Donald MCCALLUM Family

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SUBMITTER NAME: Jean GOODRICH JAVIDI
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HUSBAND: Donald MCCALLUM
date and place of birth: 1807, Canada
married:
spouse: Isabel (Isabella) MCNAUGHTON MCCALLUM
date and place of marriage:
other marriages:
date and place of death: 1869, Orangeville Twp, Barry County MI
date and place of burial:  1869, Yankee Springs Cemetery, Orangeville Twp, Barry County MI
father:
mother:
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WIFE: Isabel (Isabella) MCNAUGHTON MCCALLUM
date and place of birth: 1805
married:
spouse: Donald MCCALLUM
date and place of marriage:
other marriages:
date and place of death: 1880
date and place of burial: believed to be buried at Yankee Springs Cemetery, Orangeville Twp, Barry County Mi
father:
mother:
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CHILD 1: Elizabeth MCCALLUM TOWNSEND
date and place of birth: 1832
married:
spouse: TOWNSEND
date and place of marriage:
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date and place of death: 1875
date and place of burial:
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CHILD 2: John (Jack) MCCALLUM
date and place of birth: 1836
married:
spouse: Barbara SMITH MCCALLUM
date and place of marriage:
other marriages:
date and place of death:1896
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CHILD 3: Christie MCCALLUM BARNES
date and place of birth: 10/3/1839, Barry County MI
married: 9/12/1861
spouse: Lewis Henry BARNES
date and place of marriage: Barry County MI
other marriages:
date and place of death: 11/12/1879, Nickerson KS
date and place of burial: 11/12/1879, Fairview Methodist Cemetery near Nickerson KS
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CHILD 4: Malcolm MCCALLUM
date and place of birth: 1842, Barry County MI
married:
spouse: Margaret MCCALLUM
date and place of marriage:
other marriages:
date and place of death: 1917
date and place of burial: 1917, Yankee Springs Cemetery, Orangeville Twp, Barry County MI
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CHILD 5: Alexander MCCALLUM
date and place of birth: 1845, Barry County MI
married:
spouse: Libbie GIBSON
date and place of marriage:
other marriages: (First name unknown) VAN HORN; Betty CRUM
date and place of death: 1913
date and place of burial: 1913, Yankee Springs Cemetery, Orangeville Twp, Barry County MI

 
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CHILD 6: Donald (Bay) MCCALLUM
date and place of birth:
married:
spouse:
date and place of marriage:
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date and place of death:  1872
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SOURCES: interment.com; Second Edition Hope Twp, 1978, page 219
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NOTES: THE McCALLUM FAMILY
(From Second Edition, Hope Twp., 1978, page 219)
 
Donald McCallum (1807-1869) came to Michigan from Canada in 1838 and acquired land in Sections 10 and 11 of Orangeville Township, Barry County, Michigan.  Records of the late 1840's indicate he was a school district officer and Township Treasurer.
 
In 1851, he moved to Section 7, Hope Township, Michigan.  By 1855-56 he was operating a water-powered sawmill on a branch of Glass Creek, often known as Mill Creek.  The mill was located just north of the crossing of Glass Creek and Pine Lake Road.  At a meeting of the school board at the McCallum home, on September 27, 1858, a site for a schoolhouse was chosen on McCallum's land (on the west bank of a spring brook near the southwest corner of section 7 in a grove in McCallum's field on the east side of the road.  S.W. ¼, Sec. 7).  A contract for $245 for the building was signed by Robert Dinwiddie, Asher Roberts and Donald McCallum a short time later.
 
The children of Donald and Isabella McCallum were: Elizabeth (Townsend), John, Christie (Barnes), Malcolm, Alexander (who fought in the Civil War) and Donald (who died at an early age in the North Woods).  Most of the children lived in the Hope Township area.  Christie married Lewis Barnes and homesteaded in Kansas where she died in 1879.  Malcolm (1842-1917) remained on the farm and was married on July 5, 1862 to Margaret McNaughton.  Their children were: Edwin (died as a child), William, Ira, Isabel, and John.
 
William purchased land from his father and lived on Pine Lake Road.  Ira, Isabel and John lived on the homestead (Otis Lake Road).  Ira was known as a musician, playing in the Glass Creek Band, and was its director at one time.  He also played in the Cloverdale Band and as a soloist.  He was known for his poetry, many of which were written to commemorate special events such as the Hope Township Centennial (1940) and the first McCallum School reunion.
 
Isabel was also active in community affairs.  She was a promoter of the Community club during the Depression of the 1930's, a long-time member of the United Brethren Church and a Sunday school teacher.
 
A new home with modern heating and plumbing was built in 1911-12 from plans and materials purchased from Sears, Roebuck & Co.  A railroad boxcar was shipped to Schultz with all the materials needed and local carpenters did the construction.
 
In the early 1920's, the family donated land for the United Brethren Church and later land for a parsonage. 
 
The farm was sold in 1974 to Wayne Schoenboom and is located on Otis Lake Road.
 
John McCallum, son of Donald and Isabella, had 8 children.  Asher died at the age of 7, and Jennie died at the age of 20.  He also had a daughter named Flora who was a school teacher.
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THE McCALLUM SCHOOL
 
The McCallum School was located on Otis Lake Road at the corner of Pine Lake Road (Hope Twp, Barry Co Michigan).  The building still stands (1997) and is privately owned.  It is currently a wing on a home.  Annual class reunions were held beginning in 1927.  The following is an excerpt from a poem commemorating the McCallum School:
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A Dream of the Past
By Ira McCallum
 
They laid the sills and raised the wall and pitched the roof and plate
And brought it to a school complete, in eighteen fifty-eight.
And this is how it came about, that Don McCallum then
Called out a meeting from the wilds of all the voting men.
And Lindeman was the chair, and Chalker pushed the pen.
They formed a district, chose a site, prepared to build a school
Where waved the walnuts' greenwood wing, above the purling pool.
So on the nineteenth day of June, eighteen fifty-eight,
They cast the die that stamped a school upon the wheel of fate.
And, now, our modern pale-eyed Profs declare it out of date.
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