Tag: Fort Hill South Carolina

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

Patrick Colhoun of County Donegal, Ireland (Died 1740/1, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania): Immigrant Progenitor of the South Carolina Long Cane Calhoun Family

June 1, 2024

About Patrick Colhoun, the immigrant ancestor and father of Ezekiel Calhoun and his siblings Mary (Noble), James, William, and Patrick Calhoun, not a great deal is known with certainty. What researchers have thought they’ve known over the years has often turned out to be wrong, as such scant documentary evidence as we now have about … More Patrick Colhoun of County Donegal, Ireland (Died 1740/1, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania): Immigrant Progenitor of the South Carolina Long Cane Calhoun Family

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

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 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

Ezekiel Calhoun (abt. 1720, Co. Donegal, Ireland — bef. 25 May 1762, Augusta Co., Virginia), Son of Patrick Colhoun and Catherine Montgomery (Part 1)

February 11, 2024

In this and a subsequent posting (a two-part series), I’ll be discussing Ezekiel Calhoun (abt. 1720 – 1762), son of Patrick Colhoun and Catherine Montgomery, the immigrant ancestors of this Calhoun family. Ezekiel was the father of Mary Calhoun Kerr, who was previously discussed. Ezekiel’s life history moves from County Donegal, Ireland, where he was born, … More Ezekiel Calhoun (abt. 1720, Co. Donegal, Ireland — bef. 25 May 1762, Augusta Co., Virginia), Son of Patrick Colhoun and Catherine Montgomery (Part 1)