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THE CALLAWAY FAMILY ASSOCIATION Volume XII No. 12
Always regard
with esteem the name you were given; The Editor's Corner I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas Merry Christmas Everyone !
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/Kellaway" 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.
In Memory
We are very sorry to learn of the passing of Ivan
Charles Kellaway. Our condolences go to his wife
Norma and all of their family.
I would like
to thank Mary Giera for sharing some fashion from her Callaway
ancestors.
U. S. Joseph Callaway Line I would like to thank Gene Lierheimer for sharing the two following obituaries with us.
Services will be 10:30 A.M. Friday at First Lutheran Church in South Sioux City with the Rev. Jerry Gilbreath officiating. Following the service there will a lunch and gathering with the family in the church fellowship hall. Visitation at the church will be from 5 to 8 P.M. Thursday with the Prayer Service at7:00 P.M. Becker – Hunt Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Peggy was born June 13, 1932,
in Fremont, Nebraska the daughter of John ~ published on KSCJ Talk Radio 1360 web site: http://www.kscj.com/ Editor's Note - Peggy's line of descent is as follows: Helen F. RobertsonAugust 18, 1917 - May 27, 2010 East Moline, Illinois
Services are 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Celebration of Life Chapel at Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Moline, with Reverend Jerry Helms officiating. Visitation is one hour prior to services. Burial is in Greenview Memorial Gardens, East Moline. Memorials may be made to Hope Creek Care Center or Cornerstone Christian Fellowship. Helen Frances Callaway was born August 18, 1917, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the daughter of Charles Kenneth and Laura (Pruitt) Callaway. She married Leonard Robertson on December 26, 1940, in Moline. He died in 1967. She was a member of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship, Moline. Helen is survived by grandchildren and their spouses, Kelly and David Walters of Bettendorf, Iowa, Laura and Dana Martin of East Moline, and Terri Phillips of Moline; great-grandchildren, Allison Walters, Jessica Martin, Amanda Rodriguez, Daniel Walters, Joshua Martin, and Brittnie Phillips; and great-great-grandchildren, Lilian and Triton. She was preceded in death by her husband, a son, Gary Robertson, a daughter, Patricia Hannah, a sister, Barbara Spees, and brothers, Gerald and Stanley Callaway. The family invites you to share stories and condolences and light a candle in Helen’s memory at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com. ~ from the Trimble Funeral Home, Moline Illinois web site Editor's Note
- Helen's line of descent is as follows: U. S. Peter Callaway Line I would like to thank Sam Geer for sharing this obituary with us.
DUNCAN, OK — Jerry Don Callaway ~ from the Duncan Banner, Duncan, Oklahoma, October 28, 2011
Editor's
Note - I would like to thank CFA
Member, Gene Callaway for sharing this letter from his
family collection. It's from Stephen Gallatin Callaway
to his brother Cicero Marion Callaway. Stephen had gone
west during the Gold Rush. Salt Lake Vally California Dear Brother, I send you one letter the same date of
the 2d. Those lines leave me enjoying reasonable health
and Allison also. I hope they may find you all enjoying the same
blessings. I am a living in the vally of the great salt
lake, with the Mormons. They are a strange people, with
pages to their doctrin and religion &c. They have
prophetts, deserners of spirits, men that speak in
un-none tongues and profets to heal the sick, by the
laying on of the hands &c. I saw a cupple of the Mormon
preachers dance the other night at a wedding, the next
morning which was the sabbath morning, I went to church.
I heared one of the same men preach. Their preachers
curz & swere as much as an infidel. This vally is well adapted to the groath of small
grain. There is no country that can beat it for wheats.
