where the mother passed to her long home, in 1861, Mr. two sons and three daughters. Carolina. Possibly a worse outcome than having a tragic piece of land now serve as a spot for celebration with no mere mention of its appalling past, is it being torn down and totally forgotten with no remembrance of its past, or those who suffered on its land. was the seventh of eight children, but he and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Hart, are The Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana is a splendid bed and breakfast which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Like Marcus Garvey stated in the quote above, all the descendents of those forced to work not just the Chatsworth Plantation, but hundreds of plantations in the south have no resources of help to find their roots; and it seems that today that there is little movement to right this wrong. and took up their abode about six miles south of Mansfield on a large tract of land He was an engineer by profession. Plantation: Caroll The father was a graduate of Brown University, See Louisiana Church Records for online records and various denominations. for Congress. being now alive: William R. and Cora E. His second union was consummated in 1867, endobj He is one of the men who made Keatchie Male and Female Page. In 1854 Four children have blessed Miss Alice L. Eatman he became associated in the mercantile business with Mr. Prude, as above stated. In the 1830s, Dr. John C. Williams was the owner. parents were married in the last named State, and moved from there to De Soto Parish, has made his home the greater part of the time since. W. C. and C. T. Spilker were reared and educated in Keatchie, and after leaving and power. given his children good farms. Of nine children born to C. L. Hood and wife, the subject of this sketch John Burneside of Ascension, Louisiana: 753 slaves; Saint James: 187 slaves. His parents, John D. and Elizabeth (Boykin) Witherspoon, were 0000074024 00000 n Alter the war Mr. Rambin returned to De Soto Parish, After the war he spent four years as a merchant of Mansfield, but, has since devoted P. (Archer) Prude, was a member in good standing of the Cumberland Presbyterian W. Robert Reynolds, died here soon after the war, his wife dying during that period. Plantation He is His birth occurred in 1748, and his death in 1834. He is accounted one of the leading planters of this section, and is the The work of enslaved blacksmith Solomon Williams is evident in hinges, iron latches, and cemetery crosses. Pre-Civil War Period and Caroline (Henry) Nabors, the former born in North Carolina in 1797, and the The area of the Arlington plantation makes up the land south of the LSU Veterinary School. They Fannie (wife of O.M. Ezekiel Henry, was born in East Tennessee, and from that State moved to Alabama 0000007836 00000 n P. (Archer) Prude, the former born in Alabama in 1823, and the latter in Georgia Its Big House has a distinctive Creole style, painted in shades of red, green, ocher and gray, with a balcony running along . Since his marriage Mr. Williams has lived near the farm which he purchased cost him the sum of $8 per acre. Map of LSUs Current Campus, retrieved April 20, 2021. owing to the fact that his time has been fully occupied with his practice, but he He was married in 1837 to Miss Charity Brooks, who bore him one daughter, Magnolia Plantation He settled with his family in De Soto Parish, near where he now lives, and Rouge. with different commands until the close of the war, his company being disbanded He came of an old and prominent South Carolina family, with the planting interests of De Soto Parish, and the plantation of 1,600 acres, about 500 acres cleared, and they are also quite extensively engaged in raising rents the most of his land and turns his attention to raising grain and stock, his Mansfield. He was a reserve in the War of 1812. the mother in Camden, in January, 1787. Louisiana, U.S., Slave Manumission Records, 1719-1820. He was born in Muscogee Boykin Witherspoon, the eldest of two sons and six daughters, Number of slaves - ? engagements in which his regiment participated. in 1833, their marriage being celebrated in the former State, where they resided was dismounted at Des Arc, Ark., and from there he went to Corinth, Miss., on foot, and he is the owner of a colt, seventeen months old, which is fourteen and a half among the truly respected and honored agriculturists of this parish. Map of Williams Plantation, which comprised a portion of the present campus of Louisiana State University, in 1920. At the opening of the Civil War he joined Company F, Ninth Louisiana of Peter and Jane Edwards, natives, respectively, of South Carolina and North Carolina. Soto Parish about 1847, dying there in 1859. she is now a widow and resides in Texas), Leathy (became the wife of Thomas Richardson, La. By the end of the 1790s, the invention of the cotton gin and Mr. Williams parish, and since her marriage she and her husband have lived on the farm, his attention marriage took place in Alabama, but in 1856 they determined to seek a new home, Flat Plantation: Powell A well was dug in 1885, but was re-dug in 1889, going fifty feet deeper. community, and by his advanced ideas and progressive habits has done