An E Mail from Jeanne Colquhoun Spampata

While you're on blogspot.com, look for my blog:

http://wrightacrossthestreet.blogspot.com

You will see photos of my home, Martinview Cottage, along with photos of the restoration of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's largest prairie home complexes, which is of course "wright" across the street from me. Any time anyone visits Buffalo -- let me know and stop by to see us! I have a few photos of the Canadian/Buffalo Colquhouns, like the one attached, which is my dad Joe Colquhoun (born in Maybole in 1906) working in Canadian lumber camp in the 1920's.

Jeanne Colquhoun Spampata

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Chuck & Anne Stoodley who set up for us at the FL games sent us this card. It's from Celtic Papers.



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Another good place to look for cards is Rowangarth Greetings. Terri Morrison had been married to our own Danny Potter and had some Colquhoun cards available including an old picture of the "Village Of Luss".



Hope your Holiday Season is
paws-atively wonderful
and your
New Year is filled with
lots of yummy treats!

Happy Holidays
Terri and Widgett
The Rowangarth Clan

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Since we're showing Christmas items, our great neice Haley drew this for us after we lost Seumas between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2005. It's become part of our Christmas decorations for our home.





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And finally I've been told I have the messiest office in the world. Part of what adds to the "appearance" of mess is that almost every inch of wall space is filled. One reproduction I have is "The Storming Of The Dargai Heights" that starts out "Christmas, which is essentially the spirit of Home,..."


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More from the family of Patrick Calhoun, Jr.

Patrick sent me several pages of information about the passing of two members of his family which ended up as a couple of paragraphs in the Flowers of the Forest section of the last newsletter due to space considerations. Quite honestly, his heartfelt letter and generous sharing of information about his family members sparked something in my mind to create this blog. I'd already been writing a personal blog (with a Scots flavor) so it was easy to put this up knowing the "how" to do it before I started.





More on Patrick's father:

—Staff Photo by Larry Miller
Rep. Vic Snyder, second from right, presents Norma Calhoun and her children, from left, Mark, Mona and Rick, with their father’s military medals.
Calhoun family receives medals

U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder made a special presentation at the Morrilton Area Chamber of Commerce on Monday. Snyder presented medals and awards to the family of the late Patrick Calhoun, who served in the United States Army in World War II.
Although Calhoun received a Purple Heart and some service ribbons in 1944 while in an English hospital recovering from wounds, the remainder of his medals were presented posthumously to his widow, Norma Calhoun, on Monday.
Conway County Director of Veterans Affairs, Herbert “Hub” Hesselbein, contacted Rep. Snyder’s office for assistance in securing the medals and awards through the National Personnel Records Center, a part of the National Archives and the Department of the U.S. Army.
Calhoun was awarded the following: Bronze Star Medal for Distinguished Service while engaged in an action against the enemy under hostile fire; Purple Heart Medal for wounds received in combat; Combat Infantryman Badge, 1st Award; European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with two bronze service stars; Good Conduct Medal; American Defense Service Medal; American Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal; and Honorable Service Lapel Button.
In 1994, Calhoun received a Medal from the French government commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion and the liberation of France.
Calhoun enlisted in the United States Army at Fort Thomas, Ky., in 1937 and was assigned to the 4th Infantry Division during WWII. On June 6, 1944, he led a platoon ashore at Utah Beach as part of the Normandy Invasion by Allied forces under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. After 51 days of combat, Calhoun was wounded on July 26, 1944, during the battle of Saint-Lo, France, and spent the remainder of the war in an Allied hospital in Cardiff, England.
Calhoun was stationed at Camp Joe T. Robinson in North Little Rock before shipping out to France in 1944.
Calhoun was an advocate for veterans’ affairs as the long-time post commander of the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 13 in Morrilton.
Members of Calhoun’s family attending the presentation included his widow, Norma Calhoun; daughter, Mona Scroggins; and sons, Rick and Mark Calhoun. Also in attendance were members of Rep. Snyder’s staff, Mayor Bobby Kirby, members of the Morrilton Police Department, and friends of the family.
Calhoun passed away on Feb. 8, 2007.







More on Patrick's nephew:

E Mail From Leslie Cahoon

Les sent me an e mail about what I wrote in the last newsletter:

"Hi Tom
I received your E'mail of the death Lady Kathleen and Stephen L. Calhoun from Skeets. I already knew about Lady Kathleen's death from the Calhoun Society of U. K.
The main reason for this E'mail is to correct misconception which I believe may have been started by of S. L. C. [Steven Lance Calhoun] in the manuscript he supplied to Orval Calhoun and published in Volume 3 of his book. S. L. C. lineage was from William Cahoon (abt1702-1774) of Delaware. There is no documentation that connects this William with the Mass. Cahoons and the first William Cahoone (abt 1633-1675) of Mass. although most researchers believe these Delaware Cahoons did migrate from Mass. Documented brothers of William Cahoon of Delaware were Marmaduke, Samuel, and Thomas. Among the known grandsons of William Cahoone (abt1633-1675) there is no Marmasduke or Thomas. We may be descendants of William Cahoone but as serious genealogists we should not state that as a fact.
There are many errors in the draft which S.L.C. provided to Orval and it appears that Orval added many to that which was published.

