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THE CALLAWAY FAMILY ASSOCIATION Volume V No. 12
Always regard
with esteem the name you were given; The Editor's Corner As we all know, our family history is a long one, going back in time for centuries. Regardless of when and where, our C/K ancestors have been involved in Christmas. Below are some reminders of what it was like during all this time. YULETIDE IN YORKSHIRE
Skipton's Medieval
Yuletide Festival For more information about this event see: http://www.skiptononline.co.uk/yuletide.htm Editor's Note - For many more Yuletide celebrations in England, Scotland and Wales visit Historic-UK.com web site which has a very comprehensive listing.
YULETIDE IN AMERICA Was Christmas for our ancestors a carnival, a blank slate, or a judgment day that demanded penances and handed out rewards? The Puritans who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 denounced the celebration entirely for its pagan roots. Two centuries passed before most New Englanders accepted Christmas as a holiday. Among those who opposed Yuletide rituals, the rejection lay not just in the holiday's pagan roots but in the manner of celebration. For centuries, festivities were dominated by the young, the rowdy, and the lusty. In the English colonies, staid souls denounced the custom of wassailing, in which bands of noisy, tipsy, and often costumed males roamed the streets and invaded homes, demanding gifts, money, and liquor in exchange for songs, gags, or the promise of not being harmed. ~ from Ancestry Magazine, Nov/Dec 2003 REVOLUTIONARY WAR CHRISTMAS
Read General George Washington's letter to General McDougall regarding the Christmas Day 1776 Battle of Trenton.
CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS
On December 11-12, 2004 – “Prospects of Peace: A Soldiers Prayer” will be performed. Visitors are invited to join this special program focusing on Yuletide 1864 when Harpers Ferry soldiers attempted to create their own version of Christmas on the battle front while recalling happier ones at home. With Abraham Lincoln re-elected, the nation was looking forward to a new year, the conclusion of war, prospects of peace, and freedom for 4 million enslaved African Americans. Programs and activities will feature local citizens and soldiers preparing for the Yuletide, a Civil War style Santa Claus dispersing presents to the soldiers, a Victorian Cotillion, Yuletide confections, and special guided walking tours. For additional information call the Information Center at 304-535-6029.
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for more information about this event see:
http://www.nps.gov/hafe/events.htm
Editor’s note - I encourage each of
you to send in articles for the e-Newsletter. It doesn’t have to
be lengthy. It could be some "Callaway" news, a family story, a
family photo, a favorite family recipe, results from your family
line research, or any item you think would be of interest to our
readers. Send them to me, and I will take care of adding them. The President's Corner CFA JOURNAL 2004-2005 We are busy trying to prepare our CFA Journal for an early release in 2005. We intend to incorporate the 2004 content with the 2005, for a larger publication to cover both years. We are asking everyone who submitted information for publication in the 2004 Journal to please resubmit. Send your information to Russ Callaway (r.callaway at juno.com). And of course, for anyone with new information that they would like published in the CFA Journal, please submit to Russ also. We have a deadline for submission - March 1, 2005 - so we would appreciate everyone's quick response. WORLD WAR II C/K MEMORIAL REGISTRY
At the CFA board meeting in
Houston, Tx. in June of 2004 it was voted to compile a Registry
of World War II Veterans with the C/K. name. Director Jim Bogan
agreed to head a committee for this purpose and Carole Romano
and Iris Brannon , Directors, agreed also to serve. Personal
information of those who served along with pictures, if
available, are requested. Jim has made up a questionnaire which
we will soon publish in the bulletin and Journal and also it
will be included in our January mailing to all CFA members.
There is a great deal of interest in World War II Memorabilia
and information now and various sites and Memorials are
beginning formed and placed around the United States. There are
now Museums for the Air Force, the Navy and the Marine Corps.
Oaktree Systems, Inc. has
created a database to track and store information to recognize
America's WWII generation. Visitors to the website may search
for the names of Americans who are :
Buried in American Battle
Monuments Commission overseas Military cemeteries.
Memorialized on ABMC
Tablets of the missing.
Listed on official War
and Navy Dept. Killed in Service rosters now in the National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Honored by Public
enrollment in the Registry of Remembrances.
Any US citizen who helped
win the war - whether a veteran or someone on the home front is
eligible. Go to
www.wwiimemorial.com and check out this website.
Watch for the questionnaire
and more information.
Pat Schnurr, CFA President In Memory
The Callaway Family Association is
saddened to learn of the death of Dr. John Tyler Mauldin, Sr. of
Atlanta, Ga. November 9, 2004. John and his wife Anne Scott, who
preceded him in death in 1998, were Charter and Lifetime
Members of CFA. John served many years as CFA Director while
Anne Scott served as the first CFA Secretary for twenty-two
years when they both asked to "step down" from their positions
in 1997.
A Plaque honoring the
Mauldins for their many years of dedication and service to the
CFA was presented at the 2000 CFA meeting at Callaway Gardens,
Ga. and is on display at the Archives Building in LaGrange, Ga.
As John joins Anne Scott,
our prayers go with him. They will be remembered in our
organization and our condolences are extended to the Mauldin
family.
Patricia V. Schnurr
President, CFA
Thank you to Jim Sands who sent us the following article telling us of the passing of Dr. John Mauldin. All of us at CFA send our condolences to the family.
