Moses Calhoun

Brief biography

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Moses Calhoun was a favored house slave of the famed Calhoun political family (Andrew Bonaparte Calhoun, MD). The end of the Civil War found Moses flourishing with entrepreneurial flair in multiple businesses. Moses rose to the top of Atlanta’s black community. He saw to it that his daughters and niece were well educated and went to college. There, W. E. B. Dubois had his heart broken by the beautiful Cora Calhoun, who chose Edwin Horne, instead.

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Origins

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Nellie Reynolds, daughter of Sinai Reynolds, was born into slavery in 1809. Her family's enslaver was Dr. Andrew Bonaparte ("A.B.") Calhoun, a relative of former vice president John C. Calhoun. Nellie served as a nursemaid and bookkeeper on Calhoun's plantation in Newnan, Georgia. Upon Dr. Calhoun's death he left Nellie land on his property.

The father of her children Moses and Sinai ("Sinie") was allegedly William Ezzard, the mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.

Moses Calhoun from tree Kim Roper Family Tree Record information.
Birth 1833 Newnan, Coweta, Georgia, USA
Marriage 1865
Residence 1880 Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA
Death 1890 Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, USA
Record information.
Father Andrew Bonaparte Calhoun (1809-1897) [NO]
Mother Nellie REYNOLDS (1810-1897)
Spouse Atlanta Mary Fernando (1845-1919)
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References

• “The Hornes: An American Family.” By Gail Lumet Buckley (2002) page 15. <GoogleBooks>
• “The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American ...” By Gail Lumet Buckley (2016). <GoogleBooks> “Judge William Ezzard may very well have been Moses Calhoun’s father also.”
• THE HISTORY: LIFE & LEGACY OF COWETA’S 1ST DOCUMENTED SLAVES – SINAI AND HENRY REYNOLDS (2021) By Emily Kimbell, The Newnan-Coweta Historical Society <link>