Calhoun Obituaries

November 4, 2011 at 12:55 am (Calhoun Family, Uncategorized)
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Joseph Burton Calhoun and Lueannie Boyett Calhoun, long time residents of the Ray City, GA area are buried at Beaver Dam Cemetery, Ray City.

Joe B. Calhoun rites held
Thursday, March 2, 1972

Joe B. Calhoun, 79, of Rte. 1 Lakeland, died early Wednesday in the Smith Nursing Home after a long illness.
A native of Lowndes County, he had lived in Lanier County about 31 years.
He was a retired farmer, a member of Lakeland Lodge 434 F&AM and the Ray City Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, the former Miss Louannie Boyette of Lakeland; a daughter, Mrs. Alberta Calhoun Courson of Lakeland, Fla.; two sons, J.B. Calhoun Jr., of Winter Garden, Fla.; and John Calhoun of Monroe, La.; a sister, Mrs. Lula Anglin of Adel; two brothers, Dewey Calhoun of Nashville, Ga., and C. B. Calhoun of Jacksonville, Fla. 12 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Friday at the Ray City Baptist Church with burial in the Beaver Dam Cemetery here.
The Rev. Allen Bates, pastor, conducted the services, assisted by the Rev. John W. Harrell. Burial followed in Beaver Dam Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Robert Wayne Courson, Donald Courson, Marvin Corson, Mitchell Calhoun, Melton Calhoun and John Wesley Calhoun, Jr.
Music Funeral Home of Lakeland was in charge of arrangements.

The Valdosta Times
Sunday, April 11, 1993

Obituaries
LUEANNIE B. CALHOUN

Lueannie Boyett Calhoun, 93, of Winter Garden, Fla., passed away Friday morning at Quality Health Care in Winter Garden.
She was born and lived in what was then Berrien County and later changed to Lanier County most of her life, moving to Winter Garden in 1987. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Ray City.
She was preceded in death by her husband Joe Calhoun and one son, Burton Calhoun.
Survivors include: one daughter, Alberta Courson of Lakeland, Fla., one son, John Wesley Calhoun of Ft. McCoy, Fla., one brother, Joe Boyett of Peach County; 11 grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at Ray City First Baptist Church with burial at Beaver Dam Cemetery, Ray City. The family will receive friends at the funeral home tonight from 7-9 p.m. Mrs. Calhoun will be placed in the church one hour prior to services.
Music Funeral Home, Lakeland, is in charge of arrangements.

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Early School House

November 1, 2011 at 12:38 am (Boyett Family, Education In the Wiregrass)
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As a young girl, Lueannie Boyett Calhoun, daughter of John Boyette (1865-1938) and Mary Jane Sirmans Boyett (1867-1946),  attended the common schools of the area.

She probably attended the Grand Bay School, about which Nell Patten Roquemore wrote:

Grand Bay School was in the Crum-Boyett-Giddens-Baskin community, west of Milltown. (The building is still in use as a pack house on the W.B. Boyett farm.) Bob Patten had taught there before the turn of the century. Among the pupils there were Mary Crum and Larue Giddens.

Lueannie Boyett Calhoun photographed circa 1980 in front of the school she attended as a young girl.

Lueannie Boyett Calhoun photographed circa 1980 in front of the school she attended as a young girl. The School was situated on Baskins Road, near Ray City, GA in present day Lanier County.  Image courtesy of Mitchell Calhoun.

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The Calhoun Farm

October 29, 2011 at 12:39 am (Calhoun Family, Uncategorized)
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The Calhoun Farm, near Ray City, GA, 1955.

The Calhoun Farm, near Ray City, GA, 1955.

The Calhoun Farm, situated southeast of Ray City on the shore of Banks Lake, originally made up a part of the Boyett family land.

John Boyette (1865-1938) and Mary Jane Sirmans Boyett (1867-1946). John Boyett's land consisted of more than 1000 acres situated in present day western Lanier County, GA. (Image courtesy of http://berriencountyga.com/)

John Boyette (1865-1938) and Mary Jane Sirmans Boyett (1867-1946). John Boyett’s land consisted of more than 1000 acres situated in present day western Lanier County, GA. (Image courtesy of http://berriencountyga.com/)

When John Boyett died in 1938, his estate was divided among his six sons and three daughters. Born near Rays Mill, GA in 1865,  John Boyett was a son of William Hill Boyett and Jemima Taylor Boyett.  By the time of his demise he had acquired 1,016 acres of land in land lots 496, 497, 516 and 517 in the 10th District. (see John Boyett (1865-1938) ~ Ray City Farmer)

His daughter, Lue Annie Boyett Calhoun, inherited just over 100 acres of the family farm and a little cash.

