What I Know About Nancy

 

“Very often I’ll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.” — Jonathan Carroll

Nancy A. Hudson was born around 1810- 1812 in Anson County, North Carolina. There exists no documentation on who her parents were. Some have her as a child or grandchild of Joachim Hudson, my 5th Great Grandfather. Anything is possible, I suppose, but it seems he, and most of his family, seem to have relocated to Darlington County, South Carolina by then. Others have her as the daughter of Josiah, or Joshua Hudson, Sr. and her mother as a Miss Culpepper. The Culpepper may have derived from the fact that one of her sons was named Culpepper, or it could have been true. There's really no way to know. 

Descendants of Evan Hudson have her as his sister, due to the closeness of associates, and the fact that they may both would migrate to Tennessee. There is more information on her husband, of course, as women remained primarily in the background in the 19th century. This is what I know about the recondite Nancy.

Previously, in my previous post on Evan Hudson, I briefly examined a man named Archibald Helms, who had lived in what is now Union County, prior to traveling west with Evan Hudson and his group, that included his in-laws, the Hargett's and Helms. Archibald Helms and Evan would purchase neighboring properties in Lawrence County, Alabama, but had lived in neighboring counties while in Tennessee. When he was a young man still in North Carolina, Archibald Helms lived near a man named Shem Yarbrough, as shown above.

The name Yarbrough is one of multifarious configurations. Yarboro, Yarborough, Yarbrough and on and on. The name originated from the old Norse term of "Jardborg" and evolved into an English place name of Yarborough in Lincolnshire, meaning earthworks or fortifications. Locally, and this will become important momentarily, Carolina Piedmont southern twang has turned the name to a sound more like "Yar-burr", much like we pronounce the name of the local town of Oakboro, as "Oakburr". Transplants do not, but locals do.

Shem Yarborough

Shem was born around 1774 or 1775. He was the son of a very prolific Joshua Yarbourough and wife, Susanna Thompson. They lived in what was Mecklenburg County but would become Union County in 1842. Shem had five brothers, and between them, they would send Yabouroughs southward into Alabama and Georgia and westward into Tennessee and beyond. The Yarboroughs preferred biblical names for their children. Shem's brothers were Benjamin, Jeptha, William Cornelius, Reuben and Gideon. Shem would marry a girl from the most numerous family name in Union County, Nelly Helms. They would have eight children: Jeptha, Thompson Shem, William Dawson, Henry Clay, Deborah, Nelly, Susanna and Melissa.

As shown in the above record of Darling B. Belk's property, dated 1835, Shem Yarbourough lived on Richardson's Creek. If one recalls from my post, The Truth About Joshua, Joshua Hudson and his family began along Richardson's Creek before moving slightly north into Stanly County. His father, Joshua Hudson, Sr. had lived on Richardson's Creek.

Richardson's Creek

Richardson's Creek is a tributary of the Rocky River. It begins in Union County near Monroe and journeys northeast through Anson County, becoming wider along the way. So, while the widest and deepest part of the creek is in Anson County, as it empties into the Rocky River, the longest part of it remains in what is now Union County.

It passes between New Salem and Olive Branch, only three miles apart, around the foot of Polk Mountain, the only Mountain in Union County, runs north of Fairfield, and then splits into two small branches, one that ends in Lake Twitty, while the other cuts east through Monroe, becomes Little Richardson Creek, feeds into Lake Lee, and ends, or begins, just west of East Sandy Ridge Road. This is the Creek along which our Hudson family was founded after leaving Amelia County, Virginia.

Shem Yarbrough to Westford Garris for 120 acres of Land Bearing date the 7th day of September 1826 by John M. Ingram. 

Some would leave the area during the 1820's, a few of these being veterans of the War of 1812 pursuing bounty lands. Others would follow a decade later, perhaps persuaded through letters, or even visits, of the joys of greener pastures and cheap, or even free, land, for the taking.

And then I found the above document. Mecklenburg County, November 24th, 1824, Benjamin Hutson (Hudson), "a tract of land in the said County, containing 110 acres of the waters of Beaverdam fork joining the lines of Shem Yarborrow, Sampson Doster, and the Wido (sic) Bennett."

Was this Benjamin Hudson of Anson County, son of Joshua Sr.? He was born in 1803 and would have been a young man of 21 on the above date. He wouldn't appear in a census until 1840, in Anson County, which means he was not a head of household, he was living with someone else, but who? The location tells us this was not modern Mecklenburg County, but Union County, NC and the property bordered that of Shem Yarborough. 

Nancy Hudson would marry a son of Shem Yarborough, William Dawson Yarborough/Yarber.

Another option was Benjamin Hudson, the uncle of Joshua Hudson Jr., Benjamin and Evan Hudson, brother of Joachim and Joshua Sr. 

The family had originated in Amelia County, Virginia and had migrated into North Carolina just before the death of their father, Hall Hudson. Joachim was here, in Anson County, by 1777. Brothers Joshua and Obediah didn't show up until a bit later. That doesn't mean they hadn't arrived with him, just that they hadn't purchased land. Or, they could have remained with their father, Hall Hudson, until he passed away.

Amelia County, Virginia

He executed his will on March 3, 1778, and it was probated on September 28, 1780, in Nottoway Parish, Amelia County. Peter Hudson was the executor. Heirs named were:

Obedience Hudson, granddaughter, a cow and heifer, a sow with four shoats.

Noe Hudson, grandson, a feather bed and furniture, a cow and calf.

Richard Hudson, the "Great Family Bible".  - Glad it existed!

His other named children, Isaac Hudson, Hall Jr., Joshua, Benjamin, Joakim, Obediah, Elizabeth and Susannah, received only one shilling each, "and no more of my estate".  It appears these children had angered him, going against their father's wished is some manner.

Peter Hudson, the executor, received a man name "Guy" and "all the rest of my living".

Witnesses were John Grey, Elizabeth Grey, Richard Ward, Robert Hudson, and George Snelling. 

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My take is that Benjamin, son of Hall, would have been too old, if he was yet alive at all, to have been purchasing this land next to Shem Yarbourough. It was more likely to have been the 21-year-old Benjamin, son of Joshua. Jr.

Above is the front page of Benjamin Hudson's grant in Mecklenburg (now Union), on Richardson's Creek. How long did he stay there?

The above attachment to the same document gives us an interesting clue. Benjamin Hutson's plans 110 acres on the waters of Richardson Creek Shem Yarborough son in law...... Mecklenburg .. Jan 20th 1824. Does this mean that Benjamin Hudson was the son-in-law of Shem Yarborough? I know it was not the other way around as Shem was married to Nelly Helms, daughter of George Helms and Margaret Falkenburg. 