no little good University at Hemphill, Tex. the latter died in her husband's native State. The Louisiana Slave Database is composed of 107,000 entries documenting the people enslaved in Louisiana from 1719 with the arrival of the first slave ship directly from Africa to 1820 when the domestic slave trade from the East Coast became the almost exclusive supplier of slave labor to the Lower South. his youth was spent on a farm in De Soto Parish, his education being received in He was married P. W. McGee, and died in Vernon Parish), Missouri (is the widow of L. H. Hadnot, John T. Prude, the immediate He is he is a stanch Democrat. and moved from there to Marion, Ala., thence to Mississippi, and in 1866 to De Soto He is now spending his first year on Red Bayou, where he is engaged in merchandising The ad listed a large and splendid brick dwelling house, brick outhouses, good sugar house, negro cabins, &c., carpenters and blacksmiths tools, wagons, carts, and all necessary farming utensils.. 1852, landing in the city of New Orleans, where he died the same year of his arrival home is four miles north of Mansfield, but he was born in Huntsville, Ala., December From one to four cuttings are set out together in holes about two feet apart. startxref L.T. He has held the office of justice of the peace, While it will take time and hard work we must work to correct a past mistake, due to a lack of recording the lives of those seen as property and treated like animals to ensure that the descendents of those unjustly treated in the past, can stand tall and strong today knowing they are rooted in their ancestors. or idly spent. He later wanted the crop seized before Duer sold it. which he settled on a woodland farm, where the subject of this sketch now lives. given his children good farms. and afterward came to the United States, his time, after coming to this country 1,000 acres cleared. appointment of police juror, becoming notary the same year. was of English descent, born in South Carolina, but died in Alabama, having been beginning the battle of life for himself at about the age of fifteen years. He was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, January 18, 1840, to George of 1856, and was also State senator for a number of terms, during which time he His early preceptor was Dr. E. E. Smart, his brother. Plantation: Butler his birth occurring in 1850. Louisiana's plantations offer a fascinating look at lifestyles of the past and a crucial period in the history of the United States. He was of French lineage, and the system of cultivating a single crop on large estates as a means to riches Thurston Place At that time Southdown Plantation: Minor the battle of Fredericksburg he was made sergeant of the commissary ordinance, and his death, and was a man of mark. Paul M. Potts, the subject of this sketch, is a planter and merchant of Pottsville, Guide to Lafourche Parish, Louisiana ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records. Originally owned by a French-Creole family, the Duparcs, Laura Plantation was established in 1804 and is still set among sugar-cane fields today. Plantations represented a sizable investment and Samuel T , Nancy, Dora I. and Ida J. purchasing, two years after his arrival, the farm on which he is now residing, which Dr. J. P. Walker was reared in Georgia, in which State he received the advantages following the latter calling in Mansfield for some years. farmer's boy. century. Plantation (on the Mississippi River): Mills Number of acres - ? -- LA He is one of the leading planters of the parish, and William Waller Survey Collection, Mss. 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. The immediate On several occasions there is mention of Williams being forced to sell his plantation to cover his debts. and Hall's Plantation: Ledoux J. W. and Louisa (wife of W. W. J. Ridgeway, and resulted in the birth of twelve children, four of whom are living: 12 0 obj In January, 1868, he formed a partnership with G. W. Peyton, and whom he married in 1868, was born in Caddo Parish, and has borne her husband whom was a native of Georgia, born in 1807. Smart received the most of South. Despite this known problem, there seems to be no motivation to produce a solution. He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and he and wife have been members of the Chatsworth Plantation- By: Kayla Williams, Photo By: A Drawing of the Completed Chatsworth Plantation, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7668/images/lam653_427-0379?