Autobiography from "The Callaway Clan" compiled by Bessie Callaway Hoffmeyer, privately printed 1948 by College Press Collegedale, TN: "I was born June 18, 1865, at Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia, where my parents had refugeed during the war. I was four years old when they moved back to Whitfield County, Georgia. I went to school at Trickum and Dogwood Valley, then attended Emory College, Oxford, Georgia, staying with Brother Morgan Callaway and wife. I went to Texas June 1, 1882, at the age of seventeen to visit my brother Willis and wife Fannie and taught school at Goat Creek, about seven miles northwest of Kerrville, Texas, at a log house with split logs for seats. Mr. Lorance was leaving Texas, going to middle Tennessee in a wagon, taking some ponies and his family. He paid me fifty cents a day to help him. Having two ponies of my own, and wanting to return home, I was glad to go with him. When we reached Tennessee I sold my ponies, caught a freight train going to Corinth, Mississippi, then took a passenger train for Tunnel Hill, Georgia, and walked the five or six miles home. I was on the road seventy-eight days. Some days we traveled ten miles, others fifteen. There were no bridges over the creeks or rivers, causing much trouble. I bought a farm on Mill Creek and farmed awhile. I met Minnie Lydia Glaze at a party at Charley Harlan's home; we married three years later. After we married, I sold the farm and lived on the Glaze home place three miles from Dalton, Georgia. Agnes and Jesse were born there in the twelve-room home, which later burned. We built a small house where Carlyle was born. I moved to Oklahoma Territory, March, 1907, which became Oklahoma State in November. Minnie Lydia was born in Oklahoma. I have been blessed with good health; I never had a doctor come to see me. I have lived on the farm I am now on for forty-one years, raising stock and farming. I am now eighty-three years young, and have four children and two grandchildren. - Woodson Kirby Callaway"