George W. Callin’s Callin Family History tells us that two brothers, James and John Callin, moved from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to a farm near the modern town of Olivesburg in what is now Weller Township in Richland County, Ohio. James brought his family in about 1810, and John followed later, around 1816, with his family.
Weller Township was formed out of parts of what had been Franklin Township to the west and Milton Township to the east, a few years after Ashland County was created from Richland County in 1846. So, from 1816, when the town of Olivesburg was laid out, until 1846, it was in Milton township, Richland County.
Records are scarce, but James and John are listed in U.S. Federal Census records in Milton Township in 1820. The brothers had a total of 15 children who grew up on that farm in Milton Township, and after John’s death from tuberculosis in 1835, many of those 15 children married and moved to other states.
These are posts that I have written about those families and where they went. As I dug into the research about them, I began to refer to those who moved away as the “Milton Township Diaspora,” and once I finished writing about them, I began to write about Those Who Remained.
This list is intended as a guide to those posts. The order is suggested, but not necessary:
- Who We Displaced
- The Old Hopewell Presbyterian Church
- Exploring “Shirttails”
- The Milton Township Diaspora (part 1)
- The Davidsons Take The Oregon Trail (part 2)
- The Davidsons Arrive in Oregon (part 3)
- Alexander Callin Buys Some Land
- The Scott Family: Milton Township Diaspora
- The Last of the Milton Township Diaspora
- Those Who Remained: Part I
- Those Who Remained II: Uncle George
- Those Who Remained III: The Campbells
Mightier Acorns 