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In 1869, four years after the ending of the [[American Civil War]], Calhoun died while in [[Paris]], [[France]]. Mrs. Calhoun died some two years later on June 11, 1871. Their son, Willie Calhoun, became like his maternal grandfather, a state senator who worked to establish Grant Parish separate from the more populous Rapides Parish to the south.<ref name=lahist/><ref>''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', in its article on Calhoun, uses as sources the ''Red River Republican'', ''Red River Democrat,'' and ''The Times Shreveport Time,''  Rapides and Grant parish courthouse records; United States Census reports, and Mary Fletcher Harrison and Lavina McGuire McNeely, ''Grant Parish, Louisiana, A History'' (1969).</ref>​

In 1869, four years after the ending of the [[American Civil War]], Calhoun died while in [[Paris]], [[France]]. Mrs. Calhoun died some two years later on June 11, 1871. Their son, Willie Calhoun, became like his maternal grandfather, a state senator who worked to establish Grant Parish separate from the more populous Rapides Parish to the south.<ref name=lahist/><ref>''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', in its article on Calhoun, uses as sources the ''Red River Republican'', ''Red River Democrat,'' and ''The Times Shreveport Time,''  Rapides and Grant parish courthouse records; United States Census reports, and Mary Fletcher Harrison and Lavina McGuire McNeely, ''Grant Parish, Louisiana, A History'' (1969).</ref>​

===Calhoun and Simon Legree===​

===Calhoun and Simon Legree===

 

Reports surfaced long after Calhoun's demise that he had been the model of the cruel slaveholder, Simon Legree, in [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s 1852 [[novel]] ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]].'' In 1896, William Hugh Robarts claimed that Stowe, by then deceased, had told him in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], that the Legree character was based on Calhoun. According to Robarts, Stowe never met Calhoun, but she was told of his plantation on the Red River by a [[Mississippi River]] pilot originally from [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/articles/n2ar19dtt.html|title=Model for Mrs. Stowe: Meredith Calhoun Was the Original Cruel Simon Legree, His Red River Plantation|publisher=iath.virginia.edu|accessdate=December 24, 2010}}</ref>​

Reports surfaced long after Calhoun's demise that he had been the model of the cruel slaveholder, Simon Legree, in [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]'s 1852 [[novel]] ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]].'' In 1896, William Hugh Robarts claimed that Stowe, by then deceased, had told him in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], that the Legree character was based on Calhoun. According to Robarts, Stowe never met Calhoun, but she was told of his plantation on the Red River by a [[Mississippi River]] pilot originally from [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/articles/n2ar19dtt.html|title=Model for Mrs. Stowe: Meredith Calhoun Was the Original Cruel Simon Legree, His Red River Plantation|publisher=iath.virginia.edu|accessdate=December 24, 2010}}</ref>​