1. Sarah Callaway (1779 - 1839?), married James Barnes
Sarah married James in 1798 in Kentucky. They had twenty-two children, sixteen of whom lived to adulthood.[1] It appears that there were two sets of twins among their children.[2] They came out from Montgomery County, Kentucky to what was then Montgomery County, Missouri (Marthasville) in 1815.[3] James had “epilectic fits” which made the move difficult.[4] They seem to have been still living there in 1834 when Sarah accompanied her mother on a 25 mile trip on horseback from Marthasville to Susannah (Callaway) Howell’s family (see below).[5]
2. John Boone Callaway (1781 - 1823), married Elizabeth Caton
When his parents moved to Marthasville around 1811 (possibly earlier), John acquired their original land along the Femme Osage Creek and Callaway Fork. There he had a mill and distillery. He married Elizabeth in 1809 and they went on to have four children. He served as Justice of the Peace and Judge of the County Court.[6] In his will he mentions four slaves, as well as setting aside two acres of his land for the Femme Osage Baptist Society for the construction of a church.[7]
3. James Richard Callaway (Sep. 13, 1783 - March 7, 1815), married Nancy Howell
After the move from Kentucky, James went on several long hunts in central Missouri (at least in 1802, 1803, and 1804) and went as far west as the Kansas River.[8] James married Nancy on May 9, 1805, and they went on to have three children.[9] Nancy's brother Thomas and sister Susannah married James' siblings. James and Nancy settled on Howell’s Prairie, along Kraut Run.[10] (Kraut Run is a tributary of Dardenne Creek that runs through Busch Wildlife Area and Broemmelsiek Park.) A few years after their wedding, James served as a deputy sheriff of the St. Charles District.[11] During the War of 1812, James served as an officer in the US territorial rangers. He served as the captain of a company of rangers in early 1813, and then as a lieutenant in Daniel Morgan Boone's company through June, 1814, and then as the captain of the company. In July, 1814, he led his company on Campbell’s campaign up the Mississippi and participated in the battles of Campbell's Island and Credit Island.[12] You can read a letter he wrote to his parents in August, 1814 (between those battles) here. In 1815, while stationed at Fort Clemson on Loutre Island in the Missouri River, he and about twenty men pursued some Indians who had stolen horses. They were ambushed along the Prairie Fork of Loutre Creek. He was killed as he sought to extract his men from the situation.[13] Callaway County, Missouri was named in his honor.[14] His brother-in-law, Lewis Howell, wrote,
Captain James Callaway was about six feet in height, he was rather slender, dark ruddy complexion and might be what is called good-looking person, yet not remarkably handsome; as it regards his character, I consider it a good one, he was cheerful, kind, and obliging, he was an affectionate husband, kind and indulgent father and a good master to his servants. He was uncommonly popular with all classes, ready always to relieve the distress of the suffering. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and as he was only in his thirty-third year when he was killed, on account of his amiable disposition and popularity, had he been spared, I have little doubt he would have been a leading character of our state.[15]4. Frances Callaway (1786 - 1856), married William T. Lamme
Frances married William Lamme on August 9, 1803.[16] William had accompanied Nathan Boone on a particularly successful long hunt in 1802 on the Niango River, and they hunted again in 1803.[17] “He was a First Lieutenant in Nathan Boone’s company of Rangers, and was afterwards Major of a regiment. He had a good education, was a fine businessman, and left his family in good circumstances at his death.”[18] Frances and William had ten children[19] and lived on 800 arpents (675 acres) between Marthasville and the Bryan cemetery in Warren County, Missouri.[20] The family had some interesting names. Some of his children were named Czarina, Missouri, Leonidas, Achilles, and Napoleon, and the younger slaves were named Calvin, Milton, and Wesley. William's will mentions six slaves, and provides that, if they were to be sold in the case of his wife dying or marrying, that "I desire particularly in behalf of my woman servant Mary and as a mark of my favor to her, because of her signal fidelity to me that she and all her children be sold together and to the same bidder and I further request that my family will use all reasonable efforts to enable her to procure an acceptable purchaser."[21] William died in 1840, and Frances died in 1856 in De Kalb, Missouri, visiting her son Achilles.[22]
5. Susannah Callaway (Jan. 1, 1791 - Dec. 1876), married Thomas Howell
Susannah and Thomas were married on July 10, 1806, lived on a farm on Howell’s Prairie (their house was near what is now the Thomas Howell Cemetery), and had fourteen children.[23] Daniel Boone, near the end of his life, named one of their children Amazon Howell for the river in South America.[24] Thomas was known as a hunter, ranger, fiddle player, farmer, and a good runner.[25] Thomas Howell's ferry crossed the Missouri near where the Daniel Boone Bridge is today, next to Howell's Island.[26] One of his daughters, Eviza Coshow, wrote about him, saying, "I oftimes herd him say he came here--helped drive the red skins from the Land--then the Hessian Dutch come and Stole and confiscated his property forst [forced] him to take some unlawful oaths where he had beat his meal ... He was very Stout active robust man died of Pralysis. I herd him say they frist settled in Bonhom Bottom afterwards to Howells Prarie ... I remember of hearing him say he Swam the Missouri river, that on his head dry, hunting shirt, trousers mocasons and violin--first to Play for a party in Bonhom Bottom ... he was a good musician--died in his Eighty Seventh year. Belonged to the same company that Uncle James Callaway was killed in."[27] The Howells had twenty slaves in 1860 in three slave houses, ranging from age 61 years to 3 months.[28] Susannah and Thomas are buried in the "Thomas Howell Cemetery" at the intersection of 94 and D.