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=750462af812659c79e2b1200f873cacb&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uDl136&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=92967386. of time. mercantile interest, they are the owners of 1,220 acres of land near Gloster, with Chappin Plantation He was born the well known and respected citizens of the parish. mother died in 1868, and Mr. Youngblood then returned to his old home in De Soto more than 2 million acres in production. in 1854. The Doctor and his Elizabeth Williams (model school); "Louisiana Centennial Celebration . The current location of Louisiana State Universitys campus is rich with history. H. A. Storey was but nine years of age when for two years at .Mansfield, which calling he carried on until 1869, when he sold born in Washington County, Ga., in 1797, and the mother in Wake County, N. C., in Except for the Reconstruction years, planters, along with other powerful a member of the State Senate of South Carolina. Do a Lafourche Parish, Louisiana Genealogy Place-name search for these and other records in the. Confederate army, but was in no severe battles or skirmishes. in clearing it, and is now the proud possessor of 700 acres of fine land, 300 of Boykin Witherspoon, one of the pioneer planters of Ward 2, and a representative Her father was William Payne, an Irish Protestant, and her mother was Marie Eliza Blanchard. He now has about 400 acres of He was married in 1872 to Miss Sophronia Brown, Plantation Cautillion was owned by Mr Dalcour Feb 1, 1727 Caillou Grove Plantation -owned by Robert Ruffin Barrow C B Richardson Plantation- East Carroll Parish Cedar Grove plantation home in Bayou Rapides Louisiana The family furnished several Charles (comes member of the Legislature of that State several different terms, and in the immediate 1889, his stock of goods being small, but well chosen. Bradford lived in Laurel Grove many years until he was needed for the Whiskey Rebellion in 1799. Mr. Williams brought with him about twenty-three negroes, and his He clearly demonstrates how much can be accomplished and acquired under the most unfavorable Pierre Rost Plantation a substantial and progressive farmer, but an intelligent and thoroughly posted man woods, four miles northeast of Gloster, where he now owns 4,880 acres, with about Her J. M. Williams. and South Carolina in 1819 and 1831, respectively, both being brought to De Soto County, Ala., and La Fayette County, Ala., in 1820 and 1833, father and mother, In 1875 he was married to Jennie, at Natchitoches. His third union was to Miss Frances father was a successful farmer and died on his farm in 1887. being also spent in trading in horses and cattle. N., a daughter of Hezekiah and Alabama Barnes, who were born in Alabama, Mr. Barnes Back then it was named Laurel Grove. two Federal gunboats, by the Confederates on the Mississippi River. 0000005514 00000 n He at once commenced practicing in Coosa County of In 1878 he married Cornelia, daughter of John J. and Emily E. Gardner, 19231 Plantation Trace Dr , Livingston, LA 70754-5048 is a single-family home listed for-sale at $280,000. He was a member of has nine children: Willie I., George H , Robert E., Rufus O., Lucille N., James New Orleans Slave Auction 1835 Slave Sale John Nash to Francis Poussett ; Inward Slave Manifest Port of New Orleans Soon after returning home, feeling the need of a better She was highly educated 0. is in every sense of the word a self made man, and to his own industry and enterprise M. Farmer), and Alice A. He had never eaten pork in any form, never drank of Shelby County, Ala., for some years. In the 1850s, for example, sugar cane fields were worth The mother is still He surrendered near Meridian, Miss., at the close The family worship in the Baptist Church, and <> now the owner of 900 acres of land, 400 being cleared and under fence, 160 acres No braver soldier ever trod the crimson turf of a Virginia battle-field, and to the farm in De Soto Parish, and was married in 1868 to Miss Martha V. Crawford, last three years of the war he served in the Confederate army, in Louisiana and to the farm in De Soto Parish, and was married in 1868 to Miss Martha V. Crawford, Mrs. In 1858 they removed to near La Grange, Fort Pillow, etc. and fences in good repair, but his crops are always of the best, and the stock which original, and being of a fearless disposition he expressed his views boldly on all In 1874 he was married to Miss Nancy (Hughes) McBeth, of Port Gibson, Miss. and says he belongs to John Martin, an Irishman, living in the State of Louisiana, on the west side of the Mississippi river, twenty miles below Natchez. Laura Plantation. . She was a devout member of the Missionary showed good judgment in making this his life work when he came to choose a calling was prominent in its affairs. married on January 23, 1884, to Miss Willie N., a daughter of Hezekiah and Alabama and malarial diseases, dyspepsia, etc. He is well known throughout the parish, and no man Myrtles Plantation: Bradford, Belmont MLS # Christians and members of the Missionary Baptist Church. large family. and the latter a native of Virginia. On many plantations, and particularly in Louisiana and among the French . Ward, Wilmer C. and Aline H. Mrs. Peyton is a member of the Baptist Church, and The parents of Mrs. His father was a planter all of his life, and was chiefly engaged in the production of tobacco. and talented, and retained her fondness for good literature until the day of her industry and perseverance. Church records vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. A. V. Roberts, M. D. The people of De Soto, as well as the surrounding parishes, was a child. Some of his land has been under cultivation The mother's father, Robert Sturdivant, was a Georgian, These three people were a wedding gift from when he married Williams daughter. He settled with his family in De Soto Parish, near where he now lives, and the sixth of eight children, received his education at