Hi Donna,
I had the privilege of
visiting with Dr. Mauldin and Anne years ago when I first joined
CFA. They were a very "down to earth" couple.
Jim
John Mauldin Sr., 92, surgeon, expert on
aging
Dr. Mauldin, a general surgeon and expert on aging, served with the regiment dubbed the ragtag circus because of the mix of vehicles it commandeered from French villagers to transport troops into Germany. The soldiers moved troops in everything from a fire truck to a cement mixer. One correspondent said the 329th "presented the most unmilitary appearance of any outfit since the Mexican War," according to an article in the Fort Benning newspaper. "I took pictures every time the unit moved and I developed my own pictures. I sent most of them home," Dr. Mauldin recounts on his Web page. He was surprised when his children found a suitcase full of his photographs, letters and clippings about his unit that he did not know his wife had kept. He created a Web page of the mementos; a Fort Benning officer viewed it and the donation of his souvenirs ensued. Selected enlarged photographs will hang in the battalion's headquarters and dining facility. Photography was just one of Dr. Mauldin's lifetime interests, which encompassed leather craft, wood working, skeet shooting, hunting and fishing. At 80, he took up the computer and started teaching others how to use one. "His mind was always active and interested," said his daughter, Elizabeth Harman Mauldin of Atlanta. "He was always exploring new things." The memorial service for Dr. John Tyler Mauldin Sr., 92, who died Tuesday, November 9, 2004, at Lynbrook Square, is 1 p.m. Saturday at North Avenue Presbyterian Church. H.M. Patterson & Son, Spring Hill, is in charge of arrangements. In the 1960s, Dr. Mauldin formed one of Georgia's early HMOs, said his son Dr. John Tyler Mauldin Jr. of LaGrange. "His goal was that the cost of health care should be under the control of physicians, and physicians would hold costs down if they thought they could make a living," his son said. "One innovative thing he did is keep a record of what doctors charged for each surgery. He would notify doctors when their costs were high, and they usually would adjust their costs to stay in line with other physicians." Dr. Mauldin represented Georgia at the first White House Council on Aging and chaired the state commission, said Virginia Smyth of Atlanta, who knew him through her work in mental health. "He was a major influence on aging programs in Georgia," she said. To relax, Dr. Mauldin made cabinets and boxes for his workshop and leather cases to carry his skeet shooting shells. "If he could make it, he wouldn't buy it," said another son, Tom Mauldin of Monticello. As he moved on to other interests, Dr. Mauldin kept up his photography. "At Christmas morning, we all had to wait upstairs until he got all his cameras and stuff set up," Tom Mauldin said. Dr. Mauldin progressed to a digital camera, printing the photographs off his computer. "At Lynbrook, every person got photographed," Mrs. Smyth said, noting that Dr. Mauldin was the self-appointed in-house photographer. Survivors include another daughter, Anne Scott Harvard of Elberton, and two grandchildren. CFA DNA Project Update News on the CFA DNA Project from Russ Callaway -
Cameron Todd Callaway has
volunteered to take over the previous work of Kermit Bridges who
will stay on as advisor. Kermit was responsible for all the U.S.
lines involved in our DNA Project. Cameron was instrumental in the development of the Callaway Family Website in the early years, and we appreciate his willingness to volunteer to help us once again.
If you are interested in
participating in the CFA DNA Project, or have any questions
about it, you may contact me, or Cameron or Bruce at the email
addresses below. We need your support and welcome your
participation. Feedback Corner - The Generous Sharing of Family Information - Past and Present Thank you to Peggy Carey for sending the following newspaper articles that she found while searching for her Callaway ancestors. ~ from Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, California, April 30, 1993 FRIEDA EMMA CALLAWAY Died in Peoria, AZ, April 24, 1993. A native of Herring, SD, aged 77 years. Beloved wife of the late O. Carl Callaway. Loving mother of Cheryl Callaway of Sunnyvale and Michael Callaway of Foundation Valley. Sister of Barbara Schlack of Sacramento. Friends are respectfully invited to attend Funeral Services today, April 30, 1993 at 10 A. M. in The Land Park Chapel of Harry A. Nauman & Son, 4041 Freeport Blvd. Entombment, East Lawn Cemetery. ~ from The Press-Tribune, Roseville, CA, January 1995 Looking Back 63 YEARS AGO The senior class of Roseville High School presented the three act comedy, "Adam and Eva". Members of the cast included Russell Henderson, Louise Flaschman, Melvin Fogle, Edelwiss Garbolini, Betty Morford, Judith Hanlin, Edgar Dunning, Gary Adkins, Roger Calloway, and Stanley Totaro. June O'Hare directed the play.
Donna -- the Rev. Charles
McKendree Callaway is my Gr-Gr-Gr-Uncle - brother to my Great
Grandmother Julia Hawks Callaway. They were the children of
Charles Callaway and Eliza Green.
He was sent to Kansas by
Bishop Meade, of Va. He was out there twice. He came home and
married and moved his family out there When the WBTS was
imminent he returned first to Mo. and then to Va. After the war
he was the Priest at St. John's in Charleston, W. Va.
He resigned in 1876 because
of ill health. By 1880 his family was living in Baltimore. I
have a list of his children.
