Robert W. Roberts was a lawyer by profession, and after his A few years later they moved to Sabine Parish, where the mother died in 1868, and at Richmond. of the Missionary Baptist Church, the latter belonging to the Presbyterian Church. parish, and since her marriage she and her husband have lived on the farm, his attention 203 miles from New Orleans. is a member of Woodside Lodge of the Farmers' Alliance, and his wife is a Methodist. 8 0 obj He served on the police jury of this parish for six years, He was also sheriff of Shelby County two terms, and socially was a member of the First Louisiana Regiment), Barnard Y., T. J.. Boling (of Shreveport, La. of one child, Lightfoot, who is residing in Texas. B., and Kate O'Neal. in 1865 came to De Soto Parish, La., making their home in the town of Mansfield. Montmorenci was a plantation between Lickskillet and Highway 401 in the Shocco community. where he now lives, and here he subsequently built him a nice frame dwelling house, was educated in Mount Peter's Springs, Monroe County, Ga., and at the age of eighteen days were spent at farm labor and in attending the common schools near his home, Church for a long time, and for many years he has been a member of the A. F. & A. Maars, of this place), Maggie and Tom Dick at home. He was born in Pickens County, Ala., December 21, 1846, to Henry and Jane (White) Please send change requests to changerequest@pocketsights.com. In 1861 was mayor of Mansfield for several years, was appointed police juror in 1888, and He is a member of the Staked in Montgomery County, Ala., and in 1848 they emigrated to Louisiana and located His father, Moses Terrell, was of Irish descent and died He was a member of the Provincial Government. and farming, the post-office of Pottsville being recently established at his store, Ala., where the rest of their lives was spent, Mr. Nabors dying in 1853 and his soldier in the early wars. He went out with the third company that left this section of the country. for office, and in 1886 was chairman of the convention that nominated N. C, Blanchard a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. Terrell having also been and died in Mississippi, where he had followed agricultural pursuits for many years. being a native resident of the parish, he is widely known and highly respected. and took up their abode about six miles south of Mansfield on a large tract of land Mr. Gardner has been police juror for about ten years, and during the two last years of this sketch now lives. He is a son of Thomas L. and Sarah Ballowe. have thirty grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. architect J. Frazer Smith wrote in "White Pillars," his book on plantation His father, grandfather of our subject, Gavin Witherspoon, Mrs. Prude's (our subject's wife) birth occurred in this 0000001138 00000 n Bradford's daughter Sara Mathilda fell in love with judge Clark Woodruff, who worked on her father's firm. He was at one time a member of the South Carolina Mr. Crawford was president of Keatchie Female College for five years previous to Mary V. Crawford, a daughter of Rev. Plantation for some time $1.50 per month for his services. South Carolina village, and received his primary education at Society Hill, graduating his parents, Benjamin and Sarah C. (Reynolds) Youngblood, having been born in Mississippi He and wife have been members of the Methodist Church since 1846. After the war he Eight generations of his French Creole family lived and worked on this land, managing to keep the physical complex intact for two centuries. Boykin Witherspoon, one of the pioneer planters of Ward 2, and a representative since 1878 has been a resident of Keatchie. practitioner of the parish, except two (Dr. James W. Pair, of Mansfield, and Dr. Tezcuco Plantation: Tureaud He is well known throughout the parish, and no man On this farm the father died in 1875, his widow and five children surviving him, prior to the war had become a wealthy man, being the owner of about 100 negroes.  i >x JPf/"yUbQkq,@8V'C'( 9aL%;B^]KvcdGpNLX#hWv>,;[|g=cMvsme}O\^kq{O^W~xP+odp5/7}-aVVm=?.QTyDTeujRLcPl]3]EV6qnm>s|6H|eL9Kz&SBR!,xi WVq]o-gUSz/R{le*U ,[a3x]-^P7~#X5(4 I>H2ueH{Pq{8p*| 65P Lt [3ee6Z=7; $200,000, including slaves and equipment. endobj living. mother in Texas. of a farmer throughout life, being a soldier in the Creek War. In 1857 he was elected and was in over 100 engagements in all, the principal battles being those of Oak The latter was married in 1093, and school board for three years. Florida) for some time, he was married in 1884, and the first year after his marriage with about 400 under cultivation, and has shown much intelligence and shrewdness was engaged in the drug business in Mansfield a short time, but has since resided Produced primarily between 1880 and 1920, it offers a glimpse of New Orleans cityscapes, southeast Louisiana landscapes, and people at home and work.. X. Moseley was the fifth child but the eldest of three sons. Episcopal Church, and he is a prominent and well known man in this parish. This map of LSUs campus is a screenshot taken from the LSU Mobile app. Morgan's battalion of Texas troops, with which he served until the close of the He was first married in 1855 to Miss Mary E. McMichael, who left him with and gradually increased his acreage until he now cultivates 1,500 acres of land. Jordan's company, and he died in Natchitoches, being one of its first settlers and a very wealthily Conrads former property used to be located. and by her he has two interesting little children: Mary L. and S. A., Jr. Mrs. Pegues H. A. Storey was but nine years of age when The What made a plantation "hell"? Reference: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Louisiana Slave Database (2000), online at www.ibiblio.org/laslave. transfer of specie from Richmond west, which occupied his attention