Hore Browse Trist
Hore Browse Trist (1802–1856) was the second son of Mary Louisa Brown and Hore Browse Trist, and was known as "Browse" to his family. He was born in Virginia on March 19, 1802. That same year, his father was appointed by Thomas Jefferson to the post of customs collector in Natchez, Louisiana Territory. Browse Trist, his mother, and older brother Nicholas Philip Trist initially remained behind in Virginia, then joined him in Louisiana in 1803. Unfortunately, Hore Browse Trist, Sr., died of yellow fever in 1804. Mary Brown Trist later married Philip Livingston Jones, a lawyer who enrolled Nicholas and Browse in school in New Orleans. Jones died about 1810 and Mary Brown Trist Jones then married St. Julien Tournillon, a wealthy cotton and sugar planter.
As an adult, Browse Trist managed “Bowden,” the family sugar plantation in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, and maintained a correspondence with Nicholas Trist. He married Marie Élizabeth Rosella Bringier and they had five children, four of whom survived to adulthood. Nicholas Trist assisted Browse Trist with the education of his sons Nicholas Browse, Julien, and Nicholas Philip. Browse died on November 16, 1856, in Louisiana.
Further Sources
- “Descendance aux États-Unis des Du Bourg de Sainte-Colombe.” Généalogie et Histoire de la Caraÿbe Bulletin 84 (July-August 1996): 1687.
- Wells, Jane Flaherty. “Thomas Jefferson’s Neighbors: Hore Browse Trist of ‘Birdwood’ and Dr. William Bache of ‘Franklin.’” The Magazine of Albemarle County History 47 (1989): 1-13.