Thanks to your post, with my cousin we have been able to find out the grave of Benjamin Starck (°09.11.1814 +18.01.1854). He was farmer in Cuba with some large properties producing both sugar and coffee. He married my great-great grand-mother Louise Isabelle Prudence Reynaud de Belleville (°17.12.1808 + 08.05.1891) in Cuba. In 1853 already sick he decided to leave Cuba giving the management of his properties to some men of confidence. He went to Baltimore and died few months later. He had 6 children: Edouard (° 28.12.1841 + 1885 in Valparaiso-Chili), Oscar (°29.10.1848 + 02.09.1888 in Paris – France), Elisa (° 1850 + 22.11.1930 in Bidache – France), Henriette (+ 1857) and twins (+ in Cuba).

A painting of Benjamin Starck exists and is available at following site: starck.bamertal.com

Jean-Alain Jachiet