Son-in-law at this time could have a variety of meanings. It could have been the husband of a daughter, as we use it now. It could also have meant a stepson, or child of your spouse by a previous marriage. It could have also meant a child appointed to the individual under a guardianship role, but that was not typical. Most likely, Benjamin Hudson had married one of Shem Yarborough's daughters, or either Shem Yarborough had married the widow of Joshua Hudson Sr.'s wife. Joshua Hudson Jr. maintained that his mother had passed away when he was 10 days old, so he may have been a half-sibling to his father's youngest children. We do know that Nancy Hudson married a son of Shem Yarborough, so it would be of the greatest degree of probability that Benjamin Hudson had married a daughter of Shem Yarborough. It was a common occurrence for sets of siblings to marry other sets of siblings in the 19th century. 

If this was Benjamin Hudson of Anson County, his first known wife was Esther Broome, daughter of William Jackson Broome and Elizabeth Helms, daughter of Tilman Helms and Rachel Craig. Esther was born in 1810, which would put her extremely young upon the birth of Benjamin's oldest daughter, Lucinda, on April 22, 1823. But the possibility that Ben Hudson was married previously, but briefly, lines up exactly to memoirs I've found in the Hudson Family file at the Stanly County History office at the County museum. In written accounts from the family of Ben's oldest son, Joshua, who was born in 1828, Joshua had two half-sisters, Lucinda and Patsy (b 1824), by Ben's earlier unknown wife. I will examine this closer in a post on Benjamin himself. 

Benjamin Hudson shows up as a debtor in the estate records of the John Connor Estate in February of 1833, held by Thomas P Dillon, an Irish immigrant who is recorded in Anson County in the 1840 census and the Union County census in 1850, passing away there in 1851. John Connor was also an Irish immigrant. Where they settled was quite predictably, in what is now Union County.

The list of all listed in the Estate of John Conner

The names of all the persons listed in the estate file of John Conner reveals many familiar Union, and Anson, County names

A closer look at Benjamin Hudson (Hutson) grant in Union (Mecklenburg) County.

Surveyed for Benjamin Hutson one hundred and ten acres lying on the waters of Richardson's Creek..

Beginning at a post oak Burnett's corner and Squire Ingrams corner and runs with Ingram's line south...Harris's corner...near Leggett's line near a small branch...to a pine on the race paths...to a small post oak on Sampson Dosser's line.....Dosser's corner.....Gabriel Sibley's corner...to a pine on Shem Yarbroughs corner...Burnetts corner.. " Witnessed by Shem Yarborough and Armstead Helms.

Elijah Hudson

There is one other Hudson in this area around this time, and that is Elijah Hudson.  Other Hudsons will appear, but not in this area, the part that becomes Union. They may have been distantly related, but I am not ready to go down that rabbit hole right now. In the 1820 census of Mecklenburg County, Elijah Hudson is living next to Frederick Starnes, James Starnes, Nathaniel Starnes, David Starnes. Having Starnes heritage, I know this places him squarely in Union County. Above him is Ganders (or Sanders) Burnett, whose land Benjamin Hutson's grant adjoined, Shadrack Yarborough, a relative of Shem, and several of the Rape family, Peter, Samuel, and Charles.

This Elijah heads a young family, as he and the adult female are between 16 and 25, giving their birthyear a range of 1795 to 1804. This places him in the same generation as Joshua Hudson of Ugly Creek and Benjamin Hudson of Lilesville, Anson County.

Name	Elijah Hutson
Home in 1830 (City, County, State)	Anson, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5	1
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19	1
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39	1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5	2
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9	2
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14	2
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39	1
Free White Persons - Under 20	8
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49	2
Total Free White Persons	10
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored)	10

In 1830, no Elijah Hudson is in Mecklenburg County, but instead, is the only Hudson headed household in Anson County. The household matches up with being the same one. The parental couple are now in their thirties, giving a birth year range of 1791 to 1800, a decade older than they were before. Merged together, the range is 1795-1800. Before, there were three girls under 10 and one boy. In 1830, there is one boy aged 15 to 19, and a new one under 5, and two girls 10 to 14, two 5 to 9 and two under five, for a family of ten.

Elijah Hudson's neighbors in 1830 are multiple Haglars, James Mullis, James Love and John Polk.

And then he disappears. 

Looking for the brief mentions of him in Mecklenburg County, we find that in 1827, he sold 120 acres on Crooked Creek to Alexander Phillips.

"This Indenture made this 21st day of Feb 1827 between Elijah Hudson of the County of Mecklenburg and the state of North Carolina and Alexander Phillips.. same...sum of $300 paid by Alexander Phillips unto the said Elijah Hudson...on the waters of Crooked Creek.. bounded ...head of a spring..containing 120 acres."

In the Presence of 

William Phillips

Charles Rich (Or Rice)

 On June 4, 1821, Elijah Hudson purchased 100 acres from Solomon Harris on Beaverdam Creek.

This nearly, some might say wholey, illegible document, can be found in the Mecklenburg County deeds, Book 19, Page 301. He seemed to have some association with a John Hinson also on Crooked Creek, which is interesting as there is a John Hinson in early Stanly and Union County records.

Beaverdam Creek is in Union County, near Marshville, and to be connected to the others I've been looking at, in exactly the place we'd be expecting him to be. 

Crooked Creek is an offshoot of the Rocky River in Upper Union County, near the Stanly/Union County line and the Cabarrus/Union County line.

Benjamin Hudson has two land grants, the one in Mecklenburg (Union) dated 1824, on Richardson's Creek and one in Anson, dated 1835, joining his own land and the Rocky River. There's no explanation, that I've yet tumbled across, of how he disposed of his land in Union, or how he obtained the "his own land" in Anson, prior to his grant adjoining it.

Likewise, it is not known how or to whom Elijah Hudson disposed of the land purchased of Solomon Harris in 1821 on Crooked Creek, or how he had acquired the land sold to Alexander Phillips in 1827.

Yet, Elijah appears in two census records, 1820 in Mecklenburg (Union) and 1830 in Anson. Then disappears, the entire family to a child. This informs me he did not die, but more likely, migrated away with one of the many wagon trains out of the area, south or west. 

Benjamin and Joshua are the only ones who appear in 1840 in Anson, and many afterwards.

But what about Nancy? This post was supposed to be about her. To know more about her, it was important to begin with the people she was connected to. 

The date given for the marriage of Nancy A Hudson and William Dawson Yarborough by some of their descendants, is July 24, 1828, which makes sense, as their first child, Reuben, was born in 1829. The location given, Bedford County, Tennessee, makes no sense, however, as William and his father, Shem and brother, Jeptha, are all still in Mecklenburg County, todays Union section, in the 1840 census.

