Caroline Rebecca married Robert H. Mounce before she turned 15 and had her first child before she turned 16. This child was born “near Island Ford, South Carolina.” 7 Island Ford was a shallow place where the Saluda River could be crossed. More than one shallow place with this name existed. 8 The Island Ford in question probably was near Secondary State Route 397. Calhoun Road E is quite close to this road. Now inundated by Lake Greenwood, this Island Ford likely was nearest her birthplace. 9 William Calhoun had settled in the vicinity of this Island Ford in the 18 th century. His children established a settlement that bore the family name. He “left a considerable estate at his death in 1833.” 10 As a boy, Caroline Rebecca’s husband possibly lived near the Calhoun settlement. He apparently admired William Calhoun. Caroline Rebecca and her husband named their fourth child for him. 11 Caroline Rebecca and her husband lived in Newberry District in 1850. He was a tailor. Their oldest child and Caroline Rebecca’s mother and Osborn half-sister Elizabeth lived with them. 12 The entire household moved to Greenwood in 1850 or 1851. 13 Quite soon after arriving, Caroline Rebecca probably joined the Methodist women’s group who later founded Greenwood Methodist Church, invited by Eliza Osborn, her Redmond half-sister, and Emily Osborn, another Osborn half-sister. Please see Chapter Two, Emily Osborn, Trees, Elizabeth Holliday and Samuel Osborn, Andrew Redmond and Unknown, Elizabeth (Holliday) Osborn and Andrew Redmond Caroline Rebecca accepted the women’s group’s invitation to join probably because early in life, and on more than one occasion, she likely 7 Walker to Motes, Mounce family group record, 9 May 1992. 8 Margaret Watson, Greenwood County Sketches: Old Roads and Early Families (Greenwood, South Carolina: the Attic Press, Inc., 1970), 38, 41-43. 9 DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer: South Carolina , 4 th ed. (Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme, 2010), 34. 10 Watson, Greenwood Co. Sketches , 177-181, 230-231. 11 Walker to Motes, Mounce family group record, 9 May 1992. Also, Rock Presbyterian Church Cemetery (Greenwood, S.C.), “Our Little Calhoun” [William Calhoun Mounce] marker. 12 1850 U.S. census, Newberry District, South Carolina, population schedule, p. 193B, dwelling 146, family 146, R.H. Mounce; digital image, Ancestry.com (access through participating libraries : 16 September 2015); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 856. 13 Walker to Motes, letter and Mounce family group record, 9 May 1992.
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