This post is part of an ongoing series, sharing the first draft of my Revised Callin Family History.
James Monroe Callin is the 55th 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
55. James Monroe Callin (William H.-3, John-2, James "1st"-1) was born on 26 Feb 1844 in Ashland County, Ohio. Jim was six when his father took the family to clear and settle a new farm in Peru, Huron, Ohio in 1850; they lived in Ridgefield, Huron, Ohio in 1860. Jim grew up in New London and Ridgefield, attending school and working on his father's farm, until the war began.
Jim was not yet 18 when the call for troops went out in 1861, but he turned 18 the following February. He went up to Toledo, and on 10 Oct 1862, a full two months before his older brother John enlisted, he enlisted in the 67th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company H.
At the time of his enlistment, his personal description was five feet eight inches high, fair complexion, grey eyes, and auburn hair. He was a farmer boy, strong and capable. Jim was twice wounded in action. First, and most serious, he was hit by a shell that struck the upper part of his right thigh near the bone during the charge at the Second Battle of Fort Wagner, South Carolina, 18 July 1863. (This was the battle depicted at the end of the 1989 film, Glory.) “He was one of the eighteen men who took their stand on the bomb proof of said Fort and that they held the same about thirty minutes and until their commander ordered them to retreat as best they could.” Jim was in the general hospital No. 9 at Buford (Beaufort), South Carolina, almost three months. He returned to duty 27 Sep 1863.
Second, he was struck in the back of his head by shrapnel from an exploding shell in the Battle of Chester Station, Virginia, 10 May 1864, and hospitalized at Ft. Monroe, Virginia, on 20 May 1864 after experiencing disorientation and headaches. This injury, though it sounds worse, was less serious than the thigh wound which caused permanent damage and a limp. Almost as bad, he, along with many others, contracted what was called “camp diarrhea,” dysentery, from which he suffered the remainder of his life. Jim was discharged honorably at the end of the war, and returned home in October 1865.
Jim and Rosalina Bedora Davenport were married on 31 Dec 1867 in Bowling Green, Wood, Ohio. Rosa, daughter of Martin Sidney Davenport (1824–1895) and Laura Maria Hix (1828–1904), was born on 29 Aug 1848 in Ohio. She and Jim had four children, and lived in Center, Wood County, Ohio in 1870. Rosa died on 20 Sep 1876 at the age of 28 in Perrysburg, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio.
James Monroe Callin and Rosalina Bedora Davenport had four children:
198 i. Albert Clifford Callin, born 14 Jan 1869; married Mary Gertrude Walker, 11 Dec 1895, Anderson, Madison, Indiana; died 6 May 1933, Ohio.
ii. Arthur K Callin was born on 10 Jul 1871 in Plain Township, Wood, Ohio. He lived with his grandparents, the Davenports, in Plain Township in 1880, after his mother died. He was a tailor, living in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, until at least 1900; he moved west, appearing in Grays Harbor, Washington, and in Olympia, Thurston County, Washington. He moved to Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon by 1918, and resided there for the rest of his life. He died on 29 Jan 1957 at the age of 85 in Multnomah County, Oregon.
199 iii. Bessa Viola Callin, born 27 Aug 1873, Middleton, Wood, Ohio; married Andrew J McFann, 1896; married David Edward Lakie, 4 Aug 1919, Lucas, Ohio; died 16 Jan 1939, Chicago, Cook, Illinois.
200 iv. Jessie Callin, born Mar 1876, Ohio; married Albert Henry Chudley, 25 Jun 1893, Wood, Ohio.
After Rosalina’s death, Jim farmed in Portage, Wood County, Ohio. He sent his three older children to live with Rosalina’s parents, Martin and Laura Davenport, and baby Jessie went to live with the St. John family in Plain Township. (Stephen and Harriet St. John were the parents of Mary Ann St. John Callin, the first wife of Jim’s younger brother, George.)
Jim and his second wife, Almira A. Weirick, were married in 1880 in Bowling Green, Wood, Ohio. Almira, daughter of Jason Weirick (1826–1917) and Matilda E Hassinger (1830–1915), was born in 1858 in Ohio. She grew up in Monroe, Richland County, Ohio, and in Bloom Township, Wood County.
Jim and Almira lived in Wood County for a few years, relocating to Deerfield, Michigan, before returning to Bowling Green. They had four children, three of whom survived infancy. Almira died of consumption (tuberculosis) on 28 Oct 1889 at the age of 31 and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio.
James Monroe Callin and Almira A. Weirick had four children:
201 v. Cora May Callin, born 24 Apr 1881, Portage, Wood, Ohio; married Joseph Able Low, 21 Dec 1902, Henry County, Ohio; married Henry Isaac Squire, 26 Nov 1929, Lorain County, Ohio; died 9 Sep 1936, Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio.
202 vi. Carrie E Callin, born 22 Jan 1883, Bloom Township, Wood, Ohio; married Edward George Low, 11 Apr 1900, Wood, Ohio; died 25 Apr 1960, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio.
203 vi. Aurilla M Callin, born 3 Sep 1885, Deerfield, Isabella, Michigan; married Edward Jacob Pletcher, 10 Jan 1903, Bowling Green, Wood, Ohio; married William Charles Bogart, 7 Oct 1922, Monroe County, Michigan; died 15 Dec 1969, Amherst, Lorain, Ohio.
vii. Unnamed Callin was born and died in 1887 at six months old.
Jim married his third wife, Emma Bradt, on 23 Aug 1893 in Bowling Green, Wood, Ohio. Emma was the daughter of John Bradt (1823–1898) and Elizabeth Sanderson (1824–1907), was born on 13 Feb 1856 in Ontario, Canada. She lived in Louth, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and 1881.
Jim and Emma lived in St Catharines City in Niagara, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died there on 7 Apr 1901 at the age of 57, from cancer of the bowels brought on by the chronic dysentery he contracted in the war. He was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio.
Nine months after Jim died, Emma married Albert A. Flora on 23 Jan 1902. She had been begging the U.S. government for an increase in Jim’s pension to pay his last doctor’s bill, but she was denied because of her remarriage. Emma and Albert had a contentious marriage. They returned to Perrysburg, Ohio, but she sued him for divorce in January 1907, asking to return to the Callin surname. She died just a month later, before her divorce was final, on 13 Feb 1907. Albert Flora became administrator of Emma Bradt/Callin's estate, and she was buried as Emma G. Flora, aged 51, in the Oak Grove Cemetery, Bowling Green.
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