I am looking for Calhouns in Alabama, anyone out there with this situation? Mine
were in Pell City and St Clair County.
Rose Adams
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CALHOUN-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 42
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#1 [CALHOUN] Lurkers unite! [Valorie Zimmerman <valoriez(a)aa.net]
#2 [CALHOUN] Mathew Franklin CALHOUN ["Martha Adcock"
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Subject: [CALHOUN] Lurkers unite!
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 01:13:00 -0700
From: Valorie Zimmerman <valoriez(a)aa.net>
To: CALHOUN-L(a)rootsweb.com
A few lurkers have spoken up, and that is very gratifying! As you know,
I adopted these lists as a variant of Cowan/Colquhoun -- Cowan is my
birth
surname. I have found few cases where Cahoon/Calhoon/Calhoun/Colquhoun
ARE variants of Cowan/Cowen/Cowin, or vice-versa. Perhaps most list
subscribers have simply not gotten far back enough in their ancestral
research.
My history with these lists is a bit complicated. I adopted the Calhoun
list and boards June, 1999, Cowin and Cahoon in July, and then Calhoon
in September. I got the Colquhoun boards in July, and Cowen early in the
fall. Almost a year! I've been taking stock of my contribution. There
have been very few posts to any of the lists, besides my own, although
Cahoon-L has been perking up, and the Calhoun Query board has been
moderately active. With those exceptions, there has been virtually NO
data nor queries posted to the
GenConnect boards. I have been vigilant, and sent along every little
shred of pertinant information possible to the lists, and have been
steadily writing to prospective subscribers, telling them about our
lists
and boards, and the wonderful research system Rootsweb has created for
us. Has this work borne any fruit?
There are 21 subscribers to CAHOON-L and 4 to CAHOON-D; 11 subscribers
to CALHOON-L and 2 to CALHOON-D; 49 subscribers to CALHOUN-L and 18 to
CALHOUN-D, as of today. There are 38 subscribers to COWEN-L and 9 to
COWEN-D; 7 subscribers to COWIN-L and 2 to COWIN-D. I don't know if this
is a respectable size for the various variants, or not. Since I'm a
Cowan researcher, I have no handle on the relative rarity. What I do
know is that I have other small and even TINY lists where the
subscribers consider themselves members, and post, exchange information
and research with one another, and unselfishly contribute to list
projects.
I have been unable to get such participation from most of these lists.
I'm aware that there are other surname lists, off of Rootsweb. Perhaps
that is where the research projects are taking place? Even though I
passionately believe that Rootsweb is the best place on Earth to do
genealogy, I hope that researchers are uniting =somewhere= to get this
essential work done!
In any case, it's not that THESE lists takes so much of my time -- but I
do have 14 clusters at this point, and only 24 hours in each day! And
the
more active *some* of them get, the less time I have for the rest. It
has been my wish all along to keep this group together until a
Cahoon/Calhoun/Colquhoun researcher wanted to make it what it OUGHT to
be -- a powerful magnet drawing ALL of the surname researchers to it,
and an impressive bank of both researchers and data. Perhaps my
continuing to hold on to the clusters is holding back progress, rather
than assisting it -- especially for Cahoon, Calhoun, and Calhoon (and
Colquhoun).
So, I've decided to hand over the entire group of lists and boards, as a
group, or as individual list/GC board suites, beginning next month. I'm
willing to make a long transition, if that would help ONE researcher who
could administer the whole group, or a couple co-operating with each
other. I'm willing to train the next listowner/GCC, so if one of you
150-odd subscribers would like to take the job, speak up, and we will
arrange the transition. If I haven't heard from one of you within the
next month, I will offer it to my fellow listowners and then possibly,
back to Rootsweb, where they will be tended to by Staff. I'm willing to
continue to admin Cowen-L until I've had it a year, but I'm going to
have to cut back on all the "extras", because I have a paying job the
next couple of months which will really cut into my online time.
I wish to each of you my personal best,
Valorie
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Subject: [CALHOUN] Mathew Franklin CALHOUN
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:02:55 -0500
From: "Martha Adcock" <ruffles(a)pnx.com>
To: CALHOUN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Guess I have lurked long enough... This is all I know about my CALHOUNS. If
anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it and will be happy to share
what I have on connecting families. I also have pictures of my Mathew and
his family.
Martha
MATHEW FRANKLIN CALHOUN was born March 01, 1836 in Macon, Georgia, and died
March 11, 1900. He married SUSAN FRANCIS NOEL December 29, 1859 in San
Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas, daughter of JAMES NOEL and SARAH
JOHNSON. She was born August 10, 1841 in Jackson, Mississippi?, and died
1926 in Texas.
Children of MATHEW CALHOUN and SUSAN NOEL are:
MARY ELIZABETH CALHOUN, b. October 30, 1861, San Augustine, San Augustine
County, Texas; d. June 26, 1901, Wimberly, Hays County, Texas; m. ZACHARY
TAYLOR WIMBERLY, SR., January 13, 1876, Wimberly, Hays County, Texas; b.
October 23, 1853, Wimberley, Hays County, Texas; d. March 03, 1913,
Wimberley, Hays County, Texas.
FANNIE FRANCES CALHOUN, b. July 11, 1868, San Augustine, San Augustine
County, Texas.
SARAH ANN CALHOUN, b. October 18, 1871, Trinity, Texas; d. Georgia.
JAMES CALHOUN, b. Bet. 1872 - 1876; m. LOUISE ?.
MARTHA EMMA CALHOUN, b. October 02, 1877, Texas; d. December 06, 1960,
Woodville, Tyler County, Texas; m. JAMES LEE GRANT HENRY, May 05, 1898; b.
January 21, 1877, San Augustine County, Texas; d. November 21, 1952,
Woodville, Tyler County, Texas. (my great-greatgrandparents)
There is a story that Mathew Calhoun was a POW in the civil war and killed 2
yankees to escape and he killed another man at an election place. He changed
his name to Mathew Calhoun Franklin and fled with his family to a state up
North; From the book, "Wimberley, Historic Belle of the Blanco" by Dorothy
Wimberly Kerbow.
On Martha Emma's death certificate her parents are listed as Mathew Calhoun
and Susan Noel. On daughter, Martha Emma Henry Peavy's Form SS-5 she named
her parents as James Lee Henry and Martha Emma Franklin.
James Calhoun was a policeman in Detroit, Michigan.