On the recent research trip that took me to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, I also spent time at Old Stone Church near the Clemson campus, and the Old Stone Church cemetery in which Andrew Pickens and his wife Rebecca Calhoun are buried. As a previous posting has noted, when Andrew and Rebecca Calhoun Pickens moved over to Pendleton District, South Carolina, in 1786 from the part of Ninety-Six District that would eventually be Abbeville County, the Pickens family probably initially attended the Twenty-Three Mile or Richmond-Carmel Presbyterian church on the plantation of Andrew’s uncle Robert Pickens.
Tag: Ezekiel Pickens
Ezekiel Pickens and Wife Elizabeth Bonneau: New Material Added to Previous Posting
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 a posting I previously made about Ezekiel Pickens and wift Elizabeth Bonneau, I stated that Ezekiel’s burial place is unknown.
Floride Bonneau, Wife of John Ewing Colhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting
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 in it a digital image of a portrait of Floride regarding whose provenance and present whereabouts I had a number of clues that I had been unable to verify. I thought that the portrait is in the holdings of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, but had not been able to verify that information when I made my posting including an image of this portrait.
Children of Alexander Noble and Catherine Calhoun (2): Alexander, Patrick, and Joseph
Or, Subtitled: “Here lie the bones of an honest man”
This posting is a continuation of the previous posting discussing the children of Alexander Noble and Catherine Calhoun of Abbeville County, South Carolina. The previous posting discussed Alexander and Catherine’s first four children John, Ezekiel, William, and Jane. This posting discusses the last three children Alexander, Patrick, and Joseph.
Children of Alexander Noble and Catherine Calhoun (1): John, Ezekiel, William, and Jane
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 Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: John Ewing Colhoun (1749 [or 1752] – 1802)
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 Heights family cemetery now located on land owned by Clemson University’s Experimental Forest gives the 1752 birthdate: the inscription on the tombstone (which will be given in full later in my posting(s) about John), reads,[1]
He was born in the year 1752 and died on the 26th of October 1802.
Children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: Rebecca (Noble), Catherine (Hunter), and Joseph
Or, Subtitled: “Mrs. Hunter seems mortified at the asperity shown by Mr. Hillhouse, in consequence of his furnishing the ball-supper”
This posting is the last installment in a series of postings discussing the children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun of Abbeville County and Pendleton District, South Carolina. This series began with a posting about Andrew and Rebecca’s first six children, which was followed with a posting about their next three children.
Children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: Margaret (Bowie) and Andrew
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 first six children Mary, Ezekiel, Ann, a son who died in infancy, and two daughters named Jane.
This Is NOT Ezekiel Pickens, Son of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun
As my previous posting tells you, you will find the engraved portrait of Ezekiel Pickens you see above featured at one website after another and in one family tree after another, and identified as Ezekiel Pickens (1768-1813), son of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun. But this is not Ezekiel Pickens. This is Ezekiel Pickens (1794-1860), son of Andrew and Rebecca’s son Ezekiel by that Ezekiel’s wife Elizabeth Bonneau.
Children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: Mary (Harris), Ezekiel, Ann (Simpson), and Jane (Miller)
Or, Subtitled: Presbyterian ministers and Princeton graduates at every turn in the Pickens-Calhoun family tree
In this posting and a subsequent one, I will share information about the children of Andrew Pickens (1739-1817) and Rebecca Calhoun (1745-1814) of Abbeville County and Pendleton District, South Carolina. This posting will discuss Andrew and Rebecca’s first six children Mary, Ezekiel, Ann, an unnamed son who died in infancy, and Jane, a name given to two daughters in a row after the first Jane died in infancy.