I would, instead, guess their marriage happened in Mecklenburg, along Richardson's Creek.

Name	William Yarborough
Residence Date	1840
Home in 1840 (City, County, State)	Mecklenburg, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5	1 John Culpepper b 1839 infant
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9	1 William D.  b 1834 age 6
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14	1 Reuben b 1829 age 11
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39	1 William Dawson Sr.
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9	1 Abigail age 7
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39	1 Nancy
Free White Persons - Females - 80 thru 89	1 Unknown
Persons Employed in Agriculture	1
Free White Persons - Under 20	4
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49	2
Total Free White Persons	7
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves	7

William and Nancy are counted as a couple in their 30's, with four children already, and that totally makes sense. The mystery is the woman in her 80's in the home. She would not be Dawson's mother, as Nellie and Shem were together and, in their fifties. 

Name	Shem Yarborough
Residence Date	1840
Home in 1840 (City, County, State)	Mecklenburg, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5	2
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29	1
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59	1 Shem
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5	2
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9	1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29	1
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39	1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59	1 Nellie

Could this have been Nancy's mother, or a grandmother? Shem and Nellie's mothers had both passed away by this time.

1844

In Mecklenburg County Court in the fall of 1844, William Yarborough was brought to Court in a case against a woman named Sarah Griffin. The Griffins were another family populous in the northeastern part of Union County and northwestern part of Anson County, and remain so to this day.

A sizable committee of 21 men were held in bond of $2.50 each to control and encourage Sarah Griffin to behave and "keep the peace towards the good citizens of this county", but especially towards William Yarborough.

Shortly after this time, Shem Yarborough, William Dawson Yarborough, Jeptha Yarborough and Thompson Yarborough, and possibly several more Union and Anson County families and kin, load up their wagons with a destination of Washington County, Tennessee.

Traveling through the Cumberland Gap and coming out on the western side of the Blue Ridge, the Yarboroughs were soundly confronted with an already developed Appalachian brogue. Borough, a word derived an English village, town or district, became squelched into the sound "burr" or "ber". The Carolina Yarboroughs became Tennessee Yarbers. 

Washington County became a first stop, a way station, just across the Tennessee, North Carolina line. They would stay there a decade or more, and some of the family would remain. A few of the older children would marry there.

The Yarbrough Family Quarterly would mention William Dawson Yarber, with the dates of the father's birth years, as having wed there.

However, Nancy outlived William, and there is no indication he ever had another wife. They had wed well before arriving in Tennessee. It was their son, William Dawson Yarber, Jr. who married in Washington County.

1850

Shem and Nelly are shown in their 70's, with four young children, presumably grandchildren, perhaps orphaned by a deceased child of theirs. Clinton, the only boy, is the only one I've succeeded in tracing and he ended up in Kentucky. Shem's house is enumerated at the top of the page in Temper, Washington County, Tennessee.

On the preceding page, at the bottom, which would be the house just before his on the list, is found Jeptha Yarborough, now 52, with his wife Elizabeth, 36, and six children: Alonzo, Frances, Talbot, Lucinda, Middleton and Burt. This generation will spread far and wide. Lucinda ends up in Oregon, having braved, and survived, the Oregon Trail.

On a different page, but still in Temper, we find two of Shems younger sons, living side by side, Thompson S. 'Yarber' and William D. 'Yarber' Thompson, named for Shem's mother, Susannah Thompson Yarborough, was 32, his wife, Nancy Burnett Yarbourough, 25, and they had three daughters, Winny, Elizabeth Melissa and Eva A. Thompson "Tom" Shem Yarber will settle and pass away in Jefferson County, Tennessee.

The next household is that of William D and Nancy Hudson Yarber (Yarborough). They're up to ten living children, including two sets of twins. Twins did not run in the Yarborough family, but they certainly did in the Hudson line. Rueben is 18, William D. Jr. is 16, Abigail, 13, John 10, twins Thompson and Rebecca are 9, Caroline is 7, identical twins, Jaspar and Newton are 4 and James Finley Yarber is two. There will be at least one more. All are shown as being born in North Carolina. They will not linger her long.

Before 1860, Dawson moves the family south and west 134 miles to Roane County. 

The older sons now on their own, Abigail was the oldest child in the home. The 18 year old twins, Rebecca and Thompson were the last on the page,.

The rest of the family were continued on the next page, and they were living in the town of Lenoir.

Caroline, Jaspar, Newton and James, now 12, were followed by Angeline, aged one. With Nancy enumerated at age 48, she would have been 46 or 47 when this child was born. I can't say if Angeline was a grandchild or a menopause baby, but James, the youngest son, was 11 years older. 

Reuben had married Lucinda Spradling in 1851 and Harriett Tucker in 1858. In 1860, he is living in a community called West's Store, in Washington County, still, and working as a Boot and Shoemaker, which will become his lifelong trade. Living with him are his two oldest children with Lucinda, Mary Evaline and William Alfred, and his first child with Harriett, Belle Annis Jerusalem Yarber.

Lucinda, his first wife, did not pass away, in fact, she outlived him. In 1860, she is living nearby in a spot called Coxes' Store, with their, or her, daughter Sarah, age two. 

William Dawson Yarber is listed in the agriculture schedule for Roane County, Tennessee in 1860, taxed or counted with the following crops and livestock, , two 'milch' cows, one other cow, 15 bovine, 300 lbs. wheat and 200lbs of tobacco.

Roane County must not have suited them very well, as they would move over to rather soon to Knox County, Tennessee.

The aging couple is found in the Campbell Station area of Knox County, Tennessee.

The couple is now in their 60's, with no children left at home. They have a five-year-old in the home, however, Grant Maroney. This turns out to be the future Reverand Ulysses Samuel Grant Maroney (1865-1962), son of their daughter, Martha Caroline, by her first husband, William O. Maroney, who was killed in the Civil War. They had married December 2, 1862, in Roane County, Tennessee. Caroline would go on to remarry William Keth, or Keith, by whom she would have five more children, the oldest whom she would interestingly name General Spencer Sherman Keith. Next to William and Nancy, in household 37, is the family of their oldest daughter, Abigail, who was also remarried Civil War widow, having married James W. Craig on July 30, 1857, in Knox County, Tennessee, and is found with their son, William Craig, age 6, and her second husband, Henry James Wilkerson, whom she married April 19, 1869.

William Dawson Yarber/Yarborough would pass away sometime before 1880. In that year, Nancy A. Hudson Yarber/Yarborough is found living with the family of her son, Thompson W. Yarber in Monroe County, Tennessee.

