Author: William D. Lindsey

I'm a retired academic, with a Ph.D. and M.A. in theology from Toronto School of Theology, an M.A. in english from Tulane University, and a B.A. in English from Loyola University, New Orleans. Published work includes Fiat Flux: The Writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, Nineteenth-Century Country Doctor and Philosopher (Fayetteville: Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2013), and (with William L. Russell and Mary Ryan) A Family Practice: The Russell Doctors and the Evolving Business of Medicine, 1799–1989 (Fayetteville: Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2020).

James Edward Calhoun, Son of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau: New Material Added to Previous Posting

May 10, 2024

Following my recent research trip to the Special Collections and Archives at Clemson University’s Library, I’ve now added some new information to this previous posting about James Edward Calhoun, son of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau. In the the Ernest McPherson Lander Papers at Clemson’s archives (box 3, mss 280), I found a transcribed … More James Edward Calhoun, Son of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau: New Material Added to Previous Posting

Ezekiel Calhoun (abt. 1720 – 1762): New Material Added to Previous Posting

May 10, 2024

Here’s another document I’ve now added to a previous posting following my recent research trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives. I added the following information to a previous posting about Ezekiel Calhoun (abt. 1720 – 1762), along with a digital image of the newspaper article at the head of this posting:

Ezekiel Pickens and Wife Elizabeth Bonneau: New Material Added to Previous Posting

May 9, 2024

On my recent research trip to the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson University’s Library, I found interesting new information about the burial place of Ezekiel Pickens, son of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun, and of Ezekiel’s wife Elizabeh Bonneau, who was a sister of Floride Bonneau, who married Rebecca’s brother John Ewing Colhoun. In … More Ezekiel Pickens and Wife Elizabeth Bonneau: New Material Added to Previous Posting

John Green (1768-1837): New Information Added to Previous Posting

May 9, 2024

After my recent research trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, I have added another new piece of information to a previous posting about John Green (1768-1837). This new information is from biographical information about John Green’s Pendleton District neighbor Benjamin Lawrence that I found in the Lawrence Family Papers at Clemson’s archives. … More John Green (1768-1837): New Information Added to Previous Posting

Benjamin Green (abt. 1766 – after 1805): New Information Added to Previous Posting

May 9, 2024

I have now added new information to a previous posting about Benjamin Green Jr., son of Benjamin Green Sr. of Abbeville County, South Carolina, and, in my view, a likely brother of John Green, who married Jane Kerr, daughter of Samuel Kerr and Mary Calhoun of Abbeville County. This new information discusses notes of Mary … More Benjamin Green (abt. 1766 – after 1805): New Information Added to Previous Posting

Joseph Pickens, Son of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting

May 9, 2024

I continue adding information to postings I’ve previously made here, after my recent research trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives brought me much new information and some new documents. I have now added to a previous posting about Joseph Pickens, son of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun, information from the will that … More Joseph Pickens, Son of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting

Floride Bonneau, Wife of John Ewing Colhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting

May 9, 2024

As I continue to add material to previous postings here after my recent research trip to the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson University’s Library, I have added an interesting new document to a previous posting discussing Floride Bonneau, wife of John Ewing Colhoun. When I first published the posting I’ve just linked, I included … More Floride Bonneau, Wife of John Ewing Colhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting

Benjamin Green Sr. and Jr.: New Information Added to Previous Postings

May 8, 2024

Here’s more new information I’ve now added to some previous postings following my recent research trip to the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson University’s Library: previously, I have made a number of postings about a Benjamin Green who appears in records of the Long Cane settlement in Granville County, South Carolina (later Abbeville County) … More Benjamin Green Sr. and Jr.: New Information Added to Previous Postings