Jane Blackstone Montgomery

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• Name: Jame Blitzem Montgomery
• Name: Jane B Cason
• Name: Jane Montgomery
• Residence: 1850, Division 90, Warren, Georgia, USA

Jane married Adam Cason on 27 Dec 1832 in Upson, Georgia, USA. Adam (son of William Cason and Jeannet Rodgers) was born on 2 Jul 1811 in Warren, Georgia, USA; died on 28 Nov 1888 in Warren, Georgia, USA; was buried in Long Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Warrenton, Warren, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Division 90, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Mc Crarys, Warren, Georgia

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• Residence: 1850, Division 90, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Mc Crarys, Warren, Georgia

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• Residence: 1850, Division 90, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1850, Division 90, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Mc Crarys, Warren, Georgia
• Residence: 1880, District 114, Hancock, Georgia, USA

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1850, Division 90, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Mc Crarys, Warren, Georgia
• Residence: 1870, Casons Farm, Warren, Georgia, USA

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• Residence: 1850, Division 90, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Mc Crarys, Warren, Georgia
• Residence: 1870, Casons Farm, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Factory, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1910, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA

Family/Spouse: Ellen T Cason. Ellen was born in 1855 in Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1860, Mc Crarys, Warren, Georgia
• Residence: 1870, Casons Farm, Warren, Georgia, USA

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• Death Certificate No.: Certificate number: 24678.
• Residence: 1860, Mc Crarys, Warren, Georgia
• Residence: 1870, Casons Farm, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Factory, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1910, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1920, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1930, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA

Family/Spouse: Daisy Lnu. Daisy was born in 1875 in Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Ida C Callaway
• Residence: 1880, District 114, Hancock, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1900, La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA

Notes:

Georgia Deaths, 1919-98 Record
about Mrs Fuller E Callaway, Sr
Name: Mrs Fuller E Callaway, Sr
Death Date: 10 Apr 1936
County of Death: Troup
Certificate: 12349

Ida married Fuller Earle Callaway, Sr on 28 Apr 1891 in La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA. Fuller was born on 15 Jul 1870 in La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA; died on 12 Feb 1928 in La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1900, Hephzibah, Richmond, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1910, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 12 Sep 1918, Warrenton, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1920, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA

Family/Spouse: Monnie Cason. Monnie was born in 1888 in Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1900, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1910, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA

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• Residence: 1900, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1910, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA

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• Departure: Southampton, England
• SSN issued: Georgia, USA
• Residence: Warren, Georgia, USA
• Social Security Number: 256-66-2769
• Residence: 1910, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1920, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1930, Warrenton, Warren, Georgia, USA
• Arrival: 19 Jun 1938, New York, New York, USA
• Death: 19 Aug 1970, Warrenton, Warren, Georgia, USA

Family/Spouse: Marjorie B Lnu. Marjorie was born on 12 Aug 1904 in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, USA; died on 25 Jun 1988 in McDuffie, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Death Certificate No.: Certificate number: 07711.
• Residence: Harris, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1920, La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1930, La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA

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Cason Jewell Callaway (November 6, 1894 - April 12, 1961)

Cason Jewell Callaway, co-founder of Callaway Gardens, was born in LaGrange, Georgia, the son of Fuller Earle and Ida Cason Callaway. Cason's father was a self-made success in the business world, and by the year of Cason's birth in 1894, Fuller Callaway had built a strong retail business in LaGrange and was just a few years short of running his first mill.

By the way people treated him, Cason quickly learned that he was the son of an important man. However, his father told him not to get "puffed up." His social standing only meant he would have to work twice as hard as anyone else. Fuller did not like the idea that his success would keep Cason from knowing the adversity that builds character.

For twelve years, Cason was the only child (his brother Fuller Jr. was born in 1907). Cason's mother, Ida Cason Callaway, treated her sons gently and provided a balance to their father's toughness.

Cason Jewell Callaway

Like his father, Cason Callaway (1894-1961) spent years as a textile manufacturer, a businessman, and a state agricultural leader. He achieved his greatest success in developing Callaway Gardens after retiring from Callaway Mills. A native of LaGrange, Cason attended Bingham Military School in Asheville, North Carolina, and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville before getting a degree from the Eastman School of Business in Poughkeepsie, New York. After finishing school, he returned to Troup County to work in the mills. He developed Valley Waste Mills into a commercial success by refining recycling operations.

During World War I (1917-18), Cason joined the U.S. Navy and worked in the Navy Supply Corps' Bureau of Supplies and Accounts at Navy Headquarters in Washington, D.C. After Cason returned to LaGrange, his father stepped away from active mill management, and Cason began managing the mills. He married Virginia Hollis Hand of Pelham, and the couple had three children, Cason Jr., Howard Hollis, and Virginia.

