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Author: sdeister
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Liz...
I wouldn't rule it out that they could be buried around the Whitewater River, but I
will add that it has been difficult to track to where the Calloway graves are, and yet
they all are about a mile from each other in a triangular pattern...(Make sure that you
get a good Hamilton County Map! Most of these roads are well off the beaten path!)
Sadly, the State Library of Ohio use to have books that had info about cemeteries in
Hamilton County--I do have a copy of this on CD...This was a great help since many of the
headstones are gone, (as is the case for Mary Charlotte Calloway and Bonham Calloway) or
as in the case of Sand Creek Cemetery, from the directions documented, it's pretty
certain that it's under a house! There seems to have been a real rash of building in
and around Harrison over the last 20 years and many of these small family cemeteries are
just gone! (I know that one that's saddened a lot of people is that there's no
doubt that Pamela Clark Looker's grave was intentionally bulldozed and is now where a
house sits! Her uncle was Abraham Clark and her husband was Othniel Looker...) I'd be
more than happy to burn you a copy of the cd as it will help you track down other
relatives that you might have who may have settled in the area!
And, it's interesting that you mention that you grew up in Dayton! My mother's
family ended up in Dayton after "roaming" the Ohio - Indiana border...(And I
finished my Master's degree in American and Public History at Wright State.)
A side note....From doing a lot of historian's tricks of the trade, I've unearthed
a lot of things about the early settlement of Hamilton, Preble and Butler Counties in Ohio
and then Franklin, Dearborn and Jay Counties in Indiana...Contrary to what one well known
historian said during a talk given for Ohio's Bicentennial, this southern corner of
the state has turned out to be the most radical and liberal area of the state and held
that title until World War I...
Perhaps the most interesting is how intertwine many of these families were from the late
1600s when most left England (and most were from the area around Kent), until the
Revolutionary War, (most were from areas along the Delaware River in NJ, PA and a few from
Delaware--most seem to have one ancester that fought in the war and was in the same
battle/battles as the others.) and then up through the Civil War (the roosters of those
related to the early settlers is amazing!) and finally what I call the sort of scattering
of the families around the time of World War I and the draw of the big city of
Cinncy....There are still alot of descendents of these founding families that live in and
around Harrison, but there are far more of us who have moved off to other areas of the
world....
Susan
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