Les Cahoon"

John Cowan, Artist

Also from Ida.




An obituary from the same paper.

Ida Calhoun Scott's mother

was a journalist and an Army wife much of her adult life. Ida Calhoun Burritt developed a habit of collecting newspaper articles with the name Calhoun or other spellings, and she did it all over the world as she traveled with her husband in the Army. Ida C. Scott has sent me quite a few, and I'm glad that I now have a place to share them with you. These two are WWII era. The Time article doesn't have a date. (Click on the picture to make it larger)


Col. Calhoun's article has legal notices on the back dated 3 January 1949:

Charles Ingram & Dixie Ingram

This is from Stone Mountain several years ago. Charles Ingram from Birmingham, AL is on the left and Dixie Ingram of the Scottish Power Pipe Band in on the right.

I've lost track of Charles. His mailing address and e mail address do not work anymore. If anyone knows him or what's become of hm please contact me.

Dixie told us he was named for a "music hall" performer. The name of the pipe band he was with literally means the electric company in Scotland.

Calhoun County, SC Sheriff's Office Patch

This is from one of my e-bay searches. I've always loved this one. We met a gentleman at Stone this year who told us the Calhoun County, TN Sheriff's Office was going to sponsor a pipe band and use the modern tartan for kilts. I frantically searched for my picture of this patch & couldn't find it.

If You Get "The Highlander"

Be sure to notice our picture from the Triad games in the back of the magazine in the latest issue.

There's some people who want some extra copies and Ray Neill actually sold out of this issue! So if you were going to throw away your copy anyway, we'll buy it from you.

The Chronicles Of Clan Colquhoun by James Pearson

James Pearson, mentioned at the beginning of the newsletter, is a great friend for answering naive questions and keeping me abreast of what's happening in the UK, including the sad news of Lady Colquhoun's passing. It may have been quite awhile before I and most American members of the Clan would have known of her death if James hadn't notified us. It occurred to me that many of you may not have actually seen a copy of James' periodical. Here's what the front cover of the current issue looks like:






On the front is a picture of Justine Kennedy (1857-1905) wife of Col. Alan John Colquhoun and mother of Sir Iain.
Notice also in this issue there is an article about the Christmas Truce of 1915 in which Sir Iain was involved. Sharon & I hope to go to the UK within the next two years. I've already contacted the Imperial War Museum in London about seeing Sir Iain's war diary.




Back page listing other works published by James. His current mailing address and e mail address is at the bottom left (click on page for larger picture).


James can be reached at elachan@clancolquhoun.co.uk

Happy First Birthday Fergus Bell-Martin Brown-Baxter Colquhoun-Hodges!

6 December 2007.

I think I gave him all my Scottish names.

"On The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks Of Loch Lomond" article by Steve Calhoun

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Let's Start With The Current Newsletter

Flowers Of The Forest

Passing of Lady Colquhoun. James Pearson, author of The Chronicles Of Clan Colquhoun, informed us “…that, sadly, Lady Colquhoun died on Tuesday 17th April.
From the Glasgow Herald:
COLQUHOUN Kathleen. Lady Kathleen Colquhoun Peacefully, on 17th April, 2007, Lady Kathleen Nimmo Colquhoun of Luss, (nee Duncan) beloved wife of Ivar and devoted mother to Iona and Malcolm. Funeral service at Luss Parish Church, at 2pm, on Wednesday, 25th April. Committal thereafter at Cardross Crematorium.”

From Peerage News: Lady Colquhoun of Luss, who died 17 April, 2007, was the wife of Sir Ivar Iain Colquhoun of Luss, 8th Baronet (b 4 Jan 1916), and the maternal grandmother of the 13th Duke of Argyll. She was the former Kathleen Nimmo Duncan, 2nd daughter of Walter Atholl Duncan, of Cadogan Sq, London, & sister of Marjorie Ray Duncan, who married in 1938, the 6th Earl of Verulam. She married Sir Ivar in 1943 and was mother of (i) Iona Mary (b 1945) who married 1964, the 12th Duke of Argyll (1937-2001); & (ii) Malcolm Rory Colquhoun (b 20 Dec 1947).

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It’s been reported to us that Steven Lance Calhoun B.A., M.A. of Fresno, CA died last year. Over the years Steve contributed much to this Society including an extensively researched article in favor of a Colquhoun authoring one of the most famous of Scottish songs, On The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks Of Loch Lomond which is now supplied to each new member (contact us if you’ve never seen this article and we can send it to you). Steve also compiled a list of over 118 ways “Colquhoun” was changed throughout the world and a complete Sept/Cadet list that includes such “forgotten” names as Garscadden and Camstradden. In 1992 Steve finished an unpublished history of Colquhoun Chiefs that takes up where William Fraser’s history ends, published in 1869. It is unclear at this time what will happen with the unpublished manuscript.

Being interviewed by Ron Kelly on Channel 24 at the 1988 Fresno, CA games.

