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 at Pendleton in Anderson County, South Carolina.[1] James Edward chose to use the Calhoun spelling of the surname.
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 his Keowee Heights plantation in Pendleton District, South Carolina, a cemetery now in ruins and located on land of the experimental forest of Clemson University.[1] The posting transcribes the inscription on the tombstone that Floride had placed on John’s grave within the year after his death on 26 October 1802, and which states,
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.
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.
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.
As a footnote and addendum to my previous posting about Rebecca Calhoun, wife of Andrew Pickens, I would like to reiterate several points — because there is simply so much misinformation “out there” in family trees and at sites online about Rebecca Calhoun, daughter of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing:
Or, Subtitled: “She was through life religious & charitable, died humbly relying on the mercy of her Redeemer”
In the two previous postings (here and here), I shared information about Ezekiel Calhoun, who was born about 1720 in County Donegal, Ireland, came with his parents Patrick Colhoun and Catherine Montgomery to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1733, and then moved with his siblings and their widowed mother before October 1745 to Augusta County, Virginia. As the linked postings state, about 1742 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Ezekiel married Jean (also called Jane) Ewing, who was, Margaret Ewing Fife thinks, the daughter of Patrick and Mary Ewing of County Donegal, Ireland, and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.[1]
This posting is a continuation of a series about Ezekiel Calhoun which began with this previous posting, which focused on the Calhoun family’s years in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, after they arrived there from County Donegal, Ireland, in 1733, their subsequent move to Reed Creek in Augusta (later Wythe) County, Virginia, before October 1745, and their relocation to the Long Cane area of Granville (later Abbeville) County, South Carolina, in 1755.
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, to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where his parents settled in 1733, to Augusta (later Wythe) County, Virginia, where the Calhoun family moved from Pennsylvania by October 1745, and finally to the Long Cane settlement of what became Abbeville County, South Carolina, where the family settled in February 1756 — though, as we’ll see, Ezekiel died back in Virginia on a trip he made there at the end of his life to check on his property in Augusta County.
Or, Subtitled: “While engaged in pastoral work he was stricken with fever and died, and his grave is with us until this day”
As my previous posting about Mary Calhoun (abt. 1743-1805), daughter of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jane/Jean Ewing, notes, Mary and husband Samuel Kerr had the following children, whom Mary names in her 21 January 1805 will in Abbeville County, South Carolina: John Kerr, Jane Kerr Green, Catherine Kerr McLain, and Ruth Kerr.[1] In my last posting, I told you what I know about Mary and Samuel’s first-born child, their son John, who was born about 1766. In previous postings, I’ve shared abundant information about Mary and Samuel’s second child, their daughter Jane, who married John Green, who was born 8 October 1768. In what follows, I’ll focus on Mary and Samuel’s last two children, their daughters Catherine and Ruth.
Begats and Bequeathals 