Source: The Louisiana Genealogical Register, March 1989, pp. 88 - 94.
Contributed by Wilbur E. Meneray
Age 77 Years Old
Native of England∼Samuel Hyams, a native of England, died on 30 May 1843 at the residence of his son Samuel M. Hyams in Natchitoches, Louisiana, aged seventy-seven years, and was buried at Gates of Mercy Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana.
His wife, Miriam (Levy) Hyams; a son, Moses Kosciusko Hyams; and two daughters, Judith Hyams and Eliza (Hyams) Marks, preceded him in death. Five children survived him: Caroline (Hyams) Labatt, Henry Michael Hyams, Eleazer Levy Hyams, Samuel Myers Hyams, and Andrew Jackson Hyams.
Sources include:
"JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR)," Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1411/ ), entry for Samuel Hyams, 30 May 1843, Gates of Mercy Cemetery (New Orleans, La.), section 1, row 1A.
Source: The Louisiana Genealogical Register, March 1989, pp. 88 - 94.
Contributed by Wilbur E. Meneray
Age 77 Years Old
Native of England∼Samuel Hyams, a native of England, died on 30 May 1843 at the residence of his son Samuel M. Hyams in Natchitoches, Louisiana, aged seventy-seven years, and was buried at Gates of Mercy Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana.
His wife, Miriam (Levy) Hyams; a son, Moses Kosciusko Hyams; and two daughters, Judith Hyams and Eliza (Hyams) Marks, preceded him in death. Five children survived him: Caroline (Hyams) Labatt, Henry Michael Hyams, Eleazer Levy Hyams, Samuel Myers Hyams, and Andrew Jackson Hyams.
Sources include:
"JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR)," Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1411/ ), entry for Samuel Hyams, 30 May 1843, Gates of Mercy Cemetery (New Orleans, La.), section 1, row 1A.
Gravesite Details
Gates of Mercy Cemetery was demolished in the 1950s. None of its gravestones survive.