Forwarded by request. Please respond directly to George Stone <mailto:georgestone@cafes.net> and cc: the list. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [COLQUHOUN] Thomas Calhoon/Calhoun Resent-Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:36:13 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: COLQUHOUN-L@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:41:41 -0500 From: George Stone <georgestone@cafes.net> Organization: cafes.net To: COLQUHOUN-L@rootsweb.com 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