Henry Izard

Birth: May 15, 1771, At Sea Death: Dec. 30, 1826 Goose Creek Berkeley County South Carolina, USA

Born at sea, taken by his parents to England and brought up and educated there and in Paris. Rebuilt the Elms house, which had been burnt after his father's death, and entertained the Marquis de LaFayette there on his second visit to America. He married first Emma Philadelphia Middleton (dau of Arthur Middleton) who died 1 May 1813. He married second Claudia Smith "Family events omitted ...dreadful suicide of Mr Izard" Autobiography of Eliza Clitherall, #158, Southern Historical Collection, U of NC, Chapel Hill NC "Mrs Middleton Smith...I heard from her with dreadful minuteness the circumstances of Mr I's [Izard] death: & I know not when my heart will be done aching...Let the sad fate of H I warn all who knew him of the danger of indulging in plans too magnificent for their income -- of the danger, of the immorality of incurring debts beyond a reasonable prospect of payment." The Ariel Abbot Journals... John Hammond Moore, ed South Carolina Historical Magazine 68:146-147

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Parents:

 Ralph Izard (1742 - 1804)

 Alice DeLancey Izard (1748 - 1832)

Spouses:

 Claudia Smith Izard (1768 - 1855)*

 Emma Philadelphia Middleton Izard (1776 - 1813)*

Children:

 Mary Izard Middleton (1798 - 1822)*

Siblings:

 Margaret Izard Manigault (1768 - 1824)*

 Henry Izard (1771 - 1826)

 George Izard (1776 - 1828)*

 Eliza Izard PINCKNEY (1784 - 1862)*

 Ralph Delancey Izard (1785 - 1824)*

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Burial: Unknown

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Created by: Mary Record added: Feb 01, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 65038965

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Born at sea, taken by his parents to England and brought up and educated there and in Paris. Rebuilt the Elms house, which had been burnt after his father's death, and entertained the Marquis de LaFayette there on his second visit to America. He married first Emma Philadelphia Middleton (dau of Arthur Middleton) who died 1 May 1813. He married second Claudia Smith "Family events omitted ...dreadful suicide of Mr Izard" Autobiography of Eliza Clitherall, #158, Southern Historical Collection, U of NC, Chapel Hill NC "Mrs Middleton Smith...I heard from her with dreadful minuteness the circumstances of Mr I's [Izard] death: & I know not when my heart will be done aching...Let the sad fate of H I warn all who knew him of the danger of indulging in plans too magnificent for their income -- of the danger, of the immorality of incurring debts beyond a reasonable prospect of payment." The Ariel Abbot Journals... John Hammond Moore, ed South Carolina Historical Magazine 68:146-147