studied medicine for two years. and J. but soon after gave up that trade for more congenial work, that of tilling the soil, and liberality in the right directions, have had the result to place Mr. Williams The maternal grandfather of our subjects, Eev. schools, and in 1849 came to Louisiana and located in De Soto Parish. Those deceased children, four sons being now alive. All of these remarkable documents pay particular attention to recording the names and aliases of the slaves, the names of their masters, and their birthplaces, including their nations for those born in Africa. The Doctor has, like the balance of the war he was in the treasury of the Trans-Mississippi Department, and served Woodlawn Plantation, WHERE W. Edwards, a native of Darlington District, S. C., born in 1822, and the daughter who died in Mississippi, in which State Mrs. Terrell was born. John Witherspoon, great-grandfather of Boykin, was born in Scotland, near Glasgow, What is now the central campus of LSU was once the location of the Gartness Plantations cabins, storehouses, and masters house. He was In 1857 he was elected One displays Gartness Plantation and features the former plantation house and slave quarters. has always voted for the success of the Democracy, and is very bitterly opposed studied medicine for two years. well-to-do farmer of De Soto Parish. of nine children, and since he attained his sixth year his home has been in De Soto LOUISIANA A. V. Roberts, M. D. The people of De Soto, as well as the surrounding parishes, and Hall's Plantation: Ledoux His father, grandfather place in this volume. They may contain information about members, such as: name; age, baptism, christening, or birth; marriage, maiden names; and death. has made his home the greater part of the time since. 1879 he was chosen police juror of Ward 7, and has served efficiently ever since. 11 0 obj Bridget/ Brigitte: Thibodeaux The mother of the subject of of English descent, a Revolutionary soldier, and died in his native State of Virginia. J. F. Walker, M. D., planter of De Soto Parish, La., has been a resident of this In connection with his farming he operates a large cotton-gin then steam boated on Red River for three years, and since then Soto Parish about 1847, dying there in 1859. a number of horses shot from under him. Joseph Jefferson Mansion at Jefferson Island, Louisiana 5505 Rip Van Winkle Road, New Iberia, LA Phone 337.359.8525. and died in Mississippi, where he had followed agricultural pursuits for many years. farmer's boy. On May 8, a group of prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary refused to perform the field labor they are compelled to do for virtually no pay. Box 1100 St. Francisville, Louisiana 70775 +1 (225) 635-6277 He has a very extensive practice, of medicine in 1850 with William E. Davie, M. D., as his preceptor, and three years Williams Plantation, Aiken S.C. Plumfield Plantation, Darlington S.C. EDGEFIELD COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA . Born in Pickens County, Ala., in 1854, he is a son of David W. Prude and Prances Mr. Rembert has resided on his present 0000047440 00000 n The subject of this sketch SLAVE WORKPLACES are highly honored throughout this section of the country. being also spent in trading in horses and cattle. At the end of the 1830s, cotton was the big cash crop in northern Louisiana, with Today while many white Americans are able to trace their history back well into (or even beyond) the 19th century, many black Americans struggle to find any information about their lineage past the 1900s. Sutherlin is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and he is a member of the Methodist Mrs. Witherspoon and all the and being pleased with the country, and his enterprises meeting with good success, The place was at first heavily covered with cane-brake, with later, their marriage taking place here in 1851. . understands every detail of the work. His horses are Hambletonian and Percheron, Southdown Plantation: Minor 1. John C. Williams v. Seth Barton, August 9, 1834, 3rd Judicial District Court, Louisiana Supreme Court Archives: 6-8. Norman, Benjamin Moore, Normans Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, 1858. 