He is included in an article
I wrote for the Journal a couple of years ago. Also he was
mentioned in one of our recent bulletins.
Pat Schnurr 
schnurr200 at aol.com
His line is Charles, Jr. of
Wilkes Co., N.C.
Capt.
Charles, Sr. of Pittsylvania Co. Va.
William
Callaway of Bedford Co. Va.
Joseph
Callaway of Essex Co. Va.
Thank you to CFA Member, Lavinia J. Koot for sending us the following family announcement. We all send Happy Birthday wishes to Ruth. Donna,
Her Callaway lineage: Thank you to CFA Member, Betty Silvey for sending us the following Civil War Letter written by Dewitt Clinton Callaway. Betty has also sent numerous other photos and documents from this family line.
Dear Donna, Dewitt Clinton was born about 1843 in KY, died during the Civil War, probably at the Vicksburg Campaign June 12 - July 4. He is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Greenfield, IL along with his family. He was in Company D, 32nd Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, Infantry. The letter below may be his last letter written before he died. He was 20 years old. The Vicksburg Campaign was waged from March 29, to July 4, 1863. It included battles in west-central Mississippi at Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill, Big Black River and 47 days of Union siege operations against Confederate forces defending the city of Vicksburg. Located high on the bluffs, Vicksburg was a fortress guarding the Mississippi River. It was known as "The Gibraltar of the Confederacy". It's surrender on July 4, 1863, coupled with the fall of Port Hudson, LA divided the South, and gave the North undisputed control of the Mississippi River. There is a monument located outside of Vicksburg National Park, on Hall's Ferry Road at (north) Illinois Circle midway between Interstate 20 and Confederate Ave dedicated to the 32nd Illinois Infantry. There is also an Illinois State Memorial, dedicated 26 Oct 1906, in which wall tablets identify the names of the 36,325 soldiers from Illinois that served in the Vicksburg Campaign. The Civil War letter below is written by Dewitt Clinton Callaway (s/o John and Sarah Ann Dorsey Callaway and brother to E. H. Callaway). Dewitt was born about 1843 KY, so would have been about 20 years old when writing this letter to Ed, his brother in Greenfield, IL. Picture had note on back verifying the identity of D. C. Callaway Co D 32 Regt Ills Vol Brown UCS written by E. H. Callaway. There is no date on his headstone in Rose Hill Cemetery, Greenfield, IL, so believe he was killed during the war, maybe at Vicksburg. June 18th Camp near Vicksburg 1863
I hope to live through
the impending Battles and to go home and that there will be
peace all over this great Country. Editor's Note - Today as the world
deals with the War on Terrorism, the closing line of this letter
is apropos in our time as well as then. Dewitt Clinton
Callaway's line of descent is as follows: Thank you to Anne Leyden for sending these photos of Fort Boonesborough. Hello, Donna. Attached are five photos which I hope you will
find helpful. #4 shows one of the blockhouses; there was one at
each corner of the enclosure.
Thank you
to Randall (Randy) R. Meals, for sending us his family file. It
has been added to our Joseph Callaway file on RootsWeb. Randy is a
descendant of Susan Callaway. Her line of descent is as follows:
It
seems that I never run into accurate information on my ancestor
By the
way, I have another
Regards, Editor's Note - There is another Callaway/Meals connection in the Joseph line - Isabelle Meals, sister of John Newman Meals, married James Callaway (1806-1847), who was Stephen White Callaway's brother. Thank you to CFA Member, Warwick Kellaway in New Zealand, for providing additional information about the John Callaway House on Coromandel. It was highlighted in last month's newsletter. You can read his article here.
What do Pears that you eat and the C/K Family have in common? Visit CFA Member, Bill Piper's web site and read his very interesting article which tells you all about it.
Dear Donna, We started the USS Callaway Association in 1965 and have had 38 reunions since then. Since we are WWII veterans our group is growing smaller. We have 350 names on our mailing list. Of that number there are 190 guys with the rest of the names coming from other ships, children, widows, sisters and a few with just the name of Callaway. Our next reunion is in Branson, Missouri, Sept. 19-23, 2005 and is being handled by Gatherings Plus, PO Box 1023, Branson West, MO 65737. (417) 338-4048
Every year Nancy Healey of
Garland, Texas publishes an updated version of Callaway Eternal.
This is obituaries from 1945 to the present. It is now 68 pages
long. It is given out at our reunions. From their August 2004 Newsletter - LETTER RECEIVED FROM LEDYARD HALE ABOUT ATTACK ON THE SHIP JAN. 8, 1945 "Next January 8, 2005 will be the 60th anniversary of the Kamikaze attack on the U.S.S. Callaway. I am enclosing a letter that Capt. McNeil wrote to my mother after Jan. 15, 1945. I had been taken off the ship and put on the Royal Netherlands Hospital Ship Maetsukyer. I found an old diary that I had kept from the day the U.S.S. Callaway was commissioned Sept. 11, 1943 to March 9, 1945 when I arrived in San Francisco. In reading over the events of that day it brought back many memories. At the time of the attack I was the Gunner's Mate in charge of the 20 MMs on the flying bridge. I was standing behind the gunner on # 11 20 MM when the Kamikaze hit us. Each 20 MM had a crew of 3. The crews of # 9, # 11, and # 13 all were killed. I was one of two left alive out of the 15 that were on the starboard wing of the flying bridge. I received burns on face, arms, neck and back. I still thank the Lord for sparing me. COPY OF LETTER SENT TO MRS. HALE BY CAPT. DONALD C. MCNEIL
U.S.S. Callaway
My Dear Mrs. Hale, On January 13th he was transferred from this ship to a hospital ship for further transfer to a hospital in the rear area. I hope and pray that you will soon receive news that he is well on his way to recovery. He seemed in very good spirits when I talked with him just before transfer.
