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1 more than one hundred years. In 1836, two orphan children,
Polly Newcomb and George Washington Newcomb, aged two and
six, were apprenticed to the Below family, In the agreement of
apprenticeship, the boy was to be taught the "arts and mysteries
of farming and to be taught to read, [and] arithmetic to the I
rule of three." The girl was to be instructed in "the arts and
mysteries of a seamstress and a spinstress," but nothing was
said about book-learning. _
John Brinson, who came from South Carolina, settled in the
Boxville Precinct. There, in 1834, Mr. Brinson married Rebecca,
a daughter of Asher Cox and Elizabeth Rose Cox. John Brinson’s
son, James Harvey Brinson. was born October 26, 1839. He
served in the Union Army until discharged in 1863. In 1865 lie
married Margaret Caroline Sigler.
John Maxwell Calloway moved to Union County in 1873, from
Bedford, Virginia. Mr. Calloway was a soldier in the Confederate
Army and was with Lee at the surrender at Appomattox. He
died in 1887, and was buried in the Long-Cralle Cemetery near
liorganheld. Thomas William, oldest child of John Maxwell
Calloway, was born in Virginia in 1853, came to Union County
l v.»lt`.i his parents and married Maria Louisa Long in 1876. They  
l.;·~;l six children. The Calloways engaged in farming in the
vicinity of Sturgis. ·
John Casey, son of Peter Casey, mentioned above, lived near
Caseyville, where he had large farming and mining interests. It
is said that he imported the first Durham cattle into the district.
n Two of his sons were among the first to enlist in the Confederate
Army.
George E`. Catlett, at one time sheriff of Union County, brought
his family and slaves from Virginia to Morganiield in 1820. He
lived in Union County until his death, in 1848.
, Peter Catlett, p·ostmaster at Morganfield from 1820 to 1824,
was not related to George Catlett, and very little is known about
i him.
l The Chapmans of Union County, another prominent early I
family, are descended from John Strother and Polly Casey
’ Waggener Chapman. Mr. Chapman was born in Frederick
3 County, Virginia, in 1784, and came to Union County when the
, first settlements were made in that area. The original Chapman
T property consisted of a large tract about two miles west of
J Morganfield and extended to the Spring Grove nc?ghborhood. A