Hore Browse Trist

Hore Browse Trist (1802–1856) was the second son of Mary Louisa Brown and Hore Browse Trist, Sr., and was known as "Browse" to his family. He was born in Virginia on March 19, 1802. That same year, his father was appointed by Thomas Jefferson to the post of customs collector in Natchez, Louisiana Territory. Browse Trist, his mother, and older brother Nicholas Philip Trist initially remained behind in Virginia, then joined him in Louisiana in 1803. Unfortunately, Hore Browse Trist, Sr., died of yellow fever in 1804. Mary Brown Trist later married Philip Livingston Jones, a lawyer who enrolled Nicholas and Browse in school in New Orleans. Jones died about 1810 and Mary Brown Trist Jones then married St. Julien de Tournillon, a wealthy cotton and sugar planter.

As an adult, Browse Trist managed “Bowden,” the family sugar plantation in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, and maintained a correspondence with Nicholas Trist. He married Marie Élizabeth Rosella Bringier and they had five children, four of whom survived to adulthood. Nicholas Trist assisted Browse Trist with the education of his sons Nicholas Browse, Julien, and Nicholas Philip. Browse died on November 16, 1856, in Louisiana.

 - Heidi Hackford, 2004; updated Anna Berkes, 3/10/26

Family of Hore Browse Trist

Parents

Hore Browse Trist (1775-1804) and Mary Louisa Brown (1778-1822)

Siblings

Nicholas Philip Trist (1800-1874)

Spouse and Children

Marie Elizabeth Rosella Bringier

• Nicholas Browse Trist (1835-1904) m. Augustine Gordon (1842-1910)
• Julien Bringier Trist (1837-1862), killed at the Battle of Murfreesboro
• Mary Wilhelmine Trist (1838-1914), m. Robert Crooke Wood, Jr. (1832-1900)
• Louise Rosella Trist (Abt. 1841-?), died young
• Nicholas Philip Trist (1843-1913), m. 1st Marie Emilie Felicie Turead (1845-1885); m. 2nd Alice Tureaud (1851-1928)

Further Sources

• “Descendance aux États-Unis des Du Bourg de Sainte-Colombe.” Généalogie et Histoire de la Caraÿbe Bulletin 84 (July-August 1996): 1687.
• Seebold, Herman de Bachellé. Old Louisiana Plantation Homes and Family Trees. Published privately, 1941. See II:96-99.
• Wells, Jane Flaherty. “Thomas Jefferson’s Neighbors: Hore Browse Trist of ‘Birdwood’ and Dr. William Bache of ‘Franklin.’” The Magazine of Albemarle County History 47 (1989): 1-13.