CFH First Draft: Marquis Callin

  This post is part of an ongoing series, sharing the first draft of my Revised Callin Family History. 

Marquis Callin is the 23rd 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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Fourth Generation

23. Marquis Callin (Thomas-3, James "2nd"-2, James "1st"-1) was born about 1833 in Ohio. He is likely the “Munfer Callan” who lived in Olivesburg, Richland County, Ohio in 1860, a 27-year-old shopkeeper living in the household of his brother, Thomas Jefferson Callin. The Ohio, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890 also lists a “Menefer Callan” living in Olivesburg that year.

Marquis married Caroline Snyder abt 1865, probably in Fulton County, Ohio. Caroline was the daughter of John Jacob Snyder (1808–1886) and Elizabeth Hoover (1812–1891), born abt. 1845 and raised in Clinton, Fulton County, Ohio.

Marquis and Caroline lived in Wauseon, Fulton County, where he worked as a shoemaker. She died in 1880, sometime after the 1880 Census was taken on 8 June of that year, and she was buried in Wauseon Union Cemetery. When her father died in Ellsworth County, Kansas, in 1886, Caroline and her two sons, Fred and John “Callins,” were named among his heirs in a “Petition for Letter of Administration” for the estate of John J. Snyder.

There are no official records that show where Marquis went after his wife’s death, but the original Callin Family History states that he died in Chicago, date unknown.

Marquis Callin and Caroline Snyder had two children:

                      i.   Fred Callin was born abt 1867 in Ohio.

        79         ii.   John Callin, born Jan 1872, Wauseon, Fulton County, Ohio; married Nina Louise Gifford; married Edith L Ferris, 9 Dec 1938, King County, Washington; died 21 May 1940, Renton, King County, Washington.

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Note: this post has been updated to reflect new information that confirms Caroline's information.