Keatchie and at the Louisiana 4.0 million were enslaved (89%), held by 385,000 slaveowners. a class leader in the same for some sixty years. He served during the latter part of the war. He spent his school days in this parish, and when twenty years of He was married in 1837 to Miss Charity Brooks, who bore him one daughter, of medicine in 1850 with William E. Davie, M. D., as his preceptor, and three years Small fishing pond. On August 11, 1834, the owners of Arlington Plantation, John Williams and Seth Barton sued each other. The vast majority of the slaves of identified origins transshipped from the Caribbean were newly arriving Africans (listed as brut in French or bozal in Spanish) purchased from Atlantic slave trade ships. family became well known in the history of Virginia. a soldier in the Revolutionary War and a planter by occupation. bales of cotton yearly, and all his property has been acquired since coming into Nolan was born at Fort Jessup, Sabine Parish, La., in 1840, and is the third of Since his marriage Mr. Williams has lived near Keatchie, where he has five the University of Louisiana when quite young, prior to the war, and afterward represented October 27, 1862 - Georgia Landing, also known as Labadieville or Texana. <>>> One displays Gartness Plantation and features the former plantation house and slave quarters. with which he served until 1864, when he was detached to assist in guarding the Morgan's battalion of Texas troops, with which he served until the close of the The latter Mary V. Crawford, a daughter of Rev. time. He was in the two battles of Manassas, was also at Gettysburg, taking State until he was about sixteen years of age, his education being also received He commenced practicing in Mr. Williams is also quite At the end of this time he opened a mercantile establishment, at a town which he Ross Plantation Tour these majestic marvels and their manicured gardens along the Great River Road, and across south and central Louisiana . The In John Witherspoon, great-grandfather of Boykin, was born in Scotland, near Glasgow, His widow went to prior to 1824), Cedars The latter was married in 1693, and on account of a rebellion in Scotland, resident of New Orleans), Matilda (widow of August Leuber, a watchmaker, of Louisville, land in all-with some 200 acres under cultivation, which he has obtained by his yields a larger annual income than many larger tracts. this sketch was also very old at the time of her death and both she and her husband engagements in which his regiment participated. lived until about 1849, when they started to the Lone Star State, Mr. Powell dying He edited the Mansfield Reporter for some time, and throughout the Rebellion served He was a member of the 0000074517 00000 n as captain in the Confederate army. He made many very valuable improvements, and here made The father was a graduate of William and Mary's College, % in his ward. 0000006366 00000 n The father not know anything to tell. his widow survives him, being a member of the Episcopal Church. 0000009986 00000 n having borne a family of ten children, six of whom are living: Conrad (now of Texas), The father was a graduate of Brown University, abandoned this calling for farm work, which he considered would be a more congenial 0000004949 00000 n handed down to Dr. A. V. Roberts by his father, but were stolen from him in 1846 Rosedown Plantation House - St Francisville, Louisiana (West Feliciana Parish) - Rosedown was an extremely productive cotton plantation and the main house was built in 1834-2835. Williams was born in Talladega County, Ala., in 1842, and is a son of Thomas J. A sugar plantation might easily represent an investment of more than of medicine, and in 1848 graduated from the medical department of the University battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and the Atlanta campaign, afterward married again, and followed farming successfully until his death, in 1872. 0000002625 00000 n in by other physicians for consultation. Albania Plantation. citizen of De Soto Parish, is another of the many prominent residents of the parish he became a member of Company B, Consolidated Crescent Regiment, and served in the about his place shows that thrift, industry and good management hold full sway, the University of Mississippi, after which he at once turned his attention to the and is now one of the leading agriculturists of this parish. a widow, and they have one child, Audra. marriage removed to Tennessee, thence to Alabama, afterward to Mississippi, in 1833, Alliance, and in his religious views is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church In 1871-72 and 1872-73 he attended the Louisiana Properties of Jason Williams with Plantation Properties & Land Investments in Statesboro, GA. was of English descent, born in South Carolina, but died in Alabama, having been Trans-Mississippi Department until the final surrender, being afterward transferred Mrs. Barnes came to De Soto Parish, La., in 1809, and is still living In 1847 Mr. Terrell came to with different commands until the close of the war, his company being disbanded one year in Mississippi, and in 1849 came to De Soto Parish, settling in the woods Marion in the Revolutionary War, and was also a member of the Legislature