We are all very proud of him
on this ship. He is a credit to the ship and to the Coast Guard.
Editor's Note - The history of the USS Callaway appeared in the
March 2003 CFA Newsletter. Thank you to Jeanette Murphy for sending us information on her husband's Callaway ancestors. The information has been added to our Joseph Callaway file on RootsWeb.
Your Sally Callaway is my
Emily Anna Callaway, nickname Sally.. She was born 3 Oct 1843,
MO and died 21 Apr 1917 Tacoma, Pierce, Washington.
Editor's
Note - Sally Callaway's family line of descent is as follows:
Thank you to David Kelway for making us aware of his ancestor, John Kelway, Constable of your Grace's Manor of Rathmore, who served in Ireland. Read the very interesting story of Kilbride and the Three Castles here. ~ Illustration of "Three Castles" from Chapters of Dublin History web site.
Thank you to Judy Gautier for sending us photos from the Peter Callaway line of Rev. Enoch Callaway (1792-1859), and his daughter, Elizabeth Callaway Cheney. They have been added to the CFA Photo Gallery and can be viewed here. Thank you to Don Kellaway for sending us this short bio. Wonder what the customer did with the fleas? The following came from a book "Pioneer Families of
Southern Alberta" (page 97). And thank you to Don Kellaway for sending us a copy of a birth certificate for Alfred Kellaway. The following information was noted on the certificate: The following is from the registration of birth. From the
BMD website I confirmed the husband and wife names and
relationship from their marriage registration of June 1841. "Callaways" in the News 2004 Bancroft Prize Winner
One Vast Winter Count describes the history of native peoples of the American West from prehistory to the 18th century. Bancroft readers chose Calloway's book for its masterful and accessible writing, vast research and broad scope. Colin G. Calloway, received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in England, 1978. He first came to Dartmouth College as a visiting professor in 1990, and became a permanent member of the faculty in 1995. ~ from Western History/Genealogy Department of the Denver Public Library web site Genealogy Funnies
C/K Women - Do you have a female C/K ancestor with a story to tell? Please tell us!
It was built around 1837 by James Poindexter, and is believed to have been designed by him. The house is wood-framed with four chimneys. It originally had a two-story portico. There is a dentil cornice, and a fanlight over the front door, both features customary in Federal houses. James, a merchant and architect was married to Matilda Callaway (Charles, Jr., Charles, William, Joseph Callaway). Their seven children were born here. He died only 16 years later, but his family, including Matilda's Mother, Eliza Green Callaway continued to live in the house. It was sold in 1873. ~ photo from VictoriaVilla.com The following letter from Mary Callaway Faw was sent to her son, Jacob Judson Faw, March 31, 1872. The copy here is as it was written, and submitted in 1977 to CFA by Mary's descendant, Howard Stevens Faw. March 31, 1872 Editor's Note - Mary died four years later in
1876. She was born and died in Ashe Co., NC. Her line of descent
is as follows: Elizabeth Day Callaway Hearn Nehemiah Hearne, the apparent first son of Thomas and Sarah Newbold Hearne was born before about 1715 as he was listed in the 1731 tax list of Somerset County, and one had to be at least 16 years old to be listed. He was married to Betty Day (Elizabeth) Calloway, and he died in Somerset County, Maryland, between 4 March and 7 April 1760. From the land record provided above, we learn that his trade was that of a saddler. He was the father of five known children, all born in Maryland. Elizabeth Day
(Calloway) Hearne’s name is of interest. At one time, only
nobility had the right to have more than one given name. At the
time she was born, this was still the custom (George Washington
had no middle name, nor did Benjamin Franklin and Thomas
Jefferson). Boys were not commonly given middle names until after
the American Revolution; girls much later. So how and why did
Elizabeth Calloway acquire the middle name of Day? Note that she
was referred to only as Elizabeth in her father’s will, but in all
the legal documents, below, after her marriage she was always
referred to as Elizabeth Day or Betty Day Hearne. It has been
speculated by one biographer that Elizabeth Calloway and Elizabeth
Day Hearne were not the same woman; that the former was Nehemiah’s
first wife, and the latter was his second wife. Convenient theory,
except for one fact: William Calloway’s will was dated 1758 in
which he names his daughter Elizabeth; two years before this, in
1756, we have a record (below) where she was first referred to as
Betty Day Hearne.
