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Subject: Ann Calhoun From: Harold Tennant Date: April 17, 1998
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THE ATLANTA JOURNAL =
. =
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9,1924 . =
WHITE CHILD KEPT TWEVLE YEARS BY INDIANS =
How the Indians captured little Ann Calhoun at he age of five and held =
her prisoner for twelve years and after her return to civilization Ann =
had frequented reversions to the wild habits aquired during her =
captivity, is the strange story woven into the hardships and perils of =
America's early setters, told by one of Ann decendants, her grand niece, =
Mrs. Tammy J. Marshall, now ninety three years old and living in =
Abbeville South Carolina. . =
=
Abbeville just across the border from Georgia, is full of delightful =
ante bellum mansions, in one of which the Confederate cabnet held it's =
last meeting, near the site of Fort Pickens, with a tiny cannon still =
mounting guard. And in the other direction lies Long Cane Cemetary, =
where sleeping many old Virginians, who about 176_ came a great =
migration to the Long Cane District and founded the first considerable =
settlement in western South Carolina. The Hammonds,Conways, =
Uus,Washingtons, Balls, Tuslus. Strathers, Garrets with many other old =
families arrived in early settlement trains . =
=
Mrs.Marshal is one of the most interesting things about Abbeville of =
today. A direct link with the romantic past. At the age of ninety three =
she still thinks clearly and is beautiful with the rare delicary of an =
old piece Seures China, and the object of veneration to the throng of =
kind people who gather now and then about her. And any stranger who =
visits the precinits of her deep Magnolia Garden. . =
=
The Calhouns, whom Mrs, Marshall is directly =
decended, had lived in Abbeville but a short while when the horrible =
massacre of Long Cane was enacted. William Calhoun ( born 1723 ) had =
married Agnes Lond ( born 1733 ) and at the time of the massacre had the =
following children, Joseph, Catherine, Mary and Ann. . =
=
The settlers at Long Cane numbered 250 souls, =
mostly women and children, had heard of an uprising of the Cherokee =
indians, and on the morning of Feburary 1, 1796, the entire colony was =
busy packing wagons and getting ready to flee to Tobus Fort near =
Augusta, when the blood curdling and savage warhoops of the was heard. =
The ammunition and the guns of the men were mostly packed in the wagons =
and the horses hitched to the vehicles. Quicker that it takes to tell, =
William Calhoun saw his mother age seventy-six killed by the savages, =
and his little daughter, Catherine, scalped and dying and little Ann, =
five, and Mary, three, sized and born off by the savages. =
. =
. Panic stricken and amost =
paralyzed with horror, he cut a horse loose from a wagon and placed upon =
it's back, his wife and only remaining child, Joseph, a boy of five =
years old and bade them flee toward Augusta. The bereaved mother rode =
all day and at night fall, coming to a vacant house which had to be left =
by some family, took refuge in it, following her flight from the =
indians. In her desolation and breavement, with no eye to see, no ear to =
hear, no hand to help save God, she gave birth to a son and called him =
Patrick. . =
With her husband and =
murdered children behind her and danger all around her, daring not to =
stay where she was, and not physically able to go forward, here was a =
situation seldom seen in life, but hers was a stern Pioneer Charater, =
and realizing she must move on even if she lost her on life, to try to =
reach Fort Tobus .to save the lives of her two sons, she mounted her =
horse at dawn, and with little Joseph and with the new baby rode forth =
safely, nursed back to health and strength. It may be said that Patrick =
Of ( wonderful birth ) grew to be a fair youth and fought in the War of =
the Revolution and was killed in the last year of the war at the age of =
twenty-nine. . =
Nothng =
but doubtless bravery saved the men of Long Cane. The Calhoun brothers =
with thirteen other white men, maintained a desperate fight with the =
Cherokees, until over whelmed by superior forces and had to retreat. In =
the massacre there was fifty persons killed, mostly women and children. =
William Calhoun returned to Long Cane three days later, to bury his =
mother, three little nieces, Catherine and Mary, who had been killed, =
