Description:

Samuel Gourdin memorial brooch, of Charleston interest circa 1821, ivory panel mounted on one side with lock of hair bundled with copper bands accented with seed pearls, opposing side painted with black curtain and inscribed: IN MEMORY OF SAML. GOURDIN ESQR WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 13TH JANUARY 1821 AGED 55 YEARS, encased within copper pendant.
Dia.2 1/8"

Provenance: Property descended in the prominent early Charleston, South Carolina Gourdin and Young families to present owner.
Henry Gourdin Young, (1909 -1989)
Joseph Rutledge Young (1880-1936)
Henry Edward Young (1831-1918)
Rebecca Ann Gourdin Young (1805-1881)
Samuel Gourdin (1766-1821)

Literature: Gourdin, Peter Gaillard. THE GOURDIN FAMILY. Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1980. pp.434-469. This locket illustrated beside p. 439.

For detailed accounts of the Gourdin Brothers and their family in Charleston see Racine, Philip N. GENTLEMEN MERCHANTS: A CHARLESTON FAMILY'S ODYSSEY, 1828-1870. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008.

Other Notes: Samuel Gourdin (1766-1821) was born at Turkey Hill, Red Clay Plantation in Williamsburg District, South Carolina. After the death of his parents he and his brother moved to Spring Plains Plantation in St. Johns Parish to live with their Uncle Peter Gourdin. He was educated in Charleston, Banff, Scotland and in England. In 1793 he married Mary Doughty. Together they had twelve children. He operated a plantation known as Buck Hall on the Cooper River and also had a plantation in part in St. Marks Parish and St. Matthews Parish. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives.

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