The following biographies are from:
Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895.

pg.331

Richard D. (Doughty) Callaway, farmer, Washington, Wilkes Co., Ga., son of Aristides and Martha T. (Doughty) Callaway, was born in Wilkes county July 1, 1858. His father was of Wilkes county, and his mother a daughter of Richard Doughty, of Oglethorpe county. Mr. Callaway was the first-born of eleven children, of whom eight were boys. He attended schools convenient to his home until 1874, when he entered the university of Georgia, Athens, and graduated in 1878 with the degree of A. B. After he came from college he engaged in the saw-mill business for three years. Abandoning that he has since devoted his entire time and attention to his extensive farming interests, and has been satisfactorily prosperous. He is a lieutenant-colonel of the Sixth Georgia infantry, and a member of the board of county commissioners.

Editor's Note - Richard Doughty Callaway's line of descent is as follows:
Peter Callaway
John Callaway
Edward Callaway
Job Callaway, Sr.
Jacob Callaway
Parker Callaway
Aristides Callaway
Richard Doughty Callaway

pg. 332.

Marshall S. (Seaborn) Callaway, farmer, Washington, Wilkes Co., Ga., son of Seaborn and Mildred (Jordan) Callaway, daughter of Jordan, of Oglethorpe county, Ga., was born in Wilkes county, Aug. 2, 1847, the fourth of eight children, five sons and three daughters, one of each being dead. He was reared on the farm and attended the country schools until he was fourteen years old, when his father died and he had to work on the farm and help keep it up. In 1863 he joined a company of state, or reserve, militia, under Capt. Bowers, and was ordered to Atlanta. He was in Savannah with his command at the time of the evacuation. He was in no regular engagement while in the service. After his discharge he returned home and went to farming in earnest, and rejoices in the prosperity he has been blessed with. Upright and honorable in all his dealings, a true man and Christian, he stands high in the community. Mr. Callaway was married Dec. 7, 1865, to Miss Mary, daughter of James Spratlin, of Wilkes county, who has born him eight children, five sons and three daughters, of these, a son and daughter have died. Mr. Callaway is a consistent and influential member of the Baptist church, which he joined in 1861.

Editor's Note - Marshall Seaborn Callaway's line of descent is as follows:
Peter Callaway
John Callaway
Edward Callaway
Job Callaway, Sr.
Jacob Callaway
Parker Callaway
Seaborn Callaway
Marshall Seaborn Callaway

pp. 365-6

E. H. (Enoch Howard) Callaway. In 1784 John Callaway, of North Carolina, moved to Georgia, and selecting a farm in Wilkes county, began his new life amidst the rugged surroundings of the sparsely settled country. He was from old Virginia stock, whose blood is found in the pioneers of every old state. His youngest son, Enoch, was born soon after the father came to Georgia, in 1792. He was a self-educated man and distinguished as a Baptist minister, preaching in the churches of Wilkes county. He was a large land-owner and a thrifty farmer, and married Martha Reeves, who came from South Carolina. Their youngest son is Rev. Brantley M. Callaway, D. D. a Baptist minister, who is still living and is now preaching in Wilkes county to some of the same churches where he commenced his ministerial career. He early decided upon the ministry as his profession and was given a good education. He went through the junior class at Mercer university, and after teaching school at Gainesville for a year, entered the pulpit and has since preached the gospel of the Baptist faith. He is also a large farmer and a trustee of Mercer university for the past fifteen years. He married Lucy B., (Brooks) daughter of Robert and Mary (Glenn) Howard, Robert Howard being a farmer of Oglethorpe county. Mr. E. H. Callaway, judge of the superior court of the Augusta circuit, was born in Wilkes county in 1862, and is the son of Rev. Brantley M. and Lucy B. Callaway. He attended the country schools in his youth and was graduated from the state university in 1881. He taught school in Waynesboro, Wilkes Co., and in Washington from 1881 to 1884. He entered the law office of W. M. and M. P. Reese in January, 1885, and was admitted to the bar in the fall of the same year. He then moved to Waynesboro, Burke Co., and began the practice of his profession. In 1888 he was married to Mary E. Jones, daughter of Maj. George and Kate (Calhoun) Jones. Maj. Jones was born in Twiggs county and moved to Houston when a boy, from thence to Macon, where he was educated. In 1861 he enlisted in the civil war from Alabama, where ne had taken up his residence in 1858. He attended the inauguration of President Davis in the carriage containing the president, Hon. Alex. Stephens and Dr. Manly, and is now the only surviving one of the four. He was in the regular service for twelve months, when he was taken to the war department and made adjutant of the department. He entered the army as lieutenant of Company F, Twelfth Alabama regiment. After the war closed he returned to Alabama and lived there until 1870. His wife, Kate Calhoun, was a native of South Carolina and a niece of John C. Calhoun. Maj. Jones was a son of John Jones, a prominent farmer of Burke county, and his mother, Sarah Wimberly, was a daughter of Ezekiah Wimberly, who was a native of Twiggs county, Ga. Mr. Wimberly was a colonel in the War of 1812 and his father was a North Carolina revolutionary soldier. To Mr. and Mrs. Judge Callaway were born two children, both of whom are living; Catherine and Brantley. (Editor's Note - another child was born in 1901 after this publication) The mother was born in Alabama. Mrs. Callaway is a Presbyterian and the husband a member of the Baptist church and a Mason. He was an elector on the presidential ticket in 1888, and was elected mayor of Waynesboro in 1890, but resigned to accept election to the state senate. He served one term, and though a youthful legislator, was placed on the following important committees; Special judiciary, general judiciary, joint committee on railroad and penitentiary. In 1894 he was elected judge of the superior court of the Augusta circuit. Judge Callaway is the youngest circuit judge in the state, and his brilliant career at the bar promises to be more distinguished on the bench.