Editor's Note - The above information and
more about her tragic story can be found on the
Genealogy Pages web site. She was convicted of theft and sent to
prison. Her line of descent is as follows: The Story of Coombe Abbey - An Age of Intrigue
~ illustration of Coombe Abbey southern aspect: mid seventeenth century, drawn and engraved by Daniel King and published in 1656 Genealogy Corner
AND THE
BLOG
GOES ON - Once on the Blog page, just scroll down to find your article
listed in the archives on the left, or use the Search form at the
top. You can
print any article to read later. Who Can Match Maxey Callaway for Mileage? Maxey Callaway (William J., Amasa Cicero, Jesse M. Sr., Job Jr., Job Sr., Edward, John, Peter Callaway) pursued his career for a long run. The Temple Texas Daily Telegram of March 2, 1955, described Maxey as a "spry old railroader who's been with the Santa Fe as long as Temple, Texas has been a town." Read his very interesting biography on the CFA Blog.
Pictured at left is "Mirador", home of Irene Langhorne, "The Gibson Girl". "Money no object? Looking for the ultimate Christmas gift? Forget the Neiman Marcus catalogue with its $12 million Lear jet. Forget Victoria's Secret's $11 million diamond and sapphire-encrusted holiday "fantasy bra." "Look no further than your own backyard for this year's gift extraordinaire." Mirador, one of the most famous properties in Greenwood, Virginia is offered by Jos. T. Samuels Realty for $14.5 million. Built in 1842 and purchased by railroad baron Chiswell Dabney Langhorne in 1893, it was the childhood home of Irene Langhorne, wife of artist Charles Dana Gibson, and her sister, Nancy Langhorne, who married Lord Astor and later assumed his seat in Britain's House of Commons." ~ From readthehook.com, Charlottesville, VA web site, by Rosalind Warfield-Brown, published November 20, 2003, in issue #0246.Editor's Note - Irene Langhorne is the ggg granddaughter of James Callaway of Bedford Co., VA. Her fame and beauty are legendary. Read her fascinating and charming story on the CFA Blog. For those researching US Callaway ancestors, the Archives at RootsWeb have an enormous amount of Callaway data that could be helpful. When you have some time to spend on the internet, review them. You may just find your long lost ancestor. Sussex Co., DE Will of John Hosea, Sr. Many Calloways mentioned. Old City Directories
Boston 1904 City Business
Directory "Callaway" Snippets Letter written by Chesley Callaway to his brother, Micajah Callaway
Kentucky, Ohio County
Dear Brother, My wife enjoys reasonable health her age considered - My Children are considerably scattered some in the Missouri and in Ky - all well when last advised - There are now but five of them - I wish you to answer this as soon as convenient, and inform me whether or not you could testify of the service I rendered my Country under James Bluford and Harry Bluford to the Long Island of Holstin; also under Harry Pauldin or any other. I may or may not need the information. I am not able to say but Congress has passed a law at the present session giving whole pay from 4th March 1831 during life where any soldier served two years and so in proportion and in that term provided they serve 6 months - what are the Details of the law I am not prepared to say or what proof of service has to be made to entitle Veterans of the revolution to receive the benefits. I am not advised the law not having been promulgated. If however, I am writing to a dead Brother I wish to be advised of that fact of some surviving friend - but if living and should need and can get the information named I shall try and pay you a visit this summer - my calculations are that the political news of this and your country are very much the same or at least that portion relating to the Genl Government Jackson and Clay the Tarriff and Internal improvements being almost the all absorbing topics of discussion. I fear that the political sun which has arose since my birth will set before my death. When young I was for my country through life and now old: I am for my country of course for Jackson. Except in conclusion the warmest affections of a Brother heart.
(s) Chesley Callaway Contributed to CFA by Sharon V. Lachenmyer, Union City, California, and originally published in the 1984 CFA Journal.
Editor's Note
- Chesley Callaway's line of descent is as follows: The Brains of the Outfit -
The Mathematics Genealogy
Project Mission "The intent of this project is to compile information about ALL the mathematicians of the world. We earnestly solicit information from all schools who participate in the development of research level mathematics and from all individuals who may know desired information." Over 83,000 mathematicians have been listed in their database to date - included among them are the following:
Duncan Stewart Callaway,
Ph.D., Cornell University, (Dissertation - 2001) ~ from The Mathematics Genealogy Project web site
Texas Ranger - Benjamin Lewis Calloway Born at GA around 1838. ~ from the Online Archive of Terry's Texas Rangers, 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment, 1861-1865 Editor's Note - Benjamin Lewis Callaway's line
of descent is as follows: Query Corner - If you can provide some help and answers, please respond to these queries.
Query # 220 There is a new programme being put out by the BBC called "Who do you think you are" which gave a website with some links. Through this I came across the research you have done. I took on from my grandfather (the last owner of Kelway's Nurseries in Langport) a large amount of research he and his half brother Ian did in the 1930s. Ian lived to 101, and I met him once. I have my own direct link back to Godfrey Kelway, and am trying to find who his parents were to go back further. I also have copies of the old will mentioned in your correspondence of about 1462. I am not able to access the information as I want to make contact with you. Our coat of arms is the one set out somewhere in your research, and our crest is a cock rampant on a twisted bar. I found from the Somerset archives that a de Kelway came over from France, and found in another book that we come from an area just outside Paris, near the River Caille. One of the Kelway women married a Cornishman (Tregonel?), and Launceston church was built in memory of their son who was scalded to death as a baby. His coat of arms and the Kelway coat of arms are carved in the granite all over the tower. The house of Athelhampton also has stained glass windows of the Kelway coat of arms and another Kelway woman married well! Like Elizabeth Kelway. The fear I have is that some of the records were lost in the blitz of Bristol in WW2. I made contact with the Pembrokeshire Kelways, who were an offshoot of the Somerset branch, with the same crest, but on a naval crown, since they were the harbourmasters of Milford Haven etc. It is late at night, and my typing is deteriorating. I hope we can make more contact, and if anyone knows anything about Godfrey, I'd love to know.