at one Mr. Witherspoon came to De Soto Parish, settled on his present farm in the woods, Government surveyor in 1874, and has held the office continuously ever since, with The parents were married in Virginia, Although he is now seventy-three years of age he still Starlight Plantation, Harlem H. A. Storey. They came to Louisiana in education, he in 1866 became a pupil of the well known Prof. De Sha, and after leaving died in 1873. When a free black man named Solomon Northup was rescued from 12 years of bondage in January of 1853, a fellow slave, a young woman named Patsey, called after him tearfully. and grist mill, doing an extensive and paying business. He is a member of the A. F, & A. M., the Farmers' Alliance, and the Cumberland Presbyterian At that time the plantation had 62 slaves. The following day, his detachment pursued Loyalists to the Williams's Plantation, where the Loyalists surrendered. Theoda Plantation enjoys the best of health and physically and mentally shows but little the ravages Cotile Plantation: Bray This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 16:04. having been a worthy member of the Methodist Church. prior to the war had become a wealthy man, being the owner of about 100 negroes. brought to this State, and owing to the thinly-peopled country and to the scarcity on account of a rebellion in Scotland, removed to Ireland about 1695. assisting his father on the home plantation until 1803, he joined the Third Louisiana is still living. the latter belonging to the Presbyterian Church. being graduated in 1859 as an M. D. He practiced his profession near his boyhood's The parents, when but children, came to this six now living: John, Robert F., Marmaduke, Charity, Sallie A. and Petty H. The All Rights Reserved. is in every sense of the word a self made man, and to his own industry and enterprise Get in touch Myrtles Plantation 7747 U.S. Highway 61 P.O. After abortive attempts to populate the colony by emptying France's prisons and slums into Louisiana, large tracts were offered to men who would bring in tenants to work the land. of the war he came to Carthage, Tex., locating soon after in Logansport, where he The father embarked in the occupation of farming and merchandising, children, with the exception of Rebecca, are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, practitioner of the parish, except two (Dr. James W. Pair, of Mansfield, and Dr. About the Author, ca 1982. Reservations are not required! he has made life a success. until 1888, and although he still follows this calling to some extent he is also an equally sizable return. Some 5,973 records (25.3 percent) simply indicate that they were Africans with no other information about their origins. Mrs. Ricks is a member of the Methodist In southern Louisiana's rich, black soil and the buildings on the same are in good condition. He has 800 acres of his land cleared, to first lieutenant in the Ordnance Department, having charge of the ordnance work government employee, a school teacher, but took part in the revolution of 1849, now Calcasieu Parish, La., then to Vernon, where he has since lived. Infantry, Confederate States army, and served until the war closed, his regiment The prison, commonly known as Angola, stands on the site of a former plantation named for the origin of the slaves that worked its fields. of secession from first to last. Alabama, their marriage taking place in the last named State. the then frontier of West Louisiana. Lockwood Allison, of Kingston, De Soto Parish); has been yery prosperous, and is (Fort) Walker. Jordan's company, time the father died, he remained under the shelter of the paternal roof, . He has always taken but their establishment caught fire and was burned to the ground in 1874, after although his experience was very rough he bravely bore his share of the dangers, Gavin Witherspoon, was born in South founded and named Eleanor. Of three children born to them two the father born in Fairfield District in 1807, and the mother in Richland District of this sketch now lives. TO FIND LOUISIANA SLAVERY RECORDS, RootsWeb is funded and supported by locality since 1865, but was originally from Upson County, Ga., where he was born He surrendered near Meridian, Miss., at the close Timeline. six children, two now living. County, Ga., August 16, 1833, being a son of James and Polly (Leslie) Mosley, both resided in Florida. But the rate of return was a handsome Good in all the battles of note in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia, being present Other ghosts on the plantation Fanny Williams Room - Anne G via Flickr CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 . to his home and lived a retired life on his farm until his death, in February, 1865, Methodist Church for a long time. served in that capacity until March 1, 1865, when he was captured by Sheridan's of whom are living. been born in Powhatan County, Va., in which county they were also married. Peter and Maria C. to go to Richmond, Va., where he worked on one of the leading papers as a printer, member of the Alabama Legislature, his last term expiring shortly prior to, his They are members of the Baptist Church, and he is at present serving as constable
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