"Callaway Place"1814-GHM-155-29c-Whitfield Co.
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Sprinterman
N 34° 44.939 W 085° 06.191
16S E 673625 N 3846845
Ga 201 at Gordon Springs Road
Waymark Code: WM4BNP
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 08/02/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member GA Cacher
Views: 17

Jesse Callaway, soldier of 1812, son of Joseph Callaway, soldier of "76, lived in this house from 1852 to 1867. The house, built with bricks made on the place, remained in the family until after 1900. It is said to have been built about 1814. Callaway, born in Wilkes County in 1796, was a Sergeant in Capt. Jones' Co., Col. Booth's Regiment, Ga. Militia, 1814~15. He was married 4 times and had 18 children, most of them having living descendants in Ga. Deeding this house to his son John in 1867 he moved to another house on his land 2 miles north, where he died in 1875 and is buried in a family cemetery.
Type of Marker: Highway

Marker #: 155-29c

Date: 1954

Sponsor: Not listed

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