CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - OBITUARIES - Rev. Martin Mason Callahan, 5 Sep 1896 ----¤¤¤---- The Panola County Watchman, September 9, 1896, pg. 5 col. 4 Panola County, Texas Gone Beyond Saturday, September 5th, will be remembered as the day when that good man Rev. M. M. Calahan, passed from earth to his reward in the land beyond. Sunday he was buried at the Old Macedonia graveyard in the presence of a large number of sorrowing friends. Rev J. F. Mclendon of Clayton, Rev. D. D. Hamilton of Beckville, Baptist ministers, and Rev. J. M. Smith, of Beckville, a Methodist minister, each assisted in conducting the impressive funeral ceremony. Parson Calahan, as he was everywhere known, was one of the oldest settlers in this country. He came to Panola County in 1848 and lived on the old Rosser place three miles E. E. of town for two years. He then moved near Macedonea where he has lived ever since that time. His boyhood days were spent in Virginia where he grew into manhood on the same plantation with Gen. Jubal A. Early. Parson Calahan was 78 years of age and has been a Baptist minister for about forty years. No better nor truer man ever lived in the county. Those who knew him best say that he never had an enemy. The influence for good exerted by such men in a community is incalculable and it is a time for much sorrow when they pass from our midst. Submitters Note: Martin Mason Callahan was born 1820 in Campbell County, VA to John and Lavinia Mason Callahan. He was grandson to Martin and Barbara Mason owner of Mason's Mill in Evington, Campbell County, VA. ========================================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm File submitted for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Barbara Keys << bkeys26433@aol.com >> ==========================================================================