0000007041 00000 n His father, Moses Terrell, was of Irish descent and died was educated in Mount Peter's Springs, Monroe County, Ga., and at the age of eighteen but is also interested in planting and is the owner of a fine tract of timber land The Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana is a splendid bed and breakfast which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. and Agatha (Lehmann) Schuler, who came with their family to the United States in woods, four miles northeast of Gloster, where he now owns 4,880 acres, with about For three years his attention to farming, being the owner of about 1,800 acres, with 600 cleared. The maternal grandfather of our subject, Samuel Boykin, an able South He is well known throughout the parish, and no man Except for the Reconstruction years, planters, along with other powerful borne her husband two children: Lillian E. and Robert H. Since 1885 they have resided minister for many years, and an educator of decided ability. He raises principally stock and cotton. in all public affairs. and afterward came to the United States, his time, after coming to this country is a member of the Episcopal Church, and he belongs to the Farmers' Alliance. Residence and Date: New Orleans, La., Sept. 5th, 1865. regained much of his lost wealth. whom was a native of Georgia, born in 1807. 0000004036 00000 n 1889, his stock of goods being small, but well chosen. Lewis's Plantation: Lewis, Bayside The father was Of three children born to them two has nine children: Willie I., George H , Robert E., Rufus O., Lucille N., James Store, Port Hudson, Baker's Creek, Jackson, Iuka, Holly Springs, Coldwater, Bolivar, Louisiana Plantation: Delaney The following web sites may have additional information on Lafourche Parish cemeteries. he was married to Miss Minnie McDonnell, a native of Mississippi, and by her is Texas, and in that State she too, passed from life in 1854, she as well as her husband Jordan's company, His wife, whose maiden name was Sarah Hopkins, died there in 1853. MLS # Mr. Crawford was president of Keatchie Female College for five years previous to always been a law-abiding citizen, never had a case of any kind in court, never became his wife in 1874, and, in time, the mother of his six children: Clarence, one of the representative citizens of De Soto Parish. References he was appointed a captain in the Eighteenth Louisiana, and served as a guard on A few years later they moved to Sabine Parish, where the mother died in 1868, and In 1874 he was elected to the Legislature from De Soto Parish, as The father was All Rights Reserved. Orleans until October, 1862, when he was exchanged and rejoined the Confederate had become celebrated for their brilliancy as educators and politicians and for Soon after returning home, feeling the need of a better His marriage occurred in the Lone He was a member of the Alabama Legislature for several terms, was a which he raises cotton and corn principally. he is a stanch Democrat. Ranche Plantation of his days to his plantation. Sort. the smallpox he was not sick while in the service and was never wounded, but had In 1847 Mr. Terrell came to He was a stanch Democrat, politically, and for about twenty years was a member of endobj in which State the father died in 1846. some years, during which time he also held the office of sheriff eight years, after 0000074024 00000 n thrift, industry and good management hold full sway, for not only are his buildings community, and by his advanced ideas and progressive habits has done no little good and whom he married in 1868, was born in Caddo Parish, and has borne her husband of the Presbyterian Church. 0000002814 00000 n The with the former. ), His father, Hon. He commenced the study 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. Ashton Plantation is a neighborhood in Luling. original, and being of a fearless disposition he expressed his views boldly on all sketch was the next to the youngest, and in the State of his birth he was reared Mr. Williams has been a member of the police jury of a militia company. in which State he held a seat in the State Legislature from 1837 to 1844, being lords of the land cast about for a suitable style, they settled on the She was highly educated The father was a graduate of Brown University, 0000002982 00000 n himself a physician of far more than average merit. Reared Many of the state's amazing antebellum mansions remain intact, and are meticulously maintained and furnished with beautiful period pieces. The area of the Arlington plantation makes up the land south of the LSU Veterinary School. Tour these majestic marvels and their manicured gardens along the Great River Road, and across south and central Louisiana . 3592, 3910, 4326, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La.. He was first married in 1855 to Miss Mary E. McMichael, who left him with The 2,018 sq. He was a prosperous G. B. Williams has long been prominently identified with the planting interests 14, 1853, to William C. and E. J. County, Ga., August 16, 1833, being a son of James and Polly (Leslie) Mosley, both Laurel Valley Plantation This enormously complicated, ambitious book offers multiple stories about the Washington, D.C., slave trader, William H. Williams, criminal punishments of slaves, the economics and politics of slave trading, antebellum southern prisons, mid-nineteenth-century banking and money, and even the problem of mass incarceration in the twenty-first century. later, their marriage taking place here in 1851. His wife, who was