I would like to thank Brian Callaway for sending us these excerpts from sections of the book, which refer to Peter Callaway. Peter Callaway was a Baptist Preacher from the following line of descent:
Peter Callaway
Peter Callaway
John Callaway
Peter Callaway died Apr 19, 1835 at the home of Gen. Blackshear

Hi,
Google books is marvelous, I am glad they are digitizing even old books for history's sake. (I hope this is new information).
- Brian Callaway
bwcallaway at yahoo.com

~ from: Memoir of Gen. David Blackshear: Including Letters from Governors Irwin, Jackson, Early, and Raburn, and from Major-General McIntosh, Brigadier-General Floyd, and Other Officers of the Army in the War of 1813-14 on the Frontier and Sea-coast of Georgia; and Also Letters from Members of Congress ...
By Stephen Franks Miller, Published by J.B. Lippincott, 1858, Original from Harvard University, Digitized Aug 1, 2006

From Page 357:
While a scouting-party was out, consisting of James, Edward, and David Blackshear, Martin Francks, Peter Calloway, and others, fifteen or twenty in all, led by Captain Yates, in pursuit of the Tories, they stopped at Col. White's to stay all night to relieve their fatigue. James Blackshear, Martin Francks, and Mr. Calloway, being stronger than the rest, continued five or six miles farther, until they reached the house of Mrs. Blackshear. They had just entered, and were about sitting down to supper, when the dwelling was surrounded by Tories, and James Blackshear, her son, and Martin Francks, her nephew, were taken out of the house, carried to the end of the lane, tied to a stake, and there shot dead by the Tories. A negro man ran with the news to Col. White's. The colonel and his party were fourteen in number, and had but seven horses between them. They instantly mounted two on a horse, and set forth on the work of revenge. In the mean time, after killing Blackshear and Francks, the Tories concluded to capture and destroy the whole party of Whigs at Col. White's, and were near enough to the house to hear the orders given by Capt. Yates to his men as they left the gate. The Tories then divided into two companies, and lay in ambush on each side of the road to fire upon the Whigs. They did fire, killing one Whig and wounding
several others, and, among them, Brock was shot through the thigh and Edward Blackshear through both hands, as he was riding on the same horse behind another man, with his hands holding his gun on the pommel of the saddle. Capt. Yates had his collar-bone broken and his horse killed under him. When the Tories opened their fire, the Whigs dashed back to get from between the double ambuscade. On coming up to the spot and finding one man dead, the Tories, supposing that the Whigs had fled, raised a shout of
triumph. About this time, Capt. Yates, lying a few yards off, severely wounded as he was, raised his gun and fired upon the group, killing one Tory captain and breaking the thigh of another, so that he was taken prisoner. They carried the wounded Tory captain to the stake and there shot him, within a few hours after the other frightful tragedy had occurred on the same spot.

From Page 395:
A few months ago he visited the old homestead. The dwelling was burnt down ; tall cotton-stalks grew in the yard ; the large old china-trees, planted by the general sixty years ago, had rotted from age. Nothing was green but a small live-oak, which came from an acorn he brought in his pocket from the coast at the close of the war in 1815, — an emblem of his own enduring character.

But there were the graves! General Blackshear and his wife slept side by side, and near him was old Peter Calloway, the once heroic youth who served with him in the Revolution. James Hamilton and William Thweatt, his two sons, who died in the meridian of life, and Mary Jane, the wife of Edward Jefferson Blackshear, reposed within a few feet. His nephew William L. Bush, well known to the author, was in the enclosure, far away from the home of his childhood. Several members of a French family, (Dessaubleaux,) who had been friends and neighbors, mingled their dust in this home of the dead. A half-dozen little graves told of angelic slumbers there. Dear old spot, hallowed by so many tender memories!

From Page 402:
His old age was soothed by the presence of one who assisted in the Revolution to punish the murderers of his eldest brother, of which an account has been given in the early part of this memoir. After a separation of forty years, the Rev. Peter Calloway, stricken by domestic sorrows, came to the house of General Blackshear, who embraced him with tears of joy. The reunion was pleasant to both. Mr. Calloway was invited to make Springfield his home. For several years he was a cherished inmate of the family, shared
the best, was treated with the tenderness of a brother, and at length died under the general's roof. The same graveyard contains the dust of both. The commander of armies and the humble Baptist preacher — the two friends in life, one successful and the other unfortunate — will continue to repose together until the trumpet of the resurrection shall summon them to their final destiny.