and besides his own kin, he found twenty bodies inhumanly mangled. =
Another man found nine little fugitive children wandering in the woods, =
Some had been left for dead, others in the bloody field scalped. =
. =
For twelve long years =
Ann lived with the indians, enduring untold hardships, at times nearly =
starving to death. On the day of her capture she had seen her sister =
Mary scalped and her body thrown into the creek, because she was to =
young to walk. Ann escaped the same fate only by promising to run and =
when ever the poor frighten child would stop for breath, she would be =
severely beaten. . =
After Ann =
was exchanged by treaty, near Pendleton, she came back to live with her =
parents. "Ann said her life among the indians had been a hard one, the =
indians had nearly beaten her to death to make her eat lizards, snakes =
and raw meats, and when she got to her own people, they would punish her =
to make her stop eatind such foods and forced her to eat cook things". =
"Ann would never learn to read or write even her own name" said Mrs. =
Marshall " she always wore sandals made from the bark of certain =
trees"." Nothing could induce her to wear shoes. Her eldest son took up =
the shoemaker trade"." When Ann was very old he made her a pair of shoes =
made of leather, but as soon as she went into the house they were taken =
off summer or winter''." When Ann was twenty years old she married Issac =
Mathews, a nearby farmer who had a tract of land granted by King =
George". " Aunt Ann did not like the harsh name of Issac, so she called =
him Zacky"." He in turn was not captivated by Ann's personal appearance, =
for she was awkward and almost hated by her family by keeping =
appearances taught her by squaws. But her great strength and endurance =
did have charm for the young farmer as a possible help mate, for he not =
was gifted with industrious habits" "Indeed Ann always said " Zacky is =
mighty good but he is lazy". "However with three children they were =
always happy" . =
"Aunt Ann =
often longed for her wild indian life, and she would sometimes steal =
away at early dawn and send the whole day in the woods. She would go =
into the densest forest, she said, to witness to the sprits, which one =
could not see, but she thought she could hear gliding from tree to =
tree." " Once her husband followed her and he found her eating lizards =
and frogs"." She had gone back to her indian ways". . =
=
"Aunt Ann, like the indians, was never =
emotional nor excited"." After her husband's death , when she spoke of =
the event to her friends, she said ' I behaved very well. I never =
laughed or cried." " When her children grew up, they married and left =
her alone". " After Zacky died Aunt Ann had a desolate life"."Her =
brother, Joseph, my grandfather owned Calhoun Mills". " Durning his =
life, Aunt Ann was allowed get anything she wanted from the mill"." And =
every week she could be seen on her old white mule, riding with two =
sacks for flour and meat". " After my grandfather's death the same =
kindness was always shown Aunt Ann by my father". "On one occasion, she =
rode up to the mil and handed the miller an exceeding lage sack". =
"Supprised, he asked her if she wanted it filled with flour"." No. =
indeed, she quickly replied, I have had only one bite of meat for a =
week"." I am meat hungry. I want a pig, no let it be a shoat, no you =
just let it be a good size hog" . =
. =
" I remember when a big cake, made with a pound of sugar, a pound =
of butter and a good round dozen of eggs, would appear on the table and =
our mother would begain to slice it, we children would cry out ' give me =
a good sizehog ". . =
=
"For many years my father's health was not good. When he was =
depressed he would have a horse saddled and would send for Aunt Ann to =
come and stay awhile and cheer him up with her indian stories"." And =
these stories he would often tell to the children, long after Aunt Ann =
had passed away". "Christmas =
before Aunt Ann's death, my mother made her a muslin cap with wide =
frills on it, and also a handkerchief to match"." Old Aunt Ann was much =
pleased with the present and thanked my mother, but she said ' It is too =
nice to wear now. Just save it until I die. Then put it on , so when =
Zacky will meet me in Heaven, he will say, Ann how beautiful you look' =
". " "Aunt =
Ann's only son, Joesph Mathews, had twelve children, many of these =
married and moved west, but some of the grand children are living in =
Abbeville now".
