Florence Clothilde Burguières
As a young lady, Florence traveled with her father and stepmother to the graduation of her sister, Marie Louise, from St. Joseph's College in Maryland. Later, she traveled with them to Europe, posing for a lovely portrait in Paris. Other photographs show her reading and playfully interacting with her siblings. Her father named Florence Plantation after her. After about 1904, little is known about Florence, other than the fact that she had an illness that required hospitalization for most of her fifty-six years of life. She was institutionalized in what was once called St. Vincent's Hospital in Westchester, New York, which was administered by the Sisters of Charity. Florence's brothers, Ernest and Jules, traveled to New York to visit her while on business trips on the East Coast. When Joseph Eugene (Florence's older brother) died in 1911, he donated $50,000 to the Sisters of Charity in New Orleans to build the Burguières Home for Incurables, in her honor.
Florence died of liver cancer at the age of 55 at St. Vincent's Hospital in 1936. Her body was returned by train to Florence Plantation where she is buried beside her parents in the family tomb at St. Helen's Cemetery in Louisa, Louisiana
