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Surnames: Calhoun, Reeves, Chadwick
Classification: Query
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My gg grandfather was Lewis (sometimes Louis) Tillman Calhoun who died in Rutherford
County in 1952, born 1869; I also have a late uncle named Leon Tillman Calhoun; that's
too much of a coincidence as a middle name with your Jeter.
Lewis's first wife (Lilly Reeves, lineage unk.) is my gg grandmother, but I know for
certain that his third wife and widow was full-blooded Cherokee; her name was Ella; I
visited her near Sunshine NC when I was a young teenager (some 40 years ago).
Lewis is from Francis M. Calhoun, b. 1829 in Georgia
His father was John M. Calhoun, b 1802 live in Putnam Co (1830) and Pike County (1840)
Georgia
Francis was a private in the civil war, 41st Georgia Inf; John was a farmer who owned
eight slaves according to 1830 Census in Putnam Co. Ga, but I don't know if that was
his birthplace.
My grandfather, Birnette (or Burnette) D. Calhoun, b 1892 lists Alabama as his birthstate,
but I cannot confirm that. He moved from Fulton County Ga to Rutherford County NC and then
to Gaston County NC where he died in 1971. He married Lula Estelle Chadwick, lineage unk.