** After a phone inquiry was made to the records department at East Louisiana State Hospital, I was told that if Callie was buried in the Hospital cemetery, she would be "in the back of the cemetery in the old part". But normally, unless the families paid for a granite marker, the hospital would have only placed wooden markers which have since rotted away. It is just in recent years that the hospital had started to use metal markers. ~ Kevin Bounds
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Callie (Matlock) Floyd
Daughter of Charles L. Matlock & Margaret Elvira Holloway

A note about her father's name:
There are some sources by Matlock family researchers that name her father as Charles Logan Edward Matlock. There was a Bossier Banner Progress newspaper article written in the 1970's on the Matlock family that described him as Charles Edward Matlock. But that was in error and I believe he was being confused by the researcher with a later descendant of Charles' named Charles Edward Matlock. Nowhere is Charles L Matlock shown as Charles Edward Matlock, Charles L.E. Matlock or even Charles E Matlock in any official document that I've been able to find.

Other sources have theorized that the 'L' could stand for Littleberry, which was Charles' father's name. However, all the Federal census records only show him as C. L. Matlock (1860 & 1870 census, Bossier parish, LA) or Charles Matlock (1850 census, Bossier parish, LA), There is also an 1845 Tippah Co. Mississippi state census for Charles L. Matlock showing 3 males & 2 females, which would match his household consisting of him, his wife and his 3 oldest children at the time, sons, Strouther, Hartwell Marion and one daughter, Mary Jane. (His fourth child, John Roger Matlock was born later that year.)

The only credible and official document I've found that would suggest what Charles' middle name actually was, is a Land Office Document dated 1848 filed in Pontotoc Couny Mississippi, for a CHARLES LEROY MATLOCK of Tippah County, Mississippi who purchased aprox 150 acres of government lands obtained through a treaty with the Chickasaw Indians.
I had a correspondence with a great grandson of Charles L Matlock after I found the above mentioned document (which is pictured on ancestry.com) and sent him a copy. He strongly agreed with me that this was probably the Charles L. Matlock of this family and that it was the best source yet found for what his middle name was!
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Born in Bossier parish, Louisiana, Callie Matlock came from a large family. She was the daughter of Charles L. Matlock, b. 1818 Alabama and Margaret Elvira Holloway Matlock, b. 1822 Alabama.

Some sources list Callie's middle initial as T. (Carrie T.) The 1860 Bossier parish, Louisiana census lists her as Cally D. Matlock.

On Dec. 17, 1875 Callie married Benjamin Neal Floyd, son of Theophilus Floyd, Jr. & Elizabeth Bounds. Their children were:
Charles Theophilus "C. T." Floyd, b. Dec. 15, 1877
Oscar Neal Floyd, b. Sept. 25, 1879
Jodie Thomas Floyd, b. 1883 (probably died young)
Asa Hartwell Floyd, Feb. 17, 1885

On July 10, 1886, Alexander R. Thompson, Clerk of District Court wrote that he did hereby certify that Mrs. Callie Floyd {is} an insane person, is in need of necessitation circumstances, and that she and her husband B. N. Floyd have suffiicient means to defray expenses to and at Jackson Insane Asylum."

She's found listed as a patient on line 17 of the 1900 US census, Jackson, East Feliciana parish, LA. / Insane Asylm of the State of Louisiana. - Callie Floyd, aged 29, white, b. 1871 Louisiana. (This birth date is inaccurate). It also listed her as single but then was scratched out.

I have letters that she and husband B.N. Floyd frequently wrote to his mother, Elizabeth Bounds Floyd Wood. In one letter she writes that "you must excuse my bad writing, for I am mity nervous".

According to one account, Asa Hartwell Floyd's widow, Ruby Floyd of El Dorado, Arkansas, said Asa was able to go visit his mother in the hospital once when he was 8 years old (1893). Ruby said that Callie "smiled" widely when she first saw her son Asa, but soon thereafter returned to her sad disposition.

In 1927 Callie's grand daughter Idelle (Floyd) Taylor of El Dorado, Arkansas wrote a letter of inquiry to the state hospital. Her letter referenced that they had not received any word on Callie since 1913. On Nov. 22, 1927 the hospital informed Idelle that Callie was ill with Pulmonary Tuberculosis. She fought the illness of T. B. another 12 years from that date. She died May 27, 1939.

After Callie's death, a letter was written by the hospital to Idelle Taylor about removal. In a telegram dated May 27, 1939, addressed to Dr. J. J. Aye at the East Louisiana Hospital for the Insane, Idelle states that they are unable to have Callie's remains returned and to bury her there.

A letter dated May 30, 1939 from the East Louisiana State Hospital, Jackson, LA. states, "This is to certify that I have this day buried the remains of one Callie Floyd, white female, in the East Louisiana State hospital Cemetery, Jackson, La." (signed by the Asst. supervisor.)
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Charles L. Matlock
Margaret Elvira Holloway
Children:
- Strouther M. Matlock
- Hartwell Marion Matlock
- Mary Jane Matlock
- John Roger Matlock
- Elizabeth Elvira Matlock
- Martha A. Matlock
- Amanda Matlock
- Asa Hockery "Hoxie" Matlock
- Callie Matlock
- Joseph Samuel Matlock
- Laura Matlock
- Charles M. Matlock
- Georgia Matlock