Nancy is marked as a widow. She is now 75 years old, and it is not known when she died, or where she or William are buried. There is no evidence of who the parents of Nancy Hudson Yarber were. The circumstantial evidence of location of those associated with her supports the theory that she was a sibling of Benjamin, Evan and Joshua Hudson, sons of Joshua Hudson, Sr. As they say in business, location, location, location. That she married a child of Shem Yarborough and Benjamin Hudson also married a child of Shem Yarborough certainly extends a hand pointing to further research being a worthwhile pursuit. 

Rueben Yarber 

The Children of William Dawson and Nancy A. Hudson Yarber were:

A) Rueben Yarber (Dec 30, 1829 - 8 Oct. 1890) Born in North Carolina. Married Lucinda Spradling 1st assumed divorced. She had 5 children, but only the oldest two are presumed to be Rueben's. He married 2nd Harriett Tucker on July 21, 1858. Reuben remained in Washington County, Tennessee until his death and was a merchant, boot and shoemaker, and real estate wheeler and dealer. He had five children with his second wife, Harriett, and she also sued for divorce, but he paid her off with property not to finalize it. He was caught with Dicey Willam six years later and when on trial for that. He may have had other children. 

B) William Dawson Yarber Jr. (1832-1897). Junior would remove to Missouri and died in Pettis County, Missouri at 64. He was a farmer by trade and married twice. First to Susannah Francis Rogers in May of 1853 with whom he had 8 children and later to Margaret Lane with whom he had three. 

C) Abigail Yarber (1837- ?) Married 1st James W Craig, on July 30th, 1857, in Knox County, Tennessee, one child. Became a Civil War widow.  Married 2nd James Henry Wilkerson on April 18, 1869, also in Knox County, Tennessee. Fate unknown.

D) John Culpepper Yarber (Nov 5, 1839 - Oct 22, 1916) John was a Miller. Born in Union County, North Carolina, he followed his parents' movements through Washington, Roane and to Monroe County, Tennessee, where he first established his Mill. He may have been named for the beloved Anson County Baptist minister, Rev. John Culpepper. 

He married Lucretia Hampton on August 7, 1861, in Monroe County. They settled in Bell Town. They raised 12 children born between 1863 and 1887. John Culpepper Yarber was a citizen of the Civil War. He became the Postmaster of the village of Joe, Monroe County, in 1881. After the birth of the last child, Albert, in 1887, they would relocate, first to Pope County, Arkansas, where he tried farming next to his sons, Wiley and Marvin. His last move was to Charlton County, Georgia, with his youngest children. He's shown there in 1910 and died there in 1916, being buried at the Homeland Cemetery.

E) Joshua Yarber was recorded in a Family Bible as being born in 1840 and dying at about aged 9.

F) Rebecca Yarber, one of the first set of twins, was born in 1841 in Union County, North Carolina. She married at 24 to Edmond Moss on August 12, 1865, in Roane County, Tennessee. They raised their five children in Roane County, and Rebecca was widowed 1898, later removing to Louden County, TN, with her single daughter, Francis, and three grandchildren in her care. She passed away sometime after 1910.

G) Thompson W. Yarber, twin of Rebecca, also born in 1841, in Union County, NC. He married three times, to Elizabeth Fox in 1869, to Nancy Liles in 1877, and to Mary Scott in 1884. He had two sons by Elizabeth and one by Mary. He moved through various counties in Tennessee, before arriving in Scercy, Arkansas, then returned to Tennessee as an elderly man and died about 1921 in Monroe County.

H) Martha Caroline Yarber was born in 1843 in North Carolina. She married William O. Maroney on December 3, 1862. One son, Ulysess Samuel Grant Maroney. She was widowed and remarried William Keith or Keth, having 5 more children: General Spencer Sherman, Malinda Josephine, William Alozo "Wilder", Magnolia and George Mack Keith. She died at age 37 in Robertson, Anderson County, TN.

I) Newton Yarber, born in 1846 in NC, was one of the second set of twins. He married Nancy Callie Daniels in 1865 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. They raised seven children and he died at 65 in 1911 in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Newton Yarber and family

J) Jaspar Yarber, the identical twin of Newton Yarber, was also born in NC in 1846. Both twins were Civil War veterans. Jaspar married in October 1865 to Rebecca Caroline Rogers in Roane County, TN. They had 8 children, including a set of twin boys, Alfred and Alvin. He married Mary, unknown, and had two more sons, then Addie Bell Morrow, from NC and had three daughters. Jasper died May 31, 1920, in McMinn County, Tennessee and is buried at the Cunningham Cemetery there.

Jaspar

K) James Finley Yarber was born in North Carolina in 1848 and died at the age of 17 in the Civil War.

L) Angeline Yarber was born in 1859 in Tennessee. No further information. She is living with the family in the 1860 census, and it is unclear who she is, a child or grandchild.

30 Fathers in 30 Days: Job Calloway

 

The Biblical character of Job was a long-suffering, but faithful believer in God, never swaying from his convictions, despite what tragedy, loss and illness befell him. A dejected and miserable individual to say the least.  

The etymology of the name Job sources an original word for father, but that which had evolved into 'the persecuted 'or, 'one who suffers'. It doesn't sound like an optimistic name to lay upon a child. Yet, I ended up with two, at least, Fifth Great Grandfathers named Job. Both were born in the later decades of the 18th century. Why had their parents given them such a sorrowful name?

In the case of Job Calloway, (1790-1835), son of Isaac Calloway (1750-ish to after 1810), he was named for an uncle, brother of Isaac, who had kept moving southward and ended up in Georgia. From what I can tell, neither of their lives was as terrible as that of the biblical Job. 

I have posted on Job Calloway before, but not in great detail. See the link below.

The Setting of the Son: The Will of Job Calloway

The Calloway or Callaway surname is Norman in origin, and comes from the French "Cail", meaning pebble, or pebble-way. It's a place name, referring to a family from Caillouet-Orgeville in Eure, France, who later migrated to Dorset. 

Village of Origin shown in red

Our line began with a Peter Calloway, in the village of Marnhull, Dorset, England. His son, Peter II, was born there around 1640. Peter II indentured himself for passage to America. According to "Callaway Family History 1630-1898"  compiled by Robert Ellis Colson, Peter bonded himself to William Pressley for payment of passage and arrived in Northumberland County, Virginia where he worked for seven years. Fifteen years later, he would relocate across the Chesapeake Bay and settle near the Wicomico River in Maryland and worked as a Carpenter on his 50 acre headright until March 26, 1667.

