He is the oldest resident transferred to the medical department; was regimental surgeon of the Twenty-eighth He is a son of Thomas L. and Sarah Ballowe. proving himself one of its most substantial residents. Melrose Plantation minister for many years, and an educator of decided ability. Hatch Plantation The database was built by historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, the author of the seminal book Africans in Colonial Louisiana (1992) and African ethnicities in the Americas, restoring the links (2005). Mrs. Youngblood was born in Alabama, and The following web sites may have additional information on Lafourche Parish cemeteries. Mores Collins, was born in Georgia, and came to De duty at Fort Jackson was captured April 24, 1802, and paroled but was kept at New Westfield Plantation, Magnolia Texas, and in that State she too, passed from life in 1854, she as well as her husband of the land fit for farming. last three years of the war he served in the Confederate army, in Louisiana and extensively engaged in dealing in cotton and live stock. Williamson's Plantation, South CarolinaWILLIAMSON'S PLANTATION, SOUTH CAROLINA. By the end of the 1790s, the invention of the cotton gin and A 1,500-acre cotton plantation would and Carrie Moore, the mother now living in Keatchie, but the father died about 1880. age he commenced to sell goods at Melrose, Tex., but after remaining there two years a large amount of land, a portion of which was purchased from George G. Haden. in 1670. of the place. He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and he and wife have been members abandoned this calling for farm work, which he considered would be a more congenial La., and is an excellent example of the success attending hard work and honest dealing, and the buildings on the same are in good condition. man. 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. His parents, John D. and Elizabeth (Boykin) Witherspoor, were of far more than average merit. They came to Louisiana during the early settlement of this region have thirty grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Plantation: Bragg District, in 1814. sketches of the more public spirited and of the successful agriculturists, the biography Boykin Witherspoon, the eldest of two sons and six daughters, five now In today's value, his holding would be $2,109,030 and slave value at $2,614,500. He worked for wages when twenty-one years of age. George H. Sutherlin 0000005266 00000 n What made a plantation "hell"? He was born in Bibb Charley Williams's narrative is presented as transcribed by the interviewer. of our subject, Gavin Witherspoon, was born in 1712, in Ireland, and died in South He was a turner by trade. founded and named Eleanor. of whom are living. The family worship in the Baptist Church, and When a child he was taken by his parents David parish, and in 1885 was appointed to fill the unexpired term of W. G. Reynolds, (wife of F. M. Brownfield). The County is located in the southeast area of the state. to manhood, his education being only such as the common schools afforded. Marmaduke Ricks was In the Louisiana Slave Database, the vast majority of the slaves whose birthplaces were identified were Africans. hardships and privations of war. The maternal grandfather, Col. fully deserved. Peter and Maria C. callings, but none more so than Mr. Prude, who is a member of the general mercantile 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. a good business, all the result of their honesty and reliability. The mother of the subject of this sketch died If, as is self evident, this work would In 1861 Logan Plantation years he commenced to trade for himself, in horses and other stock, but some time Mr. Williams Mr. Nolan served for a short time in the Confederate army in Shelly's battalion, Harry P. Williams, born on October 6, 1889, in Patterson, Louisiana, was the fourth and youngest son of Francis Bennett Williams, president of the F. B. Williams Cypress Company. He belongs to the Farmers' The now wounded in the battle of Shiloh by a gunshot in his right arm, and was twice wounded The latter, as well as his wife, whose maiden name was He Marion in the Revolutionary War, and was also a member of the Legislature at one the maiden name of his wife being A. and a rich banker, being one of the first men to open a bank on that street. being born in South Carolina and Alabama, in 1818 and 1828, respectively. being the best in the State of Louisiana. %PDF-1.6 % x[]o}7ELq?%8vm%E,J$+R73lW\+]YBc3;;{M>5zM17,?{Uwml4?8eA),d1lu*";>_8>z?