After inheriting land from her father, Lue Annie and her husband, Joseph Burton Calhoun, moved from their place in Florida back to the farm at Ray City, GA. (see The Marriage of Joe Calhoun and Lue Annie Boyett)

I. Mitchell Calhoun, grandson of Lue Annie and Joseph Burton Calhoun, recalls,

“Grandma always said that as a girl she got a little less than the boys. Granddaddy [Joseph Burton] Calhoun was an auto mechanic at the time and he and his family lived down in Florida, but he had been raised on a farm. My father [Joseph Berton Calhoun, Jr.] was around 20 at the time. So my grandparents moved back to the farm. A good part of the land Grandma inherited was wooded land so she traded some of her land with one of her brothers for cleared land so the final farm they had was around 80 acres. So that became the ‘Joe and Lue Annie Calhoun’ farm for the next 50 plus years. Granddaddy Calhoun died in 1972 and Grandma Calhoun died in 1993. The farm was passed on to their heirs and then was sold by them in the mid 1990s. I have many wonderful memories of the farm as a boy and as an adult. “

“Granddaddy Calhoun told me many times how they moved to the farm in 1938 and had to clear the trees to make a lane (about 100 yards) from Boyett Road up to the house site. Then he took the trees, that he cut down to clear the lane and the home site, to the saw mill and cut into boards and he used these boards to help build the house. It was a simple house but I spent many a night in it as a boy and as an adult. A few years after the land was sold (early 2000s) the house was torn down.”

Joseph Burton Calhoun was a civic minded farmer, a member of the Lakeland Masonic Lodge, and the Parent-Teacher Association. In the 1940s, the school lunchroom in Lakeland was supported by donations, and vegetables contributed from the Calhoun farm were among the lunchroom fare.

Joseph Burton Calhoun at work on the farm near Ray City, GA, circa 1955. (Image courtesy of I. Mitchell Calhoun)

Joseph Burton Calhoun at work on the farm near Ray City, GA, circa 1955. (Image courtesy of I. Mitchell Calhoun)

I. Mitchell Calhoun, grandson of Joseph Burton Calhoun recalls his grandfather at work in the barnyard out back of the farmhouse. 

“I used to like to watch him use the farm equipment.  He had a big John Deere tractor that he was very proud of.  It had a drum on the side that turned.  Some of the equipment (such as a corn grinder) had a similar drum.  He would line the tractor up with the equipment, place a wide leather belt that formed a circle around the two drums, then he would back up the tractor until the belt was tight.  He would then engage the drum on the tractor and through the belt this would engage the drum on the corn grinder, etc. and off everything went.  He would pour corn in the top and corn meal would come out one end.”

Joseph Burton Calhoun at work on the farm, circa 1955. (Image courtesy of I. Mitchell Calhoun.A

Joseph Burton Calhoun at work on the farm, circa 1955. Situated near Ray City, the farm was located within the boundaries of Lanier County, with the county seat at Lakeland, GA. (Image courtesy of I. Mitchell Calhoun.)

Ford automobile owned by Lueannie and Joseph Burton Calhoun, on the Calhoun Farm, 1955. (Image courtesy of I. Mitchell Calhoun)

Ford automobile owned by Lue Annie and Joseph Burton Calhoun, on the Calhoun Farm, 1955. (Image courtesy of I. Mitchell Calhoun)

 
Calhoun Farm, aerial view.

Calhoun Farm, aerial view. (Image courtesy of I. Mitchell Calhoun)

Special thanks to Mitchell Calhoun for the contribution of images and content for this post, and to Wilburn Thomas (Tom) Boyette for additional input.

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The Marriage of Joe Calhoun and Lue Annie Boyett

October 26, 2011 at 12:12 am (Boyett Family, Bullard Family, Calhoun Family)
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Lue Annie Boyette, born May 27, 1899 was the only daughter of Mary Jane Sirmans and John Boyett,  subject of previous posts. Her father was a large landowner with a farm near Ray City in Berrien County.

