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Subject: [COLQUHOUN] Thomas Calhoon/Calhoun
Resent-Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:36:13 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:41:41 -0500
From: George Stone <georgestone(a)cafes.net>
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Does anyone have any information on the descendants of the famous
Cumberland Presbyterian minister
Thomas Calhoun? I am searching for a connection to my ancestor Ellen
Johnson Calhoun daughter of James Calhoun and Ellen Anderson. Maybe the
following information will give some leads. I live near Wilson County,
about 45 miles away.
This is exerpted and edited from
http://www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/minister/CalhoonT.htm
Thomas Calhoon
1782 - 1855
Presbyterian Licentiate 1805-1810
Cumberland Presbyterian Minister 1810-1855
REV. THOMAS CALHOON
1810-1855
[Manuscripts of Rev. D. Lowry, B. W. McDonnold, D.D.,
and Letter of Col. Smith.]
THOMAS CALHOON was born in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, May 31,
1782. His parents, Samuel and Nancy
Calhoon, were members of the Presbyterian Church, and were strict and
thoughtful in the government of their children.
The grandfather and grandmother of Mr. Calhoon emigrated from Ireland,
and settled in Pennsylvania. . From Pennsylvania they
moved to North Carolina, and settled in Mecklenburg county. The old man,
the grandfather,
having been blind for a number of years,
In the fall of 1800 Mr. Calhoon's father moved with his family from
North Carolina to Tennessee, and stopped first at
Haysboro, a small village a few miles above Nashville. Here the family
were under he ministry of Rev. Thomas Craighead. Mr.
Craighead was an opposer of the revival, and of course there was but
little religious interest in the congregation. In the spring of
1801 Thomas Calhoon came up to Wilson county, and with the help of a
negro man that he brought with him, cleared some
land, and made a crop near the Big Spring.
..............................
On the 16 of February, 1809, Mr. Calhoon was married to Miss Mary R.
Johnson. He settled near his father, in the
neighborhood of the Big Spring. In a short time he built the house in
which he lived till he died, and which still stands, a
monument of the olden time.
......................................
In the fall of 1810 he received a call to the pastorate of Cedar Creek
Big Spring congregation. I have the original call before
me. It is dated October 6, A.D. 1810, and signed in behalf of the
congregation by Andrew Foster and John Calhoon, as
trustees. The call is for one-third of his time, and the promise is, in
order that he "may be measurably free from worldly cares
and avocations," to pay him the "sum of forty-eight dollars and
twenty-five cents, in regular yearly payments, for the one-third
part of his labors, during the time of his being and continuing the
regular pastor of this Church.
In his latter years Mr. Calhoon's health failed by degrees. In 1855, on
the 13th day of April, he closed his active and stirring
life, in his quiet home.
Mr. Calhoon left behind him four sons. One of these, Thomas P. Calhoon,
had been in the ministry several years. In the fall of
1857 he moved to St. Cloud, Minnesota, and in the course of the winter
of 1859 he was thrown from a bridge, and mortally
wounded. He was a young man of promise. The other sons still live, and
two of them are members of the Church.
[Source: Beard, Richard. Brief Biographical Sketches of Some of the
Early Ministers of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church. Nashville, Tenn.: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1867,
pages 76-100]
.....................................
March 30, 1850
It becomes our painful duty to record the death of Mary R. Calhoun,
consort of Rev. Thomas Calhoun of Wilson County
Tennessee.
She died on Monday the 18th instant, about 20 minutes past 6 o'clock,
P.M.-aged sixty-six years and seven days. Sister
Calhoun was born in Orange Co. N. Carolina; March 11th 1784-removed with
her parents to this state in 1800 was married
February 16, 1809, and lived in the house in which she died, about 41
years, and became the mother of eight children, of
whom four are yet living.
Altho' the dispensation which called away this amiable and useful woman,
was an afflictive one; yet we sorrow not as those that
have no hope. She professed a revival of the west. She very soon
attached herself to the church and lived and died in its full
fellowship and communion. She encamped at Big Spring every year since
her marriage save one, and then she furnished her
camp with the necessary provisions. She did more-she frequently camped
twice a year, occupying a camp at providence, as
well as one at Big Spring.
J. L. DILLARD
[Source: Banner of Peace, April 12, 1850, page 3]
FAMILY INFORMATION
Samuel Calhoon
wife: Nancy Neely
Children of Samuel Calhoon and Nancy Neely Calhoon:
1. Thomas Calhoon
Cumberland Presbyterian Minister
born: 31 May 1782 - Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
died: 13 April 1855 - Big Spring, Wilson County, Tennessee
married: 16 Feb 1809
wife: Mary R. Johnson
born: 11 March 1784 - Orange County, North Carolina
died: 18 March 1850 - Wilson County, Tennessee
children of Thomas Calhoun and Mary R. Johnson Calhoun:
1.1. Thomas P. Calhoon
Cumberland Presbyterian Minister
born:
died:1859 - St. Cloud, Minnesota
1.2. son ????
1.3. son ????
1.4. son ????
2. Jane Calhoon
married: 1 Oct 1807
husband: John Provine
Cumberland Presbyterian Minister