This is a Calhoun Message Board post. Please click the link to reply: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.calhoun&m=402.1.1.1 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: James Porter CALHOUN 1832-1918 from Ashe or Guilford Cty - NC Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:59:55 -0600 From: easpainter@yahoo.com To: CALHOUN-L@rootsweb.com Sherene, Thanks for the information. Based on 1870/1880 census records I have the same children as you do; except for Isabelle - who must have married before the 1870 census. (I don't have access to the 1860 census). In the 1880 census Catharine Calhoun (age 82 or 92 - hard to read) is living with James Porter and family. Based on this data, I have his father identified as James Callhoun, b. c1790/1791 in Pa. married to Catharine, b. 1801 in New Jersey (according to 1870 census records for Ashe Co.) The "Hurley Families in America" has that their daughter, Amanda Jane Calhoun (22 Feb 1859-19 Jun 1940) married Lee Andrew Hurley (16 Sep 1855-11 Mar 1935) on 15 May 1875. Lee (according to his tombstone and immediate family (or Leander-according to the book) is the son of Andrew and Nancy Blackburn Hurley. Lee and Mandy had eleven children; the youngest was Ina Ann Okie Hurley (22 Oct 1904-31 Jul 1983). Okie is my husband's grandmother. The birth dates of Lee and Mandy are the same as those listed in Okie's bible. Also according to this book, James Porter and Harriet Wright Calhoun are buried on Big Springs Mountain, near Apple Grove in Ashe County. The book doesn't give dates of death for James or Harriet. I haven't found the marriage in the index I use for North Carolina. Beth