Geetingsville, Indiana

Joseph Calloway, deceased, was born in Ohio, September 12, 1822, a son of Winder and Mary Calloway, natives of Delaware. They came with their family to Clinton County, Indiana, in 1830, and settled in Ross Township, where they endured all the hardships and privations incident to life in a new country. Joseph Calloway was reared to manhood in Clinton County, and was a representative farmer of Owen Township. He made farming his principal avocation, although fourteen years of his life were ^pent in saw-milling and dealing in lumber. He was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, enlisting March 17, 1865, being Second Lieutenant of the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Indiana Infantry, He was discharged on the first day of July, 1865, when he returned to his home and followed farming until his death, September 22, 1866. He left a widow, Catharine Calloway, who still occupies the old homestead, and four children - Mary E., born July

Passage source: History of Clinton County, Indiana. Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races, Indian Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, published 1886.

Thomas Rapeb, a farmer of Owen Township, Clinton County, is a native of Indiana, born in Wayne County, on the homestead farm which his Grandfather Raper had entered in an early day. The grandfather was a native of England, coming to America when very young. He settled in Wayne County, remaining there till his death. The father of our subject, William Raper, was born and reared in Wayne County, but in the year of 1858 removed to Clinton County, and in 1882 to Kosciusko County, Indiana, wheie he died at the age of seventy-four years. The mother of our subject, Louisa Raper, was born in Kentucky, and died in Clinton County, Indiana, aged seventy-four years. Thomas Raper, the subject of this sketch, came to Clinton County, Indiana, in 1858, and bought forty acres of land in Owen Township, from Eli Weaver, paying for the same $18 per acre. Here he has lived a life of toil and industry for nearly thirty years, and has made many valuable improvements on his place till his land is now worth from $45 to $50 per acre. February 16, 1865, he enlisted in the late war in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Indiana Infantry, under command of Colonel Taylor. He was discharged in August of the same year without having met the enemy in battle, when he returned to his home in

Passage source: History of Clinton County, Indiana. Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races, Indian Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, published 1886.

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