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Surname: McCALLY
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Descendants of Samuel McCally
Generation No. 1
1. SAMUEL3 MCCALLY (NICHOLAS2, JOHN1) was born August 03, 1827 in Clark
Co., Ohio1, and died April 28, 1913 in LaGrange Co., Indiana1. He married
(1) MARY A. NICHOLSON September 16, 1849 in Clark Co., Ohio2. She was born
January 03, 1828 in Clark Co., Ohio, and died April 26, 1856 in LaGrange
Co., Indiana3. He married (2) ELIZABETH J. RICHARDS July 03, 1856 in LaGrange
Co., Indiana4, daughter of JOSEPH RICHARDS and RACHEL DAVIDSON. She was
born 1827, and died 1895 in LaGrange Co., Indiana5.
Notes for SAMUEL MCCALLY:
OBITUARY: (The LaGrange Standard, Thur. May 1, 1913) SAMUEL M'CALLY, PIONEER,
IS DEAD - He came to LaGrange County in 1854, Fifty-nine Years Ago - Funeral
Held Yesterday - His Death Came In His Eighty-sixth Year. Samuel McCALLY,
who came to LaGrange county in 1854, died Monday at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. William W. Minich, East of town, in his eighty-sixth year. Funeral
services were held yesterday morning at ten o'clock from the Methodist
Episcopal church at Plato, with Leroy W. Kemper, the pastor, in charge.
Burial was made at the Plato church yard. Mr. McCally was born August 3,
1827, in Ohio, in a house on the line dividing Clark and Madison counties.
His parents were Nicholas and Nancy Judy (Tschudy) McCally, the former
a Virginian and the latter a Kentuckian. Nicholas McCally served in the
War of 1812, first in the cavalry, in the Green Clay brigade under General
Hull, and was one of the army surrender to the British. He afterward re-enlisted
under General Harrison and was wounded in an engagement with the Indians.
His death occurred October 30, 1850 in Logan county, Ohio. Samuel McCally
attended the country schools and at eighteen years of age began work on
a farm in Clark county, Ohio. This employment he followed for three years
and for three more years he was engaged in driving cattle to New York.
He became the owner of the old homestead in Ohio the year following the
death of his father, but in 1854 came to the county and invested in 180
acres of land. He was first married in 1849 to Mary A. Nicholson. She died
in 1856, leaving him four children, John McCally, now at Sturgis, Almond
McCally, of Clay Twp., Andrew McCally of Kalamazoo and Elias G. McCally,
who in 1865 was accidentally killed. His second marriage was to Elizabeth
J. Richards, who was the mother of five children, former county treasurer
Charles A. McCally, Mrs. Sara Roger of Springfield Twp., Mrs. William W.
Minich, Manley McCally of Goshen and Mrs. Truman Fair of this township.
Since the death of his second wife Mr. McCally had made his home with his
children. Mr. McCally was both a man of character and capacity. He was
successful as a farmer and active and prominent in political and other
public affairs. He belonged to that race of men to whom LaGrange county
is indebted for its transformation from a wilderness. Strong, rugged and
resourceful, he made his life count for things worth living. And at last
he fell asleep, in the fuliness of time, passing on to that country from,
which none returns.
More About SAMUEL MCCALLY:
Burial: Plato, Indiana Cemetery
Census: 1870 LaGrange Co., Bloomfield Twp., Indiana, p. 143; 1900 LaGrange
Co., Bloomfield Twp., Indiana, ED 69, Sheet 6 (living w/ son Manly)
More About MARY A. NICHOLSON:
Burial: Rogers Cemetery, LaGrange Co., Indiana / Died: April 26, 1856
More About ELIZABETH J. RICHARDS:
Burial: Plato, Indiana Cemetery
Children of SAMUEL MCCALLY and MARY NICHOLSON are:
i. JOHN NICHOLS4 MCCALLY, b. July 14, 1850, near Plattsburg, Clark Co.,
Ohio6; d. March 20, 1927, Sturgis, St. Joseph Co., Michigan7; m. ELIZA
THOMAS, July 04, 1870, LaGrange Co., Indiana8; b. February 19, 1848, Ohio,
likely Williams Co., Centre Twp.9; d. December 05, 1886, LaGrange Co.,
Indiana10.
Notes for JOHN NICHOLS MCCALLY:
OBITUARY: (Sturgis Daily Journal, March 21, 1927) JOHN McCALLY ENDS LIFE
BY HANGING SELF. John McCally, 77, a Sturgis resident for 25 years, was
found dead, his limp body lying behind an iron bedstead in his home, 403
Sturgis Ave., at ten Sunday morning. A rope doubled about his neck told
a mute story of the manner of his death. In a literal sense McCally did
not hang himself - he strangled himself to death. This was the verdict
of a coroner's jury at an inquest held at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon
in the court of C.L. Haner, justice and acting coroner. There was no sign
of violence in the room nor about the house. Two persons testified at the
inquest. They were A.M. Neufler and John Turnbul. Both declared that McCally
was in good spirits when they saw him last. "Mr. McCally appeared to be
all right when I visited him Saturday evening." Mr. Turnbul testified,
"although he had been worrying for some time over $800 which he said he
had lent." John McCally was born in Auglarze county, Ohio, July 14, 1850.
