan 1779] – he well remembers it was very cold wether while on his march from Halifax to Purysburg. This deponent was at Purysburg at the time of Gen. [John] Ashe’s defeat [Battle of Briar Creek GA, 3 Mar 1779]. Deponent was marched to different parts in South Carolina – once at Augusta in the State of Georgia – Charleston South Carolina. Deponent further saith that the company of horse to which he was attached usually accompanied Gen. Lincoln. he was not in the battle of Stono [Stono Ferry, 20 Jun 1779] but was near the engagement & near Gen Lincoln. deponent served out his full term of three years & was discharged at the ten mile house near Charleston. That he received an honorable discharge from under the hands of his Capt Gamble

From thence he went to the County of Jones in North Carolina & in the year 1780 Volunteered in a company of militia infantry Commanded by Col Hill – Major James Pierce – Captain McDonald. Marched from Trenton North Carolina to Charleston South Carolina. Was in Charleston during the engagement at fort Moultrie [7 May 1780, nine days before the surrender of Charleston]. Gen. Lincoln commanded during this service. Deponent served three months and received a discharge at Charleston

From thence deponent returned to his brothers in the County of Jones State of North Carolina. that in the year 1780 he volunteered for a three months tour in said County of Jones under Lieut Laurens[?] Lavender – Captain Simon Edwards. the company to which he was attached marched to the town of Kingston on Neus river [sic: Kinston on Neuse River] North Carolina there Governor or General [Richard] Caswell was in Command in Col. Caswels Regiment & Major Wise.

From Kingston he was marched to Cross Creek or Fayetteville N.C. that he kept on the march until he joined the army of Gen. [Horatio] Gates. Deponent recollects it was very warm dry weather but has not a distinct recollection of the month. After joining Gates army he was marched to near Camden and was in the battle called Gates defeat [Battle of Camden, 16 Aug 1780]. Deponents Captain & Lieutenant were killed in this battle he also lost all his clothing & papers. also his discharge from his three years service. from Camden he was marched to Charlotte in North Carolina & from there to Hillsborough – at which place he received a discharge having served fully his three months tour. deponent does not recollect who signed his discharge. From thence he returned again to Jones County in the State of North Carolina. Some short time afterwards in the year 1780 deponent volunteered again for three months in said County of Jones – joined a company commanded by Captain Joseph Rhodes marched with Capt Rhodes Company to Wilmington North Carolina. Officers were Major Whitly – Col. [Waitstill] Avery & General [Alexander] Lillington Deponent was continued near Wilmington harrassing the British forces until his term of three months had expired – that he was marched up on Trent river & discharged about ten miles above Trenton in said County of Jones He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State. Deponent further saith that he hath no other way to establish his service but by this his own oath except the testimony of Gen. David Blackshear & William Jones — which is annexed to this declaration that he knows of no other witness by whom he can prove his service or any part thereof. that he was born in Sussex County & State of Delaware on the 12th day of October 1758 – he has a record of his age made by his eldest sister in a prayer book which is now in deponents possession & that his sister has been dead for many years. Was residing in the County of Carteret State of North Carolina when he first went into the service. After the war deponent returned the place of his nativity & remained about three years. from thence he came to the State of Georgia first resided in the County of Green [sic: Greene] about four years – then in the County of Clark [sic: Clarke] nine or ten years – then in the County of Jasper for more than twenty years – then in the County of Newton where he now resides. Deponent served two months as private militia substitute for Eli West – served three years as a private in a company of horse & was regularly enlisted – and served three tours as a volunteer of three months each which makes the whole time of service at least three years & eleven months. Deponent has stated all the officers he now recollects. Deponent does not recollect by whom his discharges were given further than he has already stated. All his discharges have been for years lost or destroid – has no recollection of having seen any of them since the War. Jack Williams, Robert Leak, John Ross[?], Henry Gaither & the neighborhood generally where he resides will testify as to deponents veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.

[signed] Peter Callaway

Editor's Note - Peter Callaway's pension application was approved and he received $30. a year for the rank of private, from 1833 until his death in 1835.  On 8 May 1856 Elizabeth Callaway, 79 of Gordon County GA, applied for a pension and bounty land stating that as Elizabeth Wilson she married Peter Callaway 2 Jan 1792, and he died 20 Oct 1834. Elizabeth then received the pension until her death in 1868.

The second pension application is for Lowder Callaway from the following line of descent:
Peter Callaway
John Callaway
Isaac Callaway
Lowder Callaway

Pension Application of Lowder Callaway: S35810
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

Among the Records & proceedings of the Court of Common pleas for the State of Delaware in [one or two illegible words] Sussex County there is the following.
Sussex County Sct.

