Martha Maria Davis – Begats and Bequeathals

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.

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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: New Information Added to Previous Posting

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