His WW I draft registration card, filed 5 June 1917 in Berrien Co., Michigan, records Richard Menifee Calaway, age 23, residence 240 Lake, Benton Harbor, Michigan, born 19 Dec 1893 in Morehead, Ky, employer Superior Steel Cutting Co., Benton Harbor, Mich, married supporting wife & child.

His WW II draft registration card records Richard Menifee Callaway, age 48, residence R.R. 15, Box 752, Indianapolis, Indiana, born 19 Dec 1893 in Sandy Hook, Kentucky, nearest relative Mrs. Etta Bell Callaway, same address.

1920 census of Wayne Co., Michigan, Highland Park, enumerated 26 Feb, lists on p. 9B as family #109/160, at 245 245 Victor:
Calaway, William, 19, single, job finisher at auto factory; Richard M., brother, 24, married, foreman at auto factory; Luke, brother, 16, single, stock room keeper at auto factory; Sexton, James, boarder, 21, widowed, machine hand at auto factory. All born Ky Ky Ky.

This James Sexton is probably the one who was the son of John Cecil Sexton and Sallie Baldridge. His wife Lucy Slusher died in 1918.

Rowan Co. marriage book 8, p. 142 records marriage on 26 Feb 1914 of Menifee Calloway, 21, s/o Neal & Martha Calloway, to Bessie Jones, 15, d/o D. K. & Eliza Jones, at D. K. Jones by Presley Manier, witnesses J. E. Jones and Noah Hoskins.

(The family group for David K. Jones printed in Past Images of Rowan County22 lists Bessie's husband as Lonnie Calloway.)