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.
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]
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.
Or, Subtitled: “A relatively prosperous merchant, variously listed as a hatter, general merchant, and even grain inspector”
As the previous posting discussing Mary Calhoun (abt. 1743-1805), daughter of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jane/Jean Ewing and wife of Samuel Kerr, states, the will that Mary made in Abbeville County, South Carolina, on 21 January 1805 names the following children: John Kerr, Jane Kerr Green, Catherine Kerr McLain, and Ruth Kerr.[1] I am naming these children in what I think was their order of birth, not the order in which their mother Mary names them in her will.
Or, Subtitled: “We are at best but Strangers and pilgrames as all our fathers have been”
Now that I have completed a series of postings tracking family lines descending from John Green (1768-1837) of Abbeville and Pendleton District, South Carolina, and Bibb County, Alabama, a series that began with this posting, I’m going to begin a series tracking the Calhoun ancestry of John Green’s wife Jane Kerr, who was the daughter of Samuel Kerr and Mary Calhoun of the Long Cane settlement in what became Abbeville County, South Carolina, in 1785. The posting that follows will focus on Jane’s mother Mary Calhoun Kerr.
Or, Subtitled: News of the selling of Tom Paine — a horse — and of rice plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry
In my previous posting, I told you that a Benjamin Green who begins appearing in Abbeville County and Pendleton District, South Carolina, records by the late 1780s and early 1790s and who is designated in almost all of these records as Benjamin Green Jr. can be proven to have been a son of the older Benjamin Green discussed in the posting I’ve just linked. I also strongly suspect Benjamin Jr. is a brother of the John Green (1768-1837) whose ancestry I’m trying to figure out.
Or, Subtitled: Making Lemonade with No Lemons — Trying to Do Genealogy in Absence of Records You Need
Beginning with this linked posting in early September 2023, I’ve been tracking a Green family line from my earliest proven ancestor in this line, John Green, who was born 21 January 1768 in Granville (later Abbeville) County, South Carolina, and who died 18 March 1837 in Bibb County, Alabama. I’ve followed this family from John Green through his children by wife Jane Kerr, up to George Sidney Green, their last child, whose family I discussed in my last two postings. Prior to that time, I had also made a number of postings focusing specifically on John and Jane’s son Samuel Kerr Green, my 3-g-grandfather, and Samuel’s son Ezekiel Samuel Green, my 2-g-grandfather.
Or, Subtitled: “I did not realize how important field peas were for feeding both humans and draft animals”
George Sidney Green and Mary Ann Clardy had the following children:
Or, Subtitled: “Lost his life while handling a vicious mule“
11. The last child of John Green and Jane Kerr, George Sidney Green, was born 2 August 1817, according to family trees that researchers of the Green family have shared with me.[1] None of the family trees assigning George this date of birth cite a source for it. Since the trees stating that George was born 2 August 1817 also have a specific date of birth for his wife Mary Ann Clardy and for all of their children except one, I think it’s possible these birthdates were recorded in a family bible. Mary Ann Clardy’s date of birth, 6 March 1823, is recorded in her father’s family bible, an abstract of which appears on the Ancestry “Hoke-Doerge Family Tree” of gdhoke11, with no information about the whereabouts of the bible. The abstract may not be a complete transcript of this bible record; as it appears on this family tree, it has no information about George S. Green’s date of birth.
Begats and Bequeathals 