This post is part of an ongoing series, sharing the first draft of my Revised Callin Family History.
William H. Callin is the 14th person in a descendant report beginning with the earliest known ancestor of our Callin family, (1.) James Callin. This descendant report uses the Register Style of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society.
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Third Generation
14. William H. Callin (John-2, James "1st"-1) was born on 10 May 1813 in Pennsylvania. (His birth date has also been calculated from his gravestone as 14 Jul 1813.)
“William Callin was 3 years old when his father moved from Penn. to Ashland, Ohio. He grew to manhood on the old farm. Married and lived there till 1849 when he moved to Huron Co., Ohio; bought and cleared up a new farm. In 1861 he bought and moved his family on to a farm in Wood Co., near Bowling Green.
“He was a perfect specimen of physical manhood, six feet tall, weight 200 pounds; all bone and muscle. Few men equaled him in strength. He followed clearing timber land and was badly crippled with rheumatism in old age.”
William H. Callin and Elizabeth Berlin were married on 29 Sep 1836 in Richland County, Ohio. Elizabeth Berlin, daughter of John Berlin and Anna (or Mary Ann) Baughman, was born on 14 Nov 1817 in Pennsylvania. Her parents relocated to Ohio from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, around 1830; they were living in Vermilion, Ashland County, in 1870, but their full story is not yet known.
William was also described in the Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio published by J.H. Beers in 1895:
“He was an industrious, hardy, persevering man, possessing great physical strength, but had only a limited knowledge of books. He had a mind of keen perception and sound judgment, and was well fitted for pioneer life.”
Census records seem to confirm the general sequence of events. William was in Richland County, Ohio in 1840; as was related earlier, he traveled to Iowa after his cousin, James, died there, and retrieved his sister, Margaret, and her two boys. William moved his family to Peru Township, Huron County, where he lived near his older brother, George, in 1850 and in Ridgefield, Huron County, in 1860. As mentioned before, these brothers apparently used their farms as stations on the Underground Railroad.
After the war, William retired to Plain Township, Wood County, Ohio. He died on 9 Dec 1881 at the age of 68 in Bowling Green, Wood, Ohio, and he was buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio.
After William’s death, Elizabeth lived with her children. She appeared in the household of her son John in Middleton, Wood County, in 1900. Not long after that, she went to live with her son, George. In 1973, her granddaughter, Rosemary, would recall Elizabeth in her memoir:
“In her very last years she came to live with us at 331 Pearl Street in Bowling Green…I don't remember her but she knew me. She sat by the window mostly in the east bedroom. Papa loved to go in for a chat and he delighted in her witty answers. Mother was going to make her a dress and Papa asked --- he knew well enough that it would be calico or gingham, but he said playfully, "What'll it be, Mother, silk or satin?"
"It'll be sat in, all right."
"George, sometimes I wish I had gone over the hills to the poor house." (In those days considered a great disgrace.) "There would be old people there and they would know the things I want to talk about."
Another day she said to him, "The woman next door (mother) is going to have a baby (me)."
After I came she said; "I guess you better call her "Melia". (Sure glad they didn't.)
...When I was a young girl I used Elizabeth for my middle name but later I decided that Rosemary was enough.”
Elizabeth died on 19 Nov 1903 at the age of 86 in Bowling Green and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio.
William H. Callin and Elizabeth Berlin had seven children:
51 i. Harriet E. Callin, born 2 Mar 1838, Ashland, Ohio; married William Sly, 1859, Monroeville, Huron, Ohio; died 1907, Bowling Green, Wood, Ohio.
52 ii. John Henry Callin, born 10 Aug 1840, Richland, Ohio; married Amanda Lydia Walker, 8 Apr 1874, Scotch Ridge, Wood, Ohio; died 17 Mar 1913, Fostoria, Seneca, Ohio.
53 iii. James Monroe Callin, born 26 Feb 1844, Ashland County, Ohio; married Rosalina Bedora Davenport, 31 Dec 1867, Bowling Green; married Almira A. Weirick, 1880, Bowling Green; married Emma Bradt, 23 Aug 1893, Bowling Green; died 7 Apr 1901, St. Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
54 iv. George William Callin, born 4 Jul 1846, Jeromesville, Ashland, Ohio ; married Mary Ann St. John, 22 Apr 1871, Wood, Ohio; married Lura M. Case, 27 Jun 1899, Wood, Ohio; died 21 Jul 1921, Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio.
55 v. Hugh H. Callin Dr, born 16 May 1848, Ohio; married Sarah A Leonard, 20 Apr 1879, Wood, Ohio; died 12 Sep 1880, Portage, Wood, Ohio.
56 vi. Zimri G. Callin, born 10 Dec 1850, Monroeville, Huron, Ohio; married Ella Franklin, 1874; married Minnie E. Parker, 9 Apr 1881, Henry County, Ohio; died 10 Aug 1907, Bowling Green, Wood, Ohio.
vii. Milton Callin was born and died in 1852 in Ohio.
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