CALLAWAY BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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CALLAWAY, J. C. - b: 1831 Edgar Co, IL
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 756
residence: Fairview

J. C. Callaway, farmer and stock raiser, section 22, was born in Edgar County, 
Illinois, August 25, 1831. Elijah Callaway, his father, was a native of Virginia, 
where he grew to manhood and married Elizabeth Peck, also of that state. He 
moved to Illinois in 1830, and was one of the pioneer settlers of Edgar County, 
where he died in the spring of 1832. J. C. Callaway grew to manhood in that 
county, his youth being spent upon the farm. He was married in Coles County, 
December 5, 1853, to Miss Harriet Ferguson, a Virginian by birth, and a daughter 
of Samuel Ferguson. He subsequently located in Coles County, where be lived until 
1866, then sold out and came to Missouri, purchasing land and settling on a farm 
in Henry County, where he now resides. He has 210 acres, 200 under fence with 
fair improvements, upon which is a fine orchard of 300 apple and 300 peach and 
Too cherry trees. He makes a specialty of raising corn and had the past year 155 
acres, which yielded forty bushels per acre. Mr. and Mrs. Callaway have a family 
of eleven children: Cerilda, (now Mrs. Thomas Manbeck, of St. Clair County), 
George W., Harriet, (wife of Oscar Roberts), Jerry M., Albert L., Katie, Sarah E., 
Minnie E., William H., Derinda and Myrtle Belle. Mr. C. is a member of the Baptist 
Church.

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