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Rev Pitt Milner Callaway Sr

10 Oct 1812 – 29 Nov 1898

Birth10 Oct 1812
Death29 Nov 1898
CemeteryNewton Cemetery
Newton , Dale County , Alabama , USA
Added byMack & Renate Hall on 30 Jun 2006
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Rev. Callaway was a 3rd great-grandson of American Immingrant Peter Callaway. His Callaway ancestry: Peter Callaway = Elizabeth Johnson John Callaway = Mary Gould Edward Callaway = Elizabeth Joshua Callaway = Isabella Graves Henderson Rev. Joshua Sanford Callaway = Mary Milner Rev. Pitt Milner Callaway REV. PTTT MILNER CALLAWAY married (1) ELEANOR WILEY "ELLEN" JORDAN December 10, 1833. She was born January 6, 1816 in Warren Co., GA, and died July 16, 1879 in Newton, Dale Co., AL. He married (2) MRS. MARY V. MCLANEY February 16, 1880. Children of PITT CALLAWAY and ELEANOR JORDAN are: i. JULIA ANNETTE CALLAWAY, m. BARNEY IVY. ii. ELLA BENETA PITT CALLAWAY, m. MOSES NAPOLÉON CARLISLE. iii. WILLIE APPY CALLAWAY, m. ALFRED NOLEN JONES. iv. NARCISSA MEDORA CALLAWAY, m. (1) EDMOND W. JORDAN; m. (2) MR. RICE. v. MARY LOVE "POLLY" CALLAWAY, b. April 7, 1839, Eufaula, Barbour Co., AL; d. 1909, Enterprise, Chilton Co., AL; m. (1) MOSES WORTHINGTON, December 25, 1861, Newton, , AL; m. (2) WILLIAM D. WOOD, 1866, Alabama; b. September 22, 1835, Newton, Dale Co., AL; d. November 1, 1886, Newton, Dale Co., AL. vi. MELISSA ALEPH "ADA" CALLAWAY, b. March 20, 1842, Macon Co., AL; d. October 8, 1887, Highland, Erath Co., TX; m. (1) AARON WORTHINGTON; m. (2) ALFORD MOSES JONES, November 14, 1865, Newton, Dale Co., AL; b. October 1, 1840, Heard Co., GA; d. March 12, 1922, Electra, Wichita Co., TX. vii. JOSHUA SANDFORD CALLAWAY, b. Aft. 1842. viii. DORINDA MILNER CALLAWAY, b. October 21, 1850, Eufaula, Barbour Co., AL; d. June 24, 1934, Newton, Dale Co., AL; m. RICHARD LAFAYETTE JONES, November 24, 1868; b. May 14, 1846, Heard Co., GA; d. April 23, 1923, Newton, Dale Co., AL. ix. REV. PITT MILNER CALLAWAY, JR., b. April 16, 1858, near Midway, Bullock Co., AL; d. September 9, 1944, Selma, Dallas Co., AL; m. CARRIE THIGPEN, 1882, Albany, Dougherty Co., GA; b. of Newton, , AL; d. March 28, 1945. Biography Info found on genealogytrails.com CALLAWAY, PITT MILNER Pitt Milner Callaway, Baptist minister, was born October 10, 1812, in Wilkes County, Ga., and died November 29, 1898, in Newton, Dale County, Ala.; son of Elder Joshua S. Callaway, a missionary Baptist minister, born May 30, 1789, in Wilkes County, Ga. In early life the son enlisted at Columbus, Ga., in answer to a call for volunteers to defend the country from the Indians and during his last years received a pension. In 1838 he removed to Macon County, Ala., and a few years later to Eufaula, Barbour County, where he engaged in mercantile business and also studied law, but after his admission to the bar only practiced to a limited extent. In 1834 he was converted and ten years later, while on a visit to Georgia, united with the church of which his father was pastor; was ordained a deacon at Eufaula, and subsequently entered the ministry, being ordained at Mount Zion church in Macon County in 1857. From that date his life was devoted to church work and as a preacher he had few equals in southern Alabama. He represented Dale County in the state legislature in 1882-3 and was a strong advocate of prohibition and education. From Barbour County he removed to Bullock County; and in 1863 to Dale County, making his home in Newton for the last thirty-five years of his life. Married (1) December 10, 1833, to Ellen Wiley Jordon; and (2) February 16, 1880, to Mrs. Mary V. McLaney. He left several children. Last residence: Newton, Ala. Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J. Clarke publishing company, 1921

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