On the Eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred twenty eight personally appeared in open Court of Common pleas of the State of Delaware which said Court of Common pleas is a court of record in and for the County of Sussex because it proceeds according to the course of the Common Law, has a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeps a record of its proceedings, Lowder Callaway resident in said County aged Seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the Eighteenth March eighteen hundred and Eighteen and the first of May eighteen hundred and twenty, that he the said Lowder Callaway enlisted for and during the continuation of the revolutionary war on or about the Eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty in the State of Delaware in the Company commanded by Captain James Moore in the regiment commanded by Colonel David Hall in the line of the State of Delaware on the infantry continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until the month of May one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, when he was discharged from the service in New Castle in the State of Delaware, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, that his name is not on the pension roll of any State, and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension, that he was ignorant in what way he ought to proceed for the purpose of obtaining a pension being a poor aged and uneducated man, dependent upon his friends for information as to the steps necessary to be taken by him in Order to be placed upon the pension list which information he has now received so as to enable him to make this application but has hitherto sought for in vain. And in pursuance of the act of the first of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty I the said Lowder Callaway do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the Eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, passed on the Eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and Eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or Securities, Contracts or Debts due to me, nor have I any income whatever other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. that since the Eighteenth day of March in the year Eighteen hundred and eighteen no changes have been made in my property.

Lowder (his X mark) Callaway

Schedule of all the Real and personal property and income of what nature or kind soever of me Lowder Callaway – Real and personal property none except Bed, Bedding and a few chairs. I have no particular occupation but work at such occupations as the kindness of charity or my neighbours affords whenever my health which is very infirm will permit me to labour. My health does not enable me to work half my time and at great risk and with much suffering when I do work. I have a wife living with me about sixty five years old and a grand child thirteen years old. The health of my wife is very infirm, and the child two young to contribute to its own support.

Lowder (his X mark) Callaway

Editor's Note - Lowder Callaway is listed on the U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls 1775-1783 as a private from the state of Delaware. His pension application was approved, and he received $8. per month, retroactive to 1818, until his death in 1834.

~ The above Revolutionary War Pension Applications are from: Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution web site at http://southerncampaign.org/

From the following obituary, we discover new descendants from the Peter Callaway line that settled in New Jersey. The census records were difficult to decipher, but I believe that Denny W. Callaway's line of descent is as follows:
Peter Callaway
John Callaway
Ebenezer Callaway
William Callaway
John W. Callaway, Sr.
William Alford Callaway (middle name learned from census records)
William A. Callaway
Frederick W. Callaway
Dennis Callaway
Denny W. Callaway, Sr.
Denny W. Callaway, Jr.

Denny W. Calloway Jr., age 64 passed on Dec. 11, 2007. Born and raised in Camden, NJ he was a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School in 1961 where he excelled in sports. A lineman during high school football, he threw the 47 yard winning touchdown during the Thanksgiving Game. He has lived in Clarksboro for the past 24 years. Denny was a very successful Salesman for 25 years and worked for Conolly/Calhoun (Bakemark) and recently Oteri¹s Italian Bakery in Philadelphia. He was a member of Incarnation Church in Mantua, the Hot Stovers¹ Baseball Club in Pennsauken and was Vice President of the union for the G.B.B.A. Denny was very athletic, loved sports and enjoyed traveling.

Survived by his beloved wife of 43 years Christine J. (nee Wowk), children Chrissy (Timothy) Barton of Mt. Royal, Denny W., III (Lauren) of Woodbury, Brian A. (Cerissa) of National Park, brother Henry (Pat) of Williamstown, sister Maryanne (Joseph) Ridgeway of Blackwood, grandchildren Brittany, Jordan, Zachary, Christian, Benjamin, Carson, Noah and Landon. Also survived by his mother in law Janina Wowk, father Denny W., Sr. (mother the late Edna) of Deptford, many nieces, nephews, family and friends. Predeceased by grandson Brandon Barton and brother Billy Calloway.

Friends may call on Friday 9 to 11:30 a.m. in the BUDD FUNERAL HOME, 171 Delaware St., Woodbury, NJ. Funeral mass noon in Incarnation Church, Main St., Mantua, NJ.

Interment Eglington Cemetery. Memorial shared at www.buddfuneralhome.com.
Published in the Gloucester County Times on 12/13/2007.

I would like to thank Pam Drake who lives in Indiana, for sharing her Callaway family line with us. Pam descends from the Peter Callaway line through Jain Callaway with the following line of descent:

Peter Callaway
John Callaway
Isaac Callaway
Jain Callaway - Nehemiah Hearn
Daniel Hearn - Elizabeth "Betsy" Wilson
Nancy Ann Hearn - James William Bowie
Lovina Bowie - Thomas Carter Drake
Eli Carrington Drake, Sr. - Icey Dora Arthur
Eli Carrington Drake, Jr. - Georgia Helen Pennington
Pamela A. Drake

I would like to thank Judy Howe for letting us know about an up-coming episode of, If Walls Could Talk, on HGTV (Home and Garden Televison). The episode will be featuring the house of Seaborn Callaway from the following line of descent:
Peter Callaway
John Callaway
Edward Callaway
Job Callaway, Sr.
Jacob Callaway
Seaborn Callaway

Donna,
The episode of If Walls Could Talk with the Seaborn Callaway house is scheduled to air on June 10 at 5 p.m. ET/PT.  The home is in Washington, Georgia.
Judy Howe
jah-2 at juno.com