I HAVE FOUND ABOUT 20 SPELLINGS OF THE NAME CALLISON WHICH MAKES RESEARCH
INTERESTING TO SAY THE LEAST.
In a message dated 1/20/2010 1:24:13 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
gneolog(a)aol.com writes:
The CALLISON name has been spelled in various ways throughout the years.
It was originally CALLISON in Virginia but the lines that went to various
counties of Ohio, used the COLLISON spelling eventually converting back to
CALLISON even though pronounced COLLISON. The lines that went to Kentucky are
often found as KELLISON or KELLERSON. Care has been taken to look for all
alternate spellings and to differentiate descendants of the KELLISON family
of early Virginia from the CALLISON family of the same time and location.
John is presumed to be the father of John who married Jane McCLURE His
father James' will was probated in 1789 Augusta County, Virginia. We have no
information on James and Isabella's son, John, except that he had a
daughter Isabelle mentioned in James' will. This John is presumed to be the
father of John who married Jane McCLURE because:
1) John or William are the only sons of James and Isabella old enough to
have a child in 1769 and William had none listed with him in 1787 who would
have been born 1766-1771.
2) John #1 had male born 1766-1771 in 1787 tax record and John who went to
Ohio is known to have been born in 1769. There were 2 males listed. The
other is possibly James who died in 1828 Greenbrier County, Virginia.
3) There was a John and John Jr. who paid tax 1789 Greenbrier County,
Virginia where John CALLISON and Jane McCLURE were married in 1789
4) There was a John Jr. and John Sr. who paid tax 1805-1808 Bath County,
Virginia
5) Other grandchildren of James and Isabella also went to Clark County,
Ohio (children of Richard and Jane CALLISON MORRIS) in the same time period
and lived adjacent to John and Jane McCLURE CALLISON.
6) 10-9-1811 Bath County, Virginia Deed book 5 page 430 John CALLISON "of
Champaign Co., Ohio" verifies Bath County, Virginia John is Ohio John
The wife of John is unknown but I suspect that her name may have been
Elizabeth -- the name of John Jr.'s first daughter and also the name of the
sister of James who died in 1828 that Is presumed (by me) to be the son of
John Sr.
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