Rebecca Lamar McLeod (1811-1891) was the daughter of Basil Lamar and the wife of General Hugh McLeod. In June 1838, as a young woman, she was aboard the steamship Pulaski when the vessel's boiler exploded and the ship sank off the coast of the Carolinas on its way to Baltimore, Maryland from Savannah, Georgia. Rebecca, her brother Gazaway B. Lamar and her nephew C.A.L. Lamar survived. Gazaway's wife, a cousin, and six of her nieces and nephews were lost. According to the introduction to the posthumous publication of her manuscript in the Georgia Historical Quarterly (1919), Rebecca McLeod did not intend for her writings to ever be published.
From the Georgia Historical Society Rebecca Lamar McLeod manuscript page https://www.jstor.org/stable/40575609?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
From the Georgia Historical Society Rebecca Lamar McLeod manuscript page https://www.jstor.org/stable/40575609?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Rebecca Lamar McLeod (1811-1891) was the daughter of Basil Lamar and the wife of General Hugh McLeod. In June 1838, as a young woman, she was aboard the steamship Pulaski when the vessel's boiler exploded and the ship sank off the coast of the Carolinas on its way to Baltimore, Maryland from Savannah, Georgia. Rebecca, her brother Gazaway B. Lamar and her nephew C.A.L. Lamar survived. Gazaway's wife, a cousin, and six of her nieces and nephews were lost. According to the introduction to the posthumous publication of her manuscript in the Georgia Historical Quarterly (1919), Rebecca McLeod did not intend for her writings to ever be published.
From the Georgia Historical Society Rebecca Lamar McLeod manuscript page https://www.jstor.org/stable/40575609?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
From the Georgia Historical Society Rebecca Lamar McLeod manuscript page https://www.jstor.org/stable/40575609?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Gravesite Details
, Date Of Burial : 01/20/1891, , Ref: Cemetery Records
Family Members
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