Calloway Casteel, or "An old line Methodist."=Among the veteran toilers and travelers of this world was one whose name was familiar and venerable among the citizens of Forrest City-Calloway Casteel, and it is with the keenest pleasure that I pay to a humble tribute to the memory of "the good old man." While the nineteenth century was moist with the morning dew, and our country was rising into the strength of an independent republic. In 1817, A.C.Calloway entered upon his long and honorable career. The place of his birth was noted for its good people and for its old people-East Tennessee. When a young man, he went to Alabama, but remained there only a few years. The old state was, however, not unkind to him, for it was while there that he found the greatest fortune a man ever found-a good wife and faith in Christ. Isabelle Simpson became his wife and walked by his side for over sixty years, or to the end of his way. She lingers still, but is looking wistfully in the direction of his departure. Two years after his marriage he was converted, and for nearly sixty years lived a Christian life. In 1848 he came to Arkansas and located near Mt.Vernon in St.Francis county. This vicinity, (now that of Forrest City) has been the scene of this good man's activities for more than half a century. By his industry and good sense he acquired and put into cultivation extensive and valuable lands, and became one of this county's most thrifty farmers. His possessions, however, he divided among his children when he became too old to care for them, reserving only what was necessary to sustain himself and wife during their last days. Among these was the old homestead nestling in old time comfort and simplicity beside a grove of forest trees. When he was converted, at a camp meeting in Alabama, he united with the Methodist church. In after life when frequent innovations appeared in the church he did not hesitate to express his preference for the old time simplicity and freedom referred to himself as an old line Methodist. He never made any boast of his religious life, but with kindness and gratitude worshipped God and embued the Holy Spirit till the close of his life. Calloway Casteel seemed to have the confidence of everybody. If he ever had an enemies, he must have outlived them. His last day on earth was Dec.27,1901. Full of years, full of honors, and full of the Holy Ghost he left peacefully in his sleep and was gathered to his father's and his God. Forrest City Times Newspaper Apr.11,1902

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