I am looking for Calhouns in Alabama, anyone out there with this situation? Mine were in Pell City and St Clair County. Rose Adams CALHOUN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > CALHOUN-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 42 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [CALHOUN] Lurkers unite! [Valorie Zimmerman <valoriez@aa.net] > #2 [CALHOUN] Mathew Franklin CALHOUN ["Martha Adcock" <ruffles@pnx.com>] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from CALHOUN-D, send a message to > > <CALHOUN-D-request@rootsweb.com> > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. Use unsubscribe as the subject, also. > > To contact the list administrator, send mail to > > <CALHOUN-admin@rootsweb.com>. > > Bookmark and use our Calhoun Resource page > > <http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/c/a/CALHOUN/> > > Threaded Archive <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/CALHOUN-L> > > Keyword Search > > <http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=CALHOUN-L> > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [CALHOUN] Lurkers unite! > Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 01:13:00 -0700 > From: Valorie Zimmerman <valoriez@aa.net> > To: CALHOUN-L@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 > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [CALHOUN] Mathew Franklin CALHOUN > Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:02:55 -0500 > From: "Martha Adcock" <ruffles@pnx.com> > To: CALHOUN-L@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.