Herman Family

          Julia Eleen McCallister Herman's Paternal Ancestry

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>Julia Eleen McCallister

>>Carl Arthur McCallister 

>>>George Robert McCallister Jr.

>>>>George Robert McCallister Sr.

>>>>>Abram McCallister

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Carl Arthur McCallister was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, March 28, 1917.  He died from accidential injuries on the job with Springs Industries, Fort Mill, York County, SC Jan 7, 1968.  He married Frances Kathryn Buchanan and they had seven Children.

Father> George Robert McCallister Jr.

Children>
David Carl         (1941-2005)  married Nancy Campbell
Julia Eleen McCallister             married James Fred Herman
Juanda Elnida     (1947-1995) married Wallace Coleman
Michael Frances                       married Jan Quintin
Kelly Jayne                              married Willie Honeycutt
Leah Kyle
Laura Ann                                married Jerry Lowder

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George Robert McCallister Jr. was born, lived and died in the Whitney, Spartanburg SC area.  He married Julia Rose Sprinkle (1885-1937).  He, like his father, was called Robert.  He worked as a mill operative from Whitney Manufacturing Company.  Relatives remember him being medium to tall in height and with a slender build, with blue eyes and hair coloring light brown or dark blond.  Julia Rose Sprinkle McCallister was the daughter of John Lewis and Fermelia Addie thomason Sprinkle of Whitney, SC.  She had a brother named Arthur Sprinkle.  Julia Rose Sprinkle McCallister died at the age of 61.  At one period of their life George Robert McCallister Jr. and Julia Rose Sprinkle McCallister lived on Maple Street in Whitney Mills, SC.   


Julia Rose Sprinkle McCallister

                                                                                                      

Father>    George Robert McCallister Sr.

Children>

1. George Roy McCallister    (2/22/1905 - 1/15/1991)    married Maddie Kate (unknown last name)
2. Addie Rose McCallister    (12/31/1906 - 10/3/1995)   married Forest Crocker
3. Palmer Louis McCallister   (7/14/1910 - 6/10/2001)    never married
4. Ned C. McCallister           (6/5/1914 - 5/29/1997)      married Blanche H (unknown last name)
5. Carl Arthur McCallister      (3/28/1917 - 1/7/1968)     married Frances Kathryn Buchanan 
6. Alice McCallister                (developing information and will post later)
7. Ruby McCallister               (6/15/1920 - 1/8/1921)     Died at age 2
8. Inez McCallister                 (3/26/1922 - 8/21/1987)  married James Henry Kinsey

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George Robert McCallister Sr. was born in 1853 and died around 1888, just before the beginning of the 20th Century.  He married Rosa P. (maiden name unknown).  They lived in the Campobello, Spartanburg County, SC area where he farmed and raised two male children.  "Robert", as he was known, received $100 on June 5, 1883 from his father Abram McCallister's estate.  After his death Rosa McCallister married John Atkins and lived in the Whitney, SC area.  Both young children--age 8 and age 4--were raised by their mother and step father.  Rosa P. McCallister (Atkins) died March 24, 1940 from pneumonia that was contracted after she fell and broke a hip.

Father>  Abram McCallister

Children>

-Abram Calvin McAlister (born before 1880; died before 1940)
-George Robert McCallister Jr. 

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Abram McCallister (12/23/1801 - 2/18/1882) was born in Ireland and migrated to America between the years 1810 and 1830 (SEE EXCERPT FROM VOYAGE TO AMERICA 1766 BELOW).  Settling in the Spartanburg County, SC area he was a large land owner--350 acres at one time--and a farmer.  He married Virginia E. Burnett, called "Jincy" to all who knew her.  She was born September 18, 1821.  Abram died in 1882, 21 years before Jincy in 1903, and is buried in the McCallister Family Cemetery in boiling springs, Spartanburg County, SC.  Abram signed a will dated November 16, 1861 leaving everything to his wife.

They had eight children:

Father>  Unknown

Children>

1. James W. McCallister (1848-1932)        married Susan Emeline Page
2. David McCallister (1849-1927)              married Sarah C. McDowell & Harriet Elizabeth Reid
3. Mary Elizabeth McCallister (1851- ?)       married John C. Westmoreland
4. Joseph Henry McCallister (1853-1901)    married Martha Jane Burnett
5. Samuel McCallister (1855 - ?)                died as a youth
6. George Robert McCallister                     married Rosa P. (last name unknown)
7. Lou Sarah McCallister (1861-1938)         married Henry Robert Holden
8. Abraham I. J. McCallister (1864-1938)    married Louise A. Holden (brother to Henry Robert Holden)

Excerpt from Voyage to America 1766 (copyright 2006 Jim Herman. No reproduction without permission)
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                                            1822 – New Bern Port, North Carolina