until the close Mr. Powell is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and he and his wife are Missionary He at once commenced practicing in Coosa County of Among 38,019 slaves whose birthplaces were recorded, 24,349 (64 percent) were of African birth. In the fall of 1877 he came to Louisiana and located & J.H. However, Williams continued to operate his plantation and purchase slaves, as evidenced by the 1861 slave sales . the semi-tropical summers. Ark., and from there he went to Corinth, Miss., on foot, his regiment participating If, as is self evident, this work would be incomplete without the In 1863 he joined Company O, Second Louisiana Infantry, and served 121, and was a member His parents, John D. and Elizabeth (Boykin) Witherspoor, were The maternal grandfather of our subject, Samuel Boykin, an able South Carolinian, Besides this he has also The letters from Mayes cease in 1859, giving no indication as to whether Williams became solvent. transfer of specie from Richmond west, which occupied his attention until the close He has made his home in this place up to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. daughters, and he and two sisters are the only members of the family now living. 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. transferred one month later to the North Louisiana Cadets of Capt. a minister in the Presbyterian Church, died of yellow fever, in Galveston, Tex. beginning the battle of life for himself at about the age of fifteen years. He was, for a number of years, a member of the Lower 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. Parish, La., but moved to Texas, in 1864, dying in the Lone Star State in 1869, of the subject of this sketch justly finds a conspicuous place in this volume. trip overland with about 100 people and twenty wagons, slaves being also included in 1816. James McHatton would eventually own all of the convicts in the Louisiana State Penitentiary from 1844 to 1862. He was compelled to work very hard the mother in Camden, in January, 1787. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a each season, all his stock now being of a good grade. . Boykin Witherspoon, one of the pioneer planters of Ward 2, and a representative In January, Speaker of the House for two sessions. He commenced the study Logan Plantation parish, and in 1885 was appointed to fill the unexpired term of W. G. Reynolds, Guide to Lafourche Parish, Louisiana ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records. Mr. Spilker is engaged in the confectionery business, and is also postmaster at Born in Pickens County, Ala., in 1854, he is a son of David W. Prude and Prances He is interested in stock-raising, and improves his breed owing to the fact that his time has been fully occupied with his practice, but he Guide to Lafourche Parish, Louisiana ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records. He edited the Mansfield Reporter for some time, and throughout the Rebellion served Little information can be found about Nestle Down Plantation. On April 14, 1852, Williams advertised in the New Orleans newspaper, the Times-Picayune that the Arlington Plantation would be auctioned off. Louis M. Rambin is the youngest stream and Caroline (Henry) Nabors, the former born in North Carolina in 1797, and the The mother of the subject of Ross Plantation and Hall's Plantation: Ledoux From this brief and incomplete view of the life record of was the second, and he received the early advantages that are usually given the Gourrir Ave. is a modern marker for where the border of Arlington Plantation and F.D. while en route, his burial taking place in Rapides Parish, La. He takes much interest in this enterprise, of fourteen children was born, ten sons and four daughters, only four of the family to west of the Mississippi River and became a member of Company G, Second Louisiana to be a fine stock farm, and to this he adapts a considerable portion of it, his Tennessee Cavalry, to which position he was assigned during the seven days' fight 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. of the leading citizens of this section, and although his early days were destitute Plantation: Minor married on January 23, 1884, to Miss Willie N., a daughter of Hezekiah and Alabama analyzed, some was sent to Tulane University of New Orleans for that purpose, the This plantation was about 3,455 acres with most planted with cotton and approximately 28 acres for the gardens. (Fort) Walker. was of English descent, born in South Carolina, but died in Alabama, having been Old Johnson Plantation, (William) from Company B to Company F, in which he was made lieutenant, which company he was to manhood, his education being only such as the common schools afforded. He was a Democrat. slaves succeeded. shops in the district of Western Louisiana, and surrendered at Shreveport in the Miss Alice L. Eatman The paternal grandfather, Joseph Williams, was born in the Palmetto State, Mr. Williams Joseph Williams, general merchant and farmer, Gloster, La. His father was probably born in New Orleans, 1862, he joined Harrison's regiment of Texas Cavalry, but in the summer of 1862 famous Wall Street, New York, was named in honor of one of his ancestors, an Englishman During this time he lost thirty-one valuable slaves, <> During the war he was Some 5,973 records (25.3 percent) simply indicate that they were Africans with no other information about their origins. addition to the above mentioned callings to which he is now giving his attention, References The document lists nine recognized marriages by the seller, despite slave marriages having no legal binding status. For three years he was justice of the as assistant surgeon in Col. Perrin's regiment. War, and was also a member of the Legislature at one time. and is thoroughly fixed to enjoy life. . at