Calloway C. Blevins was born January 26, 1847 in the Whitehead community of Ashe County, North Carolina. (Alleghany was formed from Ashe in 1859, and Whitehead is now located in Alleghany County. This explains why sometimes his birthplace is given as Ashe and sometimes as Alleghany.)
Calloway was the son of Andrew F. Blevins and his wife,
Susan Joines Blevins, the oldest child in a large family.
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| Rev. Calloway Blevins (click to enlarge) |
Calloway, also know as "Callie", married Lucinda Caudill, the daughter of Stephen Caudill and Huldah Adams in 1865. Callie and Lucinda had eleven children together. Following Lucinda's death in 1911, Callie married a second time to Fannie Emaline Adams, who was a widow.
Rev. Calloway Blevins was a well-known Baptist minister who
preached in many churches in Wilkes, Ashe and Alleghany Counties in northwest North Carolina and beyond. He participated in the organization of many churches in the area, and was instrumental in forming the Stone Mountain Baptist Association in Wilkes County, North Carolina, in 1897.
The History of the Stone Mountain Baptist Association, 1897-1976, compiled by the Associational Historical Committee, with Paul W. Gregory as chairman, included this statement:
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from History of the Stone Mountain Baptist Association (click to enlarge)
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An entry in the
Heritage of Wilkes County, Volume 2, written by descendant Ursula Blevins Profitt, includes this information:
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| Written by descendant Ursula Blevins Proffit (click to enlarge) |
This undated newspaper clipping, in the possession of a descendant, refers to Rev. Blevins' service as Moderator of the Stone Mountain Baptist Association.
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| Callie and Lucinda (click to enlarge) |
The following obituary was published in a local newspaper following the death of Calloway Blevins on August 7, 1924:
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| Obituary (click to enlarge) |
Rev. Calloway Blevins and his wife, Lucinda Caudill Blevins, are buried in the church cemetery of
Walnut Grove Baptist Church in Hays, North Carolina. Their joint marker is located immediately behind the church sanctuary.
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| Rev. C. Blevins (click to enlarge) |
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Lucinda Blevins (click to enlarge)
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This map shows the location of Calloway and Lucinda's homeplace in the Walnut Grove community (as identified by his great-grandson, my father-in-law) as well as the location of Walnut Grove Baptist Church, where Callie and Lucinda are buried.
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| Map from Google Earth (click to enlarge) |
Rev. Calloway Blevins was my father-in-law's great-grandfather. Callie Blevins died six years before my father-in-law was born.
I found another blog post written about Rev. Calloway Blevins. Another descendant (my husband's second cousin) wrote:
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You should be able to copy this link and paste it in your browser.
Heritage of Wilkes County, Volume 2, was written by Absher, W. O., Mrs., 1915-; Simpson, Nancy Williams; Wilkes Genealogical Society.
ReplyDeleteActually, Mrs. Nancy Williams Simpson was the editor of the Heritage of Wilkes County, Volume 2, 1990, which is where Mrs. Proffit's article about Rev. Calloway Blevins appeared. Mrs. W.O. Absher was the editor of the Heritage of Wilkes County, 1982 (often referred to as Volume 1). However, Ursula Blevins Proffit wrote the article about her grandfather, Rev. Calloway Blevins, and contributed it to the Heritage of Wilkes, Volume 2. Both volumes were printed by the Wilkes Genealogical Society,
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