Subject: Re: Settlement of the Back Country (Part 2) From: stenn150 Date: February 24, 1998 From: The Atlanta Journal Sunday November 9,1924 WHITE CHILD KEPT TWELVE YEARS BY INDIANS How the indians captured little Ann Calhoun at the age of five and held prisioner for twelve years and after her return to civilitizaton Ann had frequented reversions to the wild habits acquired during her captivity, is the strange story woven into the hardships and perils of America's early settlers, told by one of Ann's decendants, Mrs. Tammy J.Marshall, now ninety three years old and living in South Carolina. Abbeville, just across the border from Georgia,is full of antebellum mansions, in one of which is the site of Fort Pickens, with a tiny brass canon still mounting guard. And in the other direction, lies Long Cane Cemetery, where sleepingmany of the old Virginians, who about 176_ came a great migration to the long Cane district and founded the first considerable settlement inwestern South Carolina. HAMMONDS, CONWAYS, LUS, WASHINGTONS, BALLS, TUSLUS, TRATHERS, GARRETS, and many other old families arrived in the early settlement trains. Mrs Marshall is one of the most interestingthings about Abbeville of today. A direct link with the romantic past. At the ageat the age of ninety three she still thinks clearly and is beautiful with the rae delicacy of an old piece of SeuresChina, andobject of veneration to the throngs of kind people who gather now and thenabout her. And any stranger who visits the precincits of her deep Magolia garden. The Calhouns, whom Mrs.Marshall is directly decended, had lived in Abbeville but a short while when the horrible massacre of Lone Cane was enacted. William Calhoun (born 1723) hadmarried Agnes Long and at the time of the massacre had the following children, Joesph,Catherine,Mary and Ann. The settlers at Lone Cane numbered 250 souls, mostly women and chldren, had heard of an upraising of the Cherokee Indians, ond on the morning of February 1, 1796 , the entire colony was getting ready to flee to Toblus Fort, near Augusta, when the blood curdling and savage warhoops of the Cherokees was heard. The ammunition and the guns of the men were mostly packed in the wagons and the horses hiched to the vihicles. Quicker than it takes to tell it, William Calhoun saw his mother seveny-six killed by the savages, and his little daughter Catherine, scalped and dying and little Ann five, and Mary three, sized and borned off by the Indians. Panic stricken and almost paralyzed with horror. he cut a horse oose from the wagon and placed upon it's back his wife and only remaining child Joseph, and bade them flee toward Augusta. to be continued ,marr Go To: #, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Main |