Selected Families and Individuals

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Edwin Rex McCalip

Birth:  Jan. 19, 1893
Bartholomew County
Indiana, USA
Death:  Aug. 9, 1956
Bartholomew County
Indiana, USA


Family links:
 Spouse:
 Eleanor Cox Turpin McCalip (1905 - 1990)

 Children:
 Shelia May Anderson McCalip White (1936 - 2005)*
 Sheldon Ray McCalip (1936 - 1937)*
 Margaret Olive McCalip Hughey (1937 - 2010)*

*Point here for explanation

  
Burial:
Daugherty Cemetery
Walesboro
Bartholomew County
Indiana, USA
 
Created by: Glenda Aikins
Record added: Aug 15, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 29047524


Eleanor "Nellie" Pearl Cox

MARRIAGE COX, NELLIE PEARL  1926-1927 6 NOVEMBER 1927 TO JAMES THOMAS TURPIN
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MARRIAGE MCCALIP, REX 1935-1936 24 JUNE 1935 TO NELLIE PEARL TURPIN
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Birth: Nov. 19, 1905
Columbus
Bartholomew County
Indiana, USA Death: Nov. 9, 1990
Columbus
Bartholomew County
Indiana, USA
May we introduce our Mom ~ ~ Eleanor (Nellie) Pearl Cox Turpin Mc Calip.

Mom lived by 3 things that were her guideposts throughout her life : GOD ~ FAMILY ~ COUNTRY

GOD: That is the Trinity of God the Father, Son, Holy Spirit. She believed that Jesus is the Messiah or Christ and she held to the promises He told. " I love you, I will be with you, and I will give you peace." Her favorite Bible passage was Psalms 121.
Mom served her Church by : telling stories in the primary department at the original First Baptist Church on Franklin St. She would cut paper people out of catalogs and paste them in a big book and tell stories about these paper people using real life situations. That must have been what it was like for children in the Bible to sit around Jesus listening to him tell about people and their stories. She played piano for church services , sang solos, and belonged to the Y.W. Philathea Sunday School Class. One special Mother's Day during WWII, Pastor John Knight , before the sermon, asked Mom to go to the back room. No one in the congregation knew why, and was expecting the worse. After the usher had escorted her to the back, Pastor Knight told the congregation that her son, James Turpin, serving in the Navy on Guam, was placing a call to her just for Mother's Day. The only place he was sure to find her that morning was at Church. Many tissues were used that day , and when Mom re-entered the Church Sanctuary she was beaming!!

When we moved to the country, she was instrumental in starting a summer Vacation Bible School at Wilson Chapel, the little country Church up the road. Learn! ing and teaching about our Lord was very basic to our Mom. In her later years, she enjoyed the faithful Pastors and Church Members, from First Baptist, who came to visit and serve communion. These visits were often the highlights of her days. She would recount to us how much she looked forward to them, both while on the farm, and later at the Nursing Home, in North Vernon. All the deacons knew if they visited Nellie, they could be there at least an hour. To visit with her took time, as she had a sharp mind and was very witty, and loved to talk about World Events. Sometimes we felt they must have drawn straws to see who were the fortunate ones, and got to drive to her home that month.

FAMILY: She was born on November 19, 1905 in Columbus, Indiana as the 2nd daughter of Jacob and Olive (Hougland) Cox. She belonged to a family of 3 sisters and 1 brother. Her father worked for the Public Service Company in Columbus, and he loved to fish in the White River. Mom told us stories how her father taught her how to cut slices into the Suckerfish in order to eat them, and you always ate bread with fish so that the bread, instead of your throat, would catch any bones. Her mother Olive taught her how to walk the river banks and pick "poke" and other greens to sublimate the family diet.
Mom worked many years in the Columbus Hospital, before and after she married, at various locations. She knew many of the doctors and would tell us stories about what is was like working there. She wanted to be! a RN Nu rse as she loved helping people, but her mother did not think girls needed Higher Education. She wouldn't let Mom attend nursing school, so Mom worked as a PN.
She raised 2 sons and 4 daughters in our family. One of our sisters, Sheila, was a twin to our brother Sheldon, who died at the age of 18 months old. It was extremely difficult for Mom to lose him, as Dad wanted a son so very much. Her faith in God gave her strength to get through those sad times.

In Columbus, in our early years, we lived at 5th and California next to Cummins Diesel Company. Some evenings, we would walk up to 7th St to wait for the bus bringing Mom home from the 11-7 or the 7-3 shift at the hospital. She worked many different time shifts and was on her feet many hours. She looked so pretty in the white stockings, white shoes, and her white uniform. Our Dad worked at Mooney's Tannery and walked to work each day. On Sunday mornings we would walk as a family down 5th St. to the First Baptist Church on Franklin St. We would make a game of seeing who could step on the "magic block" to start the bells as we passed the First Christian Church.

