Elizabeth (Berlin) Callin (1817 - 1903)

Born 14 Nov 1817 in Pennsylvania

Wife of William H Callin — married 29 Sep 1836 in Richland County, Ohio

Descendants

Died 19 Nov 1903 at age 86 in Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio

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Evidence

The Callin Family History states that William Callin was "Married to Elizabeth Barlene 1837 who died Nov. 14, 1903, at Bowling Green, O., aged 86 years."^[1]

The J.H. Beers biographical sketch of John H. Callin, in its description of his parents, says: "In 1835, [William, John's father] married Elizabeth, daughter of John Barlin, of Ashland..."^[2]

One primary source confirms that "Mr. Wm. Cal-lin and Mifs Elizabeth Berlin" were married on the 29th day of September in Richland County, Ohio, in 1836.^[3]

After William’s death, Elizabeth lived with her children. She appeared in the household of her son John in Middleton, Wood County, in 1900. Not long after that, she went to live with her son, George. Elizabeth died on 19 Nov 1903 at the age of 86 in Bowling Green, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio.^[4]

Rosemary's Letter

In September 1973, Rosemary Callin (daughter of George W. Callin, who published The Callin Family History) wrote a letter titled, Things I Have Been Told About My Grandmother, Elizabeth Berlien (Barline) Callin. These excerpts focus on Elizabeth:

"The five boys went to war and for the first time [1861] Elizabeth learned to read and write so that she could communicate with them. This was probably not too hard for her as those "Dotsch" are good at everything anyway."
"William died at maybe around 62 and I don't know what Elizabeth did then. I believe she lived to be about 84. In her very last years she came to live with us at 331 Pearl Street in Bowling Green. And this is where this picture must have been taken, probably by my mother who had a camera. Later I inherited my half-sister's (Mabel Callin's) dress-up picture of my father. I was handling it when it fell apart and here was this picture that I didn't know existed of Grandmother Callin."

(To date, no one in the family has been able to locate this picture.)

"I don't remember her but she knew me. She sat by the window mostly in the east bedroom. Papa loved to go in for a chat and he delighted in her witty answers. Mother was going to make her a dress and Papa asked --- he knew well enough that it would be calico or gingham, but he said playfully, "What'll it be, Mother, silk or satin?"

"It'll be sat in, all right."

"George, sometimes I wish I had gone over the hills to the poor house." (In those days considered a great disgrace.) "There would be old people there and they would know the things I want to talk about."

Another day she said to him. "The woman next door (mother) is going to have a baby (me)." After I came she said; "I guess you better call her "Melia". (Sure glad they didn't.)

"Mother went in one time and laid me on the bed for a moment. When she came back, Grandmother had grabbed me by the skirts and was pulling me toward her. I was almost off the bed. Mother probably let her hold me. She liked old ladies and was kind to them. When I was a young girl I used Elizabeth for my middle name but later I decided that Rosemary was enough."

"Elizabeth passed away in 1903 and was probably buried form our house. I don't know where. There is a George Callin lot in Oak Grove Cemetery at Bowling Green and, by-the-way, there are still two places on it if any one in the family should need them. She and William might be buried on Uncle John Callin's lot also in Oak Grove, but I don't think so. I don't remember ever seeing them there."

Sources

1. ↑ Callin, George W. (1846-1921) The Callin Family History, United States: Tad Callin, 2015. Print on demand from Lulu, Inc. (Available through WorldCat Interlibrary loan, OCLC Number: 910940769), pg. 10.
2. ↑ Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio (<http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Wood/WoodBio887.htm>)J.H. Beers & Co., 1897; pg. 923-924.
3. ↑ Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Film Number 000388736, (<https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61378/TH-1-17790-57361-12/902481512> accessed 13 July 2019), Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016, Lehi, UT, USA.
4. ↑ U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Memorial #54148475.

• Source: Berlin-232 was created by Cari Miller through the import of Cari's Family Tree 10.ged on May 27, 2014.