Person:Briscoe Stuart (1)

Briscoe Baldwin Stuart, Esq.

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m. Bef 1836

Facts and Events

Name^[1]^[2]	Briscoe Baldwin Stuart, Esq.
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[2]	22 Apr 1836	Staunton, Virginia, United States"eldest son"
Death^[1]^[2]	8 May 1859	Mississippi, United Statesage 23 - died from burns received during a Mississippi steamboat explosion while on the way to consummate his engagement
Burial^[1]		Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, Virginia, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Briscoe Baldwin Stuart, in Find A Grave.

[includes headstone photos. Inscription: ss w/A H H Stuart. Children of Alex. & Frances C Stuart]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Briscoe Baldwin Stuart, in Waddell, Joseph A. (Joseph Addison). Annals of Augusta County, Virginia: with reminiscences illustrative of the vicissitudes of its pioneer settlers biographical sketches of citizens locally prominent, and of those who have founded families in the southern and western states : a diary of the war, 1861-'5, and a chapter on reconstruction by Joseph Addison Waddell. (Staunton, Virginia: C.R. Caldwell, 1902)
p 372.

... The eldest, Briscoe Baldwin Stuart, called for his maternal grandfather, Judge Briscoe G. Baldwin, was a lawyer of great promise. He was about to marry a young lady of Louisiana, and in 1859, while on his way to consummate the engagement, the Mississippi steamboat, on which he was a passenger, was blown up, and he was so badly scalded that he died in a short time. His age was only twenty-three. ...