Every Easter she would give us four girls a "Toni " permanent . These permanents were applied to our hair by the rubber band style rollers. We had to hold very still which was difficult, as the rubber bands kept snapping and poking against our heads!! Mom also was a great seamstress and made lots of our clothes, especially our Easter dresses. One year she even made a Santa Claus suit for Linda including faux fur trim.
Mom was a great cook. She would make home made noodles or dumplings on her days off, and leave to dry on the kitchen counter. We girls would love to sneak a bite of the raw noodle dough, and we still wonder if she made extra noodles just so we could take some. She also made Navy Bean soup with cornbread (yum), Pinto Beans with Johnny cakes (yum-yum), Macaroni & Cheese (from scratch) and many more dishes that were nutritious and inexpensive. We didn't know that, we just knew how good the meals were !! We all learned to be " Clean Platers" whatever the menu.

Remember girls, the home-made burnt sugar or Angel Food Cakes Mom made for our birthdays and always gave us a choice which one? She would stir the sugar in a cast iron skillet until the sugar turned just the right shade of brown (Yummy). Or beating up the egg whites, with a hand beater, until they whipped up so light and fluffy. Of course, the angel food cake had to be cut with a thread. We were very impressed. Whichever cake you chose, you got to lick the bowl and the beaters.

Mom always wanted a place with lots of trees, and finally, in 1954, the Lord gave her 17 acres of beautiful trees on a 36 acre farm, just inside Jennings County on State Rd 7. We lived in a house which was an original log cabin. In the woods, on one of our wanderings, Mom found a special large rock , in our creek. She named it, " The Moses Rock" , which later became a family memory for us girls. On our treks through the woods, we usually wound up there and pretended to be "Moses".

Our father, Rex, became ill with cancer and Mom faithfully nursed him for 2 long difficult years, at the farm, until his demise. The Lord took our father, her husband in 1956, and she remained a widow for 34 years. The Lord had blessed her with a large family .The two sons and four daughters gave her many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. She enjoyed visits from them, telling stories, laughing at jokes and loved to receive schoolwork and Crayola Crayon pictures, which she would tape to the bedroom wall. One day the postman left her a letter that had been mailed from her granddaughter Ruth Ann from Chicago, and Ruth had used a S&H Green stamp for letter postage!! She really enjoyed showing people that envelope.

Oh yes, let's don't forget the marshmallow and wiener roasts in the backyard, the trout line she rigged up in the lake, or the big family reunions on holidays and in the summer. Mom was very good about writing drama plays for the Summer Family Reunions. One drama that stands out the best, was about "The Wedding of Carrot Top and Cabbage Head. "

In her later years, Mom enjoyed so much feeding all the birds, and watching the squirrels that lived in the big Oak tree right outside her kitchen window. Many a day she sat there in her recliner, drinking coffee, and reading her Bible, waiting on the mailman to bring her a letter, or the Church Bulletin.

COUNTRY: Mom was thankful to be an American, and gave of her time back to the community and the military. Though she or her husband didn't serve, she had both sons serve. Jim Turpin choosing the Navy and serving during WWII and Korea. Bill Turpin, selecting the Army, serving in the Korean War and 3 tours in Vietnam. Her daughters married men who have served in the Army, Air Force and Marines. Several of her grandchildren have served in all branches of the military. One has served in Iraq, and one now deployed in Japan. Some of her many great-grandchildren are presently serving overseas, also. She believed in our country and always made sure she voted in the elections. She wouldn't tell us whom she voted for in those years. She said that her vote was private.

After she became a widow, she volunteered in our schools, and was PTA President at our local Elementary School in Scipio. There she worked with Dale Greenlee to help the community organize a much needed rural Fire Department. She helped in her two son's Boy Scout troops, and many years later enjoyed the Church troops led by Charlie Cowles, and later , Larry Alexander. She enjoyed their trips to our farm. She had a very special section named "The Boy Scout Camp" in the woods, and enjoyed all their campouts and conversing with them, when the boys would come to get water.

The sale of this land and her home, after her demise, was the nucleus for developing the "Nellie McCalip Learning Center" our present First Baptist Church Library. We are so very, very grateful to Scott Crowder, surveyor, and Norman Curry, lawyer, who were invaluable for their donation of time and assistance.

Mom went to be with our Lord just before her 85th birthday in 1990 and we thank her for sharing her faith, and giving us a solid Christian foundation. She left us a poem at her Memorial Service, which also depicted her thoughts and values on living a full life. It was a framed poem, and was given to Sheila's oldest son, David (Davey-Long Legs, Mom's favorite name for him). It is entitled "Live Life to the Fullest" by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Mom, you were a wonderful Blessed Christian Role Model for us, and WE love you for being our MOM.