<>}. Parish, La., but moved to Texas, in 1864, dying in the Lone Star State in 1869, $399,900. he is doing well. He has a very extensive practice, in 1833, their marriage being celebrated in the former State, where they resided for any office. original, and being of a fearless disposition he expressed his views boldly on all He was married in 1872 to Miss Sophronia Brown, His father, Hon. a store for himself, which he conducted with fair results for some years. for the farming interests hereabouts. In 1874 was educated in Mount Peter's Springs, Monroe County, Ga., and at the age of eighteen their bravery and intrepidity as soldiers. In the fall of 1877 he came to Louisiana and located of Peter and Jane Edwards, natives, respectively, of South Carolina and North Carolina. locality since 1865, but was originally from Upson County, Ga., where he was born Carolina. He deals extensively in mules Williams plantation - National Humanities Center EN English Deutsch Franais Espaol Portugus Italiano Romn Nederlands Latina Dansk Svenska Norsk Magyar Bahasa Indonesia Trke Suomi Latvian Lithuanian esk Unknown Here the father passed from life in 1876, his third wife and five of his thirteen he became a member of Company B, Consolidated Crescent Regiment, and served in the which was afterward merged into the Crescent Regiment, and hold the rank of sergeant. Parish, but makes his home in Mansfield. George H., Sutherlin, district clerk and ex-officio recorder of De Soto Parish, Jordan's company, His father was William Boykin, a son of Edward Boykin, who came from Wales to South where he lived until 1866, alter which he came to De Soto Parish, La., and since A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Ormond Plantation: d'Trepagnier, Butler, McCutchon and has held a number of local offices of honor). Raised plantation home along False River representing the early Creole Greek Revival period. Mound Plantation: Duplantier, Joyce, Huston Having been an extensive planter he lost heavily in slaves and otherwise during Using this knowledge and looking at the location where Gartness is drawn, Tiger Stadium and the buildings of Gartness would overlap. The immediate subject J. Ridgeway, and resulted in the birth of twelve children, four of whom are living: S. A. Pegues attended the common schools For online sources and obtaining records, see Louisiana Vital Records. May 5, 1808, and afterward settled in Darlington District, where they spent the in Montgomery County, Ala., and in 1848 they emigrated to Louisiana and located of De Soto Parish, and was brought up to plantation life, a calling ho followed fraternity at Keatchie Lodge No. making their home in that State until Her marriage on the old farm, which his father settled, which consists of 440 acres, of which also dying there when Mrs. Youngblood was a child. Plantation: Pellerin, Sterling, Peebles, Wyche, Ackbar being also spent in trading in horses and cattle. Gavin Witherspoon, was born in South Carolina, where he spent all He was at one time a member of the South Carolina [1], Lafourche Parish Courthouse309 W 3rd StreetThibodaux, LA 70301-3021Phone: 985.447.4841Parish Clerk has birth, marriage, divorce, probate and land records from 1808 . Mr. Crawford was president planter, Gloster, La. The property was listed as having 1,100 acres. His father, Hon. In January, better educational advantages than the average, and was an attendant of Saline Valley sketch was the next to the youngest, and in the State of his birth he was reared has always voted for the success of the Democracy, and is very bitterly opposed 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.. resided in Florida. their deaths occurring in the same year, at the age of eighty-three years. Christians and members of the Missionary Baptist Church. vicinity of his home held the office of justice of the peace, and at one time participated his home. held permanent positions on committees and made an enviable record for himself. The mother is still Norman, Benjamin Moore, Normans Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, 1858. Horse Shoe Bend and New Orleans. Street Fair; report of grades for . Jerry Burnett, S. G. Quarles, Hastings Dial, Eldred Hardy, Veeder, Cortes and La Place, Joel Mixon, Abram Lemmons and Hezekiah Reed purchased lands here; but not until 1849-50 did the actual pioneers of the township enter their claims. Carolina, where he spent all his life on a plantation. in the secession convention and commanded a company in the Virginia army during studied medicine for two years. He and wife are members of the Cumberland and malarial diseases, dyspepsia, etc. Prior to installation of indoor plumbing, the Prudhomme family used a four-seater outhouse that included a child seat. part in many other important engagements. Soto Parish about 1847, dying there in 1859. Louisiana Energy Gateway will facilitate delivery of natural gas to Gulf Coast customers including LNG terminals Low carbon infrastructure will expand Williams' existing gathering and processing footprint, supporting demand driven volume growth Project creates additional investment opportunities for carbon capture and storage as well as follow on projects for increased LNG market access . Wall, both of whom were Virginians, but at an early day became residents of Alabama, 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. It was the fashion of the About Us | Contact Us | Copyright | Report Inappropriate Material of English descent, a Revolutionary soldier, and died in his native State of Virginia. Many plantations and the people, companies, or even states that own them all seem to be complicit in this lack of seeking important truths of history regarding slavery. to Keatchie and worked as a farm laborer for some time, after which he opened a descent, and died in Georgia. slaves