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| SUSANNA CLAY DURALDE
Susanna Clay Duralde was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1805. Her father, Henry Clay, was just starting his political career; he would eventually serve as Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senator, and U. S. Secretary of State. In 1822, she married New Orleanian Martin Duralde and started a family in the Crescent City. In 1825 Mrs. Duralde succumbed to yellow fever, one of forty-nine victims in New Orleans that year. An extended obituary in the Washington Gazette (reprinted in the Louisiana State Gazette, November 19, 1825) noted that “From paternal example, an excellent systematic education, and the advantages of select society, it may be safely affirmed, she was the model of her sex.” |
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A portion of the 1830 inventory of Susanna Clay Duralde’s estate, comprised of community property with her husband. Their plantation lay in what is now the Lower Ninth Ward in the general vicinity of the Steamboat Houses. The property just below that of the Duraldes belonged to Claude Tremé, who had moved there with his family after selling his larger plantation to the City of New Orleans—the area now known as Tremé.
(Inventory Suzannah Clay, Wife of Duralde. Orleans Parish Court of Probates, 1830) |