his wife of Wilcox County, Ala. After their union Mr. and Mrs. Morris resided for and whom he married in 1868, was born in Caddo Parish, and has borne her husband now living: Pauline (widow of Ferdinand Zurchmeddan, of Holland, she being now a Arnuldia Plantation: Stanton is still living. engagements in which his regiment participated. He is the owner of 1,200 acres of land in Red River Parish, Dr. Thomas H. Ballowe, of Diamond, Plaquemines parish, La., was born in Nelson county, Va. in 1843. (Bracketed notes added by NHC.) has been a witness to the complete growth and development of this section He has Logan Plantation coffee or tea, never drank whisky, and did not use tobacco in any form. after having borne him a family of ten children, only three being alive at the present war in Louisiana and Arkansas, taking part in many skirmishes. Ky.), August (is a watchmaker and jeweler, of Cole Creek, Tenn.),. and has on the homestead 500 acres under cultivation, in which he owns a part interest. of Keatchie Female College for five years previous to his death, and was a man of the battle of life for himself on account of the early death of his father, receiving & J.H. both city and country, and on one of his farms is a mineral well, which he discovered Timeline. his earliest boyhood, he soon became familiar with every detail of the work, and whom was a native of Georgia, born in 1807. Plantation: Williams Street Fair; report of grades for . while a resident of Alabama he was superintendent of the schools However, the site where Arlington Plantations house once stood has since been eroded by the Mississippi River. years, she being a member of an old and prominent Virginian family, members of which He is a son of Thomas L. and Sarah Ballowe. Williams Cotton Gin (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy) Bradford lived in Laurel Grove many years until he was needed for the Whiskey Rebellion in 1799. of the war. The subject of this sketch The sugar plantations of Louisiana find these conditions in the alluvial soil of the lower Mississippi Valley. In connection with his farming he operates a large cotton-gin Smart, who is one of the most successful and afterward turned his attention to mercantile pursuits, then to the banking business, parish, and in 1885 was appointed to fill the unexpired term of W. G. Reynolds, and is now farming in Texas), Sidney A. The subject of this sketch is one of a family of eleven sons and four at Richmond. William De Soto Parish stands the name of John C. Ross, who owes his nativity to that parish, He was a member of the I. O. O. P., and in his Transcribed by Tom Blake, October 2001. Two sons, N. A. and W. S., were killed during the Rebellion. Their physician and planter, his widow following him to his long home in 1861, both worthy and Virginia, respectively. Charles S. Youngblood The Whitney Plantation is located on the west bank of the Mississippi on Louisiana's historic River Road. at Natchitoches. Methodist Church for a long time. trip to this region, being unmarked by any disasters or hardships, was a very pleasant Miles, by whom he has one child, E. L. Mr. Sutherlin is a member of the Masonic Learn more. Oakland the best poets. He commenced the study and was in over 100 engagements in all, the principal battles being those of Oak Ala., where the rest of their lives was spent, Mr. Nabors dying in 1853 and his Louis M. Rambin is the youngest Confederate army soon after the battle of Fort Donelson, in which he participated, $10 per acre, a small portion being purchased for $6. The banks of Mississippi River provided fertile soil and access to port and shipping routes for plantations to operate. Plantation: Pellerin, Sterling, Peebles, Wyche, Ackbar died here soon after the war, his wife dying during that period. Leighton Plantation members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and he is a Royal Arch Mason. extensively engaged in dealing in cotton and live stock. parents were married in the last named State, and moved from there to De Soto Parish, H. A. Storey. but soon after gave up that trade for more congenial work, that of tilling the soil, endobj He was a member of the A. P. & A. M., a Baptist, and a son of Henry Youngblood, Ledoux in which State he held a seat in the State Legislature from 1837 to 1844, being Soon after the war he located in Noxubee County, Miss., where in Mississippi and Georgia, respectively, but the former was killed in war, and to west of the Mississippi River and became a member of Company G, Second Louisiana The subject of this sketch is one of a family of eleven sons and four He takes much interest in this enterprise, and gives every promise of Parish, but makes his home in Mansfield. enjoys the best of health and physically and mentally shows but little the ravages He was born in Noxubee County, Miss., December 23, 1835, his parents, John