Doddridge County Roots


A West Virginia Genealogy

First Name Last Name
Share Print Bookmark
Powell CALHOUN

Powell CALHOUN

Male 1821 - 1916  (94 years)


Personal Information    |    Sources    |    All    |    PDF

  • Name Powell CALHOUN
    Birth 22 Mar 1821  Virginia (now West Virginia) Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    • Age 69 in 1890 marriage record would put birth in about 1821 in Wood County, and age on headstone is Mar 22 1821. But age 98y 10m 7d in death record calculates to a birth date of Mar 16 1817, while a newspaper death notice states that he was born in Pennsboro in 1818.
    Gender Male
    Residence FORMERLY  Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Residence 1890  Tyler Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Death 23 Jan 1916  Tyler Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Burial Archers Chapel Cemetery, CR 10/1, near Middlebourne, Tyler Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6] 
    Notes 
    • Local news item, "Doddridge County Republican," Thursday, Feb 3 1916, in its entirety:
      "Tyler County lost a very aged citizen last week in the person of Powell Calhoun, a direct descendant of the celebrated John C. Calhoun. He was born in Pennsboro in 1818."
    Person ID I40728  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 7 Feb 2016

    Family 1 Ruth ___,   b. 22 Apr 1814   d. 2 Jan 1890, Archers Chapel Cemetery, CR 10/1, near Middlebourne, Tyler Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)  [7]
    Children 
    >1. Mary Jane CALHOUN,   b. CA 1846, Tyler Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F29721  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Elethean A. LEGGETT,   b. 25 Mar 1821, Monongalia Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3]
    Marriage 27 Nov 1890  Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Family ID F16294  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S5] Headstone.

    2. [S1630] Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985)).

    3. [S293] Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County, (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 337.

    4. [S2568] West Virginia Deaths Index, 1853-1973 [database on-line], (Ancestry.com).

    5. [S934] Findagrave.com.

    6. [S2336] Gary Patterson, Tyler County West Virginia Cemeteries (website), (http://myplace.frontier.com/~garyepatterson/cemidx.htm).

    7. [S1583] Marriage record of daughter.

    8. [S1630] Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985)).
      Identified as Powell Calhoun, widowed, 69, b. Wood Co, res. Tyler Co; and Alethea A. Dixon, widowed, 64, b. Virginia, res. Ritchie Co. Married Nov 27 1890.