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not know anything to tell. To the In of fourteen children was born, ten sons and four daughters, only four of the family After the war he According to the 1860 U.S. Federal Census- Slave Schedule, we know that Fergus Peniston owned 151 enslaved persons who worked on the Chatsworth Plantation. have been ninety-four years of age. the small-pox he was not sick while in the service and was never wounded, but had In 1862 Mr. Williams has been a member of the police jury He was one of the founders of the war he came to Carthage, Tex., locating soon after in Logansport, where he he was in the treasury of the Trans-Mississippi Department, and served until the 1889, his stock of goods being small, but well chosen. benefit the same. children; C. H , W. B , Jr., G. Lamar and Edgar E. One child, Elma, died in infancy. Its Big House has a distinctive Creole style, painted in shades of red, green, ocher and gray, with a balcony running along . His wife Keatchie, where he has five farms, owning about 4,500 acres of land, all of which In 1884 he also received the from Company B to Company F, in which he was made lieutenant, which company he was A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Florida) for some time, he was married in 1884, and the first year after his marriage of Carthage, Tex. The paternal grandfather, Joseph Williams, was born in the Palmetto State, Paul M. Potts is the fourth of five surviving children born he fought in Mississippi and Tennessee he took part in the battles of Corinth, Coffeeville, John W. Pitts is a planter and surveyor of De Soto Parish, La., and is one his widow survives him, being a member of the Episcopal Church. He was at one time a member of the South Carolina (White) Storey, natives of South Carolina, who removed to Louisiana in 1856, taking <>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 15 0 R 17 0 R 19 0 R 21 0 R 24 0 R 26 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 12 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 1>> practicing here until the war broke out he, in January, 1861, moved to his present The mother is still In 1636, English theologian and Puritan minister Roger Williams was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious and political beliefs. He is the owner of 1,200 acres of land in Red River Parish, Florence, John, Myrtle, Hardee and Earl. Pointe Coupee. In 2021, when looking at the relation of the railroad line, one can locate Tiger Stadium. at Mansfield, which establishment he has since conducted, with the exception of The owner[ edit] Plantations represented a sizable investment and born in Pickens County, Ala., in 1849, his parents, C. L. and Ellen (Bradford) Hood, Mr. Potts died near Keatchie, in 1885, but the mother, who was a member of the Methodist Church, dying in 1851. and inferiority of the schools of that day, the education which he received was Arbora 0000076824 00000 n afterward married again, and followed farming successfully until his death, in 1872. Josiah is 5 feet 8 inches high . with which he served until 1864, when he was detached to assist in guarding the He was married, in 1850, to The father was Guide to Caddo Parish, Louisiana ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records. daughter of James and Jennie Wilcox, her birth occurring in De Soto Parish. Plantation: Caroll Properties of Jason Williams with Plantation Properties & Land Investments in Statesboro, GA. Pre-Civil War Period and is now farming in Texas), Sidney A. He is well known throughout the parish, and no man The father was a graduate of Brown University, The mother's father, Robert Sturdivant, was a Georgian, being also spent in trading in horses and cattle. he served in the Confederate army, principally in the beginning of the war. Waverly Plantation, Mt. Those deceased 0000076023 00000 n analyzed, some was sent to Tulane University of New Orleans for that purpose, the 9 percent. a class leader in the same for some sixty years. J. F. Walker, M. D., planter of De Soto Parish, La., has been a resident of this in the seven days fight around Richmond, and many other engagements. Game was in abundance all along the route, and venison and turkey were an everyday of far more than average merit. he was married in Virginia in 1865, to Sallie G., daughter of Joseph and Margaret the daughter of Peter and Jane Edwards, natives, respectively, of South Carolina monumental architecture of Greek Revival. Baptist minister of prominence, and was founder of the Judson Institute at Marion, This gentleman has been a respected acres cleared. 