I don't know if we have any Newenham lines on this list but thought I would send my
notes on this couple -- Shadrack Newenham and Nancy Callison. Nancy is one of our people
with unknown parents. These are the facts in case anyone finds any dots to connect them
all.
Shadrack was from Pennsylvania but listed in Bath Co., VA tax records for 1801 and 1802
for sure. I was not specifically looking for him so it's possible that he was there
other years but I did an overview of the years before and after and did not find him. We
know that he ended up in Ross Co area of Ohio but I don't know if he was living in
Gallia Co after Ohio. In 1806 Gallia Co., he married Nancy Callison. Was he living there
or just went there to marry her.
In 1801/1802 Bath Co., VA -- John Callison Jr., Alexander and Elizabeth Callison Morrison
were all living there. John Callison Sr. was in Greenbrier Co., VA and William Callison
was in Washington Co., OH (later to be Gallia Co. OH). John Callison Jr. had married in
1789
Do any Newenham researchers have Shadrack listed in a tax record previous to 1801.
In 1806 Gallia Co., Ohio, William Callison was living there and James Callison and Nancy
Callison were both married in 1806 by the same minister.
The only census record that we have for Nancy is the 1850 census stating that she was 61
years old and born in Virginia. The 1855 Illinois census has the female of the household
born 1785-1795.
Many/Most
Newenham researchers believe that Nancy is the illigitimate daughter of John Callison who
married Elizabeth Cutlip in 1791. Could be but no positive vibes on my part for this. We
know that Elizabeth had an illigitimate CHILD but don't know the sex of the child but
this child was born a little earlier than Nancy
COURT OF WEDNESDAY 22 NOV 1786: . . . The following persons presented for having base born
children: Elizabeth CUTLIP, Magdalene CUTLIP" p. 46.
Stinson, Helen S. (transcriber). GREENBRIER CO., W.VA. COURT ORDERS: 1780-1850. Moorpark,
CA: Author (11521 Poppyglen Court), 1988
One child of Shadrack and Nancy was John. In 1833, Clark County, Ohio, he married Ann
ELLIOTT, the granddaughter of John Callison Jr. and the couple appears to be living in
Clark Co., in 1834
Estate sale of the goods and chattels of William AGER, deceased. Two of the people listed
were Thomas ELLIOTT and John NEWINGHAM. October 21, 1834 Clark County, Ohio
Shadrack, Nancy and their family moved to Brown Co., ILLINOIS about 1835. I have no clue
why they moved there but that is where John and Martha Elliott Newenham lived the rest of
their lives. I don't know when John moved to Clark Co but his father was in PIke Co.
OH at the time of John's marriage. How did John and Martha meet? or did they know each
other all their lives because they were cousins? So that is a Nancy Callison/John Callison
Sr. Connection through Martha Elliott.
BUT there is also a Nancy Callison/William Calliso
n connection.
John will have to fill us in on the particulars since I lost all of my online notes
<sigh> But it involves another child of Shadrack and Nancy Callison Newenham --
Absolom, I think, was a member of the Callison wagon train (line from William Callison,
brother of John Sr.) so some knowledge of each other could be presumed pretty accurately.
John, please fill us in on this connection.
So was Nancy Callison a daughter of John Jr and Jane McClure, an illigitimate daughter of
Elizabeth Cutlip Callison, a daughter of John Sr. (would have been born in the same time
period of his grandchildren) or a daughter of William and Agnes Callison?
I am not sure when the family line from William went to Illinois but if previous to 1835
-- that may have been a reason for Shadrack and Nancy to go there also. I think that both
families had a connection to Schuyler County. This couple used the names Absolom and also
Joel (name of another grandson of William) and the Callison trilogy (William, James and
John) along with Charles and Lorenzo. No Gillespie noted <smile>
Also keep in mind that in Pike Co., Ohio there were 3 other Callison lines -- Alexander,
Moses and Nancy Callison Boiler. and an apparent family group of Samuel, Margaret and
Elizabeth connected to a widowed female Callison. Don't get me started on my
suppositions on this family group. <smile> Might cause some computers to self
destruct. Let 's just say that if I could find some descendants of a Samuel Cal
lison living in Kosciusko Co., IN in 1850 for DNA testing IT MIGHT PROVE INTERESTING.
Take care all. Marilyn