Isabelle Daniel (Hall) Calhoun (1919 - 2014)

Born 9 Sep 1919 in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Irving Louis (Fishman) Fiske — married 8 Jan 1946 (to Jul 1976) in New York, NY

Wife of Donald Wallace Calhoun — married 9 Apr 1989 in Miami, Miami-Dade, Florida, United States

Descendants

Died 28 Apr 2014 at age 94 in Hartford, Windsor, Vermont, United States

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Note

The family name was Hall. Daniel or Venable was often used in these old Southern families as a middle name. My son Andrew's middle name is Daniel, both for a friend and because it was a "family name." We were all cousins... the whole point of WikiTree, I guess. Her name (my mother's) was Isabella Daniel Hall. Her mother's was Isabelle Daniel Jones. That's the way it is down South! Tx Isabella

Biography

Barbara (Hall) Calhoun is Notable.

Artist, cartoonist for Harvey Comics during WWII, drew "Girl Commandos" and "Black Cat," fine artist, co-founded Quarry Hill, oldest alternative community (1946) in New England or at least in Vermont, had two children, Isabella and William, divorced Irving Fiske in 1976 (she had married him in New York in 1946), married Dr. Donald W. Calhoun in MIami on April 8, 1989. Barbara was an artist, a cartoonist during WWII, and a co-founder, with her husband, Irving Louis Fiske , of Quarry Hill Creative Center, VT's oldest alternative lifestyle community and artist's retreat. A beautiful woman who had a natural talent for drawing and painting, she was admired by many. Her ancestors were Patriots of the Revolutionary War and took the Confederate side in the Civil War. One collateral relative, Charles S. Venable, a mathematics professor, was R. E. Lee's aide de camp (Lee called him "Faithful old Venable." Isabelle (Barbara) was a Bohemian and a completely unconventional person, as was her first husband, Irving Fiske, She divorced him in 1976 and married Dr. Donald W. Calhoun, a Quaker sociology professor, and a conscientious objector, on April 9, 1989 in MIami, Florida. He taught for many years at The University of Miami, and was a member of Miami Friends Meeting. The Calhouns and Irving Fiske were on good terms. All three of them would sit around the pond area at Quarry Hill watching the young people go by.

Sources

United States Census, 1920

1920 - Fort Lowell, Pima County, Arizona

United States Census, 1930

1930 - Tucson, Pima County, Arizona

• Isabella Fiske McFarlin

Newspapers "The Great Women Cartoonists" by Trina Robbins (Watson-Guptill, 2000)

• -- memories: Isabella Fiske McFarlin

-- Fiske family papers -- letters and stories of the Hall, Jones, Venable, etc. families --"The Venables of VIrginia," a privately printed family history...

• Wikidata: Item Q16739757, en:Wikipedia