Tag: Floride Bonneau

New Material Added to Previous Postings about Elizabeth Bonneau Pickens and John Ewing Colhoun with Wife Floride Bonneau

February 26, 2025

This is a note to let readers know about new information I’ve added to a previous posting about Ezekiel Pickens, son of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun, and Ezekiel’s wife Elizabeth Bonneau, and to a posting about John Ewing Colhoun, Rebecca’s brother, and wife Floride Bonneau, a sister to Elizabeth Bonneau Pickens. As the first … More New Material Added to Previous Postings about Elizabeth Bonneau Pickens and John Ewing Colhoun with Wife Floride Bonneau

Fort Hill, Clemson, South Carolina: A Photographic Essay

May 14, 2024

On my recent trip to the Special Collections and Archives at Clemson University, I visited Fort Hill, the historic house on the Clemson campus that was once the home of John Caldwell Calhoun and wife Floride Bonneau Colhoun, then of their daughter Anna Maria and husband Thomas Green Clemson. Here are some photos I took, … More Fort Hill, Clemson, South Carolina: A Photographic Essay

John Ewing Colhoun (1791-1847): New Information Added to Previous Posting

May 12, 2024

On my recent research trip to the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson University’s Library, I did research in the “Lander Papers” at Clemson’s archives. This is a collection of material compiled by Ernest McPherson Lander Jr., who was for many years a professor of history at Clemson, and author of the book The Calhoun … More John Ewing Colhoun (1791-1847): New Information Added to Previous Posting

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 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

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

Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun: New Information Added to Previous Postings

May 7, 2024

I haven’t posted here in some days because I recently took a research trip to Tuscaloosa, Alabama (I have deep roots there: my mother’s father was born there, with his families’ roots going back to the first days of that county) and to Clemson, South Carolina. I spent a day doing research at the West … More Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun: New Information Added to Previous Postings

Children of Alexander Noble and Catherine Calhoun (2): Alexander, Patrick, and Joseph

April 15, 2024

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 … More Children of Alexander Noble and Catherine Calhoun (2): Alexander, Patrick, and Joseph

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