Rebecca Lamar McLeod (1811-1891) was the daughter of Basil Lamar and the wife of General Hugh McLeod. In 1827, as a young child, she was aboard the steamship Pulaski when the vessel's boiler exploded and the ship sank off the coast of the Carolinas on its way to Baltimore, Maryland from Savannah, Georgia. Rebecca, and her brothers, G.B. Lamar and C.A.L. Lamar survived. Her mother, a cousin, and five of her siblings were lost. According to the introduction to the posthumous publication of her manuscript in the Georgia Historical Quarterly (1919), Rebecca McLeod did not intend for her writings to ever be published.
From the description of Rebecca Lamar McLeod manuscript, circa 1838. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 44431609