From Page 144:
Privates in Captain Kellam's Company, State of Georgia, 8th September, 1814 - Elisha Calloway

The following article was contributed to CFA by Mrs. Sarah Wight Schaper of Seattle, Washington, and published in the 1980 CFA Journal. James Baird Callaway's line of descent is as follows:
Peter Callaway
John Callaway
Ebenezer Callaway
William Callaway
William Callaway, Jr.
James Baird Callaway

Items on James Baird Callaway

A retired minister named James B. Callaway came to Odessa, Texas about 1885 and brought his wife, Laura, three sons, Henry, Ira and Ed, and a daughter, Louie. He has lived in many places during his life, and his last home before coming to Odessa had been in California where he had seen an advertisement picturing Odessa as a health resort and farming center. His daughter, Louie, had been a sickly child with frequent chills and fever and he thought the change in climate would be good for her. Besides, he thought it was time he stopped preaching because he was already in his sixties. Odessa seemed to be a good place for Louie; she had no more chills after the first day there.

James B. Callaway's parents, William and Leah Ralph Callaway, grew up in the southeastern corner of Delaware (Sussex County). There had been Callaways in eastern Maryland and southern Delaware for many years. The first Callaway in this vicinity was the immigrant, Peter Callaway, who arrived before 1665. Peter was fined for getting a bastard child of Elizabeth Johnson in 1667. He later married and had other children and his descendants are numerous in Delaware today.

William Callaway was born in Sussex County, Delaware on August 27, 1799. There were 14 Callaway families in the county at that time. The Ralph family came to America in 1672 when the immigrant, Thomas Ralph, came to Maryland from England. Leah Ralph was the daughter of James and Mary Ralph and was born in Sussex County on January 13, 1799. William Callaway and Leah Ralph were married on May 4, 1820. They moved to eastern Maryland where James Baird Callaway, the first of 11 children, was born on February 6 or 7, 1821. In 1829, the family was back in Delaware, and in 1831 they were in Memphis, (Tennessee?). By 1833, they had returned to Delaware again. In 1835, when James was 14 years old, the family moved to Quincy, Illinois.

William Callaway never learned to read or write, but his children went to school. In the 1840 census the family is listed as having one person in the "learned profession" (as differentiated from farmers, traders, etc.). This would be the oldest son, James Baird, who was 19 at the time. When James Callaway was 20, he was licensed to exhort by the Methodist Episcopal Church. Two years later he was licensed to preach.  He was admitted to the Illinois Conference and later the same year transferred to the Missouri Conference when the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri. In 1847 or 1848 he was in Carroll Co., MO and was ordained a deacon, and in 1851 was made an elder. James married Laura la Cossette Hawkins, daughter of James Clemens and Mary E. (de la Cossette) Hawkins, in Shelbyville, Missouri in 1852. She was from Palmyra. They had 10 children who lived to adulthood and one or more who died in infancy. James' second appointment in Missouri was in Memphis, Missouri. He transferred from Missouri in 1855, but apparently did not leave until 1858 or later.

James' father, William Callaway, died in 1857 and left his house and lot in Fillmore, Missouri, to his son James. Other property mentioned in his will included farms in Andrew and Scotland Counties, three yoke of oxen, one cow, three feather beds and household and kitchen furniture. James was made executor of the estate. William's wife died the following year.

In 1861, with the Civil War threatening, James (a Yankee) and his wife (a Rebel) took off for Oregon in a covered wagon. They wanted to avoid the war. Most of James Callaway's brothers and sisters also migrated to Oregon at the same time. TV westerns notwithstanding, the covered wagons were generally pulled by oxen instead of horses because oxen were better able to stand the trip and the strain of pulling the wagons day after day. It was a dull trip, really. They covered only  about 20 miles a day, the trail was rough and dusty, the jerky was tough and tasteless, and the only band of Indians seen at close range just sat on their horses and watched the covered wagons going by. During the first part of the trip, the Callaways had a milch cow, but the older Callaway boys heard someone say that if a gentle cow smelled a fresh bone farm an antelope or buffalo, she would go crazy. So they got a bone and stuck it under their cow's nose, and she ran off and was never brought back. Their mother cried over this loss.

They followed the Oregon trail as far as Fort Laramie and took the Overland Trail from there to Sacramento, California. James had been offered a job in Sacramento, but he found the congregation there was pro-slavery and his sentiment was anti-slavery, so he did not take the job. From Sacramento they went north to Oregon and Washington Territory. Continuing on the Oregon trail would have been shorter, but it was a very difficult route and was falling into disuse now that the southern trail was opened.

James Callaway was admitted to the Oregon Conference in 1862. He became a circuit rider and preached in the towns of Brownsville, Lebanon and Scio in western Oregon and later in the Walla Walla district in eastern Washington. Preaching was not a very profitable occupation, money-wise, and both he and his wife taught school for money to live on. A minister usually received his pay for services in food . . . vegetables, pork, chickens, etc.

