Biography of Calaway J. Milam, Franklin Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed
Publishing Co., 1889.

Calaway J. Milam, a merchant, farmer and miller of Sub Rosa, was born
in Hardin County, Tenn., April 1, 1838, and is a son of Thomas F. and
Margaret Amanda (Bell) Milam, the former of whom was reared in Grundy
County, Tenn., and settled in Hardin County soon after his marriage.
Thoms F. Milam served in the Florida Indian War, and in 1859 located
on the farm now owned by our subject in Franklin County, Ark. At the
outbreak of the late Civil War he took an active interest in the
welfare of the Confederates, entering the army in 1861 and serving
until his death, which occurred in the spring of 1862 at Van Buren,
Ark. He was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
where he was class-leader. The mother of Calaway J. Milam was a native
of Grundy County, Tenn., and of her ten children nine are now living.
She died at the home of her son Calaway in September, 1880. Calaway J.
Milam was reared in his native county, and received his education in
the common schools. He removed to Arkansas in 1860, April 9, and
settled on the farm where he still lives. In the spring of 1863 he was
conscripted in the Southern army, and participated in the battles of
Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, after which he returned to his home. In
the year 1864 he enlisted in Company E, Eighteenth Iowa, and served in
the treasurer's department. He was afterward in the battles of Camden,
Saline and Poison Spring, serving honorably and actively until the
close of the war, receiving his discharge at Little Rock in 1865. In
the fall of 1864 he, with others, was escorting a family of refugees
to Fort Smith, when he was overtaken and fired into by a large squad
of bushwhackers. He received a minie-ball in his left hip, which
confined him to the hospital at Fort Smith until he was mustered out
at Little Rock in April, 1865. He now receives a pension from the
Government for this wound. Upon returning to his farm, in 1869 he was
married to Nancy Bryant, of Franklin County, and their seven children
are Thomas F., Andrew J., Edward, Josie, Nora, Daisy and Pearlie. In
1869 Mr. Milam engaged in cotton-ginning and merchandising with his
brothers, in which he continued two years, and again started in the
same business at [p.1260] Sub Rosa in 1879, which he still carries on
successfully. He is one of the most enterprising farmers of the
county, owning 700 acres of land, 400 acres of which are under
cultivation. Politically he is a stanch Republican, and was appointed
postmaster of Sub Rosa in 1878. Mr. Milam is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.