6. Tabitha Callaway (1792 - 1818), married Abraham Darst
Tabitha married Abraham Darst in 1810 and they lived in the Femme Osage valley near Callaway Fork. They had five children. Abraham's father David had served under George Rogers Clark during the American Revolution before moving the family in 1798 to what became known as Darst Bottom (around present-day Defiance, Missouri). Tabitha died in 1818 and was buried in the Bryan cemetery. Abraham remarried in 1820 and he, his wife, and his children from both marriages later traveled in 1829 with Stephen Austin’s second colony to Texas. A number of them, including Tabitha’s sons Emory, Edmund, Patrick, and John, fought in the War for Texan Independence.[29]
7. Larkin Callaway (March 17, 1794 - 1839), married Susannah Howell
In 1813, Larkin enlisted in the company of rangers commanded by his brother, Captain James Callaway.[30] Larkin and Susannah married on December 21, 1815. (This means that Susannah Howell became Susannah Callaway, while Larkin's sister Susannah Callaway became Susannah Howell.) Larkin and his wife Susannah had seven children and lived near Marthasville, Missouri. Susannah died at the age of 33 and Larkin died eight years later at the age of 44.[31]
8. Elizabeth Callaway (Feb. 15, 1797 - June 1, 1867), married Morgan Bryan
Elizabeth married Morgan on February 15, 1815. Morgan was the son of David Bryan, who had been raised largely by Daniel and Rebecca Boone, and whose brother Jonathan and father James lived a mile from where Daniel Boone lived with his son Nathan. Morgan had served in Nathan Boone's company of rangers during the War of 1812.[32] Morgan and Elizabeth had two children. She died in Everett, Boone County, Missouri on June 1, 1867.[33] She had been living there with her son Julius since at least 1860.[34]
9. Minerva Callaway (1801 - November 21, 1850), married Dr. John Jones
Minerva married Dr. John Jones in 1819. Dr. Jones had come from Kentucky to Marthasville, Missouri as a doctor in 1812. Dr. Jones was well known as a doctor across the region and served as the surgeon for the state militia. He is the doctor that cared for Daniel Boone in his final years, including the summer of 1820. Daniel Boone narrated his life and adventures to Dr. Jones so that he might prepare it for the press, but this document was lost after Dr. Jones's death.[35] He was assassinated in 1842 by a band of counterfeiters after his investigation had led to the arrest of one of them. Minerva continued to live in the old homestead in Marthasville until her death in 1850.[36] They had ten children.[37] They had bought Derry, the slave that had accompanied Daniel Boone on some of his hunting trips, from Nathan Boone around 1821 and had given Derry "full charge" of the farm. As their son Paul recounted, "all other laborers my brothers not excepted obeyed the orders of Uncle Derry as I was taught by my parents to call him, as implicitly as though he had been the actual owner of the outfit." Minerva freed Derry after her husband’s death. Paul recounted that she also "set apart a portion of our old home farm to Derry which he worked as his own. Derry and his excilent wife Sofy, who was a fit wife for so pure a man as he was, lived on that land donated to this use by my mother, in the former office or house used by my father, Dr John Jones, as his professional office."[38] There was another slave who grew up with Minerva, whom Minerva taught to read and write, and who was given to her and her husband at their marriage and later helped care for her children.[39]
10. Daniel Boone Callaway (1803 - 1848), married Anna Griswold
He is listed in his father’s will as the heir of his parents’ land near Marthasville,[40] and the 1830 census shows him and a woman between 60 and 70 living with him (almost certainly his mother Jemima).[41] He married Anna in 1829 or 1830. They had at least three children,[42] although the census of 1840 shows 5 free white children under 9 years of age in their household (as well as one slave and two men in their twenties besides Daniel and Anna). By that time they lived across the river in St. John, Franklin County, Missouri.[43] There is record of him getting land near Fayette, Missouri in 1845,[44] but he died a few years later in 1848.
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[1] Wm. S. Bryan and Robert Rose, A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1977 [1876]), 242. Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
[2] Evisa Coshow, Draper Manuscript volume 21, letter 58. She says “the first twins both died” after coming to Missouri.
