David: This looks like part of a bigger map? My ancestor, New Orleans lawyer Adj. Lt. John Nixon (1811 helped start N.O. Masonic lodge), born MaGuiresbridge Co. Fermanagh, N. Ireland, 1787, was in DeJean's 1st Louisiana Militia, and fought on the far west bank until over-run by the British, when he spiked his two light cannon (once in War Trophy Room, Whitehall, London, England?) and retreated. He was the attorney for the City of New Orleans, until he removed to Biloxi and owned the Nixon House Hotel there. His son-in-law, Peregrine "Perry" Snowden Warfield of Georgetown, D.C. (kin of Bessie Warfield who wed King Edward VII) was also N.O. City Attorney. Perry died in middle age and I seek his obituary and grave. Nixon died Biloxi June 4, 1849 and was entombed in the old Biloxi City Cemetery next to the waterfront highway. Did his small tomb (perhaps four others in it) survive hurricane Katrina? If it did not, he's entitled to a U.S. government tombstone which I'd be glad to do the paperwork on. Was Nixon in the old Battle of New Orleans survivors society; where are it's membership records? Descendant Jim Miller, Southport, N.C.
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