Genealogy:
A Journal of American Ancestry
By William Montgomery Clemens, Lyman Horace Weeks
Published by W.M. Clemens, 1918
Louisiana Tombstones Inscriptions from the old St. Louis cemetery, New Orleans, La.
John C. Wheeler, son of Captain John Wheeler, of Boston. Died Dec 26, 1819. Aet. 13.
Joseph Lawrence, departed this life August 1, 1811, aged 23 years and 7 months. On the 22d
John Gardner, of Salem, Mass., departed this life, September 22, 1817, aged about 25 years.
Charles G. Watkins, son of John W., and Judith Watkins, of New York City. He was first officer of the ship Othello, merchantman of the place, actively engaged in the line of duty touching this port. In the bloom of manhood, the strongest hold of human life, he fell a victim to the yellow fever and in three days was summoned at the bar of an Omnipotent Judge on the 14th of November, 1817, aged 24 years.
Miss Eliza Forsyth, who was born in New London, Conn., on the 12th of September, 1806, and died in New Orleans the 4th of October, 1820.
W. Donaldson. He was president of the Planters' Bank. Born in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia. Died, 1813, aged 62 years.
Thomas Slaughter, who was born in the town of Beeding, in Sussex, England, and was drowned in the Mississippi River, May 21, 1811, aged 41 years.