I know a cuple of men that planted one bushel of wheat
(each of them) one of them gathered 65 B. the other 75
B. to one bushel of wheat. The season is rather two short here for our states
corne, it will not mature. The kind of corne they raise
here is the six weeks corne, or a kind simular to it the
people got it of the Mexicans. They have to water their crops here, or they cant
make any thing, for it never raines here during the
summer, or not enough to do any good, the great salt
lake is quite a curiosity, you may go into it a swiming
and you cant sink. It is impossible to sink. The water
is as cleare as cristal. The water boiled down makes as
pretty fine white salt as you ever saw. You can get a
plenty of salt off of the bottom with a spade or shovel,
in its natuhural state, but it is very course. Provisions are very high here, wheat is worth $5per
bushel, corne $2 per bushel, beef 6 to 8 cents per #,
bacon 10 to 15 cents per # Irish potatoes $10 to $12 per
bushel, coffee 25 cents to 30 cents per #, sweet
potatoes cannot be raised here, the climate is too short
for them. All kinds off produce is very high here. I
will give you a description . We traveled over from
Independence Mo. to the Salt Lake Vally, the land from
Independence to Cansas River is a fine rich prairie
country. It breakes off then a poore sandy country and
mountaineous destitute of timber, except some scattering
cotton wood on the rivers and creeks. In fact the whole
country west of Mo. is destitute of timber except some
few pines and cedares on the mountaines. There is no
part of the country that I saw since I left Independence
Mo. that is fit for a white man to live on. It is fit
for nothing else but Indians and the wilde beast of the
forest to live in. Cotton cannot be raised to do any good here in this
vally. There was a great deal of sickness on the road from
Independence to the south pass which is about 1400
miles. In traveling this distance we scersly traveled a
day without seeing more or less graves on the road side.
Especially when we struck the plat river vally, it
looked almost like a grave yard. The colria and
diarrhear and desintery were the prevailing diseases
that we suffered the most with. There were but 2 or 3 of
our company that escaped sickness. I was taken sick the 1st of July and was confined to
my waggan about 20 days. Hillary was taken sick the 2 or
3 day of July, and died on the 6 day of July, about
eleven o clock PM. 6 of our company died. Theire names are as follows:
L. Hoopper, A. Parks, a negroe belong to Mr. Townes, J.
Mastan, Brother Hillary and D. Bramblett. I must come to a close by a request to you to pray
that if we never meet on earth face to face, that we may
meet in Heaven around the throane of the Eternal to part
no more. May the Lord Bless us and ultimatly save us all
in heaven, is the prayer of your brother. Stephen G. Callaway Editor's Note - Stephen did not
stay long in the Gold Fields. By 1858 he had returned to
his home in Mississippi and gotten married. Stephen G.
Callaway's line of descent is as follows: Other C/K Lines
Help ! The Ancestors Came From England - by Lesley Haigh Part 2 THE ENGLISH CENSUS There were some earlier rudimentary census but the first census of value to a genealogist was in 1841. The Census forms were distributed to all households a couple of days before census night and the completed forms were collected the following day. All forms were meant to accurately reflect each individual's status as of 6 June 1841 and detail in which Household each person spent that night. All of the details from the individual forms were later sorted and copied into The Census Books, which are the original records you can view today. Most people would have needed help to complete their form as very few ordinary working people could read or write. Each household was listed with Address, Name, Age, (in two columns for Male Female) Occupation, Born in County (Y/N), Remarks (I=born in Ireland S=born in Scotland F=born in foreign parts). Each house was separated by two oblique lines \\ to the left of the name. Each household was separated by a single oblique line \. No relationship is given between the household members so although it is normally Father, Mother, Children etc you cannot be certain of this. Adults over 15 years had ages rounded down to the nearest 5 years. Children’s ages were given exactly. The rounding down of ages did not always actually happen in the census books. The 1841 census represents a significant increase in information available but it can be so frustrating to find the only time an ancestor appears in a census is in 1841 and he/she was “Not born in County”. The subsequent census were on: 30 March 1851 07 April 1861 02 April 1871 03 April 1881 05 April 1891 These are much more informative. Each household is listed with Schedule Number, Address, Name, Relation to Head of Household, (includes servants, lodgers and visitors), Condition (Single, Married, Widow, Widower), Age, Sex, Occupation, Place of Birth, Remarks (Blind, Deaf and Dumb. Later the terms Imbecile and Lunatic were added). So where can you get copies? All the census images are held at the National Records Office at Kew, London. County Record Offices have the local census records too. That is not very helpful if you live abroad. You