Editor's Note - Enoch Callaway's line of descent is as follows:
Peter Callaway
John Callaway
Edward Callaway
John Callaway
Enoch Callaway

pp. 454

Lee County, Georgia

J. P. (John) Calloway, merchant, Leesburg, Lee Co., Ga., is a son of C. B. and Anna V. (Jones) Calloway. Mr. Calloway was born Nov. 2, 1851 and attended the common schools, after which he was graduated at Mercer university, Macon, Ga. In 1881 he established the business he at present conducts. From a modest beginning he has developed it into the largest enterprise in Leesburg. Mr. Calloway is also a large planter and fruit grower and owns a magnificent orchard, besides 4000 acres of highly cultivated land and a large stock farm. Mr. Calloway was united in marriage April 30, 1895, to Miss Mamie, daughter of D. T. Sawyer. Mr. Calloway is a member of the Baptist church, and Mrs. Calloway is a member of the Methodist church; and both are very popular in social circles.

Editor's Note - John P. Calloway's line of descent is as follows:
Peter Callaway
John Callaway
Edward Callaway
Job Callaway, Sr.
Jacob Callaway
Parker Callaway
Carleton B. Callaway
John P. Callaway

pp. 643-4

Rev. Morgan Callaway, D. D., vice-president and professor of English, Emory college, Oxford, Ga., son of Jesse and Mary (Wooten) Callaway, was born in Wilkes county, Ga., in 1831. His paternal grandparents, Joseph and Mary (Morgan) Callaway, were native Virginians, who migrated to Georgia about 1790 and settled in Wilkes county. Joseph Callaway was a soldier in the patriot army during the revolutionary war. Prof. Callaway's father was born in Wilkes county, was a planter, a volunteer soldier in the last war with Great Britain, and held the rank of sergeant.

Prof. Callaway received a good primary and preparatory education at the academy, Washington, Wilkes Co., and then entered the university of Georgia, from which he graduated in 1849. After his graduation he attended the celebrated Gould law school, Augusta, was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice, also supervised his farming interests. Abandoning the practice of law, he accepted a professorship in Andrew Female college, Cuthbert, Randolph Co., Ga., where he remained until 1862. That year he enlisted in Company B, Butts' battalion of artillery, but later was transferred to Capt. Reed's battery, with which he remained until the end.
 

He was a participant in very many of the important battles of the war, and was shot down twice - first at Gordonville and again at Cold Harbor. He entered the service as a private, but because first lieutenant of the first battery, and then captain of the second, and was present when Gen. Lee surrendered at Appomattox.  Since the war his time has been wholly occupied in preaching and teaching. His first pastoral work was at Washington, Ga., his old home, where he was stationed four years, and after that he was for two years president of the female college at La Grange, Ga. In 1870 he was elected professor of Latin in Emory college, and has been connected with that institution ever since, with the exception of two years given to the Paine institute, Augusta, Ga. - the honor and credit for the organization of which justly belong to him. He held the Latin professorship only for four years, since which he has taught English, and is now, in addition, vice-president of the college. In 1865 he was elected a delegate to the constitutional convention, in which he took an absorbing interest, and was one of the most useful and influential of its members. His has been a life of unceasing activity and well-directed usefulness, the luster of whose record is undimmed by a shadow, and whose motives have no taint of selfishness. He ranks among the most prominent ministers of the denomination he honors, and was given the degree of D. D. by Emory college. Prof. Callaway has been twice married. He was first married in 1850, to Miss Eliza, daughter of Fielding and Mary (Wooten) Hinton. Seven children were born to them, only two survive; Maude lived to become the wife of the Rev. James M. Lovett; and Morgan, having won the doctorate of philosophy at Johns Hopkins university, is now professor of English in the university of Texas. The mother, a very pious and exemplary member of the Methodist church, died in 1867. In 1868 he contracted a second marriage with Miss Georgia, daughter of Dr. Fielding and Frances (Wingfield) Ficklen, by whom he has had one child, who, however, is dead. Mrs. Callaway has for years been the corresponding secretary of the Woman's Missionary society of the North Georgia conference. Dr. Callaway is the author of several works; Our Mother Tongue, Woman and Art, and various sermons and magazine articles.