On that date a girl named Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of John and Susan  Johnson, was brought to court on a bastardy charge and named Peter Callaway as the father of her child. Peter was fined 1000 lbs. of tobacco and Elizabeth was fined 500 lbs. Peter was also to pay Elizabeth 100 lbs. of tobacco, the current currency in the Quaker era court.

Peter and Elizabeth avoided further prosecution by making their relationship legal and married on March 26, 1667, in Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland.  He had arrived as a very young man, possibly a teenager, around 1649. He and Elizabeth raised their family of 11 children in Somerset, Maryland, where Peter died in 1719 at age 81. The children of this couple were part of a very mobile generation of young Americans who migrated into Virginia, North Carolina and later, Georgia.

Among those 11 children, was John Callaway or Calloway, the spelling being interchangeable. John was born about 1685 and married Mary Gould, daughter of Edward and Francis Gould on Christmas Day, 1709, in Stepney Parrish, Somerset County, Maryland.

John was a Cooper by trade. Peter had been able to build his wealth in Maryland and owned numerous tracts of land, the true American dream. John inherited some of this land and added to it himself. His collection of properties were given names. In various patents, lists and rent rolls they were known as Callaway's Folly, Callaway's Chance, Callaway's Hard Fortunes, Callaway's Venture and Venture Still. His extensive properties extended into Delaware.

Johan and Mary had  a family of nine children four sons and five daughters. Mary died before John, but John lived a long life, to age 85,  surviving all of his children except one, son Ebenezer. The oldest of these nine was a son named Edward, our line.

Edward Callaway was born in 1711 in Somerset County, Maryland and became a wheelwright by trade, and a farmer. He was my 7th Great Grandfather making John my 8th and Peter my 9th. Edward married around 1734 to Elizabeth Anderson. His first purchase of property was in Somerset County, Maryland consisting of 50 acres of land between Wicomico River and Broad Creek, an estate known as "Ryan's Grave". How outré' and ghoulish. They remained there for about a decade or more, before moving to Sussex County, Delaware in 1745, and purchasing 200 acres in Cedar Creek Hundred. While in Delaware, he purchased a 216-acre tract called 'Battle Green'.

Edward was like a worm in hot ashes. After another decade, in 1755, he sold his old plantation called Ryan's Grave in Somerset, and four years later, in 1759, he moved the family back to Maryland, this time settling in the less populated Worchester, Maryland. Somerset and Cecil were filling up and had been for over a century. Edward was the ancestor who brought the Callaway's to North Carolina. In 1760 he sold the Cedar Creek property and in 1763, he sold Battle Green. He was on his way to Onslow. 

On December 7, 1765, two years after the Battle Green sale, Edward Callaway had a survey of 300 acres on the White Oak River in Onslow County, North Carolina. Edward lived five years after moving to Onslow, passing in 1770. 

White Oak River forms the Northeast border of Onslow

Isaac Callaway, my 6th Great Grandfather, son of Edward, was born around 1750 on the Ryan's Grave homestead in Somerset, Maryland and moved with his family to Onslow County. After Edwards death, the family was again on the move. They sold the property in Onslow and moved to what was then Anson County, North Carolina.

While in Onslow, the Calloway's lived near a man named Peter Arnold. Isaac would marry his daughter, Elizabeth. The Arnold's also relocated to Anson County. This was usually done in groups of neighbors and relatives. 

Elizabeth, Edward's widow, moved with her sons to Anson County, and settled along Mountain Creek in what is now Stanly County. About ten years later, four of her five sons would again migrate to Wilkes County, Georgia. Most of her sons, including Isaac, would serve in the Revolutionary War. Some folks have the War record of Isaac's brother Job, attached to my ancestor, Job Calloway. This is incorrect. Our Job was too young. That record belongs to his uncle Job, son of Edward. Elizabeth Anderson Callaway died in Wilkes County, Georgia sometime after their 1784 move. The five sons of Edward and Elizabeth Arnold Callaway were:

John who married Bethany Arnold

Job who married Mary

Isaac who married Elizabeth Arnold

Joseph who married Sabrina Morgan and Elizabeth Lee

Joshua who married Isabell Graves Henderson.

Some of the weddings took place in Onslow County, and others in Stanly (Montgomery/Anson).

Isaac was the only brother to remain in North Carolina.

Calloway Plantation House, Wilkes County, Georgia

Isaac Calloway

Isaac Calloway. my 6th Great Grandfather is first seen in the 1770 tax record of Onslow County, North Carolina. 

Isaac entered a grant of 100 acres on Mountain Creek on the southwest side of the Yadkin River on November 22, 1779. Chain Carriers were Joshua Carter and Isaac Calloway. 

Isaac would settle in Montgomery County, NC, which would have been part of Anson prior to 1779. He received a grant in Montgomery County, on the southwest side of the Yadkin River, on the south fork of Mountain Creek. Along this creek is where Job was born, lived, raised his children, and died.

In the first census of the USA, Isaac is shown heading a household of ten, one male over 16, four under, and five females. 

Name	Isaac Callaway
Home in 1800 (City, County, State)	Montgomery, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10	1
Free White Persons - Males -10 thru 15	2
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over	1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10	4
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15	1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44	1
Number of Household Members Under 16	8
Number of Household Members Over 25	2
Number of Household Members	10

In 1800, Isaac was still heading a household of ten. A male over 45 would have been himself, with his wife, Elizabeth Arnold, the female between 26 and 44. He had two boys between 10 and 15 and one under ten in the home and one girl between 10 and 15 and four under ten. 

The list of children I have of Isaac Callaway and Elizabeth Arnold are:

Bethany Callaway - Married David Kendall.

Isaac Callaway Jr. - Married Mary Barrett and relocated to Wilkes County, Georgia with his uncles.

David Callaway - Married Judith Tillery and relocated to Wilkes County, George and later to Madison County, Florida.

Elizabeth Callaway - Married Richard Stoker

Job Callaway - Married Susannah Randall

Sarah Callaway - Married John Randall 

Anne Callaway - Married James Colby Randall.

Eunice Callaway - Married Burrell Willis Coggin, moved to Dekalb County, Tennessee.

Vashita Callaway - Married John Parker.

John M. Callaway - Married Elizabeth Smith and secondly, Lucinthia Ingram.

Above, a record from the Arnold family website showing descendancy of Eunice Ann Callaway Coggins.

Job's father Isaac was the only Calloway in Montgomery County in 1810. He was in Captain Kirks District, near Kirk's, Carters, Safley's and Jones, which put him on the west bank of the Yadkin River in the Mountain Creek area. Isaac had accumulated 600 acres on both sides of Mountain Creek by 1800. He would later add a 150-acre tract. 

