Tag: John Ewing Colhoun

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

William D. Lindsey2 Comments
Will of James Edward Calhoun in the Ernest McPherson Lander Papers, Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives (box 3, mss 280)

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 typescript copy of the 19 October 1889 will of James Edward Calhoun. I’ve now added digital images of that typescript to the posting about James Edward linked above, with the following new notes:

Pages: 1 2

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

William D. LindseyLeave a comment

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.

Pages: 1 2

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

William D. LindseyLeave a comment

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 Stevenson I found in the Mary Stevenson Collection at Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives on my recent trip there. The new material I’ve added to the posting about Benjamin Green Jr. I just linked reads as follows:

Pages: 1 2

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

William D. LindseyLeave a comment
Patrick Calhoun’s survey book, 1784-1792, in “John C. Calhoun Papers,” Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, mss 2oo

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) by June 1768. As my previous postings focusing on this Benjamin stated, I suspect he may have been the father of John Green (1768-1837), who married Jane Kerr, daughter of Samuel Kerr and Mary Calhoun. I also stated in these same postings that I thought it was likely Benjamin Green was father of a younger Benjamin Green, who, as with John Green, worked for John Ewing Colhoun, uncle of Jane Kerr Green. John Green and wife Jane Kerr managed John E. Colhoun’s Keowee Heights plantation as it got underway, and the younger Benjamin Green tutored John E. Colhoun’s children and also assisted in reporting to John business affairs on both his lowcountry and upcountry plantations.

Pages: 1 2

John Ewing Colhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting

William D. Lindsey1 Comment
Tombstone of John E. Colhoun in Ralph Beaumont Leonard, “The Graveyard of the Keowee Plantation: A Photographic Essay” (1973), in “Keowee Plantation Graveyard,” Clemson University Library, Special Collections and Archives, box 1, mss 217

This posting continues a series of short postings I began yesterday with a posting noting that I did research at Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, and found valuable information and documents that add to and correct postings I have made on this blog in the past. As the posting I’ve just linked said, in coming days, I’ll be noting the material I found at Clemson and previous postings to which I have added the material, so that those who may have read those previous postings will know that they now contain additional material.

Pages: 1 2

Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun: New Information Added to Previous Postings

William D. Lindsey18 Comments
A miniature portrait of Floride Bonneau Colhoun, wife of John Caldwell Calhoun, by Charles Fraser, original at Fort Hill, Pickens County, South Carolina

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 Alabama Heritage Learning Center in Northport, Alabama, as well as a very productive day doing research in the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson University’s Library, and have gathered a ton of information.

Pages: 1 2

Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Patrick Calhoun (1752/5 – 1827)

William D. Lindsey1 Comment
Tombstone of Eleanor Pickens Calhoun, photo by genielady2012 – see Find a Grave memorial page of Ellen B. Pickens Calhoun, Oak Grove cemetery, Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, created by Trey Thompson

Or, Subtitled: “Here is my account of how and why all those folks went to Livingston Co. Ky.”

As I begin this posting, I have to be candid and say that working on the last three children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean or Jane Ewing has proven very difficult, and I’m by no means sure that I have a reasonably full snapshot of their lives. The information I can find about them is sparse, and much that is stated about them in articles and trees published conventionally and online is totally undocumented and often, in my view, woefully incorrect.

Pages: 1 2

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

William D. LindseyLeave a comment
Portrait of Patrick Noble at Wikimedia Commons, from South Carolina Information Highway (SCIWAY) website, which notes that the original is at South Caroliniana Library

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.

Pages: 1 2

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

William D. Lindsey1 Comment
Caroline Howard Gilman, Record of Inscriptions in the Cemetery and Building of the Unitarian, Formerly Denominated the Independent Church, Archdale Street, Charleston, S.C., from 1777-1860 (Charleston: Walker, Evans & Co., 1860), p. 29

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):

Pages: 1 2

Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Catherine Calhoun (abt. 1751 – 1803) and Husband Alexander Noble

William D. Lindsey4 Comments
18 December 1779 letter of Major Alexander Noble to General William Moultrie, in Preston Davie Collection, 1560-1903, collection 3406, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, available digitally

Or, Subtitled: “I am your Obedient Hbl Servt. Alexdr. Noble Majr”

Establishing Catherine’s Birthdate

As a previous posting notes, the will that Catherine Calhoun’s father Ezekiel Calhoun made on 3 September 1759 in Granville (later Abbeville) County, South Carolina, appears to name his sons and daughters by their order of birth, with the sons listed separately from the daughters.[1] Ezekiel’s will lists Catherine after her sisters Mary and Rebecca. Rebecca’s date of birth, 18 November 1745, appears on her tombstone in Old Stone Church cemetery at Clemson in Pickens County, South Carolina.[2] The next child in the family of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean or Jane Ewing is thought to have been their son John Ewing Colhoun, who was born in either 1749 or 1752, as we’ve seen.

Pages: 1 2