Editor's note - Rev. Morgan Callaway's line of descent is as follows:
Peter Callaway
John Callaway
Edward Callaway
Joseph Callaway
Jesse M. Callaway
Rev. Morgan Callaway

I would like to thank Chad Jardine for sending us information about his Calaway ancestry. He descends from Thomas E. Calaway, son of Erastus Callaway. No proof has surfaced yet, but information does suggest that this line descends from the Joseph Callaway line as follows:
Joseph Callaway
Thomas Callaway
William Callaway
James Callaway
Erastus Callaway
Thomas E. Calaway

Hi Donna,

Thomas E. CALAWAY

Last Friday, September 14, [Thomas E.] Calaway, passed to the great beyond, due to a paralytic stroke, turning to dropsy.

Mr. Calaway was born October 18, 1846, at Charleston, S.C., and fought for four years in the Civil war, two years of which was spent in prison during which time his father and family all died of yellow fever. After the war he migrated West, coming to Marysvale, about 45 years ago, and here baptized in the LDS Church.

Mr. Calaway is survived by a wife and four children, twenty grand-children and six great-grand-children. Interment was at the Thompson cemetery.

(Piute Chieftain: 20 September 1917)
 

Until I found your website, I had not been able to find any information further back than Thomas E.'s father, Erastus.  This makes more sense after discovering that his family all died of Yellow Fever when he was in prison during the Civil War.  I found that there was a Yellow Fever epidemic that swept through North Carolina in 1864, which would make sense.  I also had that Thomas E. was born in Franklin, North Carolina rather than Charleston, SC as it mentions in the obituary.  Don't have enough information to determine which is correct yet. I was also interested to see that someone who had posted information on your site indicated that his incarceration was in Chicago.  I need to learn more about that.
 

So, it appears that sometime after his release from prison, Thomas E. moved west to Utah and joined the LDS Church (Mormon).  That is usually a good thing for genealogy, but I haven't been able to find much about him and his family so far.  Maybe he didn't talk about his past because he fought for the Confederacy and the Utah Territory was in support of the Union, who knows.  Anyway, what I have of his marriage and descendants is as follows:
 

Thomas E. Calaway b. 18 Oct 1846, Franklin, Macon Co., NC, d. 14 Sep 1917, Marysvale, Piute Co., Utah

m. Eliza Fenton Newby (daughter of Alfred Horton Newby and Eliza Fenton) on 21 Jun 1869, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah

Eliza b. 29 Aug 1852, Smethwick, Birmingham, Midlands, England, d. 3 Dec 1927, Marysvale, Piute Co., Utah

children:

Thomas Alfred b. 15 Sep 1870, d. 9 Nov 1948.

Merintha Altheria b. 29 Feb 1872, d. 21 May 1952

John William b. 28 Oct 1873, d. 15 Nov 1950

Leonard Harvey b. 8 Oct 1876, d. 11 Nov 1929
 

Thomas Alfred m. Adelaide Dennis (daughter of Dr. William Taylor Dennis and Ann Adelaide Fulmer) on 18 Oct 1892, Marysvale, Piute Co., Utah

Adelaide b. 22 May 1876, d. 7 May 1960

children:

Alfreta b. 5 Jun 1897, d. 15 Oct 1986

Adelaide b. ? d. ?
 

Alfreta m. William Heber Roylance (son of Heber C. Roylance and Alice Jane Ashworth Ward) on 15 Apr 1914, Salem, Fremont Co., Idaho

William b. 1 Sep 1893, d. 18 Jan 1968

children:

Alfreta Gail b. 26 jan 1915, d. 12 May 1957

Heber

Verge William b. 2 Oct 1919, d. 18 Oct 1981

Ross George b. 29 Nov 1924, d. 25 Jan 2007

Reva b. abt 1930, d. 15 Jan 2005
 

Alfreta Gail m. Richard Nolan Jardine.  They were my grandparents.  I have some more info on the family groups of the children, but this is how I tie into the family.
 