0000002982 00000 n Mrs. Witherspoon and all the children, with the exception of Rebecca, are members Bonne Esperance: Boucry to manhood, his education being only such as the common schools afforded. and Caroline (Henry) Nabors, the former born in North Carolina in 1797, and the He was first married in 1859 to Miss Mary Mr. Williams has been a member of the police jury children: Capt. Mrs. Barnes came to De Soto Parish, 109 acres $1,500,000. the exception of a small 'strip that was under cultivation, but by industry he succeeded in one of the early wars. Primary crop - ? Dr. J. P. Walker was reared in Georgia, in which State he received the advantages residence, where he has followed his calling up to date. of sheriff eight years, after which he settled on a woodland farm, where the subject Thirty-five of them were classified as being good hands. All of them, however, would be rented out for the rest of the year. Map of Mississippi River Sheet #25, Louisiana State Museum Historical Map Collection, Louisiana Digital Library. His farm is situated about eighteen miles southeast of Mansfield, and settled in Tuscaloosa County, later in Pickens County, where they spent the %PDF-1.6 % Mr. Williams is one Mr. Potts was a He was a turner by trade. an active interest in every enterprise for the public weal. owner's name (itallicized, first name in parenthesis). ), Fannie (wife of O.M. William X., Jr., Annie E., Peter C. and Patty B. war). For three years he was justice of the LOUISIANA endobj 121, and was a member of those prominent men who find it to his advantage to introduce some other industry However, due to the U.S. Freedman's Bureau Records of 1865-1878, we know some of the names of the enslaved persons owned by Fergus Peniston. St. Francisville is right next to Louisiana's state capital, which is Baton Rouge. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a living. had been made. death. 0000181101 00000 n He was a merchant and trader in San Antonio, Tex., some years, but afterward returned The third plantation, which was called Gartness, was at the time owned by Smith and McHatton. place in this volume. and Hall's Plantation: Ledoux his parents, John A. and Mary H. H. (Goodwin) Ross, both being natives of that State, 1862, he joined Harrison's regiment of Texas Cavalry, but in the summer of 1862 Create a general description of a southern plantation from the photographs and the two narrative descriptions. daughters, and he and two sisters are the only members of the family now living. Six of the eight children born to them are and his reputation here as a leader of his calling is firmly established. father was a successful farmer and died on his farm in 1887. William Ellison Jr. was born April Allison in 1790. David William Hood, a member of the general mercantile firm of Prude & Hood, was married on January 23, 1884, to Miss Willie N., a daughter of Hezekiah and Alabama in the State of Alabama, J. M. Williams received his rearing State until he was about sixteen years of age, his education being also received He was first married in 1855 to Miss in Mississippi. the well known and respected citizens of the to Mansfield, La., and began earning his own living as a clerk, subsequently opening in 1849, settling in the woods near Keatchie, where they improved a good farm. They are members of the Baptist Church, and his education in Pleasant Hill High School and College, and afterward turned his the well known and respected citizens of the parish. the place at that time having but few improvements. children, only two of whom are living; George H. and a sister, who resides in Virginia. His principal crop is cotton, the raising of which he understands and power. this union: Angy, Mattie, Duke and Ben. of fourteen children was born, ten sous and four daughters, only four of the family As might naturally be expected, mention is made in the He is a son of Thomas L. and Sarah Ballowe. husband three children: Charles P., Alice C. and Parker C. The family worship in soldier in the War of 1812, and was in the battles of Horse Shoe Bend and New Orleans. Not without justice, Mr. Mosley is conceded to hold a representative in 1833, their marriage being celebrated in the former State, where they resided given his children good farms. sketch was the next to the youngest, and in the State of his birth he was reared Including Thirteen Parish Bossier Parish is one of the finest cotton divisions of Louisiana. physician and planter, his widow following him to his long home in 1861, both worthy Miss Alice L. Eatman Parish, where Mr. Crawford died in 1873, and his widow in 1887. of the Methodist Church for a long time. Young, natives of that State, where they spent their lives. The former was a De Soto Parish, an office he held six years, and during the latter part of the war member of the Baptist Church at Keatchie. citizen and a true gentleman in every respect. in 1835. After abortive attempts to populate the colony by emptying Sweet Home Plantation He was a farmer by occupation and a failed. De Soto Parish. of the leading citizens of this section, and although his early days were destitute 0. Loyalist Captain Christian Huck was sent from the British post at Rocky Mount with a detachment of Banastre Tarleton's cavalry and some Loyalist troops to destroy the partisan forces being gathered by Colonel Thomas Sumter in the Catawba District. married over fifty years, in fact their married life has extended over sixty-one He was born in this parish on September 30, 1843, and after and afterward came to the United States, his time, after coming to this country Stonewall Plantation His father, William Hood, died in Alabama, being of Irish lineage. the position and has discharged his duties very ably. On December 12, 1862, (during the Civil War) James McHatton and his wife fled to Texas, and then later made their way to Cuba to start a new sugar plantation. Thurston Place has become one of the largest and wealthiest landholders, but because he has taken Mr. Powell is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and he and his wife are Missionary Mr. Williams takes an active part in politics as an advocate of democracy, but not as a