Tag: Andrew Norris

Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Ezekiel Colhoun and Jane Calhoun Stedman

May 25, 2024

In a previous posting, I discussed the difficulties I encounter as I try to pinpoint when the last three children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing were born. As I note in that posting and previous ones linked in that same posting, I am confident that Ezekiel’s will names his sons and daughters – in separate … More Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Ezekiel Colhoun and Jane Calhoun Stedman

Children of Alexander Noble and Catherine Calhoun (1): John, Ezekiel, William, and Jane

April 9, 2024

Or, Subtitled: “It is needless to enlarge on his professional talent, his urbanity of manners, and unblemished honor and integrity” The first four children of Catherine Calhoun and Alexander Noble were as follows (a subsequent posting will provide information about the couple’s other children):

Children of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau (2): James Edward

March 28, 2024

Or, Subtitled: “The eccentric, & wicked, but highly gifted James Edward Calhoun” 3. James Edward Calhoun, the third child of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau who lived to adulthood, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on 4 July 1798. This date of birth is recorded on his tombstone in Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church cemetery … More Children of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau (2): James Edward

Children of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau (1): John Ewing and Floride Bonneau

March 22, 2024

Or, Subtitled: “Tradition recounts that she sometimes locked up ‘every closet, store-room, and smokehouse on the plantation and drove off with the keys’” As the previous posting states, three of the children of John Ewing Colhoun and wife Floride Bonneau died in infancy and are buried beside their father in the Colhoun family cemetery at … More Children of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau (1): John Ewing and Floride Bonneau

Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: John Ewing Colhoun (1749 [or 1752] – 1802)

March 13, 2024

Or, Subtitled: “In the confidence of his Country, he filled at the time of his death the high Station of Senator of the United States” John E. Colhoun’s Birth and Early Life John Ewing Colhoun, son of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean or Jane Ewing, was born in 1749 or 1752. His tombstone in his Keowee … More Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: John Ewing Colhoun (1749 [or 1752] – 1802)

Children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: Margaret (Bowie) and Andrew

March 3, 2024

Or, Subtitled: “I am most mortified that you did not write to Colonel Pickens, do write to him” This post continues a discussion that began with this previous posting of the children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun of Abbeville County and Pendleton District, South Carolina. The posting I’ve just linked discusses Andrew and Rebecca’s … More Children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: Margaret (Bowie) and Andrew

Mary Calhoun (abt. 1743-1805), Wife of Samuel Kerr of Abbeville County, South Carolina

January 23, 2024

Or, Subtitled: “We are at best but Strangers and pilgrames as all our fathers have been” Now that I have completed a series of postings tracking family lines descending from John Green (1768-1837) of Abbeville and Pendleton District, South Carolina, and Bibb County, Alabama, a series that began with this posting, I’m going to begin … More Mary Calhoun (abt. 1743-1805), Wife of Samuel Kerr of Abbeville County, South Carolina