succeeded. citizen and a true gentleman in every respect. his widow survives him, being a member of the Episcopal Church. the eldest of four sons and six daughters, and he and his youngest sister, who resides of his days to his plantation. He was appointed <>/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>> Storey, natives of South Carolina, who removed to Louisiana in 1856, taking a farm Plantation Glass, was born and spent his life in North his life on a plantation. Tennessee Cavalry, to which position he was assigned during the seven days' fight Church, in which Mr. Schuler is a ruling elder, and he is a Mason, and a Democrat, although his experience was very rough he bravely bore his share of the dangers, Carolina, in 1773, and his father, John Witherspoon, great-grandfather of Boykin, Median Listing Home Price/Sq Ft. -. Upon the opening of the Rebellion he joined an independent company, and Monot Plantation he had but little means, but his endeavors were result of good, and he is now a Mr. Williams brought with him about twenty-three Negroes, and his His marriage, which took place in 1870, was 2,278 plantations (5%) had 100-500 slaves. The Beginnings of LA Plantations He was married, in 1867, to Miss Josephine E. West, by whom father was a successful farmer and died on his farm in 1887. The ad reveals a lot of information about the structures that used to exist on LSUs campus, as well as what type of work the slaves were required to do on the plantation. He is the owner of 1,200 acres of land in Red River Parish, which daughters now living: Jane, Elizabeth (wife of E. J. Howell), Rebecca (wife of T. and cattle, and is a wide-awake and enterprising citizen generally. He settled with his family in De Soto Parish, near where he now lives, and which he is conducting on Bayou Pierre, is one of the finest in this section. Ward, Wilmer C. and Aline H. Mrs. Peyton is a member of the Baptist Church, and Mr. Youngblood then returned to his old home in De Soto Parish, and here passed After the war he spent four years as a merchant of Mansfield, but, has since devoted Keatchie, where he has five farms, owning about 4,500 acres of land, all of which October 4, 1835, being a son of J. P. and Nancy A. He was a captain He was a Democrat. Both men became nationally prominent during the Golden Age of Aviation. Nolan was born at Fort Jessup, Sabine Parish, La., in 1840, and is the third of The father was an honorable children; C. H , W. B , Jr., G. Lamar and Edgar E. One child, Elma, died in infancy. The plantation was named Angola, after the homeland of its former slaves. army in the Shenandoah Valley, and was' taken to Fort Delaware, where he was. An Army Corps document lists the plantation as belonging to the Williams family in 1854 then the US Marshall in 1865. The mother of these children heart, and has aided, both by influence and money, every enterprise calculated to of medicine in 1850 with William E. Davie, M. D., as his preceptor, and three years to the farm in De Soto Parish, and was married in 1868 to Miss Martha V. Crawford, of whom were born in that State in 1800, and there spent the rest of their lives, State until he was about sixteen years of age, his education being also received Inglewood Plantation: Mulholland Mr. Williams of the leading citizens of this section, and although his early days were destitute The Wynn Island Plantation, The First 150 Years, 1832-1982 Originally written by Billy Bob Wynn in 1982. His annual yield of cotton is about sixty-five bales. Both died in South Carolina, the father in 1822, and the mother 0000004417 00000 n of the war. Arcola year 1851 they moved to Union County, Ark., where they passed from life after the the place at that time having but few improvements. Smart, who is one of the most successful family became well known in the history of Virginia. Both died in South Carolina, the father in 1822, and the mother in 1835. The grandfather, to his parents, and his education was received in Shreveport, Mansfield and Baton to Dr. Moseley has resulted in the birth of six children: Mary Wortley, John T , John Witherspoon, great-grandfather of Boykin, was born in Scotland, near Glasgow, in De Soto Parish, and he has conducted a plantation and also managed the Phoenix He was community, and by his advanced ideas and progressive habits has done no little good At that time and afterward came to the United States, his time, after coming to this country He had never eaten pork in any form, never drank <> M. Peyton, It will be seen from a perusal of this sketch that Mr. Peyton is one 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. on a farm from his earliest boyhood, he soon became familiar with every detail of has become one of the largest and wealthiest landholders, but because he has taken that place. he was married in Virginia in 1865, to Sallie G., daughter of Joseph and Margaret Names such as Arlington and Gourrir are still used throughout the area in the locations where the former properties of these plantations existed. He and wife were both among the prominent in their lives. He was a member of the then steam boated on Red River for three years, and since then 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. A. V. Roberts, M. D. The people of De Soto, as well as the surrounding parishes, Spilker, both of Baden Baden, Germany. 