"Henry I. Egan" family memorial Metairie Cemetery, Orleans Parish, Louisiana submitted: Debbie-Lee Hadsall DeLerno Photos at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/orleans/cemmetare.htm ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** source: photograph taken and text copied from inscriptions 9/9/2001 section 57, called "Ruined Castle", made out of Tennessee marble (above front arch) "Sic itur as astra" ("Thus to the stars) (marker on the back wall of the castle) In Memory of Bentinck Egan Who died Dec. 27, 1881 And his brothers Walter Frederock Yelverton Henry Augustus The Good Sons of Dr. J. S. Egan and L. M. Yelverton Mother died 1884 Father died 1891 (on floor stone covering a crypt) Lieutenant Colonel Henry I. Egan Killed at Amelia Springs, Va. While in command of Sharpshooters, Gordon's Division, Covering Retreat of Lee's Army April 6, 1865, Aged 24 years. Dr. Yelverton B. Egan Killed at the Battle of Sharpsburg September 17, 1863, aged 24 years. Letitia M. Yelverton Egan Their mother Died in London England 1884 Mary Louisa Egan Only daughter of James and Letitia Egan Died Dec. 26, 1920 Buried with them in Fulham Cemetery, London Cecilia Maria Egan Died Jan. 2, 1941 Frederick Egan and his wife Julia Wilkinson Egan (inscription on the back of the building) BENTINCK