Calcote family history begins with Hercules Calcote, born 1640, died 1684, who by family tradition was said to have served Oliver Cromwell, Pretender to the throne of England. By the 1670s, he was in Isle of Wight, Virginia. He was a participant in Bacon's Rebellion, for which activity his property was confiscated following the rebellion. Calcote Family Journey, a well-documented history of the Calcote family by Frances Calcote Brite, published 1997, traces the various branches of the Calcote family descended from Hercules. Joyce's Louisiana Calcote line is from Dicy Ann Calcote, wife of Isaiah Parker, and daughter of William Cade Calcote, born 1797 in South Carolina, died 1873 in Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.