Hi
I have helped a friend research his linage and he descends from Edna Lorene
CALHOUN who married Gerald ROSE both of Graham and Swain Counties of NC. Edna
was the dughter of Jack T. CALHOUN and wife Bonnie JENKINS. Jack was killed
by his son. Jack was the illigitimate son of Sarah M. CALHOUN and Sherman
CRISP. Sarah was a daughter of Pleasant Alexander CALHOUN.
August 1 1933
CALHOUN DEATH IS BLAMED ON SON
Father, On Death Bed Tells of the Shooting
A childish rage over parental disipline appeared to be the cause of the death
at the Howard-Henderson Hospital in Knoxville, TN, of Jack CALHOUN, 38,
forest warden of near Fontana, NC, who died from a bullet wound, inflicted,
according to authorities, by his 17 year old son.
"My boy had been in some meanness and I whipped him" the wounded man told Dr.
J. Victor HENDERSON when he was taken to Knoxville late Tuesday." After I
whipped him, he got a 32 pistol and shot me," he said.
The bullet entered the left side of the back and ranged upward through vital
organs into the lung, the physician said.
Sheriff J. H. SEAY, according to an Associated Press dispatch, yesterday, had
sent a deputy deep into the mountains near the North Carolina - Tennessee
border, where the shooting occurred, with orders to arrest the boy.
the body was returned from Knoxville to the isolated community where the
Calhoun's live.
Would you know anything about these CALHOUNS?
Alice