... At the centennial of Boonesboro, his [Col. Richard Callaway's] grave, the spot noted by a few stones, was pointed out, also French street, called for James French, brother-in-law of Colonel Richard Callaway, who married his sister, "pretty Kizzie Callaway," as she was called in pioneer annals.
She, it was who attended the centennial of Boonesboro, a very old lady. When the carriage in which she sat, approached the old fort, it is told in the report of this memorable event, that because she was the sister of Colonel Richard Callaway, "pretty Kizzie," of romance and peril, the crowd rushed to the carriage and enthusiastic men would scarcely be refused the honor of bearing her upon a hand pavilion, to the stand.
The lat Mr. William French, for many years an officer fo the court of appeals, and who was a grandson of Mrs. Keziah French, told the writer of this incident; he said his grandmother told hin, "She thought it was so foolish to make an old woman like her so conspicuous. She was embarrassed beyond description."
This heroine is represented in Franklin county by the families of the late William French and Wickliffe French, while there are many descendants of Colonel Richard Callaway throughout the South and West. ...
