Annie B. Calloway
Annie B. Calloway, of Delhi, is of English parentage, and is the wife of Thomas B. Calloway, of that place. Her great-grandfather, Thomas Bowles of Cranbrook, Kent, England, married Sarah Boorman. Their daughter, Sarah, married the well known Robert Colgate, father of the noted soap manufacturers of New York. They came to that city in 1800. Thomas Bowles, her grandfather, married Anna Shirley. They had eight children, and he died June 3, 1800. His youngest son, Robert Bowles father of Annie B. Calloway, was born at Eldorado, Kent, England, June 1, 1792; married Mercy Boots of the same place, November 30, 1816; came to America in 1822, and located on a farm near Harrison, Hamilton county, Ohio, and was the first English settler in Crosby township. January 24, 1837, his wife died, and he married Mrs. Anna Clough of London, England, daughter of Samuel Pegg. By the first wife he had one son, Robert, now living in Indiana; and by the second Wife two sons: Samuel and John, and one daughter, Annie. Thomas B. Calloway married Annie A. Bowles, January 31, 1866. His grandfather, Jesse Caloway, and wife came from Delaware in 1818, and located in Dearborn county, Indiana. They had four sons and one daughter. William, the father, was born January 26, 1812; married his second wife, Mary Charlotte Bonham, October 18, 1841. He is still living. The Bond family are traceable to the emigration of William Penn. One Samuel Bond was born November 19, 1722; his son, Joseph, born April 11, 1750, married Eleanor Williams; and their son, Samuel, born November 19, 1777, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, moved west May 10, 1810, landed at the mouth of Farmers' creek, near Lawrenceburgh, Indiana. In 1812 he moved to Whitewater, near Elizabethtown; died June 12, 1837. They had seven children, all dead except Eleanor, who was born in Virginia in 1808. The third child, Jane, was the only one of the family who married. She was born April 8, 1818; married William Calloway September 7, 1837; died February 12, 1844, leaving one child, Thomas B. Calloway.
From History of Hamilton county, Ohio, Henry & Kate Ford, L. A. Williams & Co., Publishers, 1881