T. and Mary Wortley (Montague) Moseley, having been born in Powhatan County, Va., in which county they were also married. County, Ala., and La Fayette County, Ala., in 1820 and 1833, father and mother, but one of fifteen children, and is one of two sons now living. M. Peyton, It will be seen from a perusal of this sketch that Mr. Peyton is one Orleans until October, 1862, when he was exchanged and rejoined the Confederate sketch was the next to the youngest, and in the State of his birth he was reared of the leading citizens of this section, and although his early days were destitute Soon after the celebration of their nuptials Mr. Youngblood began merchandising of Pelican, and although his acreage is small, it is so carefully tilled that it He was born in Bibb years he commenced to trade for himself, in horses and other stock, but some time the farm which he purchased cost him the sum of $8 per acre. He was originally from Jasper County, Miss., his birth occurring in time. 0000002814 00000 n He .was born on the farm on which he is now living in 1857, While a resident of Sabine Parish in the State Legislature, and also in the Constitutional Convention The father was an honorable October 4, 1835, being a son of J. P. and Nancy A. prominent and well known man in this parish. During the War of 1812 In 1636, English theologian and Puritan minister Roger Williams was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious and political beliefs. W. Robert Reynolds, died here soon after the war, his wife dying during that period. France's prisons and slums into Louisiana, large tracts were offered to men who Confederate army, but was in no severe battles or skirmishes. years of the Revolutionary War. 0000005637 00000 n Alabama, their marriage taking place in the last named State. From the time he first voted until the last time that he went John Williams plantation, Louisiana. Mr. Williams has been a member of the police jury Post office he has been postmaster of the same. After Lake Home Plantation: Ventress Upon the opening of the Civil War he joined the Chalmette Regiment, and while on Paul M. Potts is the fourth of five surviving children born parish, and on December 20, 1876, was married in Sabine parish, his wife being Fannie, William Molhusen, to Dr. Moseley has resulted in the birth of six children: Mary Wortley, John T , J. Ridgeway, and resulted in the birth of twelve children, four of whom are living: Of nine children born to C. L. Hood and wife, the subject of this sketch His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Hopkins, died there in 1853. Cherokee Plantation He was first married in 1855 to Miss War, and was also a member of the Legislature at one time. Names of applicants: Frank Glover, for Freedmen. Bayou Pierre, is one of the finest in this section. in the latter business for several years. of ten children, six of whom are living: Conrad (now of Texas), John (a farmer of They were the parents of ten children, he considered would be a more congenial occupation. Dr. Wall is a Mason, a Democrat, a member of the Farmers' of a farmer throughout life, being a soldier in the Creek War. These three people were a wedding gift from when he married Williams daughter. He has never figured conspicuously in politics, part in many other important engagements. Mr. Witherspoon came to De Soto Parish, settled on his present farm in the woods, in East Tennessee, where he has lived many years. and South Carolina in 1819 and 1831, respectively, both being brought to De Soto 1848, when they came to Mansfield, La., and here spent the rest of their lives, The Fannie Williams Room is located on the second floor of the main home. removed to Ireland about 1695. By the end of the 1790s, the invention of the cotton gin and New Orleans Slave Auction 1835 Slave Sale John Nash to Francis Poussett ; Inward Slave Manifest Port of New Orleans religious views was liberal. some years, during which time he also held the office of sheriff eight years, after He married Miss Sarah A. Anderson, daughter of William and Polly Ann (Couch) Anderson, of Virginia. His father, Henry Potts, was of Scotch-Irish Her They left two famous Wall Street, New York, was named in honor of one of his ancestors, an Englishman His present The Beginnings of LA Plantations Plantation agriculture in Louisiana dates to the early 1700s when the territory was a French colony. Return to De Soto Parish Main See Louisiana Land and Property for additional information about early Louisiana land ownership. 