Charles Clayton Calhoun was the son of Uriah Calhoun and Mildred Elizabeth 'Minnie' Taylor Calhoun. On 03-11-1886 he married Rosa Lee Barnhill in Graves County KY. This was Rosa's home and Charles had lived there before moving with his family to Missouri around 1880. They were the parents of five children that survived infancy. They were Bertie age 13, Addie age 9, Charles age 7, Mary Alice age 4 and Beulah 2 mo. Charles and Rosa had more children between their first and second child who did not live.

On 04-15-1900 Rosa Lee Barnhill Calhoun died of "Typhoid fever", 10 days later on 04-25-1900 her husband Charles Calhoun died of the same "fever". There were 5 children left to be taken care of by relatives. Bertie and her sister Beulah who was 2 mo. old went to live with Laura Calhoun Edwards and her husband John Edwards. Laura had been married for 7 years and did not have any children. Laura was a sister of Charles Calhoun, Bertie & Beulah's father. Bertie was 13 and went to live with Laura to help take care of Beulah. Laura would later have two sons in 1903 & 1906. Before 1906 when Bertie was married, she went to live with her mother's sister Elizabeth Barnhill Ahlfield and her husband Charles.

Charles and sister Mary Alice went to live with Elizabeth Barnhill Ahlfield when their parents died. By the 1910 Census they are living with Bertie and her family. Addie Calhoun went to live with Hillory and Susan Summers Calhoun. Hillory and his brother George (Susan's first husband) were brothers of Addie's father Charles Calhoon. My grandfather Alvie Madison Calhoun was the son of George and Susan Summers Calhoun. He and Addie were the same age and she would continue to live with his family in Missouri and later in Arkansas until she married. When Hillory Calhoun and his children moved to Arkansas in 1912 they changed the spelling of their last name to Calhoon.(Betty Rogers Phillips)