Re: Settlement of the Back Country (Part 2) - stenn150
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




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