Edra E. Callaway passed away on September 5, 2012 at Heartwood Homes care facility, Appleton, Wisconsin.
She was born November 18, 1920 in Greenview, Illinois, the daughter of Edwin and Ina (Adams) Callaway.
Edra graduated from Greenview High School in 1937 as class valedictorian, then from Peoria Illinois Business College before employment with Travelers Insurance Company. She later accepted employment in Springfield, at Sangamo Electric Company where she worked for many years, then with the State of Illinois Department of Child Welfare until her retirement in 1975. During her retirement Edra and her sister Louise lived in Springfield for 14 years until her sister’s death in 2004. Edra was known in her neighborhood for her beautiful flower gardens. After residing briefly at Lewis Memorial Christian Village in Springfield, Edra had resided at Heartwood Homes in Appleton since 2006.
Edra was preceded in death by her parents; her sister, Louise (Charles, Jr.) Lockhart; her brother, Loren (Iantha) Callaway, and a half-sister Esther (Amos) Smith.
She is survived by a niece Marcia (David) Shank, Chapel Hill, NC; and nephews Roger (Terri) Callaway of Greenview; Kenneth (Carolyn) Lockhart of Springfield; Keith (Linda) Lockhart of Highland Village, TX; and Greg (Kay) Lockhart of Appleton, WI, plus several great-nieces and -nephews, friends, former neighbors and coworkers. 

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Name: Powhate B Callaway
Age: 39
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1884
Arrival Port: Coutts
Date of Arrival: 26 Oct 1923
Birth Location: Danville, Virginia
Gender: Male
Citizenship: American

Editor's Note - Powhatan states on this form from the Canadian Immigration Service that he intends to relocate to Canada. He is listed as married so I assume he has his wife and children with him. I could not find him on the 1930 census or in Social Security Death Index. It appears he has moved to Canada permanently. His line of descent is as follows:
Joseph Callaway
William Callaway and 1st wife Elizabeth Tilley
Charles Callaway
John Callaway
James B. Callaway
John McAllister Callaway
Powhatan Bouldin Callaway

I would like to thank Kermit Bridges for sending us information about Evergreen. Both his Bridges and his Callaway ancestors called it home. The line of descent is as follows:
Joseph Callaway
William Callaway and 1st wife Elizabeth Tilley
James Callaway and 2nd wife Elizabeth Early
William C. Callaway
Nancy Elizabeth Trent Callaway and husband James Robertson Bridges
Edward Trent Bridges

Evergreen - This beautiful 19th century home is located in Rocky Mount, Franklin Co., VA. The following history of the house is from the application for the National Register of Historical Places.

Period One
Built for William Callaway, the ca. 1840 Period One house is a four-room, rectangular plan with two rooms up and two rooms down resting on a two-room brick basement. The one-to-five brick bond has a fifth row of Flemish bond with glazed headers decorating the south-end elevation (the north-end is covered by the Period Two house). Wood, six-over-six, double-hung sash windows with tenoned frames lights the interior spaces supported by a metal lintel set back from the face of the wall and obscured by a wood panel. The original shutters are missing while the shutter dogs remain. An off-centered brick chimney once sewed four fireplaces including the basement.
A standing-seam metal clad hip-roof covers the house with a simple boxed cornice and no fascia board. Symmetrically placed doors and windows pierce all three floors of the front façade and the corresponding rear elevation. A modern window was added to the south-end elevation, while the north-end elevation became part of the Period Two addition. A raised porch runs the length of the front facade and rest on brick posts with square hewn beams and circular sawn floor joists. The flat-sawn balustrade dates to ca. 1880.
The basement was habitable and very functional with both rooms entered from the front facade and an interior door in the brick partition wall allowed passage between them. The original vertical two-panel wood doors remains with their mortise-and-tenoned door frame and flat trim. The floor has been covered with concrete, the brick walls are 16" thick, and the floor joists were covered with nine-in. wide paneling during the 1930s.' The ceiling height is 6'-8". Running north to south, the north basement room contains a fireplace with a simple wood surround. Windows with recessed metal lintels light the rooms.
The first floor is entered from the front facade porch. As below in the basement, both of the first floor rooms can be entered from the porch with an interior door between them. The first room (south) serves as the kitchen. A large fireplace is centered in the interior wall with a full wooden surround. This room has been modernized with new appliances and linoleum tile covering the original wood floor. A heavy mantelpiece that is 52-in. high with 14-in.wide tapered pilasters surrounds the fireplace opening. All window trim and baseboards are flat, square boards. A pedimented crown frames the doors.
A window pierces the rear (west) wall and a small modern window lights the south-end wall. Corner sidewinder steps have been removed from the southeast corner of the kitchen that originally reached the isolated bedroom above. The original four-panel door from the kitchen allows entry into the current dining room (north). The center chimney with an open fireplace is framed with a full surround, and recessed shelves are situated between the fireplace and the west wall. Symmetrically placed windows on the west and east walls light the room. The original random width (4 3/4 to 5 1/4 in.) oak floorboards are bordered with eight-in. high baseboards.
A four-in. thick chair rail is on four walls at a 2-ft.-4-in. height. The walls are painted lath and plaster about ten-ft. in height.
Corner sidewinder steps lead from the dining room to the bedroom above. This bedroom is larger than the other and was heated by the center fireplace. The narrow, south bedroom was accessed only from the kitchen and was not heated and may have served as a servant's room. During the 1960s, the Sumrells removed the sidewinder steps and put a door between the two rooms.

