Death Notice for Don Miguel de Siderlo Eslava, Mobile & Montgomery, Alabama

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Death Notices From THE MONTGOMERY DAILY ADVERTISER

January 4, 1881:

On Thursday last the news reached the city from Spring Hill, that Don Miguel 
ESLAVA had breathed his last… Don Miguel de Siderlo ESLAVA was born in the 
city of Mobile on May 24, 1797.  He was the son of Don Miguel ESLAVA, who has 
been Royal Governor under the Spanish crown.  Young Miguel was educated at 
Bardstown, Kentucky, and in 1815 volunteered against the British.  A short time 
after he was sent to New Orleans to acquire a commercial education, and while 
there married in 1824 Louise de LANZOS, daughter of the Spanish ex-Governor Don 
Manuel de LANZOS.  After his marriage, he returned to Mobile to take charge of 
the first cotton press erected in this city… In 1867 he had the misfortune of 
losing his sight… for the last four years he was a guest in the household of 
his niece and sister-in-law, Celestine ESLAVA.  He was a strict and most fervent 
Catholic… He was buried from St. Joseph's Church, and his remains were taken 
to their last resting, followed by a large crowd of friends and relatives.  
-Mobile Register