I found the following Obit in the Mobile Geneology Library while on a recent visit: Died at Whistler, September 8th, 1862, in his 26th year, of typhoid fever, Fernando O. Lacoste, Sergeant in Haynie's Battery. (Omitting poem here) He leaves a fond mother, loving sisters and brothers, and a large circle of friends to mourn his irreparable loss.- Though he left bright evidence behind him that he had been transplanted from a world filled with cares and suffring to regions of never-ending bliss, yet naught on earth can heal the wound his family have recieved, save, "Time, the Great Consoler, and Religion, the Devine Comforter." (Omit another poem here) A Friend I found what I thought was this same Fernando Lacoste in the Mobile 1860 census living with a boy of 6 John Lacoste. That John Lacoste was my gg-grandfather. Now I don't know who Fernando is. Was he the father? and if so, why not mentioned in the obit? John Lester Lacoste named one of his sons Fernando so I believe there is a connection. Did his family reject his selction of wife, or did he not marry the mother of his child, or did he take in an orphan that he adopted? .....Does anyone have anything on the Lacoste family of Mobile and Baldwin? Charlene Moore Sugar Land,TX