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TRIP TO CALHOUN SETTLEMENT (Written by Charles Montague Calhoun, a direct descendant and and the oldest living Calhoun, at j Qreenwood, June 2, 1920.)* After living all my life within 20 miles of the spot where the massacre occured, and the head of our family was buried, it was not my privilege to visit this place until a -cw months ago. I well remember, nearly 80 years ago, when quite small, visiting the cootinn of t.hp Calhoun Uiu avia^ 0vw?vm family on Little river. Our great-grandmother, Catherine with her children, first settled in Virginia, Augusta county. They were of Scotch-Irish blood. The mother, with her five children, James, Ezekiel , William, Patrick and Mrs. Mary Noble, widow of John Noble firstfettled on Long Cane creek, finally settling on Little river, eight miles from the Savannah river, the neighborhood be ing known as Calhoun settlement. William, the oldest son, (the greatgrandparent of the writer), married Miss Agnes Long of Virginia. They Had ten children. The third child, Ann, was born in Virginia and was only a few months old when they moved South. The Indians of the Cherokee tribe, having gone on the warpath, this settlement for the safety of their wives and children, about 150 *in number, with loaded wagons, started out for Augusta, Ga. After reaching Long Cane creek ten miles off and two and a half miles to Trickum (now known as Troy, they were attacked by the Indians while their teams were stalled in the bottoms and the guns of the settlers were in the wagons. Their whole attention being occupied by extricating their wagons (what a pity there was not a Cateeche or Isaqaeene, as she was sometimes called, to have given warning, as she had previously done, and saved the aariy settlement of Ninety-Six), were taken ocmpletely by surprise, losing some 40 or more, mostly women and children, being brutally murdered. Catherine, the head of the family, and her son, James, the youngest were included; if.' jA granite stone, erected by her] son, Patrick, father of John C. Calhoun, marks the place where she fell and where rests hei^reniains on tlie hill some little distance beyond the creekj where she had fled. Ann and Mary, the youngest children of William, were made prisoners, age three and five. Mary not being able to keep up, was scalped and her body thrown in the creek. This made a deep impression on Ann, x who spoke of it with much feeling in after years. For 12 years she lived with her captors, enduring un-j told hardships. After she was re- j i 1 v., ? +?+,, potwn?. i :t,"ci?>uu uy a uivavj jicui ^ v-uv?iv ton, S. C., made by Gen. Andrew Pickens, she was brought to the home of her parents. She said that the Indians beat her nearly to death to make her eat -lizards, raw meat and snakes. Her family found it hard to break her from this habit which was formed in her captivity. She would never learn to read and write and had an aversion to wear-j ing shoes. When 20 years old she : married Isaac Matthews and had three children. She called her hus- j , band Zachary. They were not a 1 very loving couple, and I have1 heard my mother say that she remarked when Zachary died that she i neither "laughed nor cried." Her brother, Joseph, owned the old Cal-! houn mill property. He was the! grandfather of Mrs. Frances Mar-j shall of Abbeville and John J. Cal-: houn of Cartersville, Ga. Aunt ! Anm't only son, Joseph, had 12 ; children. Mary, one of them, movedj West Some of her great-grandchildren are now living in Abbe_ j ville. William Calhoun, whose chil-j dren were captured and slain, to j save his wife from capture and | possibly massaci-e, took out one of > the horses from his wagon, placing, her upon it, telling her to flee forj her life to Augusta, which she immediately set out to do. Every house that she came to was deserted , all having fled to Augusta for safety. Stopping on the road, she spent the night at one of these deserted houses. Securely fastening her horse, she retired for the night. When that night in her lone and j v helpless condition, with no friend to comfort or to cheer her but her j unseen God, a baby boy was born,' who bore the name of Patrick, be ing the fifth child. He lived to be J nearly 17 and was killed by these same Indians, June 26, 1776, while] serving as ensign in Capt. James; McCalla's expedition into the Cherokee country. Another daughter of William Calhoun, Mary, born November 1, ,.1757, was carried off by the Indians at the time of Long Cane massacre and proably died in their hands. Ezekiel Calhoun, son of William 1st and brother of John C. Calhoun, was my grandfather. He Coimmfiii^n?Represen.tative? of married Frances Hamilton, daughter of Maj. Andrew Hamilton of Kevolutionary fame. From this union there were seven children. William and Joseph were unmar-1 ried. Harriett married to Thomas Davis, Jane to Dr. Simonds, Dr. Ephraim to Charlotte Moseley, and daughter of John . Montague of Revolutionary fame,~ Catherine to Dr. J. W. Parker, Andrew father of the late distinguished oculist of Atlanta, married Susan Wellborn of Georgia. Joe Calhoun son of William 1st attained the rank of captain in the United States army, was severely wounded in the battle of Lundy! Lane, received a wound in the arm | in a duel while in the army. His | home was Calhoun mill, which he owned. He had several children, of whom only two are living,' Mrs. Frances Marshall, of Abbeville and John Joseph of Cartersville, Ga. She is no doubt the oldest female representative of the Calhoun family living, while the writer is the oldest male member, our combined ages being 170 years. Many years ago here sister, Miss Eliza Calhoun, compiled a history of the Calhoun family. Patrick-Calhoun, one of the four brothers who came to South Carolina was twice married. The first to Miss Craighead, no tissue. He next married Martha Caldwell, of what is now Newberry county. Of this marriage there was James, Catherine (who married the Rev. Moses Waddell), William, John C. Calhoun and Patrick. John C. Cal