Martha Maria Colhoun – Begats and Bequeathals

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 Family and Thomas Green Clemson: The Decline of a Southern Patriarchy (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1983). The “Lander Papers” contain Lander’s handwritten manuscript of this book. I copied a number of pages from the manuscript, and then compared these to the published book. I’ve now added the following information from Lander’s book to this previous posting about John Ewing Colhoun (1791-1847), son of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau, who inherited his father’s Keowee Heights plantation:

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Portrait of Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun by Belgian artist Eugène François de Block hanging in master bedroom of Fort Hill, Clemson, Pickens County, South Carolina, from “Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun,” at website of Clemson University.

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,

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

Children of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau (1): John Ewing and Floride Bonneau