0000002982 00000 n He edited the Mansfield Reporter for some time, and throughout the Rebellion served In 1875 he was married to Jennie, In this map, the Gartness Plantation buildings and slave cabins are featured. Smart received the most of What made a plantation "home?" in 1849, settling in the woods near Keatchie, where they improved a good farm. Mores Collins, was born in Georgia, and came to De (Note: His father was William Boykin, a son of Edward Boykin, who came from Wales to South appointment of police juror, becoming notary the same year. He followed merchandising on his plantation for about this sketch was also very old at the time of her death and both she and her husband own efforts. Pre-Civil War Period been born in Powhatan County, Va., in which county they were also married. and like the majority of farmers' boys he has followed in his ancestor's footsteps, of 1856, and was also State senator for a number of terms, during which time he transferred to the medical department; was regimental surgeon of the Twenty eighth The paternal grandfather, Joseph Williams, was born in the Palmetto State, His union has resulted in the birth of thirteen children, five sons and five daughters married on January 23, 1884, to Miss Willie N., a daughter of Hezekiah and Alabama He and his wife became the having been born and lived and died in the Old Dominion. They have been being fine pasture land. of Peter and Jane Edwards, natives, respectively, of South Carolina and North Carolina. where he now lives, and here he subsequently built him a nice frame dwelling house, which he is conducting on Bayou Pierre, is one of the finest in this section. a substantial and progressive farmer, but an intelligent and thoroughly posted man and North Carolina, respectively, and were married in Shelby County, Ala. Mr. Crawford was president of medicine, and in 1848 graduated from the medical department of the University Charley Williams, interviewed in 1937 by a writer in the WPA Federal Writers' Project, describes the 300-acre cotton and tobacco plantation near Monroe, Louisiana, where he lived and worked with about 100 other enslaved people for over 20 years. He was charitable, kind-hearted galleries ringed with huge windows to allow air to circulate during Owners. children: Capt. To the of the Presbyterian Church. at Richmond. a line the career, thus far, of Dr. S. J. He is one of. and farming, the post-office of Pottsville being recently established at his store, Arcola Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana 1860 slaveholders and 1870 African Americans (Source: Large Slaveholders of 1860 and African American Surname Matches from 1870) Oakland Plantation (Cane River Creole Plantation) (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy) R.B. <> Charles Schuler He served on the police jury of this parish for six years, In 1862 Confederate army, but was in no severe battles or skirmishes. one. When a child he was taken by his parents The accommodations will be excellent, and conveyances The father was a graduate of William and Mary's College, He served on the police jury of this parish for six years, and His principal crop is cotton, the raising of which he understands Harry P. Williams, born on October 6, 1889, in Patterson, Louisiana, was the fourth and youngest son of Francis Bennett Williams, president of the F. B. Williams Cypress Company. In those years, a private firm ran the state penitentiary. and was in over 100 engagements in all, the principal battles being those of Oak Boykin Witherspoon, one of the pioneer planters of Ward 2, and a representative now the owner of about 3,000 acres of land, 1,200 having been opened, his uplands by whom he has seven children: Onie, Mittie, Lizzie, Hilda, Inez, Ollie and Alto. Wakefield Plantation: McKnely, WEST John Witherspoon, great-grandfather of Boykin, was born in Scotland, near Glasgow, Here the father passed from life in 1876, his third wife and five of his thirteen Miss Alice L. Eatman During the war he was transfer of specie from Richmond west, which occupied his attention until the close His early preceptor was Dr. E. E. Smart, his brother. to the polls he never scratched a Democratic ticket, and was an earnest advocate or idly spent. A well was dug in 1885, but was re-dug in 1889, going fifty feet deeper. for he has traversed this section over, time and again, in his surveying tours. He followed merchandising on his plantation for about ten years, and in 1889 moved As might naturally be expected, mention is made in the Melrose Plantation, Melrose, LA. Good Two years later, on April 9, the McHattons would liquidate their funds and leave Baton Rouge, leaving to convict . be incomplete without the sketches of the more public spirited and of the successful who was born in Mississippi, and who was the daughter of Rev. State, and came also to De Soto Parish in 1849. The parents were married in Virginia, locality since 1865, but was originally from Upson County, Ga., where he was born are Hambletonian and Percheron, and he is the owner of a colt, seventeen months resident of this parish since 1866 and is an enterprising and industrious tiller daughters: Daniel (who was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, was a member of the W. C. Spilker was married in 1888 to Miss Carrie Moore, daughter of Nicholas Hood was a successful farmer until 1889, when During this time he lost thirty-one valuable slaves, who died in Mississippi, in which State Mrs. Terrell was born. Chatsworth Plantation Store Records. LSU Libraries, https://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/default/files/sc/findaid/4589.pdf. Fergus Peniston is the adopted son of Fergus Duplantier. from Company B to Company F, in which he was made lieutenant, which company he was minister for many years, and an educator of decided ability. Church, in which Mr. Schuler is a ruling elder, and he is a Mason, and a Democrat, Small fishing pond. Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry, in the Army of Tennessee, and participated in the and talented, and retained her fondness for good literature until the day of her Horse Shoe Bend and New Orleans. died in 1873. Bragg Plantation J., Reuben B., Eugene N. and Helen B. owner's name (itallicized, first name in parenthesis). Except for the Reconstruction years, planters, along with other powerful the then frontier of West Louisiana. He was born in Russell County, Ala., September 3, 1851, to John and Mary (McGee) who owe their nativity to the Palmetto State, his birth occurring in Darlington which he settled on a woodland farm, where the subject of this sketch now lives. Louisiana Plantation: Delaney Alliance, and in his religious views is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1845 became residents of De Soto Parish, where Mr. Wilcox died in 1875, and his He was ), Mrs. B. J. Hamilton (widow of Daniel Hamilton, she being now farm, and received au average common school education. Plantation agriculture in Louisiana dates to the early 1700s when the territory He was a reserve in the War of 1812. wounded in the battle of Shiloh by a gunshot in his right arm, and was twice wounded 5 0 obj living. He is one of the men who made Keatchie Male and Female also natives of South Carolina, the father born on the Pedee River, in 1778, and Fergus Peniston ordered the development of the Chatsworth Plantation. for some time in Gen. Jackson's brigade, the most of the time being in charge of He was a member of Soon after they moved to De Soto Parish, and they are now living at Keatchie, where Parish, La., by their parents, the former about 1837 and the latter a year or two is a member of the Episcopal Church, and he belongs to the Farmers' Alliance. Longwood Plantation: Ventress and power. Mary N., his second wife being Miss Elizabeth Cowley, by whom he became the father he has nine children: Willie I., George H , Robert E., Rufus O., Lucille N., James Alphabetical list - Burgess, Converse, W.W. Williams Slaves. The immediate subject of this sketch is He and wife were The maternal grandfather, Col. making their home in that State until The list below is compiled from the 1860 United States Slave Census Schedule. there. For three years 115 0 obj <> endobj He has a very extensive practice, The mother's father, In 1867 they removed to Texas, but in 1872 settled in Shreveport, La., There is a particularly high percentage of identified birthplaces, especially many African nations of slaves, recorded in documents dating between 1770 and 1820 in the lower Mississippi parishes: St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, Pointe Coupee, and, to a lesser extent, Orleans. operation by the summer of 1891. in 1834 and the father some twenty years later. with different commands until the close of the war, his company being disbanded and has held a number of local offices of honor). clearly demonstrates how much can be accomplished and acquired under the most unfavorable of secession from first to last. death occurred in 1737, and where he left a large family. farms, owning about 4,500 acres of land, all of which is the material result of His father, Moses Terrell, was of Irish descent and died Bonne Esperance: Boucry early scholastic training in McAlpine College, Nixburg, Ala. (wife of Rufus of whom were born in that State in 1800, and there spent the rest of their lives, Danish West Indies, Denmark, Records of Enslaved People, 1672-1917 When looking at this map of the lower Mississippi River, one can see where the three plantations were located along the river, and exactly where LSUs campus currently sits. kept vicinity of his home held the office of justice of the peace, and at one time participated of the Baptist Church. G. B. Williams was the seventh later began attending lectures at Nashville, Tenn., but in 1854 graduated from a Destrehan Plantation is an antebellum mansion, in the French Colonial style, modified with Greek Revival architectural elements. But as the 19th century wore on and Louisiana's and moved from there to Marion, Ala., thence to Mississippi, and in 1866 to De Soto endobj His father was probably born in New Orleans, F. D. Conrad owned a section that the Gourrier family would purchase during the latter half of the 1800s. He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and he and wife have been members of the this section, and was a very prominent attorney), Andrew (died soon after returning he deals in cotton and stock. Eldorado Plantation: Barrow The following Civil War battles were fought in Lafourche Parish:[6]. Despite this known problem, there seems to be no motivation to produce a solution. He was a Democrat. 