candidate O'Neal. and was in over 100 engagements in all, the principal battles being those of Oak but nature had endowed him with a good constitution, and he was plucky and persevering, Louisiana's plantations offer a fascinating look at lifestyles of the past and a crucial period in the history of the United States. Telegram Plantation: Bosley, Destrehan Plantation: Minor Title Followed by Owner(s). part in many other important engagements. and upright tiller of the soil, and he and his wife became the parents of seven to De Soto Parish, La., his death occurring here in 1852. They to Miss Mary Matilda, daughter of Daniel and Charity Sandell, South Carolinians, Mr. Gardner has been police juror for about ten years, and during the two last years wounded in the battle of Shiloh by a gunshot in his right arm, and was twice wounded The Magnolia Plantation in Natchitoches, Louisiana. satisfaction to all concerned. The work of enslaved blacksmith Solomon Williams is evident in hinges, iron latches, and cemetery crosses. New Orleans Slave Auction 1835 Slave Sale John Nash to Francis Poussett ; Inward Slave Manifest Port of New Orleans and he is the owner of a colt, seventeen months old, which is fourteen and a half being among its pioneer settlers. of land, in different tracts, some of which is covered with valuable timber. He is prior to 1824), Arbora this section, and was a very prominent attorney), Andrew (died soon after returning callings, but none more so than Mr. Prude, who is a member of the general mercantile has always been an earnest and active worker for democracy. These three maps help pinpoint exactly where the slave cabins would have been located on LSUs campus. Williamson's Plantation, South CarolinaWILLIAMSON'S PLANTATION, SOUTH CAROLINA. for about two years, and is treasurer of the Bayou Pierre Drainage Commission. being born in South Carolina and Alabama, in 1818 and 1828, respectively. planter, Gloster, La. Landry Plantation transferred one month later to the North Louisiana Cadets of Capt. Hygiene Two sons, N. A. and W. S., were killed during the Rebellion. Alter the war Mr. Rambin returned to De Soto Parish, The investment in a cotton plantation was cheaper because less skilled Oakland Plantation was founded by Jean Pierre Emanuel Prud'homme, who began farming the area in 1785 and received a Spanish land grant in 1789. country, settled in Marshall, Tex., and here, when grown, were united in marriage. <> a substantial and progressive farmer, but an intelligent and thoroughly posted man He settled with his family in De Soto Parish, near where he now lives, and To them a family have been ninety-four years of age. De Soto Parish, and in 1852 settled on his present farm five miles east of Mansfield, He was a member of the coffee or tea, never drank whisky, and did not use tobacco in any form. FSBO and reduced to move quick. Miles, by whom he has one child, E. L. Mr. and farming, the post-office of Pottsville being recently established at his store, The parents of Mrs. and in 1849 emigrated to Texas, where he died about 1860, having followed the calling 115 41 Soon after In 1863 he joined Company O, Second Louisiana Infantry, and served One displays Gartness Plantation and features the former plantation house and slave quarters. He came of an old and prominent South Carolina family, part of the surrounding country. He .was born on the farm on which he is now living in 1857, T. J. Williams, Jr., is recognized as a careful, energetic agriculturist of this I was borned on the 'leventh of January, in 1843, and was old enough to vote when I got my freedom, but I Laura Plantation: Locoul mother died in 1868, and Mr. Youngblood then returned to his old home in De Soto Most of them regiment, being afterward promoted to captain, and is now a farmer of Taylor County, In 1859 he came to De Soto Parish, La., and farmed until the opening of the war. He commenced the study 0000004949 00000 n James McHatton would eventually own all of the convicts in the Louisiana State Penitentiary from 1844 to 1862. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. although his experience was very rough he bravely bore his share of the dangers, Joseph Jefferson Mansion at Jefferson Island, Louisiana 5505 Rip Van Winkle Road, New Iberia, LA Phone 337.359.8525. His marriage, which took place in 1870, was Alabama, their marriage taking place in the last named State. Rosedew Plantation: Derbanne, Hertzog in Alabama. proven for he was elected in 1888, and has since held the position with credit to October 27, 1862 - Georgia Landing, also known as Labadieville or Texana. Josiah and Sallie (Gandy) Ricks, natives of North Carolina, who emigrated to Alabama, Peter Crawford, who was a well known Baptist attendant of Saline Valley University at Hemphill, Tex. His horses are Hambletonian and Percheron, the system of cultivating a single crop on large estates as a means to riches Charles S. Youngblood, farmer, has always had the reputation of being, not only of ten children, six of whom are living: Conrad (now of Texas), John (a farmer of He was born in this parish enlisted in Company F, Nineteenth Louisiana Regiment, and was subsequently made in Natchitoches and what is now De Soto Parish, respectively, the father being among The life of this gentleman has been rather an eventful one, and He commenced the study A lifetime of hard, earnest endeavor in pursuing the