     Arriving in America in the year 1822 at the New Bern Port in North Carolina when he was twenty-two years old, Abraham McCallister signed his name in the port of entry logs as Abram McCallister.  Seeking others from his clan in Ireland, he located and stayed with friends and relatives at a large Clan MacAlasdar settlement near Cape Fear, North Carolina.
     He planned to travel inland to the frontier lands of the Carolinas.  This journey would allow him to discover this new land first hand and provide valuable knowledge he would need to become a successful farmer.  Already the difference in the climate was too his liking and the people were friendly, and most of all, not the least bit concerned with his political and religious beliefs.
     Information obtained earlier from friends and dock workers at the port where he arrived, told of good land in western South Carolina.  From sale of his portion of land in Ireland, he would have more than enough money to purchase substantial acreage here in America since the reported price was less than one dollar an acre.
Remaining with his Clan in the coastal township of Cape Fear for two months, Abram regained his strength from the arduous voyage to American that took nearly twelve weeks to complete.  Once again a healthy and strong twenty-two year old male, he purchased supplies and a horse to take him inland where he would explore the Carolinas, with a final destination undetermined.
     His success in Ireland was not the result of luck.  Abram possessed a knack for learning from observation.  Here on this land voyage across the Carolina lands, both north and south, he would gleam knowledge of crops and farming operations to use and apply when he obtained his own land.
     The first thirty days of travel brought him to the small cliffs of the wild Neuse River near the center of North Carolina, west of a large settlement named Raleigh.
     Earlier from New Bern he first passed over sandy light soil which would produce a poor crop even though the climate would be favorable near a full calendar year length.  As quick as his assessment of the poor soil was made a change to the better began near Kinston Town.  Now the soil was thicker and with a black hue.  The further west he traveled, on to the settlement of Goldsboro, the soil became black and thick but not too course to clot--perfect soil for farming.  From every direction he saw cotton fields and corn fields and occasionally, on a smaller scale, wheat and flax.
Beyond the Neuse River he talked with travelers who told him of red soil further west, except in the bottom lands of rivers and streams; red soil that was difficult to till and produced little.  Armed with this information he headed south rather than west, following the flow of the Neuse River.  South into the part of the Carolinas now called South Carolina.
Reaching the Pee Dee basin of rivers, the low county became damp with standing water.  Bogs he knew of in Ireland, but this was his first experience with what local farmers called swamps.  Here he turned westward and followed the footpaths of animals to a settlement called Camden where the rolling prairie of the middle Carolinas unfolded.  Taking the main wagon road west toward the Blue Ridge Mountains, he still hoped to find the right land to fit his needs; land similar to his home land in Ireland, but more fertile.
     Crossing the north to south great wagon road on his westward trek, Abram came upon a large high meadow that crested to the west.  The view, from north to south, unfolded the Blue Ridge Mountain Range as far as he could see.  This was the place he had pictured in his mind.  This was to be his home.  It was near a settlement named Spartanburg, in the new State of South Carolina, in America.

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                                                      12th Century – Scotland

     The many spellings of the surname McCallister originated from the Clan Alasdair from Somerled, Lord of Argyll, through his grandson Donald who founded the large and mighty Clan Donald.  Many Clan branches descend from the original Clan Donald and one of them, Clan Alasdair (McCallister), was a West Highland clan centered on Kintyre Peninsula and the surrounding islands of Scotland.
From this peninsula and surrounding islands of Scotland, some families from Clan Alasdair moved westward and settled in Northern Ireland and the Ireland lowlands to the southwest.  Alasdair Mor, the younger son of Donald who was the accepted Lord of the Isles, was the first of the MacAlasdair Clan that now proudly carry the McCallister surname throughout Scotland, Ireland, and America.
Down through the years most MacAlasdairs were tenant farmers and fishermen who suffered the same plight as other clans of the Scottish Highlands.  The many factions of war and battle across the highlands from frequent political unrest, periodic famine, high land tariffs, and forcible eviction by clan chiefs when the estates of the wealthy chiefs changed ownership, drove many of the MacAlasdairs out of Scotland to Ireland.

     During the wars for Scotland’s independence—1297 to 1304 with Robert Bruce and 1306 to 1328 with William Wallace—Clan MacAlasdair supported independence and fought gallantly with other highlanders.  Following his victory at Bannockburn, Clan MacAlasdair was singled out and rewarded by Robert Bruce for their bravery.

     In the mid 1600s—during the wars of religion—Clan MacAlasdair was united in its support of Montrose.  Some of the Clan’s land holdings were lost following these battles, but twenty years later, they fought and won them back.  In a huge and fierce battle at Dunaverty Keep in 1647, a great number of the Clan MacAlasdair soldiers were massacred by British soldiers commanded by the British General Leslie.   Following the Scottish invasion of England, in support of Charles II, in 1650, a few of the MacAlasdairs were captured at the Battle of Worcester by Oliver Cromwell led British soldiers.  These captives were used as laborers and sent to the new world, America, in 1651.
The Jacobite Risings—1689-1746—split the MacAlasdair support on both sides of the fighting.  Exhibiting their strong individuality, some of the battles Clan MacAlasdair vigorously supported others they did not participate in at all.

     Except for the small number of MacAlasdairs exiled to colonial America by the British in the year 1651, few if any migrated to this new land until the William Penn “Holy Experiment” began.  In the early part of the 18th century from 1720 and into the 19th century, to about 1820, Penn and his sons offered freedom from political and religious strife on inexpensive land in America.  The MacAlasdairs joined the tens of thousands from Europe seeking to fulfill the “Holy Experiment” and the promises offered.  They came through ports in New York, Philadelphia, Wilmington and Charleston harbors.  They undertook a voyage to America.

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