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THE ATLANTA
JOURNAL
.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER
9,1924
.
WHITE CHILD KEPT TWEVLE YEARS BY
INDIANS
How the Indians captured little Ann Calhoun at he age of five and held her
prisoner for twelve years and after her return to civilization Ann had
frequented reversions to the wild habits aquired during her captivity, is the
strange story woven into the hardships and perils of America's early setters,
told by one of Ann decendants, her grand niece, Mrs. Tammy J. Marshall, now
ninety three years old and living in Abbeville South Carolina.
.
Abbeville just across the border from Georgia, is full of delightful ante bellum
mansions, in one of which the Confederate cabnet held it's last meeting, near
the site of Fort Pickens, with a tiny cannon still mounting guard. And in the
other direction lies Long Cane Cemetary, where sleeping many old Virginians, who
about 176_ came a great migration to the Long Cane District and founded the
first considerable settlement in western South Carolina. The Hammonds,Conways,
Uus,Washingtons, Balls, Tuslus. Strathers, Garrets with many other old families
arrived in early settlement trains
.
Mrs.Marshal is one of the most interesting things about Abbeville of today. A
direct link with the romantic past. At the age of ninety three she still thinks
clearly and is beautiful with the rare delicary of an old piece Seures China,
and the object of veneration to the throng of kind people who gather now and
then about her. And any stranger who visits the precinits of her deep Magnolia
Garden.
.
The Calhouns, whom Mrs, Marshall is directly decended, had lived in Abbeville
but a short while when the horrible massacre of Long Cane was enacted. William
Calhoun ( born 1723 ) had married Agnes Lond ( born 1733 ) and at the time of
the massacre had the following children, Joseph, Catherine, Mary and Ann.
.
The settlers at Long Cane numbered 250 souls, mostly women and children, had
heard of an uprising of the Cherokee indians, and on the morning of Feburary 1,
1796, the entire colony was busy packing wagons and getting ready to flee to
Tobus Fort near Augusta, when the blood curdling and savage warhoops of the was
heard. The ammunition and the guns of the men were mostly packed in the wagons
and the horses hitched to the vehicles. Quicker that it takes to tell, William
Calhoun saw his mother age seventy-six killed by the savages, and his little
daughter, Catherine, scalped and dying and little Ann, five, and Mary, three,
sized and born off by the
savages.
.
. Panic stricken and amost paralyzed with horror, he cut a horse loose from a
wagon and placed upon it's back, his wife and only remaining child, Joseph, a
boy of five years old and bade them flee toward Augusta. The bereaved mother
rode all day and at night fall, coming to a vacant house which had to be left by
some family, took refuge in it, following her flight from the indians. In her
desolation and breavement, with no eye to see, no ear to hear, no hand to help
save God, she gave birth to a son and called him Patrick.
.
With her husband and murdered children behind her and danger all around her,
daring not to stay where she was, and not physically able to go forward, here
was a situation seldom seen in life, but hers was a stern Pioneer Charater, and
realizing she must move on even if she lost her on life, to try to reach Fort
Tobus .to save the lives of her two sons, she mounted her horse at dawn, and
with little Joseph and with the new baby rode forth safely, nursed back to
health and strength. It may be said that Patrick Of ( wonderful birth ) grew to
be a fair youth and fought in the War of the Revolution and was killed in the
last year of the war at the age of
twenty-nine.
.
Nothng but doubtless bravery saved the men of Long Cane. The Calhoun brothers
with thirteen other white men, maintained a desperate fight with the Cherokees,
until over whelmed by superior forces and had to retreat. In the massacre there
was fifty persons killed, mostly women and children. William Calhoun returned to
Long Cane three days later, to bury his mother, three little nieces,
Catherine and Mary, who had been killed, and besides his own kin, he found
twenty bodies inhumanly mangled. Another man found nine little fugitive children
wandering in the woods, Some had been left for dead, others in the bloody field
scalped.
