CALVERT STORIES

OUR CALVERT KIN
There are many legends that have been told of the arrival of the Calvert family in America. A few of the legends are as follows:
1. There were 3 brothers that came to America arriving in Tennessee. One of the brothers went to Alabama, one went to Everett, Kentucky and one stayed inTennessee.
2. There were 4 brothers that came to America arriving in Tennessee. One settled on Rock Creek in Walker County, Alabama, one went to Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, one went to Everett Kentucky, and one stayed in Tennessee.
3. There were 7 brothers that came to America from England or Ireland just before the start of the Revolutionary War. One brother became a Tory and went to Canada and the other brothers stayed in the colonies, going west over the mountains.
4. There were 4 brothers that came to America from Ireland and arrived in Tennessee. One stayed in Tennessee, two went to Madison County, Alabama and one went north.
5. The Calverts that went to Alabama were cousins, not brothers.

There is also a legend that says that the Calverts were descendants of Lord Baltimore Calvert. Census records show the Calverts were born in Tennessee Joseph Calvert is found in the Mississippi Territorial Papers. His name is found in the petition list of a group of white settlers who were in the Chicksaw Indian Lands illegally. These families purchased property there and planted crops. They petitioned the President of the United States to allow them to stay and harvest their crops. The President did not listen to their petition and they were forcibly removed from the land by United States Troops in 1810. The petition was dated September 5, 1810 in Mississippi Territory, Elk River, Sims’es Settlement.
The book “Our Calvert Kin” was written by Dewel Lott about three Calvert bothers, Joseph, William and Jonathan.
Joseph went to Madison County, Alabama about 1810. Deed records show that he Purchased land as an assignee of George Hallmark. He sold this land and left Madison County in 1819. Joseph bought land in Blount County, Alabama in 1824. Later that year he purchased land in Walker County. There is a stream that runs into Little Warrior River called the Calvert Prong which is named after the Joseph Calvert family.
William Calvert went to Madison County, Alabama before 1815. He bought land as an assignee of William Calvert (believed to be his father). A legend is that he left Tennessee and went to Alabama after a fight with another man. The story is the man shot at William and William hit the man with a hammer. He believed he had killed the man and left with his wife in the middle of the night for Alabama. He later learned that the man had not died afterall. He sold his land in Alabama about 1824 and moved to Ryan’s Creek in Walker County Alabama. After an outbreak of Typhoid Fever on Ryan’s Creek, he moved about five miles south of Brushy Pond Mountain where he died of Typhoid Fever in 1859.
Jonathan Calvert purchased land in Madison County, Alabama in 1815, also as an assignee of William Calvert. He sold this land about 1830 and lived in Walker County, Alabama for a short while. He moved from Walker County to Missouri and lived there until his death about 1871.

By Ruth Lewis

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