Isaac would serve in the Revolutionary War as a soldier from Montgomery County. After the War his brothers and at least one sister relocated to Georgia. Two of Isaac's sons would go with them, Isaac Jr. and David.

Isaac died after the 1810 census.  His estate wasn't settled until after the death of his widow, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Arnold Callaway was listed as a member of Rocky River Church in 1828, and her grandson in law, Samuel Parsons Morton, would be a minister there in later years. 

Elizabeth died on June 30, 1834 and Isaac's estate was settled during the 1836-1837 period. Both are buried at the Palestine Community Cemetery near Mountain Creek between Albemarle and Badin, which began as the Callaway Family Burial Ground. 

Job

My 5th Great Grandfather, Job Calloway " Isaacson," was born between 1785 and 1790 in Anson County, North Carolina. There must have been a very early ancestor in Peter's line named Job, as the family seems to have left a trail of Jobs everywhere they had settled. When my Job appeared in the Montgomery County, NC census, there was also a Job Calloway in Somerset, Maryland, where his family had come from, and another in Wilke's County, Georgia, where some of his father's brothers had pushed on to. This would have been his uncle.

Above, the family of Isaac's brother, John, who also named a son Job. Note: he was not born in Bedford County, Virginia. His parents were clearly in Maryland the year he was born. He may have removed to Bedford as a young adult, and there are records of him in the same area as Isaac in Anson/Montgomery (Stanly) County before he migrated to Wilkes County, Georgia.

The above record for Job Calloway from 1783, would have been lost if it had not been presented and proved later on in Stanly County in August 1851, most likely by the Moss family. The Carr and Bankston family were very early inhabitants, or owners, of land in what is now Stanly County, but their names are not familiar in more modern records because they did not stay. This was not my 5th Great Grandfather Job, as he was not yet born, but his family was, showing he was born here, along Mountain Creek. This Job would leave the area for Georgia.

Above, 400 acres on the lower side of Rock Hole Creek is referenced as being next to Andrew Bankston and Robert Carr, and a second 87 acres next to Job Callaway "being part of Carr's tract". 

In 1771, Stanly was still part of Anson as Montgomery had not been formed yet. Courts were few and far between. When Jacob and Job Calloway, along with Robert Carr and others, were ordered to lay the road from Edward Moore's store on the Yadkin River, they were referring to land in present Stanly County, probably near the Mountain Creek area where the Callaway's lived to the river, above the mouth of the Uwharrie. There was an early village in Stanly County called Narrowsville, named for the Narrows of the Yadkin River. It did not appear to be located right upon the river, but a short distance from it. The Salisbury Road is shown to have run, in another old map, between Mountain Creek and the river, and crossing the river, or ending at it, just below the mouth of the Uwharrie, (on the eastern bank of the Yadkin, across from the site of the old town of Henderson. Near the top of the map, another road veers off the Salisbury Road, and ends at Stokes Ferry. This would, of course, have been the Stokes Ferry Road, south of Ryals Creek. Narrowsville must have stood near this road, somewhere just west of the Narrows. There are a few names listed on the map, with one of them being Carters, on the Salisbury Road, near the headwaters of Mountain Creek. I believe the Calloway's probably lived in the vicinity of the Carters.

An old newspaper article from 1804 tells of a John Moore living on Mountain Creek, along with Luke Marbury on the same creek. He could have been a relative of Edward Moore.

As his father served in the Revolutionary War, Job put in his service in the War of 1812. The records describe him as being 5 foot 10 inches tall, with grey eyes, dark skin and dark hair. He received 100 acres on the Yadkin River in 1814 for is service, according to

Job only appears in one census, that of the 1830 in Montgomery County. He was probably also in the 1820 as Head of his own household in 1820, but that document was destroyed. He married Susannah Martisha Randall or Randle sometime soon after 1810, the daughter of Colby Randle and Lettie (Short for Letitia) Elmore. 

I have also posted on Colby Randle in this series on fathers 

Job and Susannah also settled along Mountain Creek and raised their family there. He inherited 64 1/2 acres from Isaac Callaway.

By 1830, Job was heading a household 11 people. He is shown as a man in his 40's, as was Susannah. There was a boy between 15 and 19, two between 10 and 14 and two under 5. Likewise, there was one female 15 to 19, one 10 to 14, one 5 to 9 and one under 5. This would record would have included all of his children, listed below, with the exception of the last, Matisha Callaway Kendall.

Job's neighbors in 1830 included Kinchen Pennington, John Fulchs (Folks), Timothy Ragsdale, Ethelred Morris, Thomas Rice, Howell Parker, J. Thomas Moss, Annis Carter, Cecily Fulchs and Daniel Kirk.

Archibald Smith, Fred Hinson, Joseph Ingram and William Jones.

Job, like his father, would build his wealth and land holdings over his lifetime, which wasn't long, but long enough to do so. 

On October 12, 1814, 60 acres was granted Job Calloway on the southwest side of the Yadkin River, meeting the properties of Letty Randle, his mother-in -law, and Francis Locke, who lived near Locke Mountain near the Narrows. Chain carriers were John Forrest and Jonathan McDonald.

There was an additional grant entered on the same day for 20 acres, always connecting to both Letty Randle and Francis Locke. This time Charles Jones and Jonathan McDonald were chain carriers.

Job and Susan Callaway were at times members of Rocky River Baptist Church across the Rocky River in Anson County. At other times, their church membership was at Kendall's Church in the Kendall Valley along the Salisbury Road.  It was obvious they were of a primitive Baptist ilk. In Mr. Colson's Calloway book, he states that Job and Susannah lived in "what is now the Davidson Talbert Place" three miles north of Albemarle. He also recounts a story concerning Job Callaway and his church attendance. 

"On the Saturday before the fifth Sunday of May 1830, Job rode to the Rocky River Church to ask that Kendall's Church be constituted as a regular church. Kendall's was only a few miles from his home.....There is some speculation that the Callaway's had a falling out with the Rev. Sammy "Crying Sammy" Morton at Rocky River Church.'

Job Calloway did not live to be an old man, despite some folk's opinions on the contrary. I will get into that later. He was born around 1790 and died in 1837, making him about 48. Above is a court record from 1838, where his will was offered for probate by evidence of Samuel P. Morton, his executor, son- in- law and my 4th Great Grandfather. 

The above transaction between Samuel P. Morton and his brothers-in-law's, Isaac Calloway, Alfred Calloway, and Agrippa Calloway, took place during the division of property of the Calloway estate. Isaac, the son of Job, is not to be confused with his uncle, Isaac Jr. the brother of Job, who went to Georgia with his uncles.