may be lucky and find a transcription of your area of interest already on-line. It is worth trying GENUKI www.genuki.org.uk/ to see if there is a transcription for the town or parish you want. Some areas are well provided with useful information others have very little. You can also try looking up the County Family History Society to see if they have transcriptions available to purchase. All the above census are available via subscription to Ancestry.com for an annual fee, this enables you to see the original image too, which is always an advantage. The LDS Church has produced the 1881 census transcription on CD. The 1901 Census was on 30 March 1901 and gave substantially the same information as those from 1851-1891. Road, Street, Town or Village, number or name of house, whether the house is inhabited or not, Name and surname of each person, Relation to Head of Family, Condition as to marriage, Age last birthday, Profession or occupation, Worker, Employer or Own Account, Where born, Whether deaf and dumb, blind, lunatic, imbecile. It has been published on line by the National Records Office. You can search for free but you have to buy credits which you use to purchase downloads of transcriptions of households or original images. You can find it at www.1901censusonline.com/ . The 1901 census is also available from Ancestry.com. The 1911 Census, 02 April 1911, was the first one where people really filled in their own forms so you have a good chance of seeing the person’s handwriting. Much more information was included. Women were asked how many living children they had and how many live births they had had. Families were asked how many rooms their house had. This census is also available on line again with a free search but credits are needed for downloads of transcripts or images. www.1911census.co.uk/ . This census is also available from Find My Past which requires credits for downloads. No other census will be released until 100 years after the date so there is a long wait until 1921 is available. So that is what is available, so what are the problems? 1) There were many errors made. Some people gave a different place of birth on every census! Forms were copied to the census books giving rise to the possibility of more errors. 2) The modern transcriptions are often not good; done by people who do not know the area or the local names and cannot read the sometimes dreadful handwriting. This applies equally to the searchable indexes. You can miss an ancestor because it is wrongly indexed. 3) The census was often done by the census taker who wrote names he heard phonetically. Most people could not read or write so a different spelling would not be detected if someone moved area i.e. Kellaway to Callaway or Kelloway etc. Accents were strong and local so if someone moved, an accent could cause a spelling change. 4) The census taker might speak to a wife or child when he called and get muddled relationships and inaccurate information. 5) Terms like Son-in-Law once could mean Step-Son. 6) People lied; particularly about age. A husband with a younger wife just might take off a few years and vice versa. People claimed they were married when they were not etc. So be prepared to check all possible census years to compare information, be prepared to search through whole towns and villages of original images, be flexible with spellings and be careful.
GOOD
LUCK! 
les.haigh at btinternet.comEditor's Note - Speaking of census records - if I have my information correct, the 1940 US Census records will become available next year. I believe they become available 72 years after they were taken. If I am wrong, please let me know so I can correct.
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Query # 578 James D. Calaway was a Physician. James B Calaway married Mattie Boyes
in Mills Co. Texas. James B died between 1913-1919 in TX.
I may be confused but I think it was on the job.
If you have anymore questions please let me know.
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Current News
This is to inform you of Ivan Charles Kellaway's death. He passed
away peacefully after dinner on 28th July 2011 at 7:30 P.M.
Ivan is from the line of Charles Kelway [later] Kellaway B 1805 D 9.12 1875.
Married twice: 1st June 1826 in Phillack to Grace Chinn. They had 6 Children.
2nd 7 June 1837 in Helston to Margaret Mary [Peg] Richards. They had 8
children. Ivan comes from this line.
Ivan Charles Kellaway B 20 May 1929 in Auburn Sydney Australia, died 28 July
2011 in Cleveland, Queensland, Australia.
Married in 1954 in St. Stephen, Macquarie, St. Sydney to Norma Jean Mackenzie.
This year 2011 was their 57th anniversary. They had 2 children; Ross Ivan and Murray Charles.
Ivan was 83 yrs old when he died.
Ivan was a wonderful man, a policeman, great swimmer and tennis player.
Peggy Ann (Callaway) Ott, 79, of
South Sioux City passed away Monday, September 19, 2011 at a
South Sioux City Care Center.
Helen
Robertson, 92, of East Moline, Illinois, died Thursday, May 27,
2010, in Hope Creek Care Center, East Moline.
Mr.
Jerry Don Callaway, 72, of Griffin, Ga., formerly of Duncan,
passed away Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, at Spalding Regional
Medical Center.
Mildred Huckaby Calloway, age 82, of Pine Bluff, died
Saturday, October 29, 2011. 