He came to Sturgis 25 years ago. He was a former employee of the Wilhelm
Furniture Company here. During recent months, he had been employed at intervals
as an extra flagman here for the New York Central Railroad. Funeral services
will be held Tuesday at 1 o'clock at the Moon Funeral Home in Sturgis and
at 2 o'clock at the Methodist Church in Plato, Indiana. The body will be
intered in the Plato cemetery at the side of his wife who died 40 years
ago. Surviving are two sons Sam S., of Kendallville, Ind., and Charles
of Akron, O; one daughter Mrs. Jacob Bolley, of Kendallville; two brothers,
Albert of Shipshewana, Ind., and Richard, of Goshen; and two sisters, Mrs.
William Minnick, of LaGrange and Mrs. Roxey Fair, of Howe.
More About JOHN NICHOLS MCCALLY:
Burial: Plato, Indiana Cemetery
Cause of Death: Suicide / Obituary: Sturgis Daily Journal, March 21, 1927
More About ELIZA THOMAS:
Burial: Plato, Indiana Cemetery
ii. ALMOND MCCALLY, b. April 11, 1852, Logan Co., Ohio; d. March 14, 1939,
LaGrange Co., Indiana; m. IRA M. GOODRICH, March 05, 1880; b. July 12,
1857, St. Joseph Co., Michigan; d. January 31, 1907, LaGrange Co., Indiana.
More About ALMOND MCCALLY:
Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, LaGrange Co., IN.
Census: 1900 LaGrange Co., Clay Twp., Indiana, ED 71, Sheet 2
iii. ANDREW MCCALLY, b. April 1854, Logan Co., Ohio; d. 1916, LaGrange
Co., Indiana; m. ANNE C. GALLUP, 1881; b. August 1853, New York.
More About ANDREW MCCALLY:
Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, LaGrange Co., IN.
Census: 1900 LaGrange Co., Clay Twp., Indiana, ED 71, Sheet 2
iv. ELIAS G. MCCALLY, b. 1856, Clark Co., Ohio; d. May 10, 1865, LaGrange
Co., Indiana.
More About ELIAS G. MCCALLY:
Burial: Rogers Cemetery, LaGrange Co., IN.
Children of SAMUEL MCCALLY and ELIZABETH RICHARDS are:
v. RACHAEL4 MCCALLY, b. 1857, LaGrange Co., Indiana; d. 1857, LaGrange
Co., Indiana.
More About RACHAEL MCCALLY:
Burial: Plato, Indiana Cemetery
vi. CHARLES A. MCCALLY, b. June 1858, LaGrange Co., Indiana; d. 1926, LaGrange
Co., Indiana; m. EMMA C., 1886; b. July 1861, Ohio.
More About CHARLES A. MCCALLY:
Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, LaGrange Co., IN.
Census: 1900 LaGrange Co., Bloomfield Twp., Indiana, ED 69, Sheet 4
vii. SARAH H. MCCALLY, b. January 11, 1860, LaGrange Co., Indiana; d. February
21, 1914, LaGrange Co., Indiana; m. HENRY A. ROGERS.
More About SARAH H. MCCALLY:
Burial: Rogers Cemetery, LaGrange Co., Indiana
Census: 1900 LaGrange Co., Springfield Twp., Indiana, ED 79, Sheet 3
viii. GRACE A. MCCALLY, b. September 04, 1861, LaGrange Co., Indiana; d.
January 08, 1943, LaGrange Co., Indiana; m. WILLIAM WILBUR MINNICH, April
11, 1886; b. September 15, 1861, Allen Co., Indiana; d. April 03, 1933,
LaGrange Co., Indiana.
More About GRACE A. MCCALLY:
Burial: Plato, Indiana Cemetery
Census: 1900 LaGrange Co., Bloomfield Twp., Indiana, ED 69, Sheet 5
ix. MANLY (DICK) MCCALLY, b. January 1864, LaGrange Co., Indiana; m. IDA,
1890; b. April 1868, Indiana.
More About MANLY (DICK) MCCALLY:
Census: 1900 LaGrange Co., Bloomfield Twp., Indiana, ED 69, Sheet 6
x. ROXIE J. MCCALLY, b. May 1866, LaGrange Co., Indiana; d. 1938, LaGrange
Co., Indiana; m. TRUMAN FAIR, 1890; b. September 1864, Ohio.
More About ROXIE J. MCCALLY:
Burial: Brighton Chapel Cemetery, LaGrange Co., IN.
Census: 1900 LaGrange Co., Bloomfield Twp., Indiana, ED 69, Sheet 12
Endnotes
1. Indiana State Board of Health Death Certificate for Samuel McCally,
LaGrange County, Bloomfield.
2. Clark Co., Ohio Marriage License.
3. Cemetery.
4. LaGrange County, Indiana Marriage License.
5. Cemetery.
6. Combined 1874 & 1893 Historical Atlas of LaGrange County, Indiana.
7. Sturgis Daily Journal, March 21, 1927, page 1.
8. LaGrange County, Indiana Marriage License.
9. Cemetery calculation / Census calculation.
10. Cemetery.