Garvin County Obituaries -     Frances Elizabeth Calloway
                                
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Pauls Valley Democrat dated 4-16-36

Mrs. Callaway, Garvin Pioneer, Dies Suddenly

End Came Tuesday Evening At Home of Daughter: Rites Today

Mrs. Frances Elizabeth Callaway, 76 years old, died at 6 o'clock
Tuesday evening at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Earl W. Witten in this
city.

Funeral services were held at 4 o'clock Wednesday p.m. at the First
Presbyterian church with Dr. W. T. Reynolds, the pastor, officiating. 
Interment was in Mt. Olivet cemetery.

Mrs. Callaway was the widow of the pioneer, the late Dr. James R.
Callaway, who died in 1928, after many years of service in this section
as a physician.  The couple had celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary two years before the doctor's death.

Relatives of Mark Twain

Mrs. Callaway was a distant relative of Mark Twain (Samuel L. 
Clemens) and was born in Neosho, Mo., in 1850. Dr. Callaway was a Texan, 
a native of Decatur, but came to the valley in the earlier days, after the 
couple were married at Lonoke, Texas.

"Grandma" Callaway, as she has been known for years among friends, 
had not been bedfast and the end came unexpectedly.
  
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Frank Armstrong of Spokane, Wash.,
Mrs. Paul Ford of Billings, Okla., Mrs. Witten: wife of Postmaster Earl
W. Witten and Mrs. W. W. Howerton of Pauls Valley and a son, Dr. John 
R. Callaway of this city, and a number of grandchildren and other
relatives.