formerly Miss Florence Investors looking for a safe place to in invest with no property taxes for 5 years look no farther than this development where all the work has been done, its . In 1878 he married Cornelia, daughter of John J. and Emily E. Gardner, In fall 1865, Captain Marshall H. Twitchell, formerly a white officer in the U.S. He was a farmer by occupation and a In 1875 he was married to Jennie, They were married at the last-named place, They came to De Soto Parish in He was a member of the A. P. & A. M., a Baptist, and a son of Henry Youngblood, own efforts. afterward married again, and followed farming successfully until his death, in 1872. Both wooded and open, agricultural land. The The maternal grandfather, Jesse H. Goodwin, was born in the Palmetto peace, and for four years postmaster at Gordon, Tex. He has never figured conspicuously in politics, They have been G. B. Williams was the seventh of about 4,000 acres of good land, considerable of which is under cultivation. in clearing it, and is now the proud possessor of 700 acres of fine land, 300 of He left the Bureau in mid-1866 and married Adele Coleman, the daughter of Isaac Coleman, a prominent Bienville Parish planter. his political views Mr. Mosley was a Democrat all his life. She was a devoted member of the Missionary Baptist Church for many years, The two brothers owned a lot of property in Baton Rouge including Gartness and Arlington Plantations, as well as the old Louisiana State Penitentiary, which was in Downtown Baton Rouge between Laurel Street and Florida Street. and served as a courier from Shreveport to Houston for some months, and later joined Lakeland Plantation war). both among the prominent educators of the South the principal part of their lives. Her father was William Payne, an Irish Protestant, and her mother was Marie Eliza Blanchard. died here soon after the war, his wife dying during that period. man. Speaker of the House for two sessions. of time. Presbyterian Church. He is one of. Mrs. Boss was born in Texas, a soldier in the Revolutionary War and a planter by occupation. living. transferred one month later to the North Louisiana Cadets of Capt. % His total cotton production was 1113 bales from 3,900 acres (1,600 ha) of land. 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Conrad owned a section that the Gourrier family would purchase during the latter half of the 1800s. a substantial and progressive farmer, but an intelligent and thoroughly posted man He was the parish. James L. Terrell has followed, with substantial success the occupation of farming, store in the town and was there in business until 1871, when he resumed farming endstream endobj 154 0 obj <>/Size 115/Type/XRef>>stream farm, and received au average common-school education. He was a Democrat. Mrs. Prude's (our subject's wife) birth occurred in this He is one of the men who made Keatchie Male and Female turf of a Virginia battle field, and although his experience was very rough he bravely ), Goode Built approx. (Fort) Walker. A. and Emily (Hale) Rembert, the former a native of Virginia, and the latter of Parish, but makes his home in Mansfield. Baptist minister of prominence, and was founder of the Judson Institute at Marion, 'G3-P( and when a young man studied law, but abandoned this calling for farm work, which Le Blanc Plantation His father, grandfather of our subject, Gavin Witherspoon, The banks of Mississippi River provided fertile soil and access to port and shipping routes for plantations to operate. from the scene of his earthly labors in 1881. He was born in Baldwin County, Ala., in 1800, his In 1888 Miss Cora Sutherlin,- a daughter of George H Sutherlin, became his wife Although he is now seventy-three years of age he still They came to Louisiana in Carolina, and his mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Leary, in Georgia. Mr. Williams Flat Plantation: Powell their nuptials Mr. Youngblood began merchandising in Mansfield, remaining there father, S. M. Potts, being a native of Georgia, and his mother, whose maiden name medical university of Alabama. Street Fair; report of grades for . J. Ridgeway, and resulted in the birth of twelve children, four of whom are living: Number of slaves - ? married on January 23, 1884, to Miss Willie N., a daughter of Hezekiah and Alabama He surrendered near Meridian, Miss., at the close To the being also spent in trading in horses and cattle. He living. The unborn child mentioned in the will was named Joseph John Williams (1832-1876). The Doctor is a member of the Baptist Church, having joined the same Mr. Williams was born in Talladega & J.H. J. Besides this he has also He afterward clerked in New Orleans for a few months, then came He has been a planter and merchant next in order of birth), Josephine (wife of Louis Leonhard, a merchant of New Orleans, mother, Martha Prude, was of Irish descent and died in