{"id":386,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:32:52","latitude":30.905374511063111953035331680439412593841552734375,"longitude":-95.6048744688641107813964481465518474578857421875,"title":"Samuel Calhoun Grave","subtitle":"Notable Burials at Calhoun Cemetery","fullsize":"https://easttexashistory.org/files/fullsize/89f6c6556b8e3e7a821d0075e953cb20.jpg","address":"","all_locations":[],"zoom":7,"creator":["Sean Peterson"],"description":"Samuel Calhoun<br />\r\nSamuel Calhoun (1788-1875) was originally born in Abbeville County, South Carolina. He would also be a Commander of the Fifth Cavalry in Georgia during the War of 1812. After the war, he settled a plantation in Georgia and then moved to Alabama with his six children and son-in-law after his first wife, Elizabeth Finney, passed away in 1836. Following this, he would marry a woman named Catherine O’Brian. Catherine and Samuel would go on to have two children, most likely Louis, and Catherine Louise Calhoun. He would then move to Texas, where a plantation would be settled by the name of Osceola, where he would live until he died in 1875. [1]<br />\r\n<br />\r\nMartha Calhoun Cabiness<br />\r\nMartha Calhoun Cabiness (1818-188) was the daughter of Samuel Calhoun who would go on to marry James Anderson Cabiness (also buried in Calhoun cemetery). She and her husband would have a slave by the name of Elijah. She and James would settle within the area and own a piece of property which would eventually become named Pine Prairie.[2]<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWilliam Calhoun<br />\r\nWilliam N Calhoun (1822-1865) was the son of Samuel Calhoun, who was also a Confederate Soldier during the American Civil War, where he would be a Sergeant who would be imprisoned by the Union in Atlanta in 1864. [3]","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":["[1]https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/calhoun-samuel<br />\r\n<br />\r\n[2]Littlejohn, Jeffrey L., Charles Ford, Jami Horne, and Briana Weaver. “The Cabiness Family Lynching: Race, War, and Memory in Walker County, Texas.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 122, no. 1 (2018): 1–31.<br />\r\n<br />\r\n[3]https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52841591/william_calhoun"],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://easttexashistory.org/files/fullsize/89f6c6556b8e3e7a821d0075e953cb20.jpg":{"id":2791,"mime-type":"image/png","title":"Calhoun Headstone","description":"","thumbnail":"https://easttexashistory.org/files/square_thumbnails/89f6c6556b8e3e7a821d0075e953cb20.jpg"},"https://easttexashistory.org/files/fullsize/91f3d108d930a38bcb3281a65fbae354.jpg":{"id":2792,"mime-type":"image/png","title":"Calhoun Grave from a Distance","description":"","thumbnail":"https://easttexashistory.org/files/square_thumbnails/91f3d108d930a38bcb3281a65fbae354.jpg"},"https://easttexashistory.org/files/fullsize/d298fcd4ad0a5159ec435df1713cd026.jpg":{"id":2793,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"William Calhoun Grave","description":"","thumbnail":"https://easttexashistory.org/files/square_thumbnails/d298fcd4ad0a5159ec435df1713cd026.jpg"}}}