Steve told me that he used to give a squad of 78th Fraser Highlanders a dram of scotch each to fire off a blank round from their muskets at the MacGregor tent each year at the Fresno games, all in good fun of course. Steve was descended from William Cahoone (1633-1675), the Block Island soldier/indentured servant/brickmaker whose descendants include many “Cahoons” in NC. Steve was able to find where his family name changed from Cahoon to Calhoun as his ancestors moved west. He published a long article in Orval Calhoun’s Our Calhoun Family outlining William’s life.

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Longtime member Patrick J. Calhoun, Jr. of Little Rock, AR lost two family members. His 27 year old nephew, artist and musician Mark Steven Calhoun, died 19 January 2006. Some of Steve’s work, also his CD, can be seen at http://www.swaggerrecords.com/swagger/records/steven/calhoun/music-songs/credits/
“On 9/11, he was the manager of a stage that was located on the plaza between the Twin Towers…He was an eyewitness to both ‘hits’ and participant in the pandemonium, death and destruction that followed. He somehow survived the flaming debris that showered the plaza. Traces of the tragedy have subtly emerged in some of Steven’s mixed-media pieces and songs.” Steve was the only male heir of Patrick’s family.
Patrick also lost his father on 8 February 2007. Patrick Calhoun, Sr. had led a platoon ashore at Utah Beach in the WWII Normandy invasion in 1944. He endured 51 days of combat and was wounded at the battle of St-Lo France in July. After the war, Patrick Sr. was a business entrepreneur and active in GOP politics in AR.

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Ingraham Piper Big Winner at Grandfather!

J.D. Ingraham from Lenoir City, TN won Grade III Piper of the Day at the GMHG 2007. JD won 1st in March, 3rd in Piobaireachd (pronounced "peeb-roch" almost rhyming with "rock" but with a hard H) sometimes called the classical music of the pipes, and 4th in Strathspey (dance tune in 4/4).
This gave him the higher average than the other pipers so he won Piper of the Day in addition to the other 3 awards.

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ABNER WELLBORN CALHOUN 1845-1910
FIRST OPTHAMOLOGIST IN THE SOUTH
By A. Calhoun “Callie” Witham, Jr.
Abner Wellborn Calhoun was born in Newnan Georgia on April 16, 1845. He was the son of a prominent local physician Andrew B. Calhoun MD. During his formative years he was helped by his father in his practice and was educated in the town of Newnan. His childhood was typical of a young person of that era until the war of Southern Secession broke out in the spring of 1861. Young Abner volunteered for duty in the Confederate army in that same year just before his sixteenth birthday. He served in the Army of Northern Virginia and fought in every major campaign for the entire four years of the war. He was wounded on four separate occasions and finally through the knee fighting in the trenches outside of Petersburg Virginia. He obviously had seen a great deal of field hospitals and physicians by the end of the war. Once Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in 1865 he walked home with what remained of his company to Atlanta where began his studies under his father. Once his preliminary studies were completed, Abner left Georgia to study medicine in earnest at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA. He graduated with his M.D. in March of 1869 and returned to Georgia to start his own practice. During his early days of practicing medicine he took a great interest in the plight of the blind and as well patients with various ailments of the eye. In early 1871 he traveled to Europe to study the diseases of the eye which was a relatively specialized and new field of medicine. He learned fluent German and studied with the brightest medical minds of the age in Vienna, Berlin, Paris and London. He returned to Atlanta four years later and began to practice and teach his specialty. He was the first to perform cataract surgeries in the South which must have seemed miraculous to the hundreds of patients whom he returned sight.
Dr. Abner W. Calhoun was the region’s first specialist of the eye and ear, first taught at the Atlanta Medical College, which was originally established by his father, Andrew B. Calhoun, in 1854. He founded the college’s medical library with his own volumes (most written in German). This college later became the Emory University School of Medicine in 1915.
As the only scientifically trained ophthalmologist south of Maryland, Dr. Abner Calhoun was the specialist of choice for many a Southerner who had a serious eye problem before the turn of the century. He served as faculty president from 1900 until 1910. He and industrialist Andrew Carnegie provided funds to construct a medical college building that later became part of Grady Memorial Hospital, still a training ground for Emory residents. Unfortunately the only physical memorial to this pioneering southern physician was the medical library that was originally named in honor of Dr. AW Calhoun’s contributions to medicine and ophthalmology. The library was renamed in the late 1970’s during one of Emory University’s quests for wealthier benefactors. Although the library no longer bears his name there is a small room named after Dr. Abner W. Calhoun where you can see an exhibit of his original text books and instruments which started a great medical tradition that carries on to this day.
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New Society Mascot!
Meet Fergus, the new unofficial mascot for the North America Society. We lost Seumas two years ago, went Scotty-less for a year, then unexpectedly found another Wheaton Scotty. Fergus will be one year old on 6 December 2007. Fergus’s coming out event was the Hartwell games, the last one in GA you can take your dog along.
More pictures of Fergus can be seen at:

Beth's Newfangled Family Tree 347 Rocky Knoll Rd.Walhalla, SC 29691
http://www.electricscotland.com/bnft/index.htm

Send your Scotty/Scottish breed dog pictures to: sijepuis@bellsouth.net