The division and swapping of properties among the heirs of Job Calloway continued nearly a decade after his death. The above deed references a 200 acres tract on Long Creek, not in the typical area of his abode, crossing a branch referred to as "namons" branch, twice, a branch I'm not familiar with. This 200-acre property is one mentioned as a grant for military service in the book, "Callaway Family History 1630-1898" compiled by Robert Ellis Colson. Upon his death, it was sold to his son-in-law David Kendall by his executor and son-in-law, Samuel P. Morton and widow, Susannah. This property was located roughly in what is known as the Kendall Valley, along the Old Salisbury Road in northern Stanly County today. 

In 1854, John, Job's son, transferred his interest in his father's property to his brother, Isaac. 

In 1858, Susan Callaway transferred her dower and right to the house she lived in and inherited to her sons, "the boys", I believe meaning the younger ones, Isaac, Agrippa and Elmore. She would have been about 68 years old, having been born on July 11, 1790.

The original will of Job Callaway is thought to have been destroyed by fire in one of the Montgomery County Courthouse fires prior to 1841, when Stanly County was founded. It was brought before the Stanly County court in the May Session of 1858 and presented as actual under the oaths of Nelson Pennington and Samuel P. Morton. At his death, Job was in possession of about 770 acres of land. 

After the usual wishes for disposition of his body, Job left the balance of his estate to his "beloved wife" after his debts were paid during her widowhood and or in the case of remarriage, he wanted it to go to his children.

rd I give to my eldest daughter Mary McLester property to the amount of $70 which property she has got.

4th I give to my second eldest daughter Vashti Morton property to the amount of $70 which property she has got.

5th I give to my eldest son Isaac Calloway property to the amount of $70 which property he has got. the above mentioned children having their property now in hand are not to recieve anything more until all the rest of the children recieve $70 each if there be not that much, if not the three oldest above mentioned to pay over to the rest unitl all are equal.

6th I divide in this that 20 acres of land lying on the Yadkin River be sold.

7th I direct in my will that 400 acres of land at home be priced at $2 per acre + my 4 boys younger than lsaac buy the same + pay into the estate the amount thereof + as they come to the age of 21 they are at liberty to build, settle, + clear said land outside of the old premises so that there shall be no improvement on the widows peaceable possession + if they choose not to take their place in this land the said when called for by the 1st oldest or by any of the 4 when 21 to laid off equally + value accordingly to division + the drawed for by them four boys, viz, Elmore, John, Agrippa + Alfred. 

Job appointed his son-in-law, Rev. Samuel P. Morton as his executor.

			Susanna Randall Callaway passed away on April 18, 1870, of consumption. Other members of the family died about the same time. Mary Callaway McLester also died of consumption the same year. She may have been taking care of her ill mother. Job and Susannah were both buried in the Calloway family cemetery, with his parents. The cemetery is still in use, but overtime became the Palestine Community Cemetery. The Calloway's were early citizens of the Palestine Community and descendants still live there. The ten children of Job and Susannah Randle Calloway were: 1) Mary M. Calloway 1810-1870. Married Daniel McLester and died of consumption.  2) Vashita Calloway 1812-1846. Married Samuel Parsons Morton 3) Isaac Calloway 1814- 1898. Married 3 times; Mary Kendall, Betsy Mann and Mary Linda Carter. 4) Elmore W. Calloway 1816 - 1898. Married Samantha Mariah Hodges. Moved to Tatnall, Georgia. 5) John C.  Calloway 1819-1862. Married Mary Clay. 5 children, died Petersburg, VA. Civil War. 6) King Agrippa Gamaliel Calloway 1823-1890 Married Eliza Elliott, 6 children. 7) Alfred S. Calloway 1827-1863. Married Mary Jane Marks, 1 child. Died Lynchburg, Va, Civil War. 8) Cassandra Calloway 1828 - Unknown. Married 1st William D. Kendall, 2nd to a Pennington, 3rd Nathaniel Wallace. 9) Sarah Calloway 1829-1894 Married James M. Clay. Moved to Grayson County, Texas. 10) Martisha R. Calloway 1834 - 1911. Married Benjamin L. Kendall. Moved to Tatnall, Georgia Palestine One of the earliest mentions of the town of Palestine in Stanly County that I can find mention of was published  in the Charlotte Observer in 1888. It was the description of a lengthy road being built by the state. The mention of our section involved the road leading from Albemarle would "run by Palestine Church in Stanly County and will cross the Yadkin at Penningtons Ferry; thence will run through Eldorado in Montgomery County direct to Asheboro in Randolph County." The Charlotte Observer Charlotte, North Carolina • Thu, Jul 12, 1888Page 4 We can ponder on old and modern maps what road, or a connection of them, that might have been, but the mention was of Palestine Church.  There are other accounts of the Post Office named Narrows, being renamed Palestine on April 7, 1880, and Green M. Dry being the first Postmaster. So, to my understanding, the name Palestine seems to have been derived from the Church, and the Church name from the Bible.  A quick history of the church states that the site began as a place established for seasonal outdoor camp meetings during the 1860's. Those meeting transitioned into a formal church and eventually a Methodist Congregation. At present, it is the Palestine Community Church. One afternoon recently, I decided to drive by on my way from Badin to Albemarle and first caught site of the old Calloway family cemetery highlighted by a sunbeam through the clouds from the curve before the railroad tracks. It's a mix of old and recent interments, the oldest being in the center of the cemetery and many of the stones now missing or illegible. In the church history is mentioned that the area was first settled by the pioneer Calloway and Talbert families. The church would later adopt the Calloway family cemetery as it's own, and it is now simply the Palestine Community Cemetery. The most populous name in the cemetery seems to be that of Dry, and a Dry was the first Postmaster. Early newspaper accounts also mention several Drys in connection with Palestine, especially an Adam Dry. Talbert is also a common name in the population of the marked stones.

As I thought of my Calloway ancestors and their connection to this land, a heavenly peace came across sky and I felt the connection to the early families who settled in the long ago community of Narrowsville, when the land was fresh and the people few. Other names popular among the internments are Blalocks, Bowers, Carpenter, Carter, Donahoe and Davis. Two of my Great Grandfather's brothers are buried here, as well as the son and descendants of my second Great Grandfather's brother who moved from the Stanly side of the Rocky River to Burnsville in Anson. His descendants relocated back to Stanly to the Palestine area. There is also a heathy population of Foremans, Forts, Fespemans and Hopkins. Hopkins are almost as populous there as Talberts, but no one family can touch the number of Drys buried there. The names like Halls, Griffins, Goss and Greens, Rummage and other litanies of common Stanly County names found here, were all intermarried into the primary four names found here: Drys, Hopkins, Talberts and Carters. The Davis family married into the Carters. The family of country singer, Kellie Pickler, who grew up here, are buried here, having married into the Drys. I can remember driving by the old Union Russell store, that I hoped would stand forever, but someone took it down in recent years. Russells also possess a good representation in the plots.