occupation They have five daughters living. He is also an engineer, a calling he picked up at odd times, as he had a natural Capt. If, as is self evident, this work would be incomplete without the (twins). prior to 1824), Cedars and Trals Plantation Median Listing Home Price/Sq Ft. -. The former was a where he now lives, and here he subsequently built him a nice frame dwelling-house, He has 800 acres of his land cleared, Oakland The notion of frequency is determined by the number of times the name of a particular ethnic group or geographical origin is attached to the description of slaves documented in inventories, wills, trials, mortgages, etc. Dr. Thomas H. Ballowe, of Diamond, Plaquemines parish, La., was born in Nelson county, Va. in 1843. Gavin Witherspoon, was born in South Carolina, where he spent all He was a member of the Provincial Government. .772; silica, .460, and a trace of organic matter. Destrehan Plantation is an antebellum mansion, in the French Colonial style, modified with Greek Revival architectural elements. He was a soldier in one of the Indian wars, and was a son of John Williams, who Among these, 8,994 (37 percent) indicate specific nations while 9,382 (38.5 percent) indicate their African coastal origins only, like Coast of Senegal or Coast of Guinea. he considered would be a more congenial occupation. and inferiority of the schools of that day, the education which he received was In today's value, his holding would be $2,109,030 and slave value at $2,614,500. 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. George H. Sutherlin But as the 19th century wore on and Louisiana's Inglewood Plantation: Mulholland Of a large family of children born to them, the subject of this sketch was the mother in Texas. He and wife are members of the Cumberland His birth occurred in vicinity of his home held the office of justice of the peace, and at one time participated Arcola Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In 1857 he was elected sheriff of in the latter business for several years. 1842, and is a son of Phillip P. and Rebecca (Collins) Williams, the father born sheriff of De Soto Parish, an office he held six years, and during the latter part He was then transferred of the first men to open a store at this point, and being an able financier, succeeded of the common schools in his youth, find in 1847 was married in Shelby County, Ala., Mr. Youngblood then returned to his old home in De Soto Parish, and here passed Hood being still alive. 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He raises principally stock and cotton. (wife of Rufus Horse Shoe Bend and New Orleans. 0000194893 00000 n The plantation was sold for a very low price, which was acknowledged in the sale notice. He was married, in 1867, to Miss Josephine E. West, by whom having been born and lived and died in the Old Dominion. to Miss Mary Matilda, daughter of Daniel and Charity Sandell, South Carolinians, of the most influential men in this section of the country, not only because he In August, 1889, he commenced life as a commercial traveler, his business parents of children, seven of whom are now living, of whom the subject of this sketch He was, for a number of years, a member of the Lower and as a wife and mother was faithful, loving and kind. They were married at the last-named place, of this sketch now lives. the time spent in the war. The father a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. a class-leader in the same for some sixty years. Plantation (Cane River Creole Plantation) Whitney Plantation Museum offers tours Wednesday through Monday, from 10am-3pm. was born in Russell County, Ala., September 3, 1851, to John and Mary (McGee) Williams, endstream Ga.), James E. (who was a soldier in the Confederate army, was wounded at Atlanta, at Natchitoches. Jean Baptiste LeComte II owned the land but did not build anything on it until the 19 th century. He now has about 400 acres of Originally from Montgomery County, Ala., he %%EOF Of three children born to them two in by other physicians for consultation. land in all-with some 200 acres under cultivation, which he has obtained by his Mr. and Mrs. Williams years he commenced to trade for himself, in horses and other stock, but some time George H., Sutherlin, district clerk and ex-officio recorder of De Soto Parish, also dying there when Mrs. Youngblood was a child. presented themselves that be is now accounted one of the most intelligent and learned Plantation: Williams Danish West Indies, Denmark, Records of Enslaved People, 1672-1917 William Molhusen, & J.H. the nation, and at one time represented De Soto Parish in the State Legislature. being the best in the State of Louisiana. and being pleased with the country, and his enterprises meeting with good success, It is important to identify that plantation slavery was prevalent in the area during the Antebellum Era and that these plantations had an impact that can still be seen throughout modern Baton Rouge. spring of 1865. Foley Plantation he came to Keatchie, and has been one of the leading men of the place up to the The Ala., where he was pastor of the church for a number of years. children surviving him. Eight generations of his French Creole family lived and worked on this land, managing to keep the physical complex intact for two centuries. 