Period Two
In 1858, the well-known Roanoke Valley builder Benjamin Deyerle purchased the property, and by 1861 had added the Italianate side-gable and wing brick section. The house was probably finished after the Civil War with its decorative wood detailing completed after 1880 when the first railroad line reached Rocky Mount. Deyerle continued to live in Roanoke County and used Evergreen as a second "country" home. Known more for his Greek Revival style, he may have felt more liberated and able to experiment with the new Italianate style that he most likely had taken from a recently published pattern book found in the town of Big Lick. This asymmetrical section was centered on the north-end elevation of the ca. 1840 Period One house forming a roughly T-shape plan, with the projecting gable wing accented by a bay window and verge boards. This two-story section rests on a raised basement slinhtlv higher than the original house.
The two-over-two wood sash windows are missing their shutters but retain their shutter dogs. A low-pitched, cross-gable roof clad with standing-seam metal covers the house with a bracketed cornice, return eaves, and verge boards accenting the gable ends.
The recessed front porch is original with raised brick piers, square posts with brackets, flat-sawn balustrade, and cornice brackets, eight-foot wide stone steps, and a standing-seam metal shed roof. Three-light sidelights and a two-light transom frame the original solid wood Italianate-style front door. The south side elevation of the house features a first-floor single-door entrance sheltered by a portico with a brick staircase. The current owners report that the front stone steps and the side brick steps were replaced during Henry (Benjamin's son) Deyerie's occupation.
The raised brick basement also has a concrete covered floor, interior brick walls, and windows for lighting, but does not have a fireplace as in the Period One section. The ceiling is 6'-11," the 2 x 9" ceiling joist are circular sawn, and the door has four raised panels.
The Period Two section can be reached from either the raised front porch, side porch, or through the Period One section. From the front door, one enters into the center hall with the staircase along the south wall, an entrance into the Period One section at the end of the hall, and two flanking parlors. The two to three-in, wide floorboards on the first and second floors are tongue-and-groove heart pine bordered with a 6-in. high baseboard. The ceilings are about 10-ft. in height. The original doors contain four elongated raised panels.
The west parlor features tall two-over-two wood sash windows and a fireplace with an elaborate, curved Italianate mantelpiece that was originally marbleized. The current owners, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Poff have restored all the fireplaces. The parlor in the projecting south wing also was heated by a fireplace with a less elaborate Italianate surround, and is lighted by tall two-over-two sash windows and a projecting bay window. A picture rail lines this room. The side porch is reached from the parlor as well as a rear room that has been converted into a bathroom and laundry.
The center hall staircase consists of a straight run that curves onto the landing of the second floor. Board-and-batten siding covers the stair carriage and there are two narrow turned balusters per tread. The square newel post features etching and a turned newel cap. The second floor landing leads to flanking west and east bedrooms, an added door in the south-rear wall for access into the Period One bedrooms, and a door out to the first-floor porch roof with views over the bottomlands of the Blackwater River to the north. The bedrooms match the parlors below in description and size.

1998 PIF: This was (and presently is) one of the handsomest houses in Franklin County. The farm originally contained 4,500 acres.

It still overlooks fine fields that gradually slope to the distant hills. The front of the house has a long brick herringbone walk edged on each side by 100+ year old English boxwood. The house has very elaborate cornices and ornaments in each of the gables. The entrance steps, eight in number, are each of split stone, approximately nine feet long and a little less than two feet wide. The risers to these steps are of brick and the effect is unusual and attractive. A long porch leads into the wide entrance hall. From this hall a circular stairway leads to the third floor. On one side of the hall is a room with wide fireplace and carved mantel and bookcases on each side of the fireplace. On the other side is a room with a large bay window which has a door that leads to a side porch. At the back of the hall a door leads into a smaller room which contains the back stairway, and a closet with double doors on one side of the mantel, the present dining room. This room leads to the present kitchen. Both the dining room and kitchen open onto a long back porch. Another long brick herringbone walk leads from the front side of the house to this back porch. Tall American boxwood are at the end of the walk.