Convinced in the 1920s that the national economy was heading for rough times, Fuller advised his two sons to choose one business arena and sell off their other holdings. The brothers sold most of their businesses and created a new corporation, Callaway Mills, which oversaw mill management. One key to Cason's success in mill management proved to be salesmanship, a trait he shared with his father. Cason established relations with General Motors, entered the rug and tire-cord business, and hired managers and salesmen to market mill products. Thanks to careful stewardship and to profits made from selling the other businesses, Callaway Mills survived the Great Depression without closing any plants, while management kept at least one member of every mill family fully employed.

In 1934 and 1935 Callaway Mills suffered two employee strikes. Eventually management won out and strikers left the area, but the economic stresses of the decade led Cason to retire. He became chairman of the board of Callaway Enterprises and served until 1937; his brother, Fuller Jr., became president. Cason accepted national positions, served on the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, and was a director for various national companies.

During the 1920s and 1930s, Cason became close friends with Franklin D. Roosevelt, a part-time resident of west Georgia. Roosevelt began visiting Warm Springs in October 1924, while trying to overcome the effects of polio. He and Cason shared a love of the people, a desire to improve the land, and an interest in farming, even though they disagreed on politics. In 1932, the year Roosevelt was elected president of the United States, Cason led fund-raising efforts for Georgia Hall, the new administration building for the Warm Springs Foundation (later the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation). The foundation was funded by Georgians as a tribute to their new president.

Following his retirement from the mills, Cason set up an experimental farming operation of 40,000 acres at his Blue Springs Farms near Hamilton, just south of LaGrange. He worked with the University of Georgia to develop other showplace farms as part of the One Hundred Georgia Better Farms program, which encouraged better farm practices, between 1944 and 1947. The program encouraged using machinery and developing fine production—whether in beef, wool, or fruits and vegetables. The program officially ended in 1950.

In 1947 Cason had a heart attack. His focus shifted from agriculture to the development of what later became Callaway Gardens, situated on former cotton fields that had been stripped of nutrients by intensive farming. The gardens opened in May 1952. After Cason's death, his son Howard, known as "Bo," oversaw operations of the gardens for many years.

Cason married Virginia Hollis Hand on 3 Apr 1920 in Pelham, Mitchell, Georgia, USA. Virginia (daughter of Judson Larrabee Hand and Florence Mae Hollis) was born on 21 Feb 1900 in Pelham, Mitchell, Georgia, USA; died on 11 Feb 1995 in Hamilton, Harris, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Fuller Earle Callaway Jr.

Born in LaGrange, Fuller Callaway Jr. (1907-92) graduated from LaGrange High, Georgia School of Technology, and the Eastman School of Business in Poughkeepsie, New York. He started working in the mills at age fourteen and became president of Callaway Mills in 1935. He was a community leader and a benefactor of the town of LaGrange, LaGrange College, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Fuller Jr. operated Callaway Mills for many years and established foundations that gave away millions during his lifetime.

In 1948 Fuller Jr. took a ten-year leave from mill management. During those years, he painted, worked with electronics, and assembled a herd of Hereford cattle. He then returned to the helm of Callaway Mills and successfully guided operations until April 1968, when he shocked many by selling Callaway Mills for cash to Roger Milliken and Deering-Milliken Company of Spartanburg, South Carolina.

In 1930 Fuller Jr. married Alice Hinman Hand of Pelham. Fuller and Alice had met years earlier when their siblings, Cason and Virginia, married. Fuller and Alice had two children, Ida and Fuller. They lived at the Hills and Dales estate of his parents, where Alice worked for decades to preserve the home and gardens. Since Alice's death, the gardens have been renamed Ferrell Gardens at Hills and Dales and are open to the public on a limited basis.

Fuller Jr. helped to found the Institute of Textile Technology in Charlottesville, Virginia, and along with two other alumni, the Georgia Tech Research Institute, which supports research in all areas of the sciences. In 1943 he organized the Callaway Community Foundation (later the Callaway Foundation). The foundation carried on the work of the Textile Benefit Association organized by his father in 1919. The Callaway Foundation owned all assets of Callaway Mills and has made contributions from income to religious, charitable, and educational organizations. More than $251 million from the foundation have has been given to local, state, and national groups between 1943 and 2003.

Fuller married Alice Hinman Hand on 6 Aug 1930 in Pelham, Mitchell, Georgia, USA. Alice (daughter of Judson Larrabee Hand and Florence Mae Hollis) was born on 4 Oct 1912 in Pelham, Mitchell, Georgia, USA; died on 15 Jan 1998 in La Grange, Troup, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1910, Jewell, Warren, Georgia, USA