Someone abt. 6 months or so ago helped me with a marriage date for my ggg gf Jonathan Calloway who married Sarah Drain. A child of either Sarah or Jonathan or possibly both since the pension record from the Civil War for William H. Calloway shows he may have had two wives, one a Asenith/Seny Russell in MD/DE and an Elizabeth Totten in Plainfield, NJ; on one of the affidavits from his 'half-sister' Annie Calloway Vickers she states as him being her half-brother. I'm looking for help either/or any of these marriages in Sussex Co. DE A JONATHAN or JOHN CALLOWAY (any variant) marriage to anyone between the years 1830-1840. A SARAH UNKNOWN to any DRAIN/DRANE between 1830-1840. A WILLIAM H. CALLOWAY to a Asenith/Seny or ANY RUSSELL between 1850 and 1860. The pension record resulted in over 200 pages because of a dispute over who was the legal wife of William H. Calloway. No marriage record was located in MD for Wm. H. Calloway to Seny Russell, yet affidavits stated they were in fact married and had at least two children. After the Civil War was over he came home shortly and abandoned Seny and the children and went to Plainfield, NJ and married Elizabeth Totten. If further gives evidence by Elizabeth that he never told her he was married before. He swore under oath in his initial pension application that Seny died but she didn't. From what i gather it wasn't apparent to Elizabeth that e was married before until one of his children, a son, named William B. Calloway went to NJ to find him. After she found out she left him. There was a very involved dispute over who was actually the widow and who should receive the survivor's pension. Wm. H Calloway is either the brother of or half-brother of my gg gm Laura Calloway who married Benjamin Jones. (At least according to the Benjamin Jones family Bible as i've also never been able to locate a marriage record for them either. The Bible does list a date though. My Benjamin Jones was from Burlington Co., NJ and ended up in Dorchester Co. right after the Civil War.) Elizabeth Totten won out as Seny had died and NJ law at the time stated unless overwhelming evidence could be proved of a previous marriage, the current wife even though she had not lived with him for over 10 years was the widow and entitled to his pension. Sincerely, Corleen Arrowood Cumberland,MD