Historical Background
In 1809, Colonel James Callaway willed to his son William Callaway 4,500 acres of fertile lands worth an estimated 6654 pounds on both sides of the Blackwater River, five-mi. west of Rocky Mount. Col. James Callaway (1736-1809) was a leading citizen of Bedford County and was an important and powerful man during Franklin County's formative years even though he never lived in Franklin County. He served in the French and Indian War, and was a member of the House of Burgesses from Bedford County from 1776-1769. Callaway earned the title of Colonel from the Revolutionary War and received a land grant for his services.
Callaway lived in Bedford County but owned property and buildings in Franklin County including the Washington Iron Furnace in Rocky Mount with four dwellings. Reportedly, it was in one of these four houses that the first meeting to establish Franklin County's first courthouse was held on January 2, 1786. Known today as The Farm, the original one-story frame house has had many additions. Colonel Callaway was a prosperous man, as he also owned the Oxford Iron Works on the James River at Lynchburg and the Chiswell Lead Mines on the New River in southwest Virginia as well.
The Washington Iron Furnace is one of the oldest (1770) and best preserved iron furnaces in the Commonwealth, and helped established the courthouse town of Rocky Mount, Virginia. In 1779,
Jeremiah Early and Callaway bought the furnace from its original owner John Donelson. Two years later, Early died, and his son later sold enough interest in the ironworks for Callaway to own two thirds of the business. Callaway managed the Washington Iron Furnace until his death in 1809, when it continued to flourish under the new ownership of the Saunders brothers of Rocky Mount. William Callaway (1779-1855) was the second son of James and Elizabeth Early Callaway. William represented Franklin County in the state legislature for five different terms between 1812 and 1835. Callaway inherited the property in 1809 and did not build on it until 1821, as he may have resided in Rocky Mount. The Franklin County land tax books indicate that in 1820 the 4500 acres was valued at $19,992.80. In 1821, however, $500 appears to the sum added on account of buildings, boosting its worth to $20,550. It is possible that the $500 denotes a one-story brick house that was built on the north side of the Blackwater River and no longer associated with the nominated parcel.
Callaway farmed the land and owned a number of slaves. The 1830 Franklin County census indicates he possessed 27 slaves, and in 1840 the number increased to 45 slaves with 15 people employed in agriculture. In 1840, the Franklin County land tax books show a $1,000 increase for buildings owned by William Callaway, which given the architectural evidence, most likely dates the Period One house built on the south side of the Blackwater River. The 1850 Products of Agriculture census shows that William Callaway has 37-acres of improved land and 3,300-acres of unimproved land. The cash value of his farm is $30,000. His livestock consists of 15 horses, 22 milk cows, 11 working oxen, 80 sheep, and 185 swine for a total value of $1,580.
Callaway produced 470 bushels of wheat, 200 bushels of rye, 3,250 bushels of Indian corn, 3,000 bushels of oats and $4376 pounds of tobacco. The census record that same year shows that his 18 year-old grandson, Edward T. "Ned" Bridges was living with the 72-year old Callaway.
On July 14, 1854, William Callaway willed to his grandson "Ned" Bridges his: Mansion-house tract of land ... called Evergreen which tract was given to me by my father.. .and also all of my lands.. .all of my horses, stock of every kind, household and kitchen furniture, agricultural implements used on said lands, growing crops, provisions laid in for family consumption and all monies due me at my death.. .
William Callaway died a year later after farming the land for 46 years. Edward Trent "Ned" Bridges was the son of James Robertson Bridges and his first wife Nancy Elizabeth Trent Callaway from Richmond. Elizabeth was the only child born to William Callaway and Ann "Nanny" Crump Callaway. "Ned" Bridges graduated from both the Virginia Military Institute (1848) and the University of Virginia (date unknown) where he studied medicine. Married Sarah Pope Claytor, and served as Captain of the Confederate Troop "0" under the command of Ambrose C. Dunn and was a friend of General J.E.B. Stuart. Bridges was one of the wealthiest men in Franklin County having inherited the estate of his grandfather William Callaway, and of his mother, who was an heiress. Bridges also owned Allegheny Springs Resort in Montgomery County, of which only the springhouse remains."
Bridges owned the Franklin County property from July, 1855 to September, 1856, when he sold 1,500-acres on the north side of Blackwater River to James F. Johnson and William Taylor by deed of trust dated September 17, 1856. Bridges is reputed to have been a gambler and card player, and to have lost $90,000 in a card game, which forced him to relinquish his land in Franklin County and 74 of Allegheny Springs totaling $97,500. On April 10, 1857, Bridges conveyed 4,500-acres (including the first 1,500-acres given to Johnson and Taylor) to John O.L. Goggin of Lynchburg. On May 11, 1858, Hill Carter of Shirley Plantation (NRHP 18-22) in Charles City County bought the land from Goggin and Johnson, as trustees, for $39,500."
Hill Carter's (1796-1875) ownership of Evergreen can be viewed as a speculative investment because he only owned it for a little over one month. On June 30, 1858, Hill Carter sold the original Callaway grant of 4,500 acres to Benjamin Deyerle of Roanoke County for $58,420, making an $18,920 profit. In a letter dated July 25, 1858, Hill Carter wrote Benjamin Deyerle: How do you get on with your new purchase in Franklin, I hope it may turn out well, and I have no doubt with your energy and good management it will make your fortune. My people down here were sadly disappointed at my selling out, and abused me roundly for it. I ought to have held on to it but I could not get on with those people up in Franklin, and it was too far from my home here and too far from market.

Evergreen is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. See what a magnificent place it is. These photos were taken in 1999.

Editor's Note - I would like to thank Lisa Williams, Archives Assistant, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond, Virginia for her act of kindness in sending me these wonderful pictures of the home.