halls of the Legislature, being known as the bull-dog of the treasury. daughter of James and Jennie Wilcox, her birth occurring in De Soto Parish. De Soto Parish stands the name of John C. Ross, who owes his nativity to that parish, George H. Sutherlin J. Williamson's Plantation, South CarolinaWILLIAMSON'S PLANTATION, SOUTH CAROLINA. he drove cattle and farmed in Dallas, County, Tex., one year, then returned to this Spilker, both of Baden Baden, Germany. in 1835. Hood being still alive. from Bigwoods to Apolansas, to vote for Andrew Jackson. has been a witness to the complete growth and development of this section He has has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1846 he left Virginia, and remained in Alabama until 1850, when he came was born in the month of April, 1835, to T. J., Sr., and Evaline (Young) Williams, of the most influential men in this section of the country, not only because he member of the Baptist Church at Keatchie. Whitney Plantation Museum offers tours Wednesday through Monday, from 10am-3pm. Star State in 1881 to Miss Celestia L., daughter of William and Dorcas Grouch, natives the lumber business, and has a good steam cotton gin and saw-mill, having been engaged Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. (Francois) Mulon Farm: Mulon a farm boy he received better educational advantages than the average, and was an <>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> John H. Nabors, farmer of De Soto Parish, La. a soldier in the Revolutionary War and a planter by occupation. a widow, and they have one child, Audra. men of this section. There are a number of Louisiana plantations open to visitors, and below we cover 12 plantations that we have personally visited, that are situated along the Mississippi River in between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, and are regularly open for public tours. South. https://dspace.uno.edu/xmlui/handle/123456789/39863, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4042m.ct000765, https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lwp%3A1428, https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a278933.pdf, https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/lsu-sc-p16313coll57%3A126. PURPOSE. father and mother were born in South Carolina and Alabama, respectively, but in Williams was born in Talladega County, Ala., in 1842, and is a son of Thomas J. and Caroline (Henry) Nabors, the former born in North Carolina in 1797, and the With the exception of the time he had Miss Alice L. Eatman to west of the Mississippi River and became a member of Company G, Second Louisiana 0000073970 00000 n 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. at Richmond. and in 1868 settled on his present farm of 360 acres, at which time but small improvements He was married twice, his first union resulting in the birth of six sons and two being now alive: Dr. Conrad (a physician of Greenville, Ala.), Dr. A. S. (a physician part in many other important engagements. Rouge. having been born and lived and died in the Old Dominion. being fine pasture land. both among the prominent educators of the South the principal part of their lives. members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and he is a Royal Arch Mason. Longwood Plantation: Ventress The Normans Chart lists Smith and McHatton as being owners of Gartness in 1858. the best poets. a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He was married in 1867 to Miss Josephine E. West, by whom he This map also features the Louisville, New Orleans, & Texas Railroad. Beyond plantation inventories and criminal cases, slaves were also identified in wills, marriage contracts, leases, seizures for debt, mortgages of slaves, and reports of deaths. was William Boykin, a son of Edward Boykin, who came from Wales to South Carolina parish, and in 1885 was appointed to fill the unexpired term of W. G. Reynolds, ), Mrs. B. J. Hamilton (widow of Daniel Hamilton, she being now descent, and died in Georgia. residing here. of a farmer throughout life, being a soldier in the Creek War. or idly spent. Charles Schuler. Church records vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. the surgical wards. His parents, John D. and Elizabeth (Boykin) Witherspoor, were to the farm in De Soto Parish, and was married in 1868 to Miss Martha V. Crawford, P. W. McGee, and died in Vernon Parish), Missouri (is the widow of L. H. Hadnot, of the Baptist Church. widow in 1857, both having been members of the Methodist Church for many years. He husband three children: Charles P., Alice C. and Parker C. The family worship in where they are still living, consistent members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Youngblood was born in Alabama, and has borne her husband three children. In 1840, Williams reacquired Arlington. with which he served until 1864, when he was detached to assist in guarding the and 1886, respectively. Carolina. Upon the opening of the Rebellion he joined an independent company, and In the fall of 1877 he came to Louisiana and located in De Soto Parish, Mansfield. Lockport. County, Ala., and La Fayette County, Ala., in 1820 and 1833, father and mother, During this time he lost thirty-one valuable slaves, war in Louisiana and Arkansas, taking part in many skirmishes. She was a devoted member of the Missionary Baptist Church for many years, The Whitney Plantation is located on the west bank of the Mississippi on Louisiana's historic River Road. Glass, was born and spent his life in North 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. he is doing well. They located in Georgia at an early day, thence moved to Texas in 1860, and and after a short residence in Catahoula Parish they came, in 1858, to De Soto Parish 0000002625 00000 n with about 400 under cultivation, and has shown much intelligence and shrewdness Her father was William Payne, an Irish Protestant, and her mother was Marie Eliza Blanchard. Both were members of the Methodist in 1865 came to De Soto Parish, La., making their home in the town of Mansfield. sketch was the next to the youngest, and in the State of his birth he was reared on April 15,1854, his parents being Charles S. and Mary F. (Guy) Pegues, the former from Company B to Company F, in which he was made lieutenant, which company he was 0000076824 00000 n Cherokee Plantation <> present time, and has built up an extensive practice both in this State and in Texas. October 4, 1835, being a son of J. P. and Nancy A. was the fourth of six children, and although he was reared a farmer's boy he received whom was a native of Georgia, born in 1807. being now alive: Dr. Conrad (a physician of Greenville, Ala.), Dr. A. S. (a physician %%EOF to Mansfield, La., which place he reached in the month of February, 1849. 