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Surnames: Hanna George Kellogg Whitt Haney Calloway Prater
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My cousin has a trunk full of the missing links of Mary Morgan White Calloway we will sort
through the pictures which I have picture of her daughter Ellen George Calloway.
AT REST
MRS. MARY CALLOWAY
“No grief reaches the dead. How happy they must be.”
Mary Morgan White was born at St. Earth, Cornwall, Wall England, Aug. 8th, 1824.
She was married to Moses Calloway in 1843. In 1846 her husband came to America, where she
with her two children joined him the following year. They settled near Potosi, and resided
in that township sixteen years. In 1863 they moved to the farm on Blakes Prairie, Beetown,
where Mrs Calloway lived until 1883, when she moved to Lancaster with her son’s family.
Her husband died in 1874. After this—the first break in the family circle, and the first
real sorrow to enter the home—the years grew weary to the mother and in 1891 the death of
Moses, her eldest son added to her sorrow. After this event, in her own language, “the
weary years sped on, giving to her no joy, except to labor for the comfort of her dear
children.”
During the later years she made her home with her daughter, Mrs. George, who bestowed upon
her every care that was capable of giving. She has sacrificed her own wishes and desires
and given lovingly of her own strength to the “dear old mother” who has been an invalid
most of the time for six years. By the thrift and industry of former years a fair
competence was laid up for her old age. But even through these ailing years, the aged
hands were busy, and many an article of her handiwork is left to the children and
grand-children in tender remembrance of “Grandma.”
Now these frail hands are folded on her silent breast. The days of weary waiting are over,
her sufferings ended and the mother’s voice will greet the coming of the children no more
this side of the shining river of eternity.
“ For none return from the quiet shores.
Who cross with the boatman, cold and pale;
We hear the dip of the golden oars,
And catch a glimpse of the snowy sail
And lo! They have passed from our yearning hearts.
They cross the stream and are gone for aye;
We may not sunder the veil a part
That hides from our vision the gates of day;
We only know that their barks no more
Sail with us or life’s stormy sea.
Yet, somewhere, I know, on the unseen shore
They watch, and beckon, and wait for me.”
Mrs. Calloway united with the Episcopal church in England in her childhood. She passed
peacefully away the daughter’s home in Lancaster, Oct. 16, 1903, after several weeks of
painful illness. Six children mourn their loss—Mrs. Louise Carthew, of Platteville; Mrs.
Evelyn Johnson, of Houghton, Mich., William and Mrs. Ellen George, Lancaster; Mrs. Lizzie
Allen, Beetown, and Walter, of Cassville. All the children, except Mrs. Johnson, were
present at the funeral.
Services were held at the home on Tuesday, Oct. 18, There was beautiful singing by the
Lancaster Methodist choir. Rev. J.A. Jamison, by request of the deceased, delivered a
brief discourse. Three grandsons and three granddaughters were pall-bearers.
The burial was in the Dodge cemetery at Beetown, where lie the remains of the lamented
husband and son.
The sons and daughters of Mrs. Calloway desire to express their heartfelt thanks to the
neighbors and friends for the kindly sympathy and assistance during the sickness and
burial of their dear mother. B.D.S.