Floride Calhoun
BIRTH
Feb 15, 1792
Charleston, South Carolina
DEATH
July 25, 1866
Pendleton, South Carolina
FAMILY
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Calhoun, Floride
(1792-1866)
Floride Calhoun (1792-1866) was a social hostess and the spouse of John C. Calhoun. John C. Calhoun was a public official whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Floride Calhoun to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. Born after the Revolutionary War, this person belonged to the next generation that inherited, preserved, and interpreted the political and family legacy of independence. Born in Charleston, South Carolina and later dying in Pendleton, South Carolina, the course of this life reflects the movement of Revolutionary-era families across colonial, national, and sometimes Atlantic settings. Including Floride Calhoun in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
John C. Calhoun
(1782-1850)
Andrew Pickens Calhoun
(1811-1865)
Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson
(1817-1875)
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DIED:
Pendleton, South Carolina
Jul 25, 1866
Floride Calhoun was born on Feb 15, 1792 in Charleston, South Carolina. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Floride Calhoun with work or public activity as a hostess. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Floride Calhoun died on Jul 25, 1866 in Pendleton, South Carolina. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.