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Surnames: CALHOUN
Classification: Query
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Letter from Reba Calhoun Williamson, of Jacksonville, NC, to Benjamin Stewart Calhoun, of
GA, (my great-grandfather), dated September 12, 1949:
"Genealogists and historians have given the children of Patrick and Catherine Calhoun
to James and Catherine Montgomery Calhoun. However, we have discovered papers in the
Historical Commission in Columbia, SC, which prove that James and his Catherine Calhoun
were living in 1762 and 1763. They got a land grant from their son John Calhoun of 200
acres of land in 1762 and same 3 made a memorial tax return in 1763 on the same land. We
know for a positive fact that the grandfather of the statesman, John C. Calhoun had died
about 1752 in Lancaster Co., PA, and his wife Catherine Calhoun had been killed in 1760 in
the Long Cane Creek Indian Massacre; and her son Patrick and the father of John C. Calhoun
put a tombstone or marker to her grave. I suppose the mistake was made because their
children had so many of them the same names and both wives were named Catherine."
By the way, about 20 years ago, I visited the Calhoun cemeteries where John Caldwell
Calhoun's family are buried, and they had all been severely vandalized!! I wonder if
anything is left now.
Olivia