Luannie Boyette & Joseph Burton Calhoun of Ray City, GA, 1919. Image courtesy of I. Mitcchell Calhoun.

Lue Annie Boyett & Joseph Burton Calhoun of Ray City, GA, 1919. Image courtesy of I. Mitchell Calhoun.

Lue Annie married Joseph Burton Calhoun on March 4, 1918 in Berrien County, GA.  She was a bride of 19; he was a 26 year-old groom, of medium height and build, blue eyed and blond haired.

http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/u?/countyfilm,190170

Joseph Burton Calhoun, in army uniform, 1819.

Joseph Burton Calhoun, in army uniform, 1819. Image courtesy of I. Mitchell Calhoun.

Joseph Burton Calhoun was a son of Samuel Augustus “Gus” Calhoun and Rachel B. Bullard, born and raised in Rays Mill, GA (nka Ray City). Prior to marriage he had been living in Moultrie, GA where in 1917, he was employed by J.M. Bryan as a mechanic.

In 1918, the newlyweds were separated by the Great War, as Joe entered service in the U.S. Army. (Joseph Burton Calhoun ~ WWI Soldier)

Lue Annie and Joseph first made their home in Ray City, where they were enumerated in the 1920 census. Joseph continued his trade as an auto mechanic, now working on his own account. They had a house right on Main Street, where Lue Annie cared for their children, Alberta and Joseph B., Jr.

Enumeration of Luannie Boyette and Joseph Burton Calhoun, 1920, Ray City, GA

Enumeration of Lou Annie Boyette and Joseph Burton Calhoun, 1920, Ray City, GA

By the Census of 1930, Joseph and Lue Annie Calhoun had moved to Orlando, FL. There, Joseph Burton Calhoun continued his profession as an automobile mechanic. Lue Annie kept house and raised their three children.

Enumeration of Joseph and Luannie Calhoun, 1930 Census, 1403 South Division St., Orlando, FL

Enumeration of Joseph and Lou Annie Calhoun, 1930 Census, 1403 South Division St., Orlando, FL

http://www.archive.org/stream/15thcensuspopula326unit#page/n1083/mode/1up

In 1935, the Calhoun’s owned a home at 4074 35th Ave N. in St. Petersburg, FL. Joseph worked as a service station attendant.

Enumeration of Joseph B. and Luannie Boyette Calhoun, 1935 Florida State Census, St. Petersburg, FL.

Enumeration of Joseph B. and Lue Annie Boyette Calhoun, 1935 Florida State Census, St. Petersburg, FL.

When Lue Annie’s father,  John Boyett,  died in 1938, his estate was divided among his nine children. His only daughter, Lue Annie Boyett Calhoun, inherited just over 100 acres of the family farm. Lue Annie and her husband moved from Florida back to the farm near Ray City, GA.

For the next 3o years, Lue Annie and Joe raised their children and crops on the Calhoun farm. They were well known citizens of the Ray City and Lakeland area. They were members of the Ray City Baptist Church and the Lakeland Parent-Teacher Association. Joe was a member of  Masonic Lodge #434, and a member of the committee that oversaw the construction of a new Lodge Hall at Lakeland, GA in the 1940s.

Joseph Burton Calhoun died in 1972 and was buried at Beaver Dam Cemetery in Ray City. For fifteen more years Lue Annie continued to live on the Calhoun Farm, but 1987 she returned to Florida to live out her final years.  She died in 1993 in Winter Garden, FL.  She was laid to rest at Beaver Dam Cemetery next to her husband.

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Family of Gus Calhoun, Berrien County, GA

October 6, 2011 at 10:24 pm (Bullard Family, Calhoun Family)
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Ray City farmer Samuel Augustus  “Gus” Calhoun, subject of previous post (Gus Calhoun, Ray City Farmer), was from boyhood a lifelong resident of the Ray City area. He was born May 25, 1868, a son of Elizabeth Bell and Joseph Calhoun.

Gus Calhoun married Rachel Bullard on May 19, 1891 in Lowndes County, GA.  She was a daughter of Mack Bullard and Luvellia Ray, and a niece of Green Bullard.  The Calhouns made their home in the Cat Creek community,  located about 10 miles southeast of Ray City in Lowndes County, GA (Census of 1900.)

Samuel Augustus Calhoun and Rachel Bullard, circa 1907. Image courtesy of Irvin Mitchell Calhoun.