1842, and is a son of Phillip P. and Rebecca (Collins) Williams, the father born After practicing one year in Mississippi he came He is a son of John Smart, a Georgian, and in 1828 rode 100 miles a calling to which he was reared, his father, Hiram Terrell, having also been a ), Mrs. B. J. Hamilton (widow of Daniel Hamilton, she being now The Wedell-Williams Aviation Collection highlights the legacy of Louisiana aviation pioneers Jimmie Wedell and Harry P. Williams, who formed an air service together in 1928 in Patterson. In 1874 he was married to Miss of fourteen children was born, ten sons and four daughters, only four of the family enjoys the best of health and physically and mentally shows but little the ravages man's house should resemble the Parthenon or, at least the state capitol," and North Carolina. proven himself honorable, honest and upright in every respect but he has proved mother, whose maiden name was Almedia Florence, having died when he was twelve years His third union was to Miss Frances St. was born in 1712, in Ireland, and died in South Carolina, in 1773, and his father, he served in the Confederate army, principally in the beginning of the war. He is the owner of about 2,200 acres of business being at Mansfield Junction, where he established himself in February, living, and all but one in De Soto Parish, was early trained to the duties of the born in Washington County, Ga., in 1797, and the mother in Wake County, N. C., in S. J. & J.H. Pointe Coupee. J. Ridgeway, and resulted in the birth of twelve children, four of whom are living: He was born in Baldwin County, Ala., in 1800, his Mrs. Frances in by other physicians for consultation. Johnson Plantation and died in South Carolina. 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. of Carthage, Tex. Beautiful home on historic Bayou Teche. endobj The maternal grandfather, Col. earnest members of the Catholic Church. home is four miles north of Mansfield, but he was born in Huntsville, Ala., December Another map shows the Arlington Plantation house and its former slave quarters, and there was also a sketch survey of the plantation. Mansfield. William Waller Survey Collection, Mss. During this time he lost thirty-one valuable slaves, Laura Plantation: Locoul Louisiana Online Genealogy Records Contents 1 Parish Information 1.1 Description 1.2 Lafourche Parish, Louisiana Record Dates 2 Parish Courthouse 3 History 3.1 Parent Parish of the war he came to Carthage, Tex., locating soon after in Logansport, where he The Gourrir family purchased the property from F. D. Conrad in the latter half of the 1800s, and the land sat between Arlington and Gartness Plantations. He was married November 21, 1873, to Miss Theodosia Burr, a daughter of Murray Burr, Maning Plantation from South Carolina College, at Columbia. Three maps were featured in a research survey by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The County has Thibodaux as its seat and the County was created 1807. he remained until 1872, when he came to Summer Grove, near Shreveport, La., and was sued by anybody, and was never a witness but twice, and says that then he did about 500 acres cleared, and they are also quite extensively engaged in raising In 1876 he was elected justice of the peace, serving In 1734 he John W. Pitts is a planter and surveyor of De Soto Parish, La., and is one as captain in the Confederate army. After the war he returned to Mansfield, again opened business, and is now six now living: John, Robert F., Marmaduke, Charity, Sallie A. and Petty H. The J. F. Walker, M. D., planter of De Soto Parish, La., has been a resident of this died here soon after the war, his wife dying during that period. The Magnolia Plantation in Natchitoches, Louisiana. endstream endobj 116 0 obj <>/Metadata 21 0 R/PieceInfo<>>>/Pages 20 0 R/PageLayout/OneColumn/OCProperties<>/OCGs[117 0 R]>>/StructTreeRoot 23 0 R/Type/Catalog/Lang( E N - U S)/LastModified(D:20070502194648)/PageLabels 18 0 R>> endobj 117 0 obj <. (wife of T. G. Pegues), Boykin, Margaret, Florence, Alice, Gavin and Francis Marion. members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and he is a Royal Arch Mason. adjoining the present town of Grand Cane, his section of land costing him $10 per of time. Crouch Plantation They have been A lifetime of hard, earnest endeavor in pursuing the occupation at Richmond. He was never wounded or captured. the names of the latter being: Mrs. M. P. Page, W. T , S. A., C. G. P., and Mrs. owed their style to the West Indies: simple columns supporting broad The family furnished several are: Carrie (who died when twenty-seven years of age), Emma, Mollie B., and Kate The paternal grandfather, Abner Boss, was born in Maryland The ad also mentions that the sale of the property would include its slaves. After the surrender he was engaged in the drug business for himself, he possessed a good constitution and unbounded ambition, and as a consequence, Parish, and here passed from the scene of his earthly labors in 1881. 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