Query # 221 I am looking for the parents of John Junior Callaway . He died in Coweta County Ga. in 1966. He was married to Jessie Alford. They had John A, Jack, Mildred, and Louise. They all grew up in the Cove, I think. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks...........Cindy S.
Query # 222 A fine site, for a fine family. But one I seem to be absent from.
Query # 223 Donna, I am just beginning to search the Callaway branch of my family and came across the Callaway Association. How impressive! I have found that my great great Grandmother Sarah Matilda Russell Freeman's parents were William Madison Russell b. 1775 and Martha Callaway. Martha's birth year was listed as 1754. I know that is not possible, since her last child was born in 1835. Sarah Matilda Russell was born in 1825. From Ancestry.com I found that Martha's father is Charles Callaway b. 1749 VA and her mother Judith Early Pate b. 1752. However, I can not confirm that Martha was a daughter of Charles Callaway.
I think Martha Callaway
Russell died in 1841 buried in the Russell cemetery in Bedford,
TN. Her youngest daughter Martha b. 1835 is living with her
sister Lucy Russell Allen in the 1850 census in Bedford.
Can't find anything on
Joel Callaway and his wife Lucy Abston.
Children of Martha
Callaway and William Madison Russell:
James R. b. 1807 GA
Thomas b. 1810 GA
William Madison b. 1812 GA
Mary Deetha b. 1816
GA--married George Whitesell
Lucy Caroline Ward b. 1820
Bedford, TN m. Cyrus Newton Allen in 1841
Joel b. 1823 Bedford b.
1823 Bedford, TN
Sarah Matida b. 1825 b.
Bedford, TN---my Great Great Grandmother. Married Othaniel
Freeman
Charles b. 1826 Bedford
William Allen b. abt 1828
TN
Margaret Ann b. 1830 TN
Martha Freeman b. 1835
--the one living with her sister in 1850 census
I am very
new at genealogy, so any help you could give would be
appreciated. Pat Schnurr responded with some information on this family:
Capt. Charles and Judith
Callaway did not have a daughter named Martha. He had a
daughter Polly (copy of her will is in 1978 Journal). She was
b. in 1779 and died in 1817. In her will (Polly) she mentions
her dau. Martha. In Capt. Charles Will 1827 he leaves a
bequest to his granddaughter Martha. - we have copy of this
will. This was usually done to acknowledge a direct heir. We
have never found any evidence that Polly married. She always
uses the Callaway name. Her brother Charles Callaway, Jr. (My
Gr-Grandfather) was executor of her will. Her dau.
Martha married Abram Clements an attorney. He later sued
Charles, Jr. concerning her share of the estate. Apparently
after Polly died Martha lived with Charles Jr. and his
family. He performed the marriage to Clements in Pittsylvania
Co. Oct. 12, 1829.
Joel Callaway b. 1769,
married Lucy Abston in 1793 moved to Giles Co. Tn. after
1810 one of the older sons of Capt. Charles and Judith
Callaway Joel had a daughter Martha who married William
Madison Russell in Giles Co., Tn. I mention this because of
the Russell in her inquiry.
I have list of Joel's
children - not sure if it is complete. Giles Co. Tn records
are what Sherrill calls the Pits. I tried last year in
Nashville at the Archives again and found very little.
Children are - Jubel E., Martha Ann, Mildred, Mary, Jesse
A.. and William H. She should check our census records.
Joel is in 1810 Census in Bedford Co. Va. He is in Giles Co.
Tn. in 1820, in 1830 he is shown as over 60 and in Lawrence
Co., Tn. Jubel name is handed down from the Early line
(thru Judith) and Jesse from the Abston line (thru Lucy).
William was owner of
Cotton Gin in 1815. A John Caloway married Elizabeth J. Park
in 1814. both in Giles Co., Tn. Not sure who he was. Jubel
E. Callaway had moved from Giles to Lawrence Co, Tn. and is
shown in a court record File Box P-13, Case 1560 Chancery
Court. We have tried over time to fill out this line so
would appreciate her joining CFA, sending in a five gen.
chart, etc. Pat
Editor's Note - I wrote back to Priscilla welcoming her as a new CFA Member, and here is her very nice response: Donna, thank you and Pat for identifying the parents of Martha Callaway--Joel Callaway and Lucy Abston. Martha married William Madison Russell and they had a daughter Sarah Matilda Russell b. 1825 who married Othaniel Freeman b. 1812. Sarah and Othaniel are my great great grandparents. So, Joel Callaway would be my Great Great Great Grandfather.
My grandparents lived in Bedford CO TN in 1850 and then moved
to Marshall Co TN in 1860 and 1870. The Freemans moved on to
Obion CO about 1890. What fun I am having learning about my
family. The Callaway branch is from my mother Lois Freeman
Petersen, born in 1915 in Obion Co Tn. My brother died in
June, and I promised my family that I would research the
family tree. It has led me to Denmark, Germany, England,
Wales, TN, AR, NC, SC, VA, IN, IL, NB, MO, GA, and who else
knows where. I started my search with just the names of my
great grandparents, so I have come a long way.
