Stirling Family Cemetery; Franklin, St Marys Parish, La
Transcribed and submitted by Jacob Simon on March 8, 2003
Email: jsimon4@bellsouth.net
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Stirling, William
Aug 1792
Jul 1842
Born at Bayou Sara , La. “Every living thing, ‘tis true, must perish; Our lives are but our marches to
our graves”. The
next four graves are of his and Eppy Hall Stirling and his grandson.

Sterling, Catherine
18 Nov. 1827
18 Nov. 1827
Suffer the little children and forbid them not to come unto me, for such is the kingdom of heaven”.

Stirling, Louisa Baker
20 Feb. 1831
2 Sept 1842
“Early bright transient. Chaste as morning dew. She sparkled, was exhaled (?) and went to heaven."

Stirling, Lewis
18 Mar 1840
31 Jan 1858
He died of an epidemic fever while a student at the University of Virginia. He was Buried here 10 Feb.
1858 by loving
kindred. His gravestone reads; “Poor Lewis, kind, gentle, generous, unselfish: Too early taken from
those who loved him and
who cherish so fondly the memory of his many virtues and flattering promise of manly usefulness. It
matters not how long we
live, but how. Cease ye mourning, cease to languish O’er the graves of those you love: Pain and death
and night and anguish
enter not the world above”.

Stirling, Ann
21 June l838
22 Dec 1838
(approx. born and died in 1838) (stone broken, information incomplete)

Palfrey, Freddie, Jr.
1862
1867
Freddie Palfrey, Jr. is the grandson son of William Stirling and Eppy Hall Stirling. He is the son of
Frederick Conrad
Palfrey and Mary Frances Stirling Palfrey.