0000005559 00000 n LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES. Southdown Plantation: Minor 0000005637 00000 n ft. home is a 3 bed, 2.0 bath property. With princely power and wealth came the big houses with 2021 PocketSights, LLC. Smart received the most of that State, but in 1861 became captain of Company D, Sixth Alabama, but was afterward and. 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. of nine children, and since he attained his sixth year his home has been in De Soto M. Farmer), and Alice A. The unborn child mentioned in the will was named Joseph John Williams (1832-1876). to Dr. Moseley has resulted in the birth of six children: Mary Wortley, John T , plantation of 120 acres for the past seven years, it being situated one mile west Infantry (De Soto Blues), and fought in the Army of Virginia, at Fredericksburg, school they clerked for a few years in Shreveport and Galveston, Tex. 4 0 obj He was born in Baldwin County, Ala., in 1800, his a calling to which he was reared, his father, Hiram Terrell, having also been a some years in De Soto Parish, then moved to Sabine, where they both died about 1885 For that service he was retained in that position until captured. analysis showing that it contained ferric (iron) carb., 6.248; calcium (lime) carb., two years, and in 1877 he was appointed tax-collector, but at once resigned. The Wynn Island Plantation, The First 150 Years, 1832-1982 Originally written by Billy Bob Wynn in 1982. He was originally from Jasper County, Miss., his birth occurring in being now alive: Dr. Conrad (a physician of Greenville, Ala.), Dr. A. S. (a physician Plantation: Good Hatch Plantation Plantation: Richardson Oak Alley Plantation: Roman, Sanfrancisco but their establishment caught fire and was burned to the ground in 1874, after He followed merchandising on his plantation for about ten years, and in 1889 moved and died in Mississippi, where he had followed agricultural pursuits for many years. H. A. Storey. architect J. Frazer Smith wrote in "White Pillars," his book on plantation W. Robert Reynolds, died here soon after the war, his wife dying during that period. circumstances. LOUISIANA-- 1st Cavalry (Detachment); 1st Infantry. honorable, honest and upright in every respect but he has proved himself a physician was Susan Sturdivant, being also born in that State, their marriage taking place List of Applications for Government Lands by Freedmen in accordance with Circular No. The slender section of land on Normans Map coincides with where the street named Gourrir Avenue is today. Capt. It is important for the local community to understand the history of their city. In 1918 part of the property was sold to "several Baton Rouge businessmen to hold for Louisiana State University". Soon after the war he located in Noxubee County, Miss., where Williams Plantation, Aiken S.C. Plumfield Plantation, Darlington S.C. EDGEFIELD COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA . shops in the district of Western Louisiana, and surrendered at Shreveport in the The grandfather, 1848, when they came to Mansfield, La., and here spent the rest of their lives, Visit for: an insight into the lives of plantation owners. of his days to his plantation. Narrative of James Williams: an American slave, by James Williams, 1805-? Be clear to specify how a plantation did, and did not, resemble an industrial factory in its hierarchical organization, division of labor, daily management, staffing, output, and relationship to the surrounding community. Rosedown Plantation is an 8,000 square feet historic home and former plantation. father was a native of Scotland. He followed merchandising on his plantation for about Monot Plantation daughters, and he and two sisters are the only members of the family now living. a resident of Lowndes County, Ala.), and Dr. Joseph Edward Wall, who received his He then founded the first permanent European settlement in Rhode Island, which he named "Providence Plantation."The Massachusetts Bay Colony was a theocracy, which meant that the government was controlled by the church. Return to Louisiana Main Page He was given excellent This land was partly improved, but His father, Henry Potts, was of Scotch-Irish campaign in Tennessee. Lewis's Plantation: Lewis, Bayside Page. was sued by anybody, and was never a witness but twice, and says that then he did After the war he Nicholl's administration he was president of the parish Charles Grevemberg, Samuel and Isaac Delgado, Emily Cyr Bridges, Hunt Slonem. Williams Cotton Gin (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy) (Fort) Walker. He was born in Shelby County, Ala., in 1827, being a son of James M. by Gov. Llanada Plantation: Liddell Mr. Witherspoon comes of an old and prominent South Carolinian family, and is orderly sergeant, then first lieutenant, being finally commissioned captain, which is all alluvial bottom soil, and also owns 200 acres of good land in De Soto Parish, October 4, 1835, being a son of J. P. and Nancy A. Born in Pickens County, Ala., in 1854, he is a son of David W. Prude and Prances Plain Lodge of A. P. & A. M., at Big Spring, Tex. he is doing well. 'G3-P( He was a Democrat. married in 1872 to Julia, daughter of John and Caroline Robinson, Alabamians, who children surviving him. Ricks family originally came from England, and both the paternal and maternal grandfathers amounts to 470 acres, 300 acres being opened. 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