Charlotte Hoggatt Brandon Peirce

Nov 14 , 1847 - Apr 3, 1885

Young Charlotte was six years of age when her family moved into the newly completed Brandon Hall with her parents and remaining siblings.

Charlotte died in 1885, twenty-three years after the last of her young siblings had been laid to rest here. Atop her grave is a cross that reads "Mother". She was 38 years-old at the time of her death and living in Concordia Parish, Louisiana.

Charlotte married Joseph Caldwell Peirce, a man from West Virginia, on May 4, 1870 and they had four children: Geraldine Brandon Peirce (b. 1871), Philip Brandon Peirce (b. 1873), Joseph Caldwell Peirce, Jr. (b. 1875), and Mary Brandon Peirce (b. 1878).

From what I have been able to find, none of the Peirce children had children of their own, though I have not been able to find any information on the daughter who purchased her mother's headstone.

Inscription

CHARLOTTE H. B. PEIRCE
BORN NOV. 14, 1847 DIED ON GOOD FRIDAY APR. 3, 1885

She rests in hope of the blessed Easter

Back of Headstone:

FROM HER DAUGHTER MARY BRANDON PEIRCE

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