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The Callans and McClarys Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Part I ~ The Callans of Coolkill Chapter 1 ~ Feudal Kings and flax spinners .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Chapter 2 ~ Widows and hardship .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Chapter 3 ~ Famine and exodus .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 14 Chapter 4 ~ Our Irish Cousings ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Chapter 5 ~ A Journey to Coolkill (‘Tis no more) ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Chapter 6 ~ A Seminarian Falls in Love ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 28 Chapter 7 ~ Bernard Callan and Mary Anne Magill ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Chapter 8 ~ Bernard Callan and Elizabeth (Lizzy) Carroll ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 37 Chapter 9 ~ The McGiverns .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Chapter 10~ Paternal Grandparents: George Callan and Gertrude (McGivern) Callan ............................................................................................................................................ 41 Part II ~ The Byrds and Messiers of Vermont Chapter 11 ~ The Byrd/Messier Family ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 43 Chapter 12 ~ Maternal Grandparents: Edward Byrd and Cecilia (Messier) Byrd ...................................................................................................................................................... 48 Part III ~ Al Callan’s Family Chapter 13 ~ John F. Callan and Margery (Byrd) Callan ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 52 Chapter 14 ~ Letter from Mom: Margery Callan remembers Al’s childhood ............................................................................................................................................................... 55 Feature: Childhood Photos of Nancy and Al Contents Part IV ~ The McClarys of Cooper County Chapter 15 ~ Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 62 Chapter 16 ~ John Robert McClary and Cynthia Ann Marrs ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 64 Chpater 17 ~ John Robert McClary (Jr.) and Mary Nancy Brownfield ........................................................................................................................................................................ 65 Chapter 18 ~ John Raymond “Ray” McClary and Stella “Ida” Brownfield ................................................................................................................................................................. 67 Chapter 19 ~ Paternal Grandparents: Clinton McClary and Kathryn Helen Gerhardt .............................................................................................................................................. 69 Part V ~ The Davis Family of Boonville Chapter 20 ~ Dolphin Davis and Ophelia Chaffee ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 77 Chapter 21 ~ Dolphin Chaffee Davis and Mattie Gough Bustin ................................................................................................................................................................................... 79 Chapter 22 ~ Robert James Murray and Bertha Davis ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 81 Chapter 23 ~ Maternal Grandparents: Mathew Cary Davis and Bertha Elizabeth Murray ...................................................................................................................................... 84 Part VI ~ Nancy McClary’s Family Chapter 24 ~ Hubert “Bert” McClary and Mary Elizabeth “Beth” Davis ................................................................................................................................................................... 90 Part VII ~ Al and Nancy Callan Family Engagement and Wedding Photos ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 94
Introduction My earliest memory is of a May afternoon in 1965. I was four years old, standing on my tiptoes on the front steps of our family home in Gates, a town just outside Rochester, New York. Until a few weeks earlier, I had been the youngest of five children. I was straining that day to see number six, Albert Francis Callan, born April 26, who had come home from the hospital a few days earlier. The living room was full of relatives, so much so that I had been told to go outside to play. Before long, I had tiptoed back in to see what all the commotion was about. I found myself standing amid a forest of knees in the crowd of grownups, just to get a glimpse of him. Just like his musical fans would decades later, I wanted to hug this little grinning boy, the latest The Callan kids, almost complete: Back row, Maureen, Bernard, Linda; Front row, Stephen and John, ca.1963 in a long line of Callans to enter the world with a wry smirk that promised years of mischief ahead. My next memory is of our grandfather, George Callan Sr., conspiring with me in the dark basement hallway of a Rochester apartment building he managed in the Johnny and little Albie, ca. 1966. Gramp (George) Callan, in a festive mood at his 50th wedding anniversary in Rochester, N.Y., in the summer of 1978. ~ 1 ~ The Callans and McClarys early 1960s. He was a solid, strong man just hitting 60, which seemed a lot older then that it does now. He and our grandmother, the former Gertrude McGivern, lived rent-free in their Rochester apartment in return for the upkeep of the building. On this rainy summer day, every floor had the warm smell of sweat and cigars. The long hallway approaching Nan and Gramp’s apartment echoed nicely as I screamed at one of my four older brothers and sisters. I had just been pushed off of a wooden freight wagon that we used to ride up and down the hallway. Gramp poked his head out the apartment door to investigate. Rather than hand out firm justice, by spanking the sibling who had pushed me, and all the others as accessories to the crime, Gramp took me aside. He said he’d like to show me something in the workshop. He broke the end off of a cigar he snatched from an ashtray near the apartment door. He stuffed the stub in his pipe, lit it up with a few quick puffs, and ambled down the hallway in a blue smoky haze, fumbling with a huge ring of skeleton keys. Once inside the workshop, he rummaged through his greasy old wooden toolboxes,
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college. He worked at Otis Lumber y
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Nancy recalls, “she asked me one
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playing Canasta with her future mot
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Margery on her honeymoon, August 19
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put me on the pill anyway. He told
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ter. They said there was a guy on o
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Al First Place, Pie Eating Contest
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McClary. Additional oral history fr
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Chapter 17 John Robert McClary and
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Chapter 18 John Raymond McClary and
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in his yard, which was also kept ve
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It was a comforting environment at
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Chapter 22 Robert JAmes Murray and
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Sunday Sunday April April April 2,
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calling her that once in awhile but
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kick the top of the door from the k
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followed the example of her mother,
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and Hubert was too formal). Bert gr
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