Samuel Augustus Calhoun and Rachel Bullard, circa 1907. Image courtesy of Irvin Mitchell Calhoun.

By 1910 Gus Calhoun had moved his wife and children a few miles north to Ray’s Mill (nka Ray City), Berrien County, GA where he rented a farm next to his father-in-law, Mack Bullard.

Children of Samuel Augustus Calhoun and Rachel Bullard:

  1. Joseph Burton Calhoun (December 10, 1892  – February 23, 1972) married Lue Annie Boyette
  2. Lizzie Bell Calhoun (1895 – )
  3. Mack  Calhoun (1897 – )
  4. Robert Lee  Calhoun (1899 –  )
  5. Gussie  Calhoun (1900 – )
  6. James Dewey  Calhoun (June 22, 1904 – November 3, 1980) married Mary Elizabeth Brogdon
  7. Lula  Calhoun (1904 – )
  8. Cola L.  Calhoun (1906 – )
  9. Max Nathan Calhoun (1910-1970)
  10. Charles Birch Calhoun (1913-1995)
Rachel Bullard and Samuel Augustus Calhoun family, circa 1907. The 1910 census records show the Calhouns living at Ray City, Berrien County, GA during this time.The original photo was discovered in the attic of James Dewey Calhoun, Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Brogdon. About 1996, Irvin Mitchell Calhoun, great grandson of Samuel Augustus Calhoun had the photo professionally restored.

Rachel Bullard and Samuel Augustus Calhoun family, circa 1907. The 1910 census records show the Calhouns living at Ray City, Berrien County, GA during this time. The original photo was discovered in the attic of James Dewey Calhoun, Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Brogdon. About 1996, Irvin Mitchell Calhoun, great grandson of Samuel Augustus Calhoun had the photo professionally restored.

Rachel Bullard Calhoun died in 1935 and was buried at Beaver Dam Cemetery, Ray City, GA.  Shortly thereafter, Gus Calhoun retired from active farming and for a while lived with his grandson, Philip Burkhalter, at Ray City. They were neighbors of Effie Knight and Lucy Guthrie. Later Gus moved  to the property of his son, Joseph Burton Calhoun, near Ray City.

The family photo above  brings family memories to Irvin Mitchell Calhoun, great grandson of Samuel Augustus Calhoun:

My grandfather (Joseph Burton Calhoun, Sr.) is the teenage boy standing up the center of the photo. .. I remember Grandpa Gus living with my grandparents (Joseph Burton Calhoun, Sr. & Lue Annie Boyett) on their farm on Boyett Road in the latter years of his life.  I was born in 1941 so this must have been in the early to mid 1940s.

They built a small one room shack out back of the house and he lived out there.  We boys use to visit him often out there.   He was always doing things with us.

Samuel Augustus “Gus” Calhoun died January 5, 1957.  The funeral services were held at Ray City Baptist Church and was buried at Beaver Dam Cemetery.

Obituary of Samuel Augustus Calhoun (1868-1957) of Berrien County, GA. Image courtesy of I. Mitchell Calhoun.

Obituary of Samuel Augustus Calhoun (1868-1957) of Berrien County, GA. Image courtesy of I. Mitchell Calhoun.

Lakeland, Lanier County, GA
Jan 9, 1957
S.A. Calhoun Dies at 89 in Lakeland

    S.A. (Gus) Calhoun, 89, died Sunday afternoon at the home of his grandson, J.S. Gaskins, in the Allenville community of Berrien County after being in declining health for several weeks. 
    He was a native of North Carolina, but came to South Georgia as a boy and lived here all of his life.  Until his retirement some 20 years ago, he farmed in this area. He was a member at the Ray City Baptist Church.
    Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Brantley of Nashville, Mrs. Gussie Clark of Eloise, Fla. and Mrs. Lula Gaskins of Nashville; six sons C. B. Calhoun of Jacksonville, Fla. J. B. Calhoun of Lakeland, J. D. Calhoun and Mack Calhoun, both of Nashville, M. N. Calhoun of Winterhaven, Fla., and R. L. Calhoun of Jacksonville; 32 grand children; 50 great-grandchildren; and a number of nieces and nephews.
    Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 at the Ray City Baptist Church with Rev. G. C. Tuten officiating.

Special thanks to I. Mitch Calhoun for his research on Calhoun Family history , and for contributing images and content to this post.

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