From The New York Times, May 3, 1902:
DEATH OF COL. ST. GEORGE
After living for more than forty years with a bullet wound in his liver, Col Etienne St. George, formerly of the British Army, and well known in his younger days as a fighter in India, died yesterday at his home, 48 East Twenty-sixth Street. The cause of his death was cirrhosis of the liver, a result of the old wound.
He was born in 1827, and was Colonel of the Bengal Fusiliers dring the memorable campaign in which took place the mutiny of Lucknow, in the late fifties. In that affair he passed through some stiff fighting without injury, but not long afterward the serious injury that made him an invalid the rest of his life was received in another fight. Though he was half cured, his suffering from the effects of the shot was never wholly alleviated.
Seventeen years ago he came from England to make his home in this country. Before that he had married the widow of Frederick G. Eldridge, then President of the Knickerbocker Trust Company. [NOTE: This is in error. Seventeen years earlier (1885), Frederick Eldridge was very much alive, not dying until 1889. The widow Eldridge and the Colonel were married July 28 1891.] Four children survive him. The funeral services will be held this morning at the residence, the Rev. Dr. Huntington of Grace Church officiating. The interment will be private.
St. George—On Thursday, May 1st, 1902, Col. Etienne St. George, late of His Majesty's First Bengal Fusiliers, retired, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, at his residence, 48 East Twenty-sixth Street. Funeral private.