André Carriere (1675 - abt. 1723)

Andre did not die in New Orleans. He died near Mobile, Alabama. He is buried in Church Street Graveyard, the oldest surviving graveyard in Mobile, though I sadly do not know the state of his grave, as that cemetery has suffered over a hundred years of vandalism. His tombstone may have been destroyed, with his grave now unmarked. I do recall, however, reading in an old article on the graveyard that there was a grave of a French Colonists killed by Indians whose grave is still marked, so there may be hope. I can also tell you a little about him, as his name came up in my research of the colonial Mobile. He came to Mobile no later than 1718, and he ultimately established a plantation that year near the modern town of Bay Minette. It appears on a 1718 map of Mobile Bay. He was living there when he married Marie. They lived together there until he was killed by Native Americans in 1723. It was probably a tribe from north or central Alabama, because the tribes living around Mobile Bay were all friendly to the French, but tribes to the north of the bay frequently raided settlements in the area. Though most of those tribes had made peace with the French around by 1717, there were still some hostile tribes that would occasionally attack. An inventory of his estate was ordered on April 6, 1723, and he was originally buried in Campo Santo, the original cemetery used when Mobile moved to its current location. That cemetery was gradually destroyed by urban development in the years after the United States acquired Mobile in 1813. Some, though not all, of the graves in that cemetery were moved to Church Street Graveyard, established to serve as Campo Santo's replacement in 1819, Andre's grave was one of them. His widow did not move to New Orleans until after she married her second husband, as far as I can tell.