[3] Larkin Barnes, Draper Manuscript volume 21, letters 11 and 14. Note: Warren County was formed out of Montgomery County in 1833; in this case they moved to what is now Warren County, near Marthasville.
[4] Eviza Coshow, Draper Manuscript volume 21, letter 33.
[5] Eviza Coshow, Draper Manuscript volume 21, letter 24.
[6] Ella Hazel Spraker, The Boone Family (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1993 [1922]), 181; Bryan and Rose, 209; My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone, ed. Neal O. Hammon (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999), 135.
[7] “Last Will and Testament of John B. Callaway” Family History Library #967511 or Missouri Archives #5929, Wills & Letters of Administration & Letters Testamentary #1 1822 - 1833 St. Charles County Missouri
[8] My Father, Daniel Boone, 120, 122, 124.
[9] Spraker, 181.
[10] Bryan and Rose, 96.
[11] "Short Biographical Sketch of the Life of Captain James Callaway by Lewis Howell" in Lilian Hays Oliver, Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the St. Charles District (N.p: Chedwato Service, 1964), 155.
[12] My Father, Daniel Boone, 130-131. Daniel T. Brown, Westering River, Westering Trail: A History of St. Charles County, Missouri to 1849 (St. Charles, MO: St. Charles County Historical Society), 214-218.
[13] My Father, Daniel Boone, 132-133.
[15] "Short Biographical Sketch of the Life of Captain James Callaway by Lewis Howell" in Lilian Hays Oliver, Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the St. Charles District (N.p: Chedwato Service, 1964), 156-157.
[16] Oliver, 176
[17] My Father, Daniel Boone, 120, 122.
[18] Spraker, 183.
[19] Spraker, 183.
[20] Ken Kamper’s Historical Reference Map shows the Lamme’s land near Marthasville. See also, Oliver, 176.
[21] Oliver, 176-178.
[22] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11770983/frances-lamme, and Oliver, 176. For her birth, see the 1850 census, which records her as 64 years old, living in Warren County with her son Napoleon. Spraker, 182-183 records her death in 1865 (Oliver, 176 says "ca 1865"), but her gravestone says she died in 1856.
[23] Oliver, 338-339. See pictures of their house online at https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/MO0899/
[24] Spraker, 182; Oliver, 344; Lilburn Boggs, Draper Manuscript vol. 23, letter 27. Boggs said, "A few years before his [Daniel’s] death he expressed a great desire to explore the Amazon River in South America & being called upon at that time (while the Amazon fever was upon him) to name a grandson, he called him 'Amazon.'"
[25] Bryan and Rose, 227, 507; Oliver, Crow’s Nest, https://thetntstory.blogspot.com/2013/09/crows-nest-homes-49-52.html; Coshow, Draper Manuscript vol. 21, letter 24
[26] Oliver, 338.
[27] Eviza Coshow, Draper Manuscript vol. 21, letter 24. The reference to “Hessians,” recalling the earlier pro-British German soldiers in the American Revolution, refers to the Civil War and their pro-Union German neighbors.
[28] 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.
[29] For this information on Tabitha and her family see Sanford Gladden, The Durst and Darst Families of America, Vol. 1 (Boulder Genealogical Society, 2013) 69-70, 73.
[30] Oliver, 157.
[31] Bryan and Rose, 155; Oliver, 180; Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007; 1830 Census; Census Place: Charette, Montgomery, Missouri; Series: M19; Roll: 72; Page: 208; Family History Library Film: 0014853. They are buried in the Bryan cemetery. His will was done in Franklin County, causing some to think he moved to the town of Franklin, but he doesn’t seem to have moved.
[32] Oliver, 79.
[33] Spraker, 183.
[34] 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. The census seems to spell Julius as Icilius.
[35] My Father, Daniel Boone, 136, 138
[36] Goodspeed's Franklin County History, 1888, Goodspeed Publishing Co. (link).
[37] Spraker, 183-184.
[38] S. Paul Jones, Draper Manuscript vol. 21, letters 1.
[39] S. Paul Jones, Draper Manuscript vol. 21, letter 5.
[40] Flanders Callaway, “The Will of Flanders Callaway” Geni.com (link).
[41] 1830; Census Place: Charette, Montgomery, Missouri; Series: M19; Roll: 72; Page: 208; Family History Library Film: 0014853.
[42] https://web.archive.org/web/20190421151753/http://www.ronulrich.com/rfuged/fam08119.htm; and Oliver, 194. Some sources say they married in 1820, but this might be a misreading of 1830. Note that all the children were born after 1829).
[43] Year: 1840; Census Place: St John, Franklin, Missouri; Roll: 223; Page: 216; Image: 1144; Family History Library Film: 0014855.
[44] Land Patent 10/1/1845 Accession Nr:MO2960__.104 GloRecords.blm.gov.
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