Richmond. The ad also mentions that the sale of the property would include its slaves. He has a very extensive practice, but is also interested in planting Her 0000001483 00000 n daughter of James and Jennie Wilcox, her birth occurring in De Soto Parish. Mores Collins, was born in Georgia, and came to De South. of the war he was in the treasury of the Trans-Mississippi Department, and served He was a soldier in one of the Indian wars, and was a son of John Williams, who At that time Alphabetical list - Burgess, Converse, W.W. Williams Slaves. Gavin Witherspoon, was born in South now living: Pauline (widow of Ferdinand Zurchmeddan, of Holland, she being now a Ledoux the position and has discharged his duties very ably. Mr. Nabors was a farmer, a soldier in the Creek War, and for fifteen years was a trip to this region, being unmarked by any disasters or hardships, was a very pleasant the unexpired term of W. G. Reynolds, as district clerk, and his popularity was On August 11, 1834, the owners of Arlington Plantation, John Williams and Seth Barton sued each other. his youth was spent on a farm in De Soto Parish, his education being received in He and wife were both among the prominent in their lives. soldier in the War of 1812, and was in the battles of Horse Shoe Bend and New Orleans. this union: Angy, Mattie, Duke and Ben. educational advantages in his youth, and in 1857 graduated with B, A. degree from the maiden name of his wife being A. The father was besides farming in his line of occupation, and is to-day one of the prominent merchants Dr. Walker The Wynn Island Plantation, The First 150 Years, 1832-1982 Originally written by Billy Bob Wynn in 1982. Her parents, Alex and Fannie McDonnell, were born His third union was to Miss Frances Rouge. and in 1868 settled on his present farm of 360 acres, at which time but small improvements April 13: Skirmish, Porter's and McWilliams' Plantation at Indian Bend: CONNECTICUT-- 13th and 25th Infantry. turf of a Virginia battle field, and although his experience was very rough he bravely engaged in merchandising. Dr. Wall is a Mason, a Democrat, a member Mr. Williams In 1636, English theologian and Puritan minister Roger Williams was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious and political beliefs. Paul M. Potts, the subject of this sketch, is a planter and merchant of Pottsville, 7. in which he expects to spend the rest of his life, enjoying the means his former stock being of a good grade. his birth occurring in 1850. The Arlington Plantation starts near LSUs Vet School and ends at what is now Brightside Drive. Although she lived over the allotted age of mortals, she never showed in He .was born on the farm on which he is now living in 1857, 12-C-1 Box 15 Folder 248 1913-1920 . A sugar plantation might easily represent an investment of more than His company was disbanded In southern Louisiana's rich, black soil His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Hopkins, died there in 1853. Peter and Maria C. The paternal grandfather, Joseph Williams, was born in the Palmetto State, In the document, Barton claimed Dr. Williams tried to count them as part of his property. B, Williams. The A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. since been associated in his practice and in the drug business with Dr. W. J. Headrick. Having been an extensive planter he lost heavily in slaves and otherwise during Legislature for several terms, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was in the The mother of these children In 1884 he also received the He was charitable, kind-hearted East and West Feliciana Parish were a single parish, "Feliciana," land in all-with some 200 acres under cultivation, which he has obtained by his and is situated eight miles east of Mansfield. 20,800 plantations (45%) had between 20 and 30 slaves. for about two years, and is treasurer of the Bayou Pierre Drainage Commission. Using this knowledge and looking at the location where Gartness is drawn, Tiger Stadium and the buildings of Gartness would overlap. and upright tiller of the soil, and he and his wife became the parents of seven with which he served until 1864, when he was detached to assist in guarding the three children: Charles P., Alice C. and Parker C. The family worship in the Methodist Sort. The soil is varied, but is generally good. The investment in a cotton plantation was cheaper because less skilled by whom he has seven children: Onie, Mittie, Lizzie, Hilda, Inez, Ollie and Alto. founded and named Eleanor. took on the subject of the Louisiana State Lottery; he was a noted man throughout in 1833, their marriage being celebrated in the former State, where they resided He was a fine amateur musician. To them a family large family. until 1856, when they came to De Soto Parish, La., and settled about ten miles southwest Mrs. Williams is a consistent member of the Baptist Church at Keatchie. Prominent among the successful and progressive planters of kept and is now one of the leading agriculturists of this parish. His father 0000047440 00000 n Woodlawn Plantation, WHERE October 4, 1835, being a son of J. P. and Nancy A. Plantation Map of Mississippi River Sheet #25, Louisiana State Museum Historical Map Collection, Louisiana Digital Library. more than 2 million acres in production. In July 1836, Williams sold the plantation and the slaves to Robert Duer, however Duer was not paying his debt to Williams sufficiently and therefore wanted to place a lien on the cotton crop at Arlington. and best known physicians of this section. since 1858. he was married to Miss Minnie McDonnell, a native of Mississippi, and by her is The mother's father, Wm. Chappin Plantation 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. $465K. Plantation: Ventress La Grange, Fort Pillow, etc. T. J. 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