I checked some info for one of our list members and thought I would put
the response up for all.
She was trying to link modern day (after 1900) Callaways to those 1-2
hundred years before in the south. She said her folks had been in Ky.
Mich, Indiana. If they came thru Va./N.C. I wanted to pass the only
info I found in the Grayson, Ashe and Alleghany Counties Hertitage
Books.
From the ASHE Book:
Before the Rev.War, Thomas Calloway (1700-1800 approx.)
moved his family to Ashe, NC. He was a Capt of the Colonial Troops in
the French and Indian War. on the New River between Beaver and Obid's
Creeks. Daniel Boone had a hunting lodge supposedly nearby. In 1780,
Boone gave Calloway a gift of a stone. Calloway was about 80 and Boone
about 46. Calloway had this stone used as a Tombstone. It still stands
at the old Calloway Cemetery at Highway 163 near the New River Bridge
in Ashe County, NC. Calloway did try to volunteer for the Kings
Mountain Rev War battle but was deemed too old.
Has anyone documented this cemetery and does anyone have a list of his
relatives? The naming pattern we look for is: Richard, Neal, Ann, Ruth,
Glenn, Flora and David Ettabelle. Also, any lore of a cherokee wife or
mother?
Thanks
Carole in NY City
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