William Augustus Josephus MCCALLUM

1840 - 1910  (~ 69 years)

• Name	William Augustus Josephus MCCALLUM  [1, 2]
  Born	Feb 1840	, York, South Carolina, USA   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1860
  	farm hand
  Census	1870	, York, South Carolina, USA
  Bethel Township
  Residence	1871	, Rusk, Texas, USA
  Residence	1874	Pleasant Valley, Dallas, Texas, USA
  Occupation	Between 13 Jan 1891 and 9 Feb 1900	Pleasant Valley, Dallas, Texas, USA
  	Postmaster
  Died	1910	, Dallas, Texas, USA   [3]
  Buried	1910	Pleasant Valley, Dallas, Texas, USA
  	Address: Pleasant Valley Cemetery Dallas County Dallas County, Texas
  Person ID	I10621	An Armstrong & A Heffernan
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2014

  
  

  Father	Peter MCCALLUM,   b. 18 Sep 1808, Comrie, Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom ,   d. 3 May 1885, , Dallas, Texas, USA  (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Violet A WALLACE,   b. 16 Jan 1813, , , Scotland, United Kingdom ,   d. 26 Aug 1880, , Dallas, Texas, USA  (Age 67 years)
  Married	Abt 1832	, , Scotland, United Kingdom
  Family ID	F2971	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Marriage Notices from the Yorkville Miscellany Newspaper York County, South Carolina Issue of April 19, 1865 Married on the 6th instant, by Rev. S. L. Watson, Sergt. W. A. J. McCallum and Miss Cynthia A., daughter of Maj. A. A. McKenzie. Dallas Co Directory 1881-1882 McCollum, W. A. J. McCallum, William A. J. William Augustus Josephus McCallum was during many years a prominent business man of Dallas County, but he has laid aside the active cares of an industrial life and now living quietly at his comfortable home in Pleasant Valley. That is according to an article published in A History of Greater Dallas and Vicinity by Lewis Publishing in 1909. William was born in York County, South Carolina on February 20, 1840, and is a son of Peter and a grandson of Duncan McCallum. Duncan was born in Scotland and in 1814, accompanied by his wife and children, he came to America thru the Port of Charleston. Duncan purchased a plantation in York County, South Carolina and operated his land with slave labor. He spent the remainder of his life there, dying when upwards of eighty years of age, on April 18, 1865. Duncan and Catherine were wed in Scotland on July 11, 1806. Their son, Peter, was the oldest of six children born in Scotland. The other eight children were born in York District, York County, or Chester County, South Carolina. Peter was born at Edinburgh, Scotland on September 18, 1808. His dad assisted him materially when the time came to establish himself as an agriculturist, and Peter became a prominent and well-known planter. This means that Peter and his wife Violet Amelia Wallace McCallum owned a large plantation and held many slaves while in York County, but in 1872 he left South Carolina, and accompanied by three of his sons came to Pleasant Valley. His plantation was probably ruined by the spoils of war. Peter was buried in the pioneer cemetery at Pleasant Valley on May 3, 1885. Two of his sons, Langdon Cheeve, and William J. A. McCallum became well known and respected Pleasant Valley citizens. One look at the tattered pages of that old family bible and you immediately realize how many, many times those pages have been read. The McCallum family came to America with that, already old, bible and carried it in a covered wagon from South Carolina to Pleasant Valley. The family already well established in the Presbyterian faith would now become instrumental in establishing a Presbyterian church at Pleasant Valley. As early as 1852, a group of neighbors were said to gather in the Pleasant Valley area to worship God. Then in 1872 Elizabeth Maxwell donated land for the Pleasant Valley Community Church. The building was then erected and called the Arbor Church. This building served as a meeting place for various religions until 1884. At this time the church committee, comprised of W. W. Swim and A. F. Poovey representing the Methodist, T. G. Cherry and D. W. Griffin representing the Baptist and T. J. McClain of the Christina Church turned over the building that would become the Cumberland Presbyterians. W. A. J. McCallum, D. Alexander McCallum, W. C. Parker and T. J. Swim, would become leaders and elders in this new church. William McCallum had retired to Pleasant Valley, but most of his life had been in York County. Immediately after the inauguration of the Civil War, he joined an independent company and was in Charleston at the time of the bombardment and surrender of the fort to the Confederacy. A few weeks later he joined the Army of the Potomac and participated in the first battle of Bull Run. He remained with the Army of the Potomac during the greater part of his active service, but for a time he was under the command of General Longstreet, and he was twice severely wounded, once in the seven days first at Gains Mills around Richmond, and again at the Battle of Chickamauga. When William arrived in Dallas County, he purchased 160 acres of land near Pleasant Valley, its 40 acres under cultivation and a little log cabin constituting its sole improvements. The family lived in that cabin for about a year, while he erected a frame residence with lumber milled in east Texas and shipped by rail to east Dallas, and then on to Pleasant Valley by wagon. William's oldest son, Earnest Haskell, married Sally Newman. His second son, Ono, married Tena Sebastian and was a farmer near Pleasant Valley. His third son, Claude was an attorney in Dallas and a member of the Thirty-first Texas legislature which was known as the fighting legislature. His first daughter, Edith Lola, married James Beaver and they also farmed at Pleasant Valley. His fourth son, Dr. Carlos Loraine, became a physician at mounds, Oklahoma where he married Aileen Bullock. Descendants of Duncan and Catherine McQuan McCallum are so numerous that it requires forty-eight pages just to print the list. And that is just the ones that I know about. Almost all of the early settlers of the McCallum family are buried at Pleasant Valley's pioneer cemetery. http://dallaspioneer.org/stories/pioneers.php?ID=102 W. A. J. McCallum 1840 - 1910 William Augustus Josephus McCallum born in York County, South Carolina February 20, 1840, was son of Peter and Violet Wallace McCallum, both deceased. He married Cynthia Adeline McKenzie in January of 1865. Immediately after inauguration of the Civil War, William joined an independent co. and was in Charleston at the time of the surrender of the fort to the Confederacy. He was wounded once near Richmond and again at the Battle of Chickamauga. When William arrived at Pleasant Valley, he purchased 160 acres of land with a little log cabin. His family lived in that cabin for about a year while he erected a residence. William was also instrumental in building the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Pleasant Valley. His oldest son, Earnest Haskell, married Sally Newman; his second son, Ono, married Tena Sebastian; his third son, Claude, married Rosa Pape, and was a member of the Thirty-First Texas legislature; his fourth son, Dr. Carlos Loraine married Aleen Bullock; his fifth son, Percy McNeil died at age two. His daughter, Edith Lola, married James Beaver. Both W. A. J. and Cynthia McCallum are buried in the pioneer cemetery at Pleasant Valley.

  
  

• Sources

  [S45] 1860 York, SC. [S420] Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas, (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company. 1892.). [S228] Cemetery, Pleasant Valley, Dallas, TX. [S915] 1900 Dallas, TX, E 132 S 15.