According to Alice Watson in a 3 August 1961 newspaper article published in an unidentified newspaper and entitled “Cold Spring and Keowee Once Upstate Homes of the Colhouns,” the date that Keowee Heights burned is not known, but this happened when Mr. B.C. Crawford, father of Sue Crawford Prevost, had rented the house from the Calhouns. The house burned when the Crawford family was away on a trip, and they always felt the house was set on fire. This article is in a file entitled “John E. Colhoun, Keowee, Home of John Ewing Colhoun and Graveyard” in the Mary Stevenson Collection at Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives (box 15, folder 42, mss 353). Alice Watson also states that by 1961, the family cemetery at Keowee Heights had been vandalized and its marble tombstones broken to pieces, “almost beyond deciphering.”