Thanks again for your help. I know that I could learn so
much from both of you.....
Priscilla Harris
Query # 224 I just typed in Callaway on google and was surprised to see so many hits..... where I'm from there are no other Callaways that I know of, although I know my grandfather Frederick was of English descent and grew up in India ( his father was a colonel/general or something in the British army). If anybody knows of any Australian connections I would love to here from you. Editor's Note - I wrote back to Phil and received this very nice reply: Hi Donna, thanks for the amazingly quick response, it seems that you guys have quite a passion for the family history !
I would love to be added to your mailing list, thanks for
the offer, I will try to get some more info from my
grandparents about their ancestors and will try to get a
family tree of sorts figured out and maybe we can establish a
link to the rest of the family!
Thanks again,
Phil Callaway
Comment # 225 I typed in my family name, to see what came up and I found this web site. I have completed a family tree and if anyone would like to find out any information to see if we are related e-mail me and I will get back to you.
Query
# 226 Hello, I'm a 37 year old husband and father of 4, Derived from Edward and Rachel Callaway, Rachel now deceased. From Sailsbury England and would love to start looking at my past and ancestors.
Query
# 227 I've got a lot of information on the kiwi Kellaways if anyone wants it for their records.
Query
# 228 I am a descendant of Elizabeth Jones Hoy Callaway (she was married to John Hoy before Richard Callaway). And his brother is in the family tree. Another connection to the Callaway family is Sarah Callaway who was married to William Hoy. William Hoy was a Major and established Hoy's station in Madison Co., KY and is documented as an associate of Daniel Boone. Would like any info.
Query
# 229 Great Grandmother was Mattie J Callaway married to William Asbury Mays. He was also married to SAP Callaway. Find history on Callaways amazing. Notorious “Callaways” SIR ROBERT KELWAY Sir Alexander Unton's lease of twenty-one years was unexpired, so Cecily, his wife, who had married Robert Kelway, claimed the tenancy. The particulars included the said demesne, lands, stable next the great gate, tanhouse, dovecote, the fishing in the water of Wenriche (excepting the fishing in the tenure of the miller), all woods, underwoods, mines, quarries, and other royalties at a yearly rent of £13 10s. 8d., the Queen to keep the house in repair and the lessee to have sufficient firebote, housebote and heybote (wood for firing, house repairs and fencing). In 1560 Sir Robert Kelway, now Surveyor of the Courts of Ward and Liveries, bought the Manor for E691. When Sir Robert died in 1583 his estates passed to his daughter Anne, wife of Sir John Harington, who was a godson of Queen Elizabeth I. Sir John was a wit, writer, 'saucy poet' and, when he was not out of favour with the Queen, was prominent at court. He invented the first flush toilet and wrote a book called Metamorphosis of Ajax. Ajax was a pun on 'a jakes' which in Elizabethan times was the name for a privy. His daughter, Lucy, married Edward, Earl of Bedford. Editor's Note - The above excerpt and more about Sir Robert and his family's role in history can be found on the Oxfordshire, Heart of England web site. History Corner
TERRAPIN DOGS I once trained a collie dog to hunt rattlesnakes and his nose never fooled him. Later I found that my nose was as good at finding the reptiles as was Spud's, the Collie. But I have never known of dogs trained to catch terrapin - and hold them with a paw until the master came and picked them up until I visited Plash's Store on Bon Secour River some two years ago. Dealing in Redfish, Shrimp, Oysters and Terrapin, Mr. V. Plash has built up a comfortable business and is was with the greatest delight that I accepted an invitation to go terrapin hunting with one of the hunters who had three well trained terrapin dogs. Just mongrels - they looked like any ordinary cur dog whose ancestors might have been Fiest, Dauchund, Bull, Collie, Shepherd, Scottie, Police dog or maybe Presbyterian. But they were valuable dogs. You shall see. Ed Callaway, terrapin hunter and successful, led me on one of the strange hunts. We wore hip boots, waded in the tall grass after the dogs and almost immediately the dogs began to bay. When we came up to them they each held a terrapin under their paw. Ed informed me that it was quite simple. Terrapin are particularly inquisitive. When a noise is near one he starts right away to investigate. The dog sees or smells him and simply gets behind him and rims him down with his paw until the master comes along and scoops him up, dumping him into a sack. A nice size terrapin weighs three pounds. Ed sells them to Mr. Plash for fifty cents a pound. Sometimes Mr. Plash gets as much as $1.25 a pound in New York, but he has to defray shipping expenses, stand for a probable loss enroute and many times keep them for months in the "crawl" because the market is not stable. Well, we caught sixty-two before the morning hunt was over. Morning is the feeding time of terrapins hence mid-day and afternoon is not good. But we went on another kind of hunt also. In boats. One takes an oar, raps on the side of the boat, the terrapin swims to the top to see what the noise is about and the hunter scoops him up with a net. This method is not so profitable however because the greater number of terrapins feed in the marshes where one has to wade. Hence the dog. The dogs are taken care of too. They are really valuable to the terrapin hunters.
