Mary Hendrix Callaway   Born: May 22, 1814  Died: Jan. 7, 1897

Mary Hendrix married Shadrach Callaway on June 21, 1935. Her days were filled with a growing family and her responsibilities running a household on 300 acres of good land. However, the beginning of the Civil War was to change her life and future in ways she could not imagine.

When the Civil War began, unlike most people in Knox Co. and East Tennessee, the family sided  with the South. At the outset of the Civil War, the Callaway’s were one of the few families in Knox Co. to side with the South and all three of Mary and Shade's sons fought for the Confederacy.
 
In the Fall of 1863, before the Battle of Campbell Station at the height of the Civil War, and on into early 1864, Callaway’s Landing was occupied by Union Army troops of the 60th Illinois and 24th Kentucky Regiments, among others.
These troops appropriated all of the corn and wheat stored there for food, removed the fence rails and lumbered part of the farm for firewood, but otherwise left the family alone. The occupying force made a promise to reimburse the family for what was taken, but attempts to collect for the damages after the war were acknowledged, but never paid.  The family retains the hand written receipt for the claim

1860 Census: Mary, Shadrach and Children:

 

After Shadrach's death Mary would have become dependent on her three sons as they inherited the property, normal for those times. By the time of her death, the property was back in full production.

This information was graciously provided by Anne Ralston and the full history of Callaway's Landing, past to present, can be found on her website:

http://www.callawayslanding.com/index.html

 

 

This is the claim put in to the government by the Callaway family for materials taken by the Union Forces during the Civil War.

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