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Author: ipsofacto3
Surnames: Calloway, Bonham, Looker, Goble
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Jeanne and Liz...
Just to add a bit more to the Jesse Calloway branch...
Jesse had another son, William (Born in Dearborn County, Indiana 26 Jan 1812 Died after
1881 somewhere around Harrison, Ohio.
Harrison sits on the Ohio-Indiana line about 15 miles from Cincinnati. There is a lot of
lumping together of places in the "Greater Harrison" area, so sometimes
you'll see Ohio and sometimes Indiana, and sometimes just Whitewater in reference to
the Whitewater River and lands around it. The Calloway family seems to have settled first
in the Elizabethtown, Ohio area and then traveled 2 or 3 miles Northwest to along the
Whitewater River in the area that straddles the 2 states.
There is a small cemetery in Elizabethtown where some of the Calloways are buried. There
is another small cemetery near Harrison (behind the Sr. Center) where Mary Charlotte
Bonham Calloway and some of her children are buried.
And then there is question of where is Jesse buried. There is documentation that there is
a small family cemetery that belonged to the Bonham family, Sand Run Cemetery, Whitewater
Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, and there are indications that Jesse is/was buried there.
Unfortunately, it appears after going to this area for the last 4 years and looking for
this cemetery that the current residents built homes over the graves without doing the
state mandated archelogical surveys. (If Jesse is buried there, this would not be a
suprise since Mary Charlotte's father, John Bonham was also a Revolutionary War
Vet...And there are stong connections between several families in the area who came from
New Jersey-Delaware after serving in the war.)
William married Mary Charlotte Bonham on 18 Oct 1841. (Mary's G-G-G-G-G-Grandfather
was Samuel Fuller, one of the passengers on the Mayflower.)
William and Mary had 9 children:
Emma Calloway (Born 1851)
William E. Calloway (Born 1855)
Charles Albert Calloway (Born 1857. Married Cornelia ?? and they had a daughter, Pearl)
Katura "Kitty" H. Calloway (Born Feb 1860. Married Charles Arnold and had 6
children. She is buried in a very small cemetery in Elizabethtown, Ohio--less than 5 miles
from Harrison, Ohio)
George B. Calloway (Born 1862)
Anna Calloway (Born 1868)
Bonham Calloway (Born 1870)
And, Jane "Jennie" M. Calloway, my Great-Great Grandmother.
Jennie was born in 1848 in Elizabethtown, Ohio. She married Francis M. Goble, Sr. on Nov.
14, 1871 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Francis was the Great-Great Grandson of Ohio's 5th
Governor, Othniel Looker, who was also the only Governor to have fought in the
Revolutionary War.)
Francis "Frank" and Jennie had 7 children, and Jennie died April 2, 1898 and is
buried in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.
I do have more information about Jennie Calloway-Goble...I can also tell you that even
though this is listed in the local history of Hamilton County, I have some doubts about
some of the claims. And, unfortunately, alot of this will go unresolved because of the
court house fire in Cinncy and because of the destruction of the small family cemeteries
in and around Harrison.
History of Hamilton County Ohio
CHAPTER XX CIVIL LIST OF HAMILTON COUNTY
Annie B. Calloway, of Delhi, is of English parentage, and is the wife of Thomas B.
Calloway, of that place. Her great-grandfather, Thomas Bowles, of Cranbrook, Kent,
England, married Sarah Boorman. Their daughter, Sarah, married the well known Robert
Colgate, father of the noted soap manufacturers of New York. They came to that city in
1800. Thomas Bowles, her grandfather, married Anna Shirley. They had eight children, and
he died June 3, 1800. His youngest son, Robert Bowles, father of Annie B. Calloway, was
born at Eldorado, Kent, England, June 1, 1792; married Mercy Boots, of the same place,
November 30, 1816; came to America in 1822, and located on a farm near Harrison, Hamilton
county, Ohio, and was the first English settler in Crosby township. January 24, 1837, his
wife died, and he married Mrs. Anna Clough, of London, England, daughter of Samuel Pegg.
By the first wife he had one son, Robert, now living in Indiana; and by the second Wife
two sons: Samuel and John, and!
one daughter, Annie. Thomas B. Calloway married Annie A. Bowles, January 31, 1866. His
grandfather, Jesse Calloway, and wife came from Delaware in 1818, and located in Dearborn
county, Indiana. They had four sons and one daughter. William, the father, was born
January 26, 1812; married his second wife, Mary Charlotte Bonham, October 18, 1841. He is
still living. The Bond family are traceable to the emigration of William Penn. One Samuel
Bond was born November 19, 1722; his son, Joseph, born April 11, 1750, married Eleanor
Williams; and their son, Samuel, born November 19, 1777, in Chester county, Pennsylvania,
moved west May 10, 1810, landed at the mouth of Farmers' creek, near Lawrenceburgh,
Indiana. In 1812 he moved to Whitewater, near Eliza-bethtown; died June 12, 1837. They had
seven children, all dead except Eleanor, who was born in Virginia in 1808. The third
child, Jane, was the only one of the family who married. She was born April 8, 1818;
married William Calloway!
September 7, 1837; died February 12, 1844, leaving one child, Thomas
B. Calloway.
Seeing your posts does make one step back and smile at how small a world it is!
Thanks!
Susan Deister
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