James Callaway transferred to the Southern California Conference about 1876, and he preached in Santa Ana and later in Lemoore, Armona, Grangeville, Hanford and Porterville. In California he and his wife taught Chinese immigrants in night school which was held at the Methodist Church. The Chinese appreciated this and gave them gifts of lanterns, garden vegetables, fancy pastries at Chinese New Year, kites of all kinds and other things.

About 1885 James Callaway quit preaching and prepared to go to Texas. In preparation for this, most of his family gathered at the home of a married daughter, Mary Callaway Hayward, on a ranch near Hanford, California. There were no dining cars on trains in those days, so food had to be prepared beforehand for long journeys. The trip was expected to last about six days and enough food was prepared and packed in large laundry baskets for the trip. They got on the train at Goshen, the nearest railroad way station, and began their journey to Odessa.

When they arrived in Odessa they found a sanitarium that had been converted into an apartment building capable of lodging several families, and they took an apartment in the building. The building had never been used as a sanitarium. James Callaway stayed in Odessa about four years and then moved to Lipscomb in the northeast corner of the Texas Panhandle. His wife and daughter went with him and his three sons remained behind. His son, Henry, later drove a herd of horses to Oklahoma with Arthur Wight. They went as far as Ponca City, Oklahoma, and instead of returning to Odessa with Arthur Wight, Henry Callaway opened up a livery stable in Ponca City. Ira Callaway was one of the first voters registered in Ector County, Texas after the county was formed. He married Inez N. Rathbun there in 1891. She died soon thereafter and Ira migrated north and settled in Elizabeth, Colorado. Ed Callaway went to California, became a doctor and moved to Midland, Texas where he practiced medicine until his death in 1934. James Callaway joined the Methodist Episcopal Church South and obtained a pastorate in Lipscomb. His wife died in 1889 and was buried in the yard where they lived. Later, after a cemetery was laid out, her body was moved to the cemetery. Mrs. Jim Black of Higgins, Texas was a school girl in Lipscomb at the time the Callaways were there and remembers that Mr. Callaway enjoyed visiting the school. She remembers him as a very old man who walked with a cane and always looked neat and well dressed. He retired a second time and went back to California to live with his daughter, Mary. Here he would lecture on Sunday afternoons in the school building. The illiterate farmers and their families would come from a considerable distance to hear him speak. Mr. Callaway was well versed with the stars and many of his lectures were on the subject of astronomy. Apparently he was able to make this subject interesting to these farmers.

His grandchildren remember that he was great on walking, and that he used to take them on long walks when they were young. They held his fingers and had to run to keep up. He used to read aloud from the big family Bible and gave his grandchildren instruction. Most of his sons could carry on conversations in Latin and Greek, such as they were taught. He would tell tall stories of Texas and the early days. On his drives in a buggy with a gentle horse - he never drove fast - he often brought back kittens for his grandchildren to play with. He wore an iron ring on his finger to ward off rheumatism. He was not a handsome man; he was tall and muscular. His library books were mostly written in Latin or Greek.

James Callaway died in Armona, California on November 4, 1900 at the home of another daughter, Laura Warswick, and was buried at Grangeville, California in an unmarked grave. Once a doctor had told him that he had heart trouble and that he should quit preaching because he might have a heart attack in the pulpit. He told the doctor that that seemed as good a place as any and kept right on preaching. He wanted to preach for 50 years, but managed only 49.

I would like to thank Marilyn Chenoweth Gorham for making us aware of the Chenoweth web site and their activities. The Chenoweth family and the Peter Callaway line are related through marriage. Ruth Chenoweth's connection to the Callaway family is as follows:
Peter Callaway
John Callaway
Edward Callaway
Job Callaway, Sr.
Joseph Callaway
Abraham Aaron Callaway
James Wiley Callaway
William Stone Callaway
James Albert Callaway married Ruth Eleanor Chenoweth

Hi Donna,

 

I just received the latest news letter from Jon Egge, webmaster at the http://www.chenowethsite.com web site.  The newsletter spoke of the Chenoweth Family Reunion held in Ft. Wayne, IN this past July.

 

Jon mentioned that since the beginning of the family reunions not one member of Ruth's line has ever been to one reunion.  Perhaps you could spread the word to the Calloway cousins to check out the Chenoweth Web site for further information.  I am positive that the cousins would welcome any participation.

 

Thank you for the monthly newsletters on the Calloway Family Association.

