![]() ![]() For several years, she traveled with her mother. When Horne was five, she was sent to live in Georgia. Horne was raised mainly by her grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne. Edna's maternal grandmother, Amelie Louise Ashton, was from modern Senegal. Her mother, Edna Louise Scottron, was an actress with a black theatre troupe and traveled extensively. ![]() (1893–1970), at one time owner of a hotel and restaurant, was a gambler- he and "his partner, the gambler and philanthropist Gus Greenlee, owned the Belmont Hotel on Wylie Avenue and ran the numbers racket in the Hill"- who left the family when Lena was three years old and moved to an upper-middle-class African American community in the Hill District community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Lena came to live with him aged 18 until her marriage the next year. Her father, Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne Jr. Calhoun family his nephew, Dr Andrew Bonaparte Calhoun, "owned the slaves whose descendants include. She was reportedly descended from the John C. She belonged to the upper stratum of middle-class, well-educated black people. Both sides of her family were African American though with a mixture of African, Native American, and European ancestry. Lena Horne was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
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