Mrs. Heenan's maiden name must have been Campbell, for she is the daughter of the late Dr. Josiah Campbell, of New Orleans, in which city she was born, January 1839.

Marie was married in New-Orleans, where her first and best beloved child, Marie Rachel Adelaide de Vere Spenser [Menken] was born, December 11, 1839.

Dolores Adah Isaacs Menken …was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the year of 1840, of French and Spanish parentage, of the Jewish religion. … Her father, of whom we can learn but that he was exiled from France for political offenses, died during [Menken's] early infancy.

Miss Adah Isaacs Menken est née en 1841, à la Nouvelle-Orléans, de parents franco-américains appartenant à la religion israélite qu'elle a toujours aimée et chaleureusement défendue.

She was born in New Orleans in the spring of 1841. Her father, Ricardo Fiertos, a Spanish Jew, was a merchant in that city, and her mother was a native of Bordeaux.

Her first name was Adah McCoard. She was born in Memphis.