 

Best Regards,

Marilyn Chenoweth Gorham
marilyngorham at bellsouth.net

Editor's Note - Oct 2, 2008 - I would like to thank CFA Member, Debs Cofer for sharing further information about the connection between the Chenoweth and Callaway families.

Donna,

In reference to the Chenoweth Connection as suggested by Marilyn which I have copied at the end of my notes, I will submit the following which I obtained from Jon Egge of the Chenoweth line.  I think he is referring to the Ruth Chenoweth who was a sister to several Chenoweth brothers that have been followed more closely than the female line.  She married John Poteet.

Their son, Richard, born 1750, married Isabella Adelphia Henderson in 1777.  (The Hendersons were a prominent family in Wilkes Co for years as well.) Their gravestone is in the Kettle Creek Battleground memorial area where it says he served in the Rev War. 

Their daughter, Susanna Poteet, married Parker Callaway, which is my line from Parker to Seaborn to Eugenia, my great grandmother.  Seaborn had a brother named Chenoth (a derivation of Chenoweth) which would seem to support this family connection.  Of course in Georgia, Chenoweth is easily shortened to Chenoth.

 

Debs Cofer
debsc1 at comcast.net

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I would like to thank Pam Stenhouse for sharing with us all the following information on the family of Thomas Jefferson Callaway. Andrew's family line of descent is as follows:
Peter Callaway
John Callaway
John Callaway, Jr.
Levin Callaway
Levin Callaway, Jr.
Elijah Marlow Callaway
William Monroe Callaway
Thomas Jefferson Callaway
Andrew Wilson Callaway

Thanks so much for sharing your Callaway tree on Ancestry.com!

I thought this info might be of interest to you: 

Andrew Wilson Callaway married Lucy Vinetta Ratterree

on February 15, 1903 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia

Fulton County, Georgia, Marriage Book L, p. 374

 

Callaway, Andrew Wilson 1883-1958
Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 7: September, 1964-August, 1967. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1968. (BioIn 7)
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 49. New York: James T. White & Co., 1966. Reprint. Volumes 1-50. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, 1967-1971. Use the Index to locate biographies. (NatCAB 49)

 

CALLAWAY, Andrew Wilson, judge, was born in Woolsey, Fayette Co., Ga., Feb. 2, 1883, son of Thomas Jefferson and Telitha Jane (Preston) Callaway.  His father was a farmer and grocery merchant.  Andrew W. Callaway attended Fayette county elementary schools and received an LL.B. degree from the Atlanta (Ga.) Law School.  Meanwhile, he began working in 1898 as a clerk in a grocery store in Atlanta, and a few years later he opened his own grocery store in that city.  In 1918 he joined the Atlanta police force as a patrolman, later becoming successively a desk lieutenant and a clerk of the Atlanta Municpal Court.  He was admitted to the bar of the State of Georgia in 1928.  Appointed to fill a vacancy as a judge of the Atlanta Municipal Court in 1922, he was elected to his first full four-year term in 1924 and was returned to the bench in subsequent elections, serving for thirty-one years until his retirement on Jan. 1, 1953.  Thereupon the special salaried position of judge emeritus was created for him, and thereafter until the close of his life he was frequently called upon to sit in cases before the municipal court in this capacity.  Callaway was a member of the Georgia Bar Association, the Masonic order (Shriner), Order of the Eastern Star, BPOE, IOOF, Loyal Order of Moose, Sigma Delta Kappa, and the Old War Horse Lawyers Club.  His principal recreational interests were gardening, hiking, fishing, and deer hunting.  In religion, he was a Baptist.  Politically he was a Democrat.  He married in Atlanta, Feb. 15, 1903, to Lucy Vinetta, daughter of Alexander Ratterree of East Point, Ga., a farmer, and had five children: Mary Rubye, who married Raymond Edward Anderson; Andrew Carson; Irene Estelle, who married Chesner Franklin Kemp; Paul Thomas; and Marguerite Elizabeth, who married James Harvey Baker.  Andrew W. Callaway died in Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 14, 1958.
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The Atlanta Constitution
October 15, 1958
p. 17

 

Judge Callaway Rites To Be Held at 3:30 Today

 

