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Jemima Boone Callaway 1762 - 1834

Jemima (Boone) Callaway was born on October 4, 1762 at Yadkin River, Rowan, North Carolina, USA, and died at age 71 years old on August 30, 1834 at Marthasville, Warren, Missouri, USA. Jemima Callaway was buried at David Bryan Cemetery (Old Bryan Farm Cemetery) in Marthasville, Warren County, Missouri USA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jemima Boone Callaway.

Jemima (Boone) Callaway

October 4, 1762

Yadkin River, Rowan, North Carolina, USA

August 30, 1834

Marthasville, Warren, Missouri, USA

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Jemima's parents were frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734 - 1820) and Rebecca Ann "Becky" Bryan Boone (1739 - 1813). She had siblings James, Israel, Susannah, Levinga, Rebecca, Daniel Morgan, Jesse, William, and Nathaniel. Jemima married Flanders Isham Callaway (1752- 1829) and they had children, Sarah " Sally", Minerva, John, James, Frances, Susannah, Tabitha, Larkin, Elizabeth, and Daniel (named for his grandfather). A story from her life and neighbors "the Callaway girls" has often been told. It is summarized in Wikipedia: "Three girls were captured by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party on July 14, 1776 and rescued three days later by Daniel Boone and his party, celebrated for their success. The incident was portrayed in 19th-century literature and paintings: James Fenimore Cooper created a fictionalized version of the episode in his novel The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and Charles Ferdinand Wimar painted The Abduction of Boone's Daughter by the Indians (c. 1855)." See G-G-Granddaughter Donates Boone Tomahawk for a brief article that appeared in 1963 when a memento of this kidnapping was donated to the Daniel Boone Shrine Association. In comparison to this exciting "adventure", life seems to have settled down for Jemima after she married and started to produce so many children. One of those children, Captain James Callaway, had a confrontation with Native Americans and lost his life. His father, Flanders, had to recover his son's body. A detailed account of this event can be found in an article which appeared in 1930 at Death of Captain James Callaway
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October 4, 1762

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Yadkin River, Rowan, North Carolina, USA

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Ethnicity & Family History

Jemima was caucasian.
Nationality & Locations

Born in North Carolina before the Revolutionary War, Jemima was eventually (when the country was created) a United States citizen.
Early Life & Education

Jemima was likely taught by her parents Daniel and Rebecca Boone. As early as the 1950s, a chapter of the Children of the American Revolution was named after Jemima Boone Callaway in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Professional Career

Jemima was a homemaker.
Personal Life & Family

The most interesting event in Jemima's life (at least to present readers) is her kidnapping in July of 1776 (along with neighbors "the Callaway girls" - Betsy and Francis) by "Indians". They were taken to the Kentucky wilderness. Pursued by their fathers and six other men, the girls were recovered and returned to their homes. Four years later, Jemima married Flanders Callaway.
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August 30, 1834

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Marthasville, Warren, Missouri, USA
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Jemima Boone Callaway lived exactly as long as the average family member when died at the age of 71.

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Jemima Callaway

Painting of Jemima Callaway who was born on October 4th, 1762, and died on August 30th, 1834. She was the daughter of Daniel Boone's brother, Edward Ned Boone.

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Gravesite of Jemima Boone Callaway

The grave of Jemima Boone Callaway (Daniel Boone's daughter) and husband Flanders Callaway in Warren County Missouri

Date & Place: Not specified or unknown.

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07/07/2022

Death of Captain James Callaway

The following appeared in the Enterprise-Courier in Charleston Missouri on Thursday March 6th 1930:

This week in Missouri History - compiled by the State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia. Floyd C. Shoemaker, Secreatary.

Captain James Callaway, the man for whom Callaway county was named when it was organized November 25, 1820, met his death at the hands of Indians near the confluence of Prairie ford and Loutre creek, in Montgomery county, 115 years ago the seventh of this month.