~ Excerpts of the printed interview, Library of Congress,
Manuscripts Division, WPA American Life Histories, Federal
Writer's Project, 1936-1940. Illustration of Diamondback Terrapin from Graduate College of Maritime Studies, University of Delaware. Editor's Note - Can anyone identify Ed Callaway, the terrapin hunter? He is a "Mystery Callaway". In Closing Visit The Callaway Family Association web site. It has much to offer. Would you like to . . .
The First Christmas Card -
The World's first Christmas card was designed by J. C. Horsley in 1843 from an idea supplied by Henry Cole. One thousand copies were lithographed and sold at Felix Summerly's Home Treasury Office in Old Bond Street, London, for one shilling each. Cole's card is about the size of an ordinary postcard. Trellis work and garlands of ivy create a rustic frame for a kind of triptych. The oblong side-pieces depict the charitable acts of clothing the naked and feeding the hungry, whilst the middle part shows a happy family gathering, drinking a toast to Christmas and the New Year, inviting us to join in. Good works and good eating and drinking, the two elements of Victorian Christmas, make their appearance together, as it should be, on this first card. ~ from www.scrapalbum.com America's Christmas Tree -
The General Grant was designated "The Nation's Christmas Tree" on April 28, 1926. Special Yuletide celebrations are held under its snow-laden branches every year on the second Sunday in December in Grant Grove, Kings Canyon National Park, Sanger, CA. Charter buses transport you from the Sanger California Chamber of Commerce at 1348 Church Street. For more information about this event call (209) 875-4575.
A Seasonal Tale -
My maternal grandparents were
Charles Kelway-Bamber (1867-1945) and Amelia Rose (nee Jones)
(1870-1961).
At the time of this event (the early
1920s) they lived in a very pleasant farmhouse outside the
ancient town of Crawley in Sussex. The household comprised my
grandparents, their two sons and six daughters, a maidservant
and a chauffeur.
One Christmas the maid was presented
with the customary gift of a new starched cap (black with white
trimmings including long lace streamers) and apron. She curtsied
prettily (of course) - and went off to prepare the Christmas
Dinner.
In due course the family sat down at
the festive board, and my grandmother rang for the turkey to be
brought in. Nothing happened. She rang again - still no
response. A couple of the my mother's sisters were dispatched to the kitchen to
see what was happening.
They found everything in good order
- the Christmas bird, vegetables and so on all dished up and
ready for the table - but no sign of the maid.
So the girls brought it all to the
Dining Room - Grace was said - and my grandfather stood up to
carve the turkey.
(PS The maid - God bless her - was never seen again! Perhaps she went into politics?!) ". Editor's Note - This delightful tale comes to us from Brian Kelway Willoughby. Thank you Brian for giving us all a good dose of Holiday Cheer! And lest we get too bogged down in our "Genealogy Cobwebs", this comes to us from Bruce Callaway, reminding us that it's supposed to be fun: Overheard: "She's always late. Her ancestors arrived on the 'JuneFlower' !
And As Always, Find a Way to . . . Let Your “Callaway” Voice Be Heard!
Until next time, * ~ From the preface of The "Visitations of the County of Somerset in the years 1531 et seq" by Frederic William Weaver M.A. Oxon. (1885), translated from the Latin. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - Copyright © 2004 Callaway Family Association |
Harpers Ferry
National Historical
Park is located at the confluence of the
Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in the states of West Virginia,
Virginia, and Maryland.
Forgotten
photographs, 400 of them, shot by Dr. John Mauldin, Sr., during
World War II now inform the reactivated 329th Infantry Regiment
at Fort Benning of its heritage.
Congratulations
to CFA President, Pat Schnurr for identifying the
"Mystery Callaway", Rev. Charles M. Callaway who was the subject of
the "History Corner" in
RUTH ELIZABETH CALLAWAY, Mrs. Denton of
Oklahoma, will be celebrating her 80th birthday on December
15th. She will be celebrating with her family and friends of
her church in her home town. One of her daughters is a member of
CFA, Mrs. Lavinia J. Koot of Palo Cedro, CA. Ruth Elizabeth
Callaway was born in 1924 in the state of Texas. Her parents
were George Dickerson Calloway, Jr. and Waneta Irene
Weatherford.
Dear Brother
The winner of the
2004 Caroline Bancroft History Prize is Colin G. Calloway's book,
One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis
and Clark. Calloway is professor of
history, Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies, and
chair of the Native American Studies program at Dartmouth
College. 
"Morea," is located on 20 acres at 42
Franklin Place at the southern end of Chatham, Pittsylvania Co.,
VA. 
"The property,
less that which was leased to Sir William Raynsford who took up
his twenty one years reversion, was now leased to Robert Kelway,
Surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries, for forty years at an
annual rent of £196 8s 1d. It must have been during this period
that the major part of the monastic buildings was demolished. In
1578 Sir William Raynsford's lease expired and the whole of the
estate was leased to Kelway. In 1581 Kelway died, leaving the
estate to his daughter Elizabeth, then aged thirty and married to
Sir John Harington of Exton in Rutland. Harington managed to have
the lease, which should have expired in 1597, extended for a
further nine years." The above and more information on the interesting story of Robert Kelway's
daughter, Elizabeth and her close connection to Coombe Abbey and
the King of England can be found on the
