Martha Jane Callahan, 80, died Sunday at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge.

Mrs. Callahan was born May 4, 1912, in Clinton to the late William and Mary Jane Edwards Butcher. Her father, a native of Lee County, VA, was a Union soldier during the War between the States. Mrs. Callahan and her sister and brother donated his discharge papers in August of 1988 to the Lincoln Memorial University to be placed in the Lincoln Museum, which is located on the campus. At the time they were said to be the only living children of a Civil War father in this area.

Mrs. Callahan attended St. Mark United Methodist Church. She worked at the Magnet Mills in Clinton before going to work as a secretary in Oak Ridge. She later worked for both Walker and Krebs Chevrolet Co. in Clinton.

Her husband, Albert L. Callahan died March 5, 1988.

Survivors include a sister, Mary Cooper of Clinton; a brother and sister-in-law, Jesse L. and Roxine Butcher of Knoxville; several nieces and nephews and friends.

Services were Tuesday night at Holley-Gamble Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Glenn Patterson officiating. Burial was today, Wednesday, at West Hills Cemetery in Dalton, GA.

Source:
Clinton Courier News
5 May 1993