James T. (Jim) Turpin, Jr. (dec)
William (Bill) Turpin (dec)
Sheila McCalip Anderson White
Margo McCalip Hughey
Leanna McCalip Aly
Linda Mc Calip Reading


Family links:
Parents:
Jacob Austin Cox (1879 - 1939)
Olive E Cox Hougland Meek (1886 - 1972)

Spouse:
Edwin Rex McCalip (1893 - 1956)

Children:
James Thomas Turpin (1928 - 2002)
Shelia May Anderson McCalip White (1936 - 2005)
Sheldon Ray McCalip (1936 - 1937)
Margaret Olive McCalip Hughey (1937 - 2010)


Burial:
Daugherty Cemetery
Walesboro
Bartholomew County
Indiana, USA
Created by: Glenda Aikins
Record added: Aug 15, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 29047488


Margaret Olive McCalip

Birth:  Dec. 26, 1937
Columbus
Bartholomew County
Indiana, USA
Death:  Mar. 15, 2010
Columbus
Bartholomew County
Indiana, USA

The Republic Newspaper
Columbus, Indiana 47201
March 15, 2010

3/15/2010 2:14:00 PM

Margo Hughey, 72, of Columbus, passed away peacefully at 2:45 a.m. Monday, March 15, 2010, at Silver Oaks Health Campus.

A homemaker, Margo was a faithful member of First Baptist Church where she was a choir member and was involved with AWANA and VBS. She was a member of Bartholomew County Senior Center and a former member of Prairie Promenaders.

Well known for her volunteer service to the Columbus community, Margo was the hot meal coordinator for Eastside Community Center, a former board member of Love Chapel and a volunteer for Volunteers in Medicine.

She was very patriotic and founded Hoosiers Helping Our Troops.

Margo received several awards for her volunteer work, including the Leadership Award from WRTV-6 on January 15, 2007, the Patriot Award on November 10, 2007, and the Presidential Life Time "Call to Service Award" and the Distinguished Hoosier Award, both on July 6, 2009.

A celebration of life will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church with Dr. Daniel Cash and the Rev. Jon Carlstrom officiating. Family and friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Barkes, Weaver & Glick Funeral Home on Washington Street and from 10 a.m. until service time Thursday at the church.

The family encourages you to wear red, white or blue casual attire to the services in memory of Margo.

Burial will be at Daugherty Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial contributions be made to First Baptist Church Foundation, Hospice of South Central Indiana or Love Chapel.

Online condolences may be sent to Margo's family and a video tribute may be viewed at www.barkesweaverglick.com.

Born in Columbus December 26, 1937, Mrs. Hughey was the daughter of Edwin Rex and Nellie Pearl Cox Turpin McCalip. She married William E. Hughey March 17, 1957. He preceded her in death September 15, 2000.

Survivors include her daughters, Teresa (Robert) Deppe of North Vernon, Sharon (Duane) Kapala of Concordia, MO, Elizabeth Walter of Houston, TX, and Kathy Hughey of Nashville, TN; grandchildren, Ryan (Kim) Deppe of Bangor, ME, Tara (Eric) Kelley of Commiskey, Jennifer (Chad) Hughes of Warrensburg, MO, and Sarah, Jacob, Luke and Peter Kapala, all of Concordia, MO; great-grandchildren, Mackenzie Deppe and Fallon, Kaiser and Logan Hughes; sisters, Leanna (Neil) Aly of Orlando, FL, and Linda (Ron) Reading of Wheeling, IL; and many nieces, nephews and other relatives.

Mrs. Hughey was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a sister, Sheila Anderson White; and brothers, Sheldon Ray McCalip and William and James Turpin.

www.barkesweaverglick.com



 
Family links:
 Parents:
 Edwin Rex McCalip (1893 - 1956)
 Eleanor Cox Turpin McCalip (1905 - 1990)

 Spouse:
 William E Hughey (1936 - 2000)

  
Burial:
Daugherty Cemetery
Walesboro
Bartholomew County
Indiana, USA
 
Created by: Glenda Aikins
Record added: Mar 13, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 49661503


Lawrence Lewis Rohan

Name:
Larry J Rohan

Estimated Birth Year:
abt 1954

Age:
24

Spouse's Name:
Peggy L [Rohan]

Spouse's Estimated Birth Year:
abt 1958

Spouse's Age:
20

Divorce Date:
10 Feb 1978

Marriage Date:
17 Jan 1976
Number of Children:
0
County:
Galveston


Lawrence was born on October 10, 1930 and passed away on Wednesday, July 6, 2005.
Lawrence was a resident of Wimberley, Texas


Peggy Marie Chadwell

Peggy was born on October 13, 1933 and passed away on Sunday, May 6, 2018.
Peggy was a resident of Texas at the time of passing.

Peggy was more than my Aunt.We grew up together through the war years and on throughout our teens.We did silly, fun things girls do. We shared our dreams and part of our souls.We each married our first loves and later lost contact when ALL our babies came.As time passed we once again shared our much older and wiser time. Peggy was fun,interesting to converse with on most subjects.She will always be in my heart and I WILL miss her in my life......


Posted by: clara    May 11, 2018


I have so many wonderful memories of my Aunt Peggy visiting her sister, Bertie, my mother - all the joyous laughter - and the special paper doll she hand drew for me as a child (which I still have in my possession). I know Aunt Peggy is being greeted by many open arms and joy. May God's promise of eternal life be a comfort to all at this sad time.


Posted by: Earline Zoe Meyer Darm - San Antonio, TX - family   May 10, 2018