1. Rebecca, daughter of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean Ewing, was not Rebecca Floride Calhoun. The given name Floride did not appear in the Calhoun family until Rebecca Calhoun’s brother John Ewing Colhoun married Floride Bonneau in 1786, forty-one years after Rebecca Calhoun was born.

Yes, I’m fully aware that lots of published work and family trees about Rebecca Calhoun and Andrew Pickens give her the middle name Floride. But they’re wrong. That French name was not found in the Ulster Scots Calhoun family from which Rebecca descends until Rebecca’s brother John married a woman of Huguenot descent in Charleston who had that name. I’ve never seen a bona fide document that gives Rebecca Calhoun any name other than plain Rebecca. (And, by the way, Rebecca’s husband Andrew Pickens was not a Huguenot. The Pickens family is Scottish just like the Calhoun family is, and came to the U.S. from Ireland, as Andrew Pickens says in an 1811 letter I cited in the posting linked above.)

2. And this is not Rebecca Calhoun Pickens, though one online family tree after another will tell you it is:

Floride Bonneau Colhoun was Rebecca Calhoun’s niece. How and why so many people have decided to take a portrait of Rebecca’s niece and place it in their family trees with claims that the portrait is a portrait of Rebecca Calhoun Pickens is beyond my ability to fathom.