An article in Southwest Virginia Enterprise on 30 June 1970 entitled “History Researcher Presents Kegleys Marker for Calhoun Grave” reports on Mrs. Louis Hill marking the grave of Ezekiel Calhoun, and about the site of Ezekiel’s grave on his land in Wythe County, Virginia, that passed to the Kent family. The article states that Mrs. Hill presented Arthur M. Kent and Mary B. Kegley with a marker for the grave on a recent visit to Wytheville. The article also recounts the circumstances of Ezekiel’s death as this information had passed down in the Kent family. A copy of this article is preserved in the “Calhoun, Noble, and Pickens Families Collection” of Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives (box 1, mss 225).
As the posting about Ezekiel Calhoun linked in the first paragraph above states, a Find a Grave memorial page for Ezekiel has him buried in the Keowee Heights family cemetery of his son John Ewing Colhoun in Pickens County, South Carolina, which was not even in existence at the time Ezekiel died: his son John was not of age when his father died and had not acquired the land on which his Keowee Heights plantation was developed. I have tried unsuccessfully to see that the erroneous information on this Find a Grave page is corrected. Perhaps some reader of this posting will know of a way that this correction might be made.
I also added to the same posting about Ezekiel Calhoun linked above the following paragraph, which is citing an inventory of Ezekiel’s brother James Calhoun that I found in a typed transcript filed in the “Calhoun, Noble, and Pickens Families Collection” at Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives (box 1, mss 225):
On the same day that Ezekiel’s estate was inventoried, the same appraisers including Patrick Calhoun inventoried the estate of Ezekiel’s brother James, who was killed in the Long Cane massacre on 1 February 1760. James’s inventory is on the page following Ezekiel’s in the inventory book, with his estate valued at £657.16.8.
BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS 