THE ATLANTA JOURNAL
                                 Sunday November 9,1924 .
.                    White Child Kept Twele Years By Indians
     How the Indians captured little Ann Calhoun at the age of five and held
her prisioner for twelve years and after her return to civilization Ann had
frequented reversions to the wild habits acquried 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, 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 delightfful
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 directionlies Long Cane Cemetery, where sleeping
many of the old Virginians, who about 176_ came a great migration to the
Long Cane District and founded the first considerable settlement in western
South Carolina' Hammonds, Conways, Lus, Washingtons, balls, Tuslus,
Strathers, garrets, with many other old families arrived in early settlement
trains .  Mrs. Marshallis 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 ith the rare delicacy of an old
piece Seures China, and object of veneration  to the throng of kind people
who gather now and then about her, And any stranger who visits the precincts
of her deep Magnolia Garden.
. .  The  Calhouns, whom Mrs. Marshall is  directly decended, had live in
Anneville but a short while when the horrible massacre of Long cane was
enacted.                               William Calhoun  ( born 1723 ) had
married Agnes Long ( 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 February 1, 1796,
the entire colony ws busy packing wagons and 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 hitched to the vehicles. Quicker than it
takes to tell, William Calhoun saw his mother age seventy six killed by the
savages, and his litttle daughter, Catherine , scalped and dying and little
Ann five and Mary three, sized and born of 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.

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