Catherine DuBois Bennett was a prominent St Louis socialite, a beautiful Creole and a member of the Du Bois family of New York State. Through her mother, Maria Brown, she was sixth in direct descent from Paul Richard, third son of Dean Paul Richard, Comte de Vailiac, a Captain in the French Guards and Chevalier D'Honneur to Madame La Duchesse d'Orleans. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| 1811/00/00 | Catherine DuBois is born into the old Du Bois family of New York State. | Born | |||||
| 1835/03/14 | Catherine DuBois marries prominent merchant William Bennett. | Bride | |||||
| 1850/00/00 | United by three sister and their merchant husbands, the extended Russell-Bennett-Dubois family live at three adjacent house on 4th Street in St Louis. | Home | |||||
| 1855/11/20 | The fashionable Catherine Bennett dies at the age of 37 after a brief illness as a result of whitening her face with arsenic. She is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery next to Almira Hancock. | Died | Bellefontaine Cemetery | City of St Louis |
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