Elijah Callaway Sr. (1769 - 1847)

Born 12 Oct 1769 in Bedford, Virginia Colony

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Died 3 Mar 1847 at age 77 in Ashe, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

When Elijah Calloway was born on October 12, 1769, in Bedford, Virginia, his father, Thomas, was 16 and his mother, Judea, was 13. He married Mary Jane Cutbirth in 1780 in Virginia. He died on March 3, 1847, in Ashe, North Carolina, having lived a long life of 77 years, and was buried in West Jefferson, North Carolina.

Notes

• "The Callaways". Among the Kentucky pioneers was Col. Richard Calloway. Two of his daughters, Betsy and Fanny, were captured with Jemima, Boone's second daughter, in a boat at Boonesborough, Ky., on the 17th of July, 1776. They were recovered unharmed soon afterwards;[19] and in the following August Betsy was married to Samuel Henderson, one of the rescuing party. Jemima Boone afterwards married Flanders Calloway, a son of Colonel Calloway. It was this Colonel Calloway who accused Boone of having voluntarily surrendered 26 of his men at the Salt Licks; that when a prisoner at Detroit he had engaged with Gov. Hamilton to surrender Boonesborough, and that he had attempted to weaken the garrison at Boonesborough before its attack by the Indians by withdrawing men and officers, etc.;[22] but Boone was not only honorably acquitted, but promoted from a captaincy to that of major. Related to this Colonel Calloway was Elijah Calloway, son of Thomas Calloway of Virginia, who "did much for the good of society and was a soldier at Norfolk, Va., in the War of 1812."[23] John Calloway represented Ashe county in the House in 1800, and in the Senate in 1807, 1808,1809; and Elijah Calloway was in the House from 1813 to 1817, and in the Senate in 1818 and 1818, and 1819. One of these men is said to have walked to Raleigh, supporting himself on the way by shooting game, and in this way saved enough to build a brick house with glass windows, the first in Ashe, near what is now Obid. He was turned out of the Bear creek Baptist church because he had thus proven himself to be a rich man; and the Bible said no rich man could enter the kingdom of heaven. The ehureh in which he was tried was of logs, but the accused sat defiantly during the 'trial in a splint-bottomed chair, which he gave to Mrs. Sarah Miller of that locality. This may have been Thomas Calloway, whose grave is at Obid, marked with a long, slender stone which had marked one of the camping places of Daniel Boone. [S1]
• Elijah and Mary (Cutbirth) Calloway settled on south fork of New River in Ashe Co., NC, ten miles south of Jefferson. Both are buried in the Faw-Calloway graveyard, Ashe Co., NC. Tombstone inscriptions read as follows:
  • "Elijah Calloway, Esquire. Born in Virginia, Oct. 12, 1769. Departed from this life March 3, 1847 (Date verified). Aged 77 years, 4 months, 21 days. He was a Christian strong in faith and hope" and "Mrs. Mary (Cutbeard) Calloway. Grand-niece of Daniel Boone. Died Dec. 17, 1843. Aged 73 years"[S1]
• "Elijah Calloway's will was recorded in Ashe Co., NC and gives as beneficiaries: his wife, Mary, and sons: Benjamin Cleveland Calloway, Thomas S. Calloway and Elijah Calloway, Jr. The will was witnessed by Isham Calloway."

"The old mantle in the original home of Elijah Calloway is now in the Bowie home in Ashe Co., NC. The names of their children and the dates of birth were copied from the bible of Elijah Calloway, now in the possession of Mr. Jones Waddell, Scottsville, NC, who received it through his mother, Martha Jones Waddell, dau. of Daniel and Caroline (Calloway) Jones." [S1]

Sources

• Faw, Thomas E., Linda Faw, and Amy Faw. The Faw Family Record. 1st ed. Vol. 1. Tucson, AZ: 1992. Print.
• S1: genevawhite811 originally shared this on 01 Nov 2007 via Ancestry.com comments
• Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots: Elijah Calloway
• U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current: <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=43291888&ref=acom/>
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43291888/elijah-calloway: accessed 15 October 2022), memorial page for Elijah Calloway Sr. (12 Oct 1769–3 Mar 1847), Find A Grave: Memorial #43291888, citing Calloway Cemetery, West Jefferson, Ashe County, North Carolina, USA; Maintained by Kyle Graybeal (contributor 47186383) .
• Family Data Collection - Births: Author- Edmund West, comp.
• U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815. Roll Box: 32. Microfilm Publication: M602.
• U.S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900: Source number: 35.000; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 1
• North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998. Wills and Estate Papers (Ashe County), 1663-1978; Author: North Carolina. Division of Archives and History (Raleigh, North Carolina); Probate Place: Ashe, North Carolina
• North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890. Database: NC Early Census Index.
• North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000. Book Title: Samuel Moody Grubbs, a descendant of the Boone Family
• Millennium File. Author: Heritage Consulting. Name: Elijah Calloway
• Family Data Collection - Individual Records. Birth year: 1769; Birth city: Bedford; Birth state: VA
• Family Data Collection - Births. Author: Edmund West, comp.