JOHN CALLIHAN 1808-1886, ELIZABETH LONG 1810-1894, son WILLIAM L CALLIHAN 1835-1887, Majorville Cemetery, Hancock County Illinois

 

Page content last modified: March 20, 2008, corrected the page number in the 1850 census transcription.

MAJORVILLE   CEMETERY
HANCOCK  COUNTY,  ILLINOIS

 

JOHN CALLIHAN 1808-1886
ELIZABETH CALLIHAN (nee LONG) 1810-1894
WILLIAM L. CALLIHAN 1835-1887

 

These are adjacent sides of the same marker.  On the north face is the inscription "Our Father and Mother".  On the east face: "Elizabeth, wife of John Callihan, born Sept. 9, 1810, died Sept. 27, 1894".

JOHN CALLIHAN
born
Sept. 6, 1808
died
Nov. 29, 1886

 
 
                                                 
OUR BROTHER
WILLIAM L. CALLIHAN
born
May 18, 1835
died
May 24, 1887
buried at Bodie City
CALIFORNIA

 

Author - Marcia Farina

John Callihan was born September 6, 1808, in Pennsylvania, the son of Thomas Callihan.

Elizabeth "Betsy" Long was born September 9, 1810, also in Pennsylvania, the daughter of John Long and Mary M. Young.

John and Elizabeth were married November 10, 1831, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

In the early 1840s the Callihans and their young children left Pennsylvania and settled in Hancock County, Illinois.  They spent the rest of their lives in Hancock Township.

John died November 29, 1886, Betsy died September 27, 1894.  Both were buried at Majorville Cemetery in Hancock Township.

Their known children were:

i. Mary M. Callihan, born February 22, 1833*, in Pennsylvania.  Some references give her name as Margaret May; her marriage license and tombstone indicate her name was Mary M.  She died May 13, 1884, probably in Hancock County, burial at Majorville Cemetery.
 
ii. William L. Callihan, born May 18, 1835, in Pennsylvania.  He died May 24, 1887, in California, and his body was taken to Bodie City for burial.  A commemorative inscription was placed on his parents' tombstone at Majorville Cemetery.
 
iii. Ann Elizabeth Callihan, born about 1841 in Pennsylvania.  Ann was married first about January 30, 1872, to Mahlon P. Frank.  After his death in 1874, she married George Cuba.  Ann died after July, 1927.

Census records do not provide a straightforward accounting of this Callihan daughter.  In 1850 she was shown as Ann E., 9.  In 1860, there was no Ann listed, but there was Hanah S., 18.  The 1870 listing included Elisabeth, 27, no Hanah.
 

iv. Emma Pearl Callihan, born January 3, 1844, near Fountain Green, Hancock County, Illinois. In early census records she was named as Emiline and Emeline.  She died October 7, 1912, at the home of her sister, Ann Callihan Frank Cuba, in Tennessee Township, McDonough County, Illinois.  She was buried at Majorville Cemetery.
 
v. Simon Thomas Callihan, born March 08, 1847, in Hancock County.  He died November 22, 1913, at his home in Tennessee, McDonough County, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Colchester, also in McDonough County.
 
vi. Cyrus Francis Callihan, born December 30, 1851 in Hancock County, on what was called the Ham Duffy farm located one mile south of Fountain Green.  He died in California after being hit by an automobile, in August of 1927.
 
* Birth date calculated from tombstone inscription.

1850 Illinois Census, Hancock County, page 332B
enumerated Oct 22, 1850, dwelling #889

John Callahan, 47, male, farmer, value of real estate 1500, born PA
Elizabeth, 39, female, born PA
Mary M, 17, female, born PA
William, 15, male, born PA, attended school within the year
Ann E, 9, female, born PA, attended school within the year
Emiline, 7, female, born IL, attended school within the year
Simon Thomas, 3, male, born IL

 

1860 Illinois Census, Hancock County, Hancock Township
page 724, enumerated July 24, 1860, dwelling #3280

John Calihan, 54, male, farmer, value of real estate 3500, value of personal estate 1200,
born PA
Elizabeth, 50, female, born PA
Hanah S, 18, female, born PA
Emeline, 16, female, born IL, attended school within the year
Simon, 14, male, born IL, attended school within the year
John Calihan, 40, male, day laborer, born KY
Cyrus Francis, 9, male, born IL

 

1870 Illinois Census, Hancock County, Hancock Township, page 152A
enumerated June 13, 1870, dwelling #21
[immediatedly preceding the household of his son, Simon Thomas Callihan]

Callihan, John, 62, male, white, stone mason, value of real estate 5000, value of personal estate 600, male citizen of the U.S. aged 21 or more
Elisabeth, 60, female, white, keeping house, born PA
Emma, 25, female, white, born IL
Cyrus, 18, male, white, born IL
Elisabeth, 27, female, white, born PA

 

1880 Illinois Census, Hancock County, Hancock Township, page 123D
enumerated June 7, 1880, dwelling #27

Calihan, John, white, male, 71, married, stone mason, born PA, both parents born PA
Elisabeth, white, female, 69, wife, married, keeping house, born PA, father born VA, mother
born PA
Wallas, Frank, white, male, 24, single, laborer, born VA, both parents born VA

 

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