MRS. NANCY McCALLON, AGED
89, DIED NEAR FARMERSVILLE
Democrat
July 10, 1925
Mrs. Nancy
McCallon, aged 89 years, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. J. D.
Leatherwood at Merit, Monday afternoon at 5:00
o'clock.
Funeral services
were held Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock at Merit and the remains laid to
rest in the cemetery nearby. Rev. Geo. A. Dale, Baptist minister of this
city officiated.
Nancy Butler was
born in Knox county, Tennessee, in 1836 and was reared to young womanhood in
Knox and Meggs counties and while a resident of the latter she was united in
marriage to Newton H. McCallon about 1858.
At the outbreak
of the Civil War, Mr. McCallon joined the forces of the Confederacy and the
wife of three brief years witnessed the young husband marching away in
defense of the cause he espoused while she unflinchingly and with strong
determination set her hands to the task of rendering every assistance
possible to help the army of the South in the critical period.
Mrs. McCallon's
experience and the hardships she was forced to endure through those trying
days equipped her for her after life, and of them she made valuable use as
is testified by the innumerable friends which she gathered and held to
securely wherever she chanced to go.
Deceased was the
mother of four children, one of which, a son died in infancy before the
family left Georgia. The surviving children are: Mrs. J. D. Leatherwood of
Merit, with whom she had made her home for the past several years, and
Walter and Thomas O. McCallon of Plainview.
She was a sister
of Amos Butler of Floyd, and the late Dr. John Butler of Wylie, and was the
aunt of J. J. Butler, Judge N. E. Peak and Dr. P. A. Peak of this city. She
was also the aunt of the lamented S. K. McCallon, late prominent banker of
Emery and Dallas. - Farmersville Times.
Surname Index
Recommended Citation:
"Mrs. Nancy McCallon,
EARLY SETTLERS OF COLLIN COUNTY." Collin County, Texas History
and Genealogy Webpage by Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
[Accessed Fri February 13, 2004 ].