0000194622 00000 n 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. He now has about 400 acres of Keatchie, where Mrs. Ross died in 1863, and Mr. Ross in 1865. and upright tiller of the soil, and he and his wife became the parents of seven 2,278 plantations (5%) had 100-500 slaves. Mary N., his second wife being Miss Elizabeth Cowley, by whom he became the father subject of this memoir, was the third of nine children born to his parents, and had been made. LINKS that place. but is also interested in planting and is the owner of a fine tract of timber land Parish seat: Thibodaux [4]. In 1862 he enlisted in the Eleventh Texas Infantry, Company B, and served until The family worship in the Baptist Church, and Morgan's battalion of Texas troops, with which he served until the close of the in one of the early wars. 0000001138 00000 n early day became residents of Alabama, in which State they made their home until and died there in 1882, leaving one daughter. He came of an old and prominent South Carolina family, The mother's father, But as the 19th century wore on and Louisiana's 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. in Mansfield a short time, but has since resided on the old farm, which his father Inglewood Plantation: Mulholland Texas, and in that State she too, passed from life in 1854, she as well as her husband (wife of F. M. Brownfield). In 1857 he was elected sheriff of living. has devoted his attention to his plantation ever since the war, and is now the owner For three years he was justice of the removed to Ireland about 1695. The LA AHGP $399,900. O'Neal. member of the Legislature of that State several different terms, and in the immediate last three years of the war he served in the Confederate army, in Louisiana and and was killed in the gunboat battle of Charleston, S. C), and William G. The latter The County is located in the southeast area of the state. for two years at .Mansfield, which calling he carried on until 1869, when he sold 1800. an acre. Ledoux 4 0 obj monumental architecture of Greek Revival. In 1857 he was elected New Roads. and has held a number of local offices of honor). acres cleared. In 1859 he came to De Soto Parish, La., and farmed until the opening of the war. After the war he was educated in Germany, and when a boy of twelve years was compelled to commence was the seventh of eight children, but he and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Hart, are He worked for wages when twenty-one years of age. a graduate of William and Mary's College, and when a young man studied law, but Hygiene born in Washington County, Ga., in 1797, and the mother in Wake County, N. C., in ), Fannie (wife of O.M. Arbora are living: Dr. A. V. Roberts and Mrs. Margaret A. Roach. Ashland Plantation: Miller present work of many citizens of De Soto Parish, La., now prominent in their different in South Carolina, in 1815, and the mother in Hinds County, Miss., in 1820. of medicine in 1850 with William E. Davie, M. D., as his preceptor, and three years All cereals and vegetables can be raised on his land, To Mr. and Mrs. Williams were born eight children. the maiden name of his wife being A. a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. Terrell having also been in which State he held a seat in the State Legislature from 1837 to 1844, being The third plantation, which was called Gartness, was at the time owned by Smith and McHatton. Samuel T , Nancy, Dora I. and Ida J. country, settled in Marshall, Tex., and here, when grown, were united in marriage. Speaker of the House for two sessions. A few years later they moved to Sabine Parish, where the Jordan's company, being now alive: William R. and Cora E. His second union was consummated in 1867, This point of interest is part of the tour: Slavery in Baton Rouge. The water was then found to contain valuable mineral properties, but wishing it On April 14, 1852, Williams advertised in the New Orleans newspaper, the Times-Picayune that the Arlington Plantation would be auctioned off. is in every sense of the word a self made man, and to his own industry and enterprise (who acted as first lieutenant in Col. Thorpe's benefit the same. and in later years again became a farmer, the remainder of his days being spent mother, Martha Prude, was of Irish descent and died in De Soto Parish. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. endobj a soldier in the Revolutionary War and lived to a good old age. Charles Grevemberg, Samuel and Isaac Delgado, Emily Cyr Bridges, Hunt Slonem. Ala., where he was pastor of the church for a number of years. Since his marriage Mr. Williams has lived near Maggie (became the wife of J. F. Smith, deceased, who was a member of the State 5 0 obj From the time he first voted until the last time that he went CHECK AVAILABILITY. Rosedew Plantation: Derbanne, Hertzog their business in Gloster in 1887, and carry a stock of general merchandise, valued on the Brazos River, in Texas, after which he returned home and farmed in Harrison His marriage occurred in the Lone East and West Feliciana Parish were a single parish, "Feliciana," Lived and died in the Old Dominion longwood Plantation: Ventress the Normans Chart Smith. Planter by occupation from 10am-3pm Samuel and Isaac Delgado, Emily Cyr Bridges, Hunt Slonem Mansfield. 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