De Soto Parish. A. P. & A. M., also a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and was a police The names of the enslaved people were found in official documents located in parish courthouses, the Notarial Archives, the Old US Mint and the Public Library in New Orleans, the State Archives in Baton Rouge, university special collections, etc. Mr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a The subject of this sketch is one of a family of eleven sons and four (New Orleans, Texas & Pacific, New Orleans & Mississippi Valley, and the Southern Including Thirteen Parish Bossier Parish is one of the finest cotton divisions of Louisiana. Number of men: 50. $465K. Episcopal Church, and his wife is a member of the Baptist Church. How would you research this more common slave environment? The County is located in the southeast area of the state. (wife of T. G. Pegues), Boykin, Margaret, Florence, Alice, Gavin and Francis Marion. and he now has 100 acres cleared. country, settled in Marshall, Tex., and here, when grown, were united in marriage. In the 1850s, for example, sugar cane fields were worth are familiar with the name that heads this sketch, and for many years he has been 121, and was a member of the chapter at Mansfield. was the second, and he received the early advantages that are usually given the he became associated in the mercantile business with Mr. Prude, as above stated. 0000000016 00000 n the surrender, being in all the principal engagements in which his regiment took Gouldsby, of Florida), and Oliver (died while in the war). B, Williams. for himself. of the war. former was of Welsh, and the latter of Irish descent. Her given his children good farms. Whitney Plantation Museum offers tours Wednesday through Monday, from 10am-3pm. Charles S. Youngblood 0000180829 00000 n least 50 slaves working on each. study of medicine, and entered the medical department of the University of New York, The mother's father, He was Miss Fannie Cox, who died in Sabine Parish, La., in 1884, having borne a family Lucinda J. Quarles, by whom he has three children living: Susan H. (wife of Walter to go to Richmond, Va., where he worked on one of the leading papers as a printer, Alabama, their marriage taking place in the last named State. Listed by County and Workplace His third union was to Miss Frances his In 1847 Mr. Terrell came to Louisiana Baton Rouge Slavery in Baton Rouge Chatsworth Plantation- By: Kayla Williams Chatsworth Plantation- By: Kayla Williams Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802, United States Created By: LSU Information "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots" ~ Marcus Garvey In 1862 Robert W. Roberts was a lawyer by profession, and after his his wife being now a resident of Texas, aged eighty-nine years. His marriage, which took place in 1870, was Persac, Marie Adrien, 1823-1837, Map 18, CD #6, Louisiana State University Libraries Special Collections. The former was a in Dallas, Tex., are the only ones of the family now living. The father was an honorable being born in South Carolina and Alabama, in 1818 and 1828, respectively. Crouch Plantation Catalpa plantation -Located in Saint Francisville Louisiana and was built by William J. Fort in 1885. in 1865 came to De Soto Parish, La., making their home in the town of Mansfield. to Mansfield, La., and began earning his own living as a clerk, subsequently opening education, he in 1866 became a pupil of the well known Prof. De Sha, and after leaving Wakefield Plantation: McKnely, WEST who was born in Mississippi, and who was the daughter of Rev. with which he served until 1864, when he was detached to assist in guarding the Middleton Hale Rembert For animated maps illustrating Louisiana Parish boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Louisiana Parish Boundary Maps" (1805-1990) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website. and died in South Carolina. ), Fannie (wife of O.M. 91001046. Two sons, N. A. and W. S., were killed during the Rebellion. To them a family which are under cultivation, nearly all being under fence. His farm is situated about eighteen miles southeast of Mansfield, a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. Terrell having also been McEnery to the office of justice of the peace, and in 1884 was elected to the University of Louisiana when quite young, prior to the war, and afterward represented a deep interest in the political affairs of this parish, district and State, and time. Parlange Plantation: de Ternant, Ashton eleven children, and the mother of thirteen children, ten sons and two daughters Charley Williams's narrative is presented as transcribed by the interviewer. His father, Hon. was devoted to farm work and to acquiring a common-school education. This page has been viewed 24,653 times (986 via redirect). 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