Callender Irvine FAYSSOUX b. 1 NOV 1820 St. Louis, Missouri d. 30 AUG 1897 Vicksburg, Mississippi

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Birth	1 Nov 1820	St. Louis, Missouri
Gender	Male
Census	1870	11th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana
Census	aged 50, born in Missouri; pers. estate 2,000; keeps stone yard; living in his father-in-law's household
Died	30 Aug 1897	Vicksburg, Mississippi
Buried	Lafayette Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Age	76 years
Person ID	I3048	Pitards and Lansdales
Last Modified	23 Jun 2010

Father	Peter Simons FAYSSOUX, Jr., b. Jun 1793, Charleston, Berkeley Co., South Carolina , d. 4 Jun 1833, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (~ 39 years)
Mother	Rebecca Armstrong de Rosenthal IRVINE, b. 23 Oct 1794, Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania , d. 23 Oct 1879, Chester Co., South Carolina (85 years)
Married	1811
Family ID	F2135	Group Sheet

Family Sarah Antoinette McLELLAN, b. 19 Aug 1839, Warren, Maine , d. 25 Apr 1910, New Orleans, Louisiana (70 years)

Married 24 Oct 1860 New Orleans, Louisiana

Children

>	1. Leonora Levensaler FAYSSOUX, b. 28 Aug 1862, Louisiana , d. 3 Mar 1935 (72 years)
>	2. Seymoura (Mona) Longley FAYSSOUX, b. 15 Feb 1865, Louisiana , d. 12 Apr 1922 (57 years)
>	3. William McLellan FAYSSOUX, b. 18 Jul 1873, d. 17 Feb 1930, New Orleans, Louisiana (56 years)
	4. Sarah FAYSSOUX, b. 18 Jul 1874, New Orleans, Louisiana ,

Family ID F42 Group Sheet

Photos
Callender Irvine Fayssoux (1820-1897)
Status: Located

Notes

This man is one of the more fascinating in the family tree. He was an aide-de-campe to Gen. William Walker, who apparently was part of invasions of Nicaragua in the late 1850s.

There is a "C.I. Fayssoux" listed as a private in the 17th South Carolina Infantry; he enlisted there in Oct. 1863, but had to be discharged for ill health. According to the Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, he was "Cdr. vessel in CSN; later maj. CSA." This seems to be confused; he did command vessels before the war, but not, according to his biography in the Confederate Military History, vol. 10, during the war.

He is also recorded as an SAR member, via his mother:

CALLENDER IRVINE FAYSSOUX, deceased (7807). Son of Peter and Rebecca (Irvine). Fayssoux; grandson of William Irvine, Brigadier-General Second Brigade Penna Line; grandson of Peter Fayssoux, Surgeon-General for South Carolina.

He is buried in the McLellan tomb in Lafayette Cemetery; here is the inscription:

C.I. FAYSSOUX,
BORN NOV. 1, 1820
DIED AUG 30, 1897
[OBVERSE]
CALLENDER I. FAYSSOUX

His papers are kept in the Latin American Library at Tulane; see <http://www.tulane.edu/~latinlib/fayssouxcoll.html>. They include scattered correspondence of his, partly related to his career as an officer in the Texas Republic navy; a morning report of troops stationed at Rivas, Army of Nicaragua, 24 April 1857; and miscellaneous Fayssoux family items. Also see the papers of his son William McLellan Fayssoux, and the entry in the American National Biography for "William Walker (8 May 1824-12 Sept. 1860)." [1]

Sources

[S423] Confederate Military History: A Library of Confederate States History, Written by Distinguished Men of the South, Gen. Clement A. Evans, ed., (Atlanta: Confederate Publishing (and repr. later)), 10.409-10.

Callender Irvine FAYSSOUX 1820 - 1897

Callender Irvine FAYSSOUX
1820 - 1897