		Somewhere in these visible graves, deprived by tiime and weather of markers, are Isaac and Elizabeth Arnold Calloway and Job and Suannah Randle Callaway.

An old cemetery record book states that the grave of Isaac and Elizabeth lie beneath the first cedar tree as you enter the drive, but the cedar tree is no longer there. This was however, part of the property where Isaac Calloway lived and raised his children over 200 years ago, along Mountain Creek, which ran right through it and behind the cemetery.

It is also said that Job lived in the old Davidson Talbert place. Palestine now, is a place where five roads meet and cross. One of those "five-point' intersections. The church is there, many homes and several independant businesses. They used to have a sewing mill, now they have a towing service. The lot of the old putt putt golf is still there, but with decades of disuse. There is still a Christmas parade every year. And the Calloways wil rest in peace here forever among the ghosts of old Narrowsville.

Calloways and their descendants still live in and near Palestine.

Below, some information on the Wilkes County, Georgia Calloways

Enoch Callaway Homestead, Wilkes County, Georgia

The Callaway family of Georgia, established by brothers Job Callaway (c1741-1804), John Callaway (1746-1821), Joseph Callaway (1754-1821) and Joshua Callaway (1757-1816), is one of the best known family names in the state of Georgia. These men, sons of Edward Callaway (1711-1769); grandsons of John Callaway (1746-1821); and great-grandsons of American immigrant Peter Callaway (c1640-c1719), migrated with their families from Onslow County, North Carolina and settled the western lands of Wilkes County about 1783. Joined later by nephews, Isaac Callaway, Jr. (1776-1822) and David Callaway (1779-1844) sons of brother Isaac Callaway (c1750-c1819), the Callaway family spread through the surrounding counties, across the state and eventually westward as new land opened to settlement.

From these early times, Callaway’s and their allied families have been leaders in the civic, religious and political affairs of their communities, states and nation - a commitment that now stands at two-hundred and twenty-seven years as of 2010. The Callaway Family Cemetery is located on the Enoch Callaway Homestead near the town of Rayle in Wilkes County, Georgia. Known through the years as both the John Callaway Cemetery and the Rev. Enoch Callaway Family Cemetery, the family burying ground is located on land first settled by the Callaway’s in 1783 and still occupied by their descendants today.

While most of the individuals buried in the cemetery are descendants of Rev. Enoch Callaway (1792-1859), youngest son of John Callaway (1746-1821) and Bethany Arnold (1749-1844), some cousins from the Job Callaway (c1741-1804) family line are found among the gravestones. Descendants of Job, Joseph, Joshua, Isaac Jr. and David Callaway, as well, are found in the early history of Wilkes County, many still living in Wilkes County today and several connected to John and Bethany Arnold Callaway through allied families.

Directions:

From Georgia Highway 78 take Callaway Road(County Road 82) 1.5 miles (northeast) to Adolphus Callaway Road, turn right and travel 1.3 miles (southeast), passing the Enoch Callaway homestead (457 Adolphus Callaway Rd.) at .6 mile (pavement ends after .7 mile). Continue another .6 mile on the dirt road and turn left at the old wooden gin mill (also on the left). Travel .3 mile through the field to the cemetery.

Excerpt from 'The History of Anson County" by Mary Louise Medley

 

'A contemporary of Freeman and the Ratliff preachers was Samuel P. Morton known as 'Crying Sammy Morton'. An emotional type, he was given to shedding tears from the pulpit. Deacon Uriah Staton, large landowner of the Rocky River section and  a leader in both the first church there and a later one at Red Hill, usually went to sleep when Uncle Sammy preached. When asked about this he is said to have replied, "I know I can trust Uncle Sammy, but a stranger I have to watch'. Morton was born in Stanly County in 1805 and lived near Badin. He was an earnest, good man and filled with the spirit, and lived a meager life, bordering on poverty. He requested that the words on his tombstone be 'S. P. Morton A Sinner Saved by Grace.' What he lacked in colorful revival tactics, he made up in sincere good work. He converted and baptized many people during his ministry. '

  Note: The present town of Badin did not exist during the lifetime of Sammy Morton. What the author meant was he lived in the area of the present town. Ebenezer Baptist Church, now Badin Baptist, did exist and in it's cemetary is buried the father of Sammy Morton's first wife, Vashti Calloway, Job Calloway. Vashita Calloway Morton's grave and the homestead of Samuel P. Morton at the time was is the path of the expanding waters of Badin lake during the Dam construction era. Vashti's grave, with many others, was relocated to one of the Graveyard Islands near Tuckertown Dam. Sammy and his second wife, Lucy Ingram Morton, are buried at Red Hill Baptist Church in northern Anson County. 

The newspaper clipping above, I've found attached to the profile of Job Calloway who was married to Susannah Randle. This was not him by a long shot. There are also claims that he is buried at Kendall's Church and not Palestine. The Job Callaway buried at Kendall's Baptist Church was the one mentioned above. He was the grandson of my 5th Great Grandfather, for whom he was named. Job Callaway the III was the son of Isaac Calloway the III, son of Job II. He was born April 26, 1847, and in the spirit of serving in the military as his predecessors did, he was a Civil War Vet. He married Elizabeth Mann and died on April 23, 1934. 

) Mary M. Calloway 1810-1870. Married Daniel McLester

2) Vashita Calloway 1812-1846. Married Samuel P. Morton

3) Isaac Calloway 1814- 1898. Married 3 times; Mary Kendall, Betsy Mann and Mary Linda Carter.

4) Elmore W. Calloway 1816 - 1898. Married Samantha Mariah Hodges. Moved to Tatnall, Georgia.

5) John C.Calloway 1819-1862. Married Mary Clay. 5 children, died Petersburg, VA. Civil War.

6) King Agrippa Gamaliel Calloway 1823-1890 Married Eliza Elliott.

7) Alfred S. Calloway 1827-1863. Married Mary Jane Marks, 1 child. Died Lynchburg, Va, Civil War.

8) Cassandra Calloway 1828 - Unknown. Married 1st W. D. Kendall, 2nd Nathaniel Wallace.

9) Sarah Calloway 1829-1894 Married James M. Clay. Moved to Grayson County, Texas.

10) Martisha R. Calloway 1834 - 1911. Married Benjamin L. Kendall. Moved to Tatnall, Georgia