The Callans and McClarys, by John Edward Callan - Callanworld
The Callans and McClarys, by John Edward Callan - Callanworld
The Callans and McClarys, by John Edward Callan - Callanworld
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<strong>The</strong> <strong><strong>Callan</strong>s</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>McClarys</strong><br />
James Murray were<br />
Thomas W. Murray<br />
(1839-1912) <strong>and</strong> Rose<br />
Wamsley. Together<br />
they had five sons,<br />
Thomas W.Jr,<br />
Ellsworth, Ralph, <strong>and</strong><br />
Lloyd, <strong>and</strong> Robert<br />
James, who was Nancy<br />
McClary’s great gr<strong>and</strong>father.<br />
Robert James<br />
was the second youngest<br />
of the Murray<br />
boys. As for Rose<br />
Wamsley, she was the<br />
daughter of Eli<br />
Wamsley <strong>and</strong> Mary C.<br />
(last name unknown).<br />
Eli served in Company<br />
E of the 65th Indiana<br />
Regiment during the<br />
Civil War. He was a<br />
prisoner of war from<br />
Dec. 16, 1863 to Dec.<br />
10, 1864.<br />
<strong>The</strong> following are<br />
notes from the civil war<br />
diary of Eli J Wamsley,<br />
which is in the Murray<br />
family’s possesion.<br />
sat. sat. april april 1 1 1865<br />
1865<br />
Camp Camp Chase<br />
Chase<br />
Columbus Columbus Ohio<br />
Ohio<br />
Leave tonight at<br />
midnight for Cincinnati.<br />
Weather cool<br />
<strong>and</strong> clear.Soldiers<br />
have no time that t<br />
hey can call their<br />
own. But are entirely<br />
subject to orders.So<br />
goes the war this first<br />
day of my tremer<br />
<strong>and</strong>a??<br />
Bob Bob Murray Murray lost lost an an arm arm in in a a 1930 1930 auto auto accident accident in<br />
in<br />
Aruba; Aruba; Boonville Boonville papers papers followed followed the the story story closely.<br />
closely.<br />
Robert James Murray Jr., the eldest son of<br />
Robert James <strong>and</strong> Bertha (Litschgi) Murray,<br />
worked in Aruba, Dutch West Indies, for Pan-<br />
American Petroleum during the<br />
Great Depression.<br />
Following an auto accident there in August<br />
1930, he had to have his right arm amputated.<br />
<strong>The</strong> story was widely reported in local<br />
Boonville newspapers as word of Bob’s<br />
condition trickled in to the area via letters<br />
from Bob’s colleagues in Aruba. Bob <strong>and</strong> his<br />
wife Goldie had no children. <strong>The</strong>y lived in<br />
Otterville when Nancy McClary’s mother, Beth<br />
(Davis) McClary., was little.<br />
“<strong>The</strong>y had a lumber yard <strong>and</strong> hardware<br />
store,” Beth recalls. “Bob <strong>and</strong> I used to go <strong>and</strong><br />
visit during the summers” when we were little.<br />
I don’t think <strong>John</strong> (Beth’s brother) ever went<br />
much. He was always kind of a home body.Uncle<br />
Bob got along real well with only one arm. He<br />
could do just about anything. I have discovered<br />
that he probably never really got over losing it<br />
<strong>and</strong> it is probably the reason that he drank.”<br />
~ 86 ~
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