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Joseph Farrow Calloway

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Joseph Farrow Calloway

Birth
Ashe County, North Carolina, USA
Death
1871 (aged 32–33)
Tarrant County, Texas, USA
Burial
Haltom City, Tarrant County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 12, Lot 41, Space 7
Memorial ID
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Joseph F. Calloway was born in 1838. He was a son of Birdville pioneers Shadrack Calloway
(1814-1863) and his wife, Mary Baker (1820-1889), both of whom lie buried at Birdville. Joseph
F. Calloway appears in his father's family in the 1850 census of Ashe County, North Carolina.
Joseph's family did not own any slaves in 1850. A published biographical sketch of his father-in-law, Hiram Calloway, says Joseph and his wife, Mary J., came to Texas with Hiram in 1859.
Joseph F. Calloway served in Co. G, Chisum's Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Dismounted), also known
as Second Partisan Rangers, Stone's Regiment. Calloway's name appears on a regimental return for
April 1865, showing him left sick in a hospital at Crockett, Texas on April 1, 1865, per orders of the
regimental surgeon.

Joseph married his first cousin, Mary J., the daughter of his father's brother, Hiram Calloway. After
Joseph's early death, she and her children made their home with Hiram until his death at Birdville in 1900.
Joseph F. Calloway was born in 1838. He was a son of Birdville pioneers Shadrack Calloway
(1814-1863) and his wife, Mary Baker (1820-1889), both of whom lie buried at Birdville. Joseph
F. Calloway appears in his father's family in the 1850 census of Ashe County, North Carolina.
Joseph's family did not own any slaves in 1850. A published biographical sketch of his father-in-law, Hiram Calloway, says Joseph and his wife, Mary J., came to Texas with Hiram in 1859.
Joseph F. Calloway served in Co. G, Chisum's Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Dismounted), also known
as Second Partisan Rangers, Stone's Regiment. Calloway's name appears on a regimental return for
April 1865, showing him left sick in a hospital at Crockett, Texas on April 1, 1865, per orders of the
regimental surgeon.

Joseph married his first cousin, Mary J., the daughter of his father's brother, Hiram Calloway. After
Joseph's early death, she and her children made their home with Hiram until his death at Birdville in 1900.


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