John Carlton Beatty

Born in 1808 in Mason County, Kentucky, John Carlton Beatty moved with his first wife, Charlotte Reid, to Lafourche Parish early in life. He initially practiced medicine but became an attorney and politician, was one of the first Trustees of Thibodaux, and assisted in founding St. John's Episcopal Church. An owner of several plantations, he also participated in the company that dredged the canal connecting Bayou Lafourche and Terrebonne. After Charlotte Reid died in 1847, he remarried Mary Foley, and he, she, and younger children were drowned in the Last Island Hurricane in August 1856. A surviving son, Taylor Beatty, served in the Army of the Confederacy and became a prominent judge in Thibodaux.

Thibodaux, Louisiana · United States