 Judge Andrew Wilson Callaway, whose career spanned 32 years on the Atlanta Municipal Court bench, died Tuesday at his home, 1381 Stewart Ave., SW  He was 75.
 Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Capitol View Baptist Church.  The Rev. Tommy Dixon, Dr. L. D. Newton and the Rev. A. C. Peacock will officiate.
 Municipal court will be closed Wednesday to honor the jurist.
 Judge Callaway, cited by Mayor William B. Hartsfield as a "true pioneer in city government," joined the city in 1918 as a patrolman on the police force.  He was appointed to the Municipal Court in 1922 and he retired from the bench in 1953.  He held a special, salaried position of judge emeritus and often returned to the bench after retirement.
 Judge Callaway was born in Woolsey, Fayette County and moved to Atlanta when he was 15.  He married Miss Lucy Vinette Ratteree in 1903.
 He was a member of Capitol View Baptist Church at the time of his death.  Judge Callaway was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, Odd Fellows, The Grotto, Yaraab Temple of the Shrine, Elks Lodge No. 78, the Atlanta Bar Assn. and was one of the charter members of the Old War Horse Lawyer's Club.
 Survivors are his wife; sons, Carson A. and Paul T. Callaway, both of Atlanta; daughters, Mrs. Raymond E. Anderson, Mrs. C. Frank Kemp and Mrs. J. H. Baker, and a brother, Walter Callaway, all of Atlanta.
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Atlanta and Environs
by
Franklin M. Garrett
Volume II

 

 "In mid-September, 1924, Atlanta lost one of its most popular city officials when Recorder George E. Johnson, on the bench for ten years, died.  To succeed Judge Johnson, City Council chose, by unanimous vote, Andrew W. Callaway, recorder pro tem since January 4, 1922, and prior to that date a clerk in the police department.  Judge Callaway, like Councilman White, served the public ably and conscientiously for a full generation.  He retired from active duty on December 31, 1953, and now holds the well deserved title "Judge Emeritus."

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The Atlanta Constitution
November 18,1927, p. 24

 

T. J. CALLAWAY
FUNERAL TODAY

 

Funeral services for Thomas Jefferson Callaway, 72, widely known and beloved Atlantan, father of three prominent city officials, who died Thursday morning at the residence 806 Lowndes avenue, S. W., will be conducted this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home.  Burial will be in College Park cemetery.

 

The Rev. A. Gann, pastor of the Atlanta Church of God, of which Mr. Callaway had been a devout member for many years, will officiate, and honorary escorts from the various departments of the city government with which his sons are connected will be in attendance.

 

Judge A. W. Callaway, of the first division of recorder's court; Councilman T. Frank Callaway, of the Tenth ward, and Police Captain E. E. Callaway are the three sons of Mr. Callaway who are widely known in city government circles.

 

Mr. Callaway was born February 13, 1856, in Webster county, near Americus, and removed to Atlanta January 18, 1899.  He entered the grocery business at Stewart avenue and Wells street and soon became one of the city's most prominent and influential merchants.  Since his retirement from active business, several years ago, he had lived with his wife at the home of their son, Captain Callaway, on Lowndes street.

 

Mr. Callaway married his wife, formerly Miss Telitha Preston, daughter of a prominent Henry county family, on December 13, 1877, and the pair would have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on December 13 of this year.

 

Mr. Callaway was, as long as his health permitted, an active member of the Church of God, and he had a wide circle of close friends throughout the city.  He was devoted to his church and family and very seldom visited out of Atlanta.

 

Besides his wife and the three sons named, Mr. Callaway leaves two other sons, J. W. and William Callaway; one daughter, Mrs. A. A. Harris; a sister, Mrs. O. F. Preston, and nineteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren, all of Atlanta.

The Atlanta Constitution
September 6, 1937, p. 3

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MRS. T. J. CALLAWAY
DIES AT AGE OF 75

 

Peritonitis, Aftermath of Fractured Hip, Fatal to Mother of Recorder.

 

Mrs. Thomas Jefferson [sic] Callaway, mother of Judge A. W. Callaway, city recorder, and Lieutenant E. E. Callaway, of the Atlanta police, died yesterday afternoon at the residence of another son, W. M. Callaway, city fireman, at 783 Tift avenue, S. W.

 

She had been ill for seven weeks prior to her death.  Almost three months ago she was feeding her chickens in the back yard when she stumbled over a tree root and fractured a hip.  Recently peritonitis set in, resulting in her death.  She was 75 years old.

 

Born in Butts county, Mrs. Callaway was reared and educated near Jackson and Locust Grove.  After her marriage she moved to Woolsey, where all of her children were born.

 

She moved to Atlanta more than 38 years ago.  Her husband, who was a grocery man, died 10 years ago.

 

She is also the mother of T. Frank Callaway, Fulton county deputy sheriff, and J. W. Callaway.

 

Surviving in addition to her sons are a daughter, Mrs. A. A. Harris; a sister, Mrs. Martha W. Barnes, of Jackson; a brother, O. F. Preston; 28 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

 

Final services are being arranged by Harry G. Poole.

 

Pam
tomstars at bellsouth.net