Hardin County KyArchives Obituaries.....McCallister, Hardin April 14, 1915
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Oregon Daily Journal, Portland, Oregon
From the Oregon Daily Journal, Portland, Oregon
Wednesday, 14 April 1915
Hardin McCallister, 87, Dies at Pratum, Oregon
Was Well Known for His Generosity and Was Friend to Early Settlers
Native of Hardin County, Kentucky
Salem, OR.  Hardin McCallister who crossed the plains from Illinois in 1848, 
died at Pratum this morning, aged 87 years. He established McCallister’s 
mill on the historic site at Pratum, on the Pudding river, and ground flour 
for the pioneers of Oregon. This mill was later burned, and in 1895 W. B. 
McCallister, son of the decedent, built a new mill, and is still running it.
Mr. McCallister was born in Hardin county, Kentucky, and he was named after 
that county. The family moved to Illinois and later started for Oregon. On 
the trip Mr. McCallister acted scout and general overseer. He understood the 
hardships of the trip, and when emigrants arrived in Oregon he always had 
his latchstring out. He was widely known for his generosity to the poor, and 
his desire to make everyone happy.
He is survived by his second wife, two sons, W. B. of Pratum and T. F. of 
Prineville, and a daughter, Mrs. George Swegel, residing in Washington. He 
is also survived by many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon from the Willard church in the 
Waldo hills and interment will be in the Warren cemetery.

Additional Comments:

Noted that Hardin consistently gave Illinois as his birthplace on census.  
His father was John McCallister b. 1793 who did live in Hardin Co. before 
Illinois and finally Oregon, but who married Mahala Smith 15 Nov 1824 in 
White Co. IL.  It seems improbable that Hardin was born in Hardin Co. KY as 
the obit says but this is a Hardin Co. family.   


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