Best,

Chad Jardine
beshoffs at gmail.com

Editor's Note - More information on the family line of Erastus Callaway can be found in the following newsletters:
http://www.callawayfamily.org/cfanet/cfanet1107.htm
http://www.callawayfamily.org/cfanet/cfanet1207.htm includes a picture of Thomas E. Calaway
http://www.callawayfamily.org/cfanet/cfanet0508.htm
http://www.callawayfamily.org/cfanet/cfanet0305.htm
http://www.callawayfamily.org/cfanet/cfanet0809.htm

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The following letter written by John S. Callaway, reflects his dissatisfaction with the Hon. John B. Gordon and Governor Colquitt over their support of the Southern Life Insurance Company which apparently had gone bankrupt. Can anyone identify this John S. Callaway and tell us his line of descent? He is a "Mystery Callaway".

Morris Station, Ga., May 25, 1886.
Hon. John B. Gordon: A few months ago your post office was New York. Your letter announcing your candidacy was headed "DeKalb County." This is hardly the name of a post office, hence I know not where to address you, unless it be in care of the Constitution or of Joseph E. Brown.

I am informed that you stated in Cuthbert that you would repay any man who would say that you were the cause of his losing money by the Southern Life Insurance Company, and who thought you ought to do so, all the losses he sustained by the company. I assure you that but for the fact that your name and that of Alfred H. Colquitt appeared as the managers or officers of that branch in which I took a policy, and that I deemed you entirely competent to, and that you would, protect the interests of those whom your influence led to invest in the concern, I would now be better off the amount paid into it. My confidence in the ability and integrity of you two alone induced me to invest in it. Certain it is that I lost $1,536 in the Southern Life Insurance Company, for which I still hold a policy, and equally certain is it that but for my confidence in you and Colquitt I would not have lost it.

About one year before the final collapse of the company I made an effort to get my money out of it, offering to take, first, 75 per cent of the amount paid in, afterward 66 2/3 per cent and finally 50 per cent. To all of these offers I received a positive negative reply. In connection with this request I forwarded a written agreement from my wife and children, the latter then of age, releasing all claims upon the company upon the refunding of one-half the money I had paid in. The only thing I could get was a paid-up policy for the above amount. I thought, as the sequel proved that the thing was rotten to the core, and my confidence in you was shaken. I have never received one cent on that policy. I am old and poor and need it. You are said to be rich. Whether you reaped any benefit from my money, I can not say. That you were the cause of my losing it, is certain. But for my confidence in you I would not have lost it. I took you as surety for the debt and feel that you owe me the money and that out of your abundance you ought to repay me at least a part of it. I do not include fifteen years interest on this amount. I will be more than satisfied with the principal - if I can get it, and will publicly acknowledge its receipt as I have publicly demanded it. I must say, however, that should you see fit to return my money it will not buy my support for you. Practical experience and ordinary observation  of your career have fully convinced me that you are wholly impractical, not fitted in any particular to look after the interests of the great State of Georgia. My demand is one of simple justice and not an offer of sale of my support for the place you seek at the hands of the people.
Respectfully,
John S. Callaway

~ My Memoirs of Georgia Politics, Mrs. William H. Felton, Index Printing Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 1911, pp. 504-5.

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The following snippet was posted to the Callaway List at RootWeb. This Ernest Eugene Callaway is a descendant of John C. Callaway and Jane Pyle. They are a "Mystery Callaway" line and additional information on this line is published in the June 2006 Newsletter Query # 357.

Ernest Eugene Callaway of Covington, GA 1943

Ernest is pictured in the 1943 yearbook of the 20th Ferrying Group, based at Nashville, Tennessee. Their duty was to transport aircraft from the United States to the Allied front.

 

 

I was looking up information in Google on my family name and came across the Callaway Family.  My Grandmother was Alta Jane Callaway.  Her Mother was unmarried when she was born.  However, my grandmother told me that her father was named Segal Craig.  Alta died in Tremont, IL in April 1973 at the age of 86.  None of her children are surviving.  This might help a little to clear up a mystery or perhaps to add to it.
Norman Adcox

Editor's Note - See January 2007 newsletter for additional information about Alta Jane Callaway.

Query # 557
Subject - John McFarlin (McFarland) and Sarah Isabella Callaway (daughter of William Ira Callaway and Ruth Ann Lowry)
Submitter - Martha
email - Gmboyz3 at aol.com

Hello,
I read your site. I am trying to locate a living grandchild or great-grandchild of John McFarlin and Sarah Belle. I think you have her listed as Sarah Isabel Callaway. The reason is because there is a picture of Nancy (who is the daughter of Josiah Isaiah Callaway and Lettice Blankenship), her mother that is quite large and the lady that has it wants it to go to a direct descent. If there is anything that you can tell me, I would appreciate it.
Thanks! Martha

P.S. the lady's father was the grandson of John and Sarah.