.
For twelve long years Ann lived with the indians, enduring untold hardships, at
times nearly starving to death. On the day of her capture she had seen her
sister Mary scalped and her body thrown into the creek, because she was to young
to walk. Ann escaped the same fate only by promising to run and when ever the
poor frighten child would stop for breath, she would be severely beaten.
.
After Ann was exchanged by treaty, near Pendleton, she came back to live with
her parents. "Ann said her life among the indians had been a hard one, the
indians had nearly beaten her to death to make her eat lizards, snakes and raw
meats, and when she got to her own people, they would punish her to make her
stop eatind such foods and forced her to eat cook things". "Ann would
never learn to read or write even her own name" said Mrs. Marshall "
she always wore sandals made from the bark of certain trees"." Nothing
could induce her to wear shoes. Her eldest son took up the shoemaker
trade"." When Ann was very old he made her a pair of shoes made of
leather, but as soon as she went into the house they were taken off summer or
winter''." When Ann was twenty years old she married Issac Mathews, a
nearby farmer who had a tract of land granted by King George". " Aunt
Ann did not like the harsh name of Issac, so she called him Zacky"."
He in turn was not captivated by Ann's personal appearance, for she was awkward
and almost hated by her family by keeping appearances taught her by squaws. But
her great strength and endurance did have charm for the young farmer as a
possible help mate, for he not was gifted with industrious habits"
"Indeed Ann always said " Zacky is mighty good but he is
lazy". "However with three children they were always happy"
.
"Aunt Ann often longed for her wild indian life, and she would sometimes
steal away at early dawn and send the whole day in the woods. She would go into
the densest forest, she said, to witness to the sprits, which one could not see,
but she thought she could hear gliding from tree to tree." " Once her
husband followed her and he found her eating lizards and frogs"." She
had gone back to her indian ways".
.
"Aunt Ann, like the indians, was never emotional nor excited"."
After her husband's death , when she spoke of the event to her friends, she said
' I behaved very well. I never laughed or cried." " When her children
grew up, they married and left her alone". " After Zacky died Aunt Ann
had a desolate life"."Her brother, Joseph, my grandfather owned
Calhoun Mills". " Durning his life, Aunt Ann was allowed get anything
she wanted from the mill"." And every week she could be seen on her
old white mule, riding with two sacks for flour and meat". " After my
grandfather's death the same kindness was always shown Aunt Ann by my
father". "On one occasion, she rode up to the mil and handed the
miller an exceeding lage sack". "Supprised, he asked her if she wanted
it filled with flour"." No. indeed, she quickly replied, I have had
only one bite of meat for a week"." I am meat hungry. I want a pig, no
let it be a shoat, no you just let it be a good size hog"
.
.
" I remember when a big cake, made with a pound of sugar, a pound of butter
and a good round dozen of eggs, would appear on the table and our mother would
begain to slice it, we children would cry out ' give me a good sizehog ".
.
"For many years my father's health was not good. When he was depressed he
would have a horse saddled and would send for Aunt Ann to come and stay awhile
and cheer him up with her indian stories"." And these stories he would
often tell to the children, long after Aunt Ann had passed
away".
"Christmas before Aunt Ann's death, my mother made her a muslin cap with
wide frills on it, and also a handkerchief to match"." Old Aunt Ann
was much pleased with the present and thanked my mother, but she said ' It is
too nice to wear now. Just save it until I die. Then put it on , so when Zacky
will meet me in Heaven, he will say, Ann how beautiful you look'
".
" "Aunt Ann's only son, Joesph Mathews, had twelve children, many of
these married and moved west, but some of the grand children are living in
Abbeville
now".
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