Ezekiel Pickens Noble and Sarah Margaret (Calhoun) Noble

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9 Apr

Ezekiel Pickens Noble was born in Abbeville, South Carolina on December 2, 1817, and he was the son of the Governor of the state, Patrick Calhoun Noble, and his wife, Elizabeth Bonneau Pickens. Ezekiel lived on the family plantation near what is now Willington, South Carolina, and studied law at South Carolina College and Princeton University. Ezekiel married his third cousin, Sarah Margaret Calhoun.

Sarah Margaret was born in Abbeville on February 18, 1821. She was the daughter of William Calhoun and Catherine Jenner DeGraffenreid and the niece of John C. Calhoun — Vice president of the United States.

Ezekiel and Sarah Margaret Noble were members of the old Willington Presbyterian Church in the Abbeville District, South Carolina. But before the Civil War, they left Abbeville, SC and purchased a plantation near Tallahatchia, Mississippi.

After living in luxury all their lives, Ezekiel and Sarah Noble lost all their wealth in the Civil War. Two of Ezekiel’s brothers had settled in Hallettsville, Texas, and in about 1866, Ezekiel and Sarah Noble moved with their eleven children into a one room log cabin in nearby Hope, Texas. However, Ezekiel Noble’s family finally settled in Sweet Home, Texas which is even closer to Hallettsville. Ezekiel Noble and his wife, Sarah, are buried in the Bennett Cemetery in tiny, Sweet Home, Texas near the towns of Hope, Hallettsville, and Victoria in south-east, Texas.

Map Location: 53 (J/21)

Below is a list of the children of Ezekiel Pickens Noble and his wife, Sarah Margaret Calhoun.