houn was quite a noted statesman in his day. He was prepared for college by his brother-in-law, Dr. Moses Waddell. He entered the junior class of' Yale in 1802. He studied and practiced law in Charleston and Abbeville. He was elected to the legislature and was aide to Governor Drayton. He was elected to congress, serving seven years, when he became secretary cf war in President Monroe's cabinet, in which he .server) ai^ht years. .He wps then inauguarated vice president of the United States/ He resigned soon after he was elected United States senator to succesd Senator Robert Y. Hayne. He was reelected but resigned in 1842. He was a candidate for the presidency in 1S44, but withdrew. He was secretary of state under President Tyler. Ke was again reelected United! States senator to succeed Judge j Elliott Huger. He died in Washing-1 ton, D. C.,'March 01, 1850. His remains wore brought by boat to Char leston and burigd in the Episcopal graveyard with great honors. A special wagon was prepared, drawn by three pairs of horses of the same shade and color, with the drivers of each pair walking by their side, holding to bits of each pair. My wife's guardian, Robert Adger of' Charleston, furnished one pair of horses and driver for the grand pageantry. John C. Calhoun married his cousin, Floride, daughter of John Ewing who different from the; rest, spelled his name Colhoun. j This writer has received many letters from parties in distant states asking about the Calhoun family, signing their names Colhoun. John C. had seven children, John C. had seven children, Floride, Andrew P. Anna, Patrick, John, Martha, James and William. His daughter married Thomas Clemson of which thd State A. and M. college bears his name. Patrick Calhoun, son of the first Patrick, married Nancy DeGraffenreid. They had six children. Martha married Dr. Bonner, Catherine married Dr. William Tennant, Ludlow married Margaret Teague and Benjamin l^arried a Miss Yarborough, Francis remained unmarried. Edward married Frances Middleton. Joseph, son of William, was elected to congress and served four years, when he was succeeded by his cousin, John C. Calhoun . John A. Calhoun married Sarah Norwood. He died in 1874. He was a signer of the ordinance of secession of December 20, 1866. William Ransom Calhoun, educa; ted at West Point was an aide to! Governor Manning," secretary of j legation and acting minister to i France. He was Colonel of the | Seventh regiment, South Carolina j regulars, artillery, stationed at j Charleston, at the first of the War of Secession. He t was killed in a duel by Lieut. Col. Alfred Rhett, of the same regiment. Patrick and William Calhoun, were first made J justices of the peace for the NinetySixth district in 1775, second provisional congress and became a member of the last general assemUU. AT V, Ofi 177C 4-V.q efotn nf South Carolina when that body adopted the independent constitution. Together with Andrew Hamilton and Jos. Lincoln he was appointed judge of the Ninety-sixth district. In this visit to the old homestead, the place of the massacre on Long Cane, we also visited the old graveyard of more than a century and a half ago, situated on the road from Calhoun's Mill to Abbeville and some two miles from the for mer place. The cemetery had in time been expensively enclosed by an iron railing fence, but now, if not much, completely neglected. I don't think there has been anyone of the family buried in there in 50 years. I was somewhat interested particularly in a certain old grave of Dr. William Tenrent, who married Catherine Calhoun, daughter of Patrick 2nd and sister of Edward and Ludlow Calhoun. His early life history was remarkable and making as it did such a lasting impression upon me, I desire to relate. Dr. Tennant was at the time ft young student of divinity. He also had a bosom friend who was a j young doctor of mfedicine who at- j tended him in his illness. After aj protracted spell he, to all appearance died in a,trance, and for three days was in that condition. On three special occasions the church bell tolled and neighbors assembled for 'the funeral services, but the young doctor, not satisfied, would beg and plead for more time for resusitation, until the family became very indignant. On the third day, when he begged for 15 more minutes, he then, taking a feather, saturating the same with oil, he inserted it down the patient's throat at the same time blowing into his nostrils, keeping nis ear over tne patient's heart he imagined he perceived a faint pulsation, which encouraged greater efforts on his part. Finally there was perceived a slight groan and then the patient opened his eyes. After lingering between life and death he * was restored to strength of body but rot mind. He was then started to school but could not learn, not even his letters. Seeing his sister on one occasion reading the Bible, he asked j what it was. She told him, then he j asked what the Bible was. This made her weep, to know that he had been brought up for the ministry and not to know what the Bible was. One day coming from j 1 1. _ 1 1 1 ? ,1 1 scnooi, ne iaj;gfu uciuuu cinu ?cia j noticed standing in front of a tree,1 with both hands pressed to his head j for sometime when he rejoined his ! companions, they found a great! change had come over him and j from that moment his mind was re- i stored and he became a noted Pres-j byterian preacher, writing his life history, styled "Three Days in a Trance." I read this book while 13 years of age. I don't know if I ever j read a book of which made such a j lasting impression upon me. In it he | said that he knew what was going | on around him in that trance. He says he knew the effort made to nrnnco Viim nnH Viparrl tnllinc of the church bells, and knew what | it meant but felt so happy in that blissful state he had no earthly de- j sire now, only heavenly, but now a voice spoke to him saying, "you must return to earth again." Hfc said that his command was like a dagger piercing his heart. 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