>Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:00:06 -0500 >From: Betty Moreno <bemoreno@kctera.net> > >In response to message re: subject matter submitted by L.V. Hayes: > >Catherine Cole, buried in Cole Cemetery, I believe, was the daughter of >Napoleon Bonaparte Alston who was b Jan 15, 1814 and his wife Ann L. >Walker. This Napoleon had a dau Catherine b ca 1844, date from census >records, and she was their oldest child. From a now deceased cousin, he >said "Kit", as Catherine was called, possibly married a John Cole, his >parents unknown. > >I don't know who the S. Rigmaiden was. Can anyone furnish me a list of >the known children of Thomas Rigmaiden?? Betty, your comment about census records encouraged me to take another look at the 1850 Calcasieu census. The online transcription of this census, which I had been using before, has a Nassott Olston with a daughter Catherine, age 6, but I hadn't recorded this family in my gen database because I wasn't sure who Nassott was. I just checked the image of the actual census page, and the name is actually Napol Olston or Alston, the Napol being obviously an abbreviation of Napoleon. I believe Napol to be the Napoleon Bonaparte Alston, 1820-56, buried in Hagar Cemetery in Beauregard Parish. The known children of Thomas Rigmaiden and Eliza Ryan: 1) Thomas Edward (m. Eliza Marcantel) 2) Elizabeth (m. Eugene Vincent) 3) Mary Ann (m. Adolphe Escoubas) 4) James 5) Lucy (died young) 6) Henry 7) Catherine (m. Isaac Lang) 8) Albert (m. Caroline C. Hewitt) 9) John Jacob (m. Cleo ?) LV Hayes lvhayes@worldnet.att.net