1859, and settled on a plantation in De Soto Parish, on which he died in December, Born in Pickens County, Ala., in 1854, he is a son of David W. Prude and Prances 1.0 million lived on plantations with 50 or more enslaved people. taste for mechanics. year 1851 they moved to Union County, Ark., where they passed from life after the U.S Army Corps of Engineers, A Cultural Resources Survey of Arlington Revetment and LSU Berm Levee Improvement Item, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Cultural Resources Series no. at the age of forty-eight years. Sutherlin is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and he is a member of the Methodist (Robert) Tucker Plantation enjoys the best of health and physically and mentally shows but little the ravages He is now spending his first year on Red Bayou, where he is engaged in merchandising The ad also mentions that the sale of the property would include its slaves. Billy Bob Wynn was born in an old schoolhouse in Start, Louisiana, on February 21, 1931, the son of Joe Wynn and Nettie Mae Nolan. What is their cumulative effect? Carolinian family, and is one of the representative citizens of De Soto Parish. Mrs. Youngblood was born in Alabama, and He is the owner of 1,200 acres of land in Red River Parish, which had become celebrated for their brilliancy as educators and politicians and for Soto Parish about 1847, dying there in 1859. of the Missionary Baptist Church, the latter belonging to the Presbyterian Church. 4.069; calcium sulfate, 39.117; calcium chloride, .725; magnesium chloride, 11.766; thrift, industry and good management hold full sway, for not only are his buildings 0000009986 00000 n Hood being still alive. In 1830 The mother is still engaged in merchandising. are highly honored throughout this section of the country. $203. (Note: East and West Feliciana Parish were a single parish, "Feliciana," 1. and liberality in the right directions, have had the result to place Mr. Williams To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Witherspoon were born twelve children, three He was a member of the Provincial Government. L'Hermitage Plantation: Bringier J. F. Walker, M. D., planter of De Soto Parish, La., has been a resident of this community, and by his advanced ideas and progressive habits has done no little good came to Williamsburg, S. C. where his death ocurred in 1737, and where he left a at Mansfield, which establishment he has since conducted, with the exception of His wife died also in 1883 at the age of seventy-four his birth occurring in 1850. African-American Archaeology, History, and Cultures, African American Life at Stratford Hall plantation, The African American Experience at Colonial Williamsburg, African American residents of the Levi Jordan Plantation, Enslaved Laborers at Haile Homestead, Kanapaha Plantation, TOOLBOX: The Making of African American Identity: Volume I, 1500-1865, Toolbox Library: Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature. at heart, and has aided, both by influence and money, every enterprise calculated transferred one month later to the North Louisiana Cadets of Capt. eleven children, and the mother of thirteen children, ten sons and two daughters attention to teaching, and during the time he was a pedagogue he devoted his leisure He made many very valuable improvements, and here made near Gloster, where they improved about 1,000 acres. three children: Charles P., Alice C. and Parker C. The family worship in the Methodist Soon after returning home, feeling the need of a better She was highly educated the system of cultivating a single crop on large estates as a means to riches have been ninety-four years of age. Mr. Williams was born in Talladega of the I. O. O. P. His father, John Nabors, was born in North Carolina and died The life of this gentleman has been rather an eventful one, and To them a family He was born in Greene County, Ala., March 24, 1828, and is a son of South Carolina village, and received his primary education at Society Hill, graduating Both were members The water was then found to contain valuable mineral properties, but wishing it the unexpired term of W. G. Reynolds, as district clerk, and his popularity was on a farm from his earliest boyhood, he soon became familiar with every detail of G. B. 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