Captain Callaway, son of Flanders and Jemima (Boone) Callaway, and grandson of Daniel Boone, lived in St. Charles district, where in 1805 he married Nancy Howell. Of ordinary education but good natural talents, he interested himself in public affairs, serving as deputy sheriff, tax collector, cavalry cornet, administrator, and in other local and military positions. As early as 1810, it is said, he was captain of a cavalry company in the militia. At any rate, the War of 1812 found him on the frontier fighting Indians, and the fatal March 7, 1815, found him stationed at Fort Clemson, on Loutre Island, whence he set out of his last expedition.

Assisted by Lieutenant Jonathan Riggs, Captain Callaway took a party of some fifteen men to search for a band of Indians who had stolen some horses from neighboring settlers. After swimming Loutre slough, they followed the conspicuous trail left by the Indians, until they came upon their camp about twelve miles above Prairie fork. There were the horses, guarded only the squaws.

The animals were recovered without resistance, but Lieutenant Riggs, it is recorded, expressed suspicion of an ambuscade if they returned to the fort by the same route they came. Captain Callaway insisted, however, so they started back. As they approached Prairie fork again, Lieutenant Riggs renewed his warning to his superior officer, but the latter was determined to go on. Some accounts say that captain Callaway lost his temper and called his lieutenant a coward.

At any rate, they pushed forward and were attacked just as they were crossing Prairie fork. The stream was high at that time, and the Indians, hidden along the bank, fired on the first three horsemen just after they plunged into the water. Captain Callaway rushed forward and was nearly across the creek when he was shot at. His horse was killed and he was wounded in the left arm, escaping immediate death when a ball lodged against his watch, which was shattered.

Pringing to the bank, Captain Callaway cast his rifle, which he did not have time to reload, into the creek, muzzle first, and started running down the edge of the stream. After a short distance, he plunged into the creek, but as he swam a shot struck him in the back of the head, and he sank from sight.

Lieutenant Riggs and the remaining men were hotly engaged, but fighting as they retreated they escaped without loss of life, although several were wounded. The three in advance, however, had been killed. Four or five of the whites, in all, lost their lives in the fight. It is not known how many casualties the Indians suffered.

A burying party, returning the next day, found the bodies of three of the rangers mutilated by the Indians, according to the more detailed accounts. Captain Callaway's body, when found several days after the fight, was untouched, it having been in the stream and concealed. His father, Flanders Callaway, had arrived from St. Charles county in time to attend the recovery of the corpse.

Captain Callaway's widow, who had endured all the hardships of a frontier wife and mother but this one, was attending school near her home in St. Charles county when she heard of her husband's death. It is recorded that Nancy Callaway could not write, and it is probable that she was trying to remove that handicap, which she later did. On arrival of the bad news, she left without a word and stoically walked home, but fainted as she reached her house.

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G-G-Granddaughter Donates Boone Tomahawk

The following appeared in the St. Petersburg Times in Florida on Thursday February 21, 1963:
Boone Memo St. Louis (UPI): A tomahawk that once belonged to Jemima Boone Callaway, daughter of Daniel Boone, has been sent to the Daniel Boone Shrine Association for display in the old Boone home in St. Charles County.

Mrs. Vestal O. Hays of Ocala, Fla., donated the tomahawk. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Mrs. Callaway. The tomahawk is believed to be a memento of the capture of Jemima Boone and Elizabeth and Frances Callaway by Indians July 14, 1776 at Fort Boonesborough, Ky. The women later were rescued.

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Jemima Boone Callaway 1762 - 1834

Jemima (Boone) Callaway's History: 1762 - 1834

Introduction

Birthday

Ethnicity & Family History

Nationality & Locations

Early Life & Education

Professional Career

Personal Life & Family

Death

Gravesite & Burial

4 Memories, Stories & Photos about Jemima

Jemima Boone's Family Tree & Friends

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