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):
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: “Tell her I have got 5 guns all sure fire and when danger is approaching myself and jane will Each of us shoulder a few of them and march up the hill as a Reinforcement”
John Green’s Birth and Marriage
John Green was born 21 January 1768. This date is recorded on his tombstone, whose inscription reads,[1]
Sacred to the memory of JOHN GREEN, ESQ., who was born January 21st 1768, and departed this life March 18th 1837, aged 69 years 1 month & 28 days.
Begats and Bequeathals 