Mary Smith (Taylor) Calhoun (abt. 1812 - 1871)

Born about 1812 in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, United States [uncertain]

Wife of Meredith Calhoun — married 24 Apr 1834 in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United States

Descendants

Died 10 Jun 1871 at about age 59 in Bay Saint Louis, Hancock, Mississippi, United States

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Biography

Mary was born in 1810. She was the grand-daughter of Alabama judge William Smith. She married Meredith Calhoun and they had two children together:

William Smith Calhoun (1845)

Marie Marguerite Ada Calhoun (July 1849) who married George Lane.

In September 1865, two letters attached to the Freedmen's Bureau written by her agents, were attempts to retrieve her abandoned property, which she inherited from her grand-father, which the military seized.^[1][2]

Mary passed away in 1871 in Orleans, Louisiana.* Death: "New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., Death Records Index, 1804-1949"
Louisiana State Archives; Baton Rouge, LA; Orleans Death Indices 1804-1876
Ancestry ca Record 6606 #74398 (accessed 11 April 2022)
Mary Smith Taylor Calhoun death 10 Jun 1871 (age 59) in Orleans, Lousiana, USA.

Sources

1. ↑ "United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2Q1-TYNY : 17 March 2018), Meredith Calhoun, 1858.
2. ↑ "United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2Q1-TTMC : 17 March 2018), Meredith Calhoun, 1865.

• "Louisiana, Orleans Parish Death Records and Certificates, 1835-1954", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZXCV-3WPZ : 19 May 2020), Mary Smith Taylor, 1871.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH5Q-WHW : 20 September 2021), Calhoun in household of Meredith Calhoun, Huntsville, Madison, Alabama, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2Q1-TTMC : 17 March 2018), Meredith Calhoun, 1865.
• "United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2Q1-TYNY : 17 March 2018), Meredith Calhoun, 1858.
• "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W31-Y99 : 2 June 2020), Ada Calhoun Lane, 18 Oct 1909; citing Death, Queens, New York City, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,323,417.
• "Louisiana, Orleans Parish Death Records and Certificates, 1835-1954", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZYDH-K16Z : 17 June 2020), Mary S Calhoun, 1871.
• "Louisiana, Orleans Parish, State Museum Historical Center, Cemetery Records, 1805-1944", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZL1-HTBN : 20 May 2021), Mary S. Calhoun, 1871.