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John Witherspoon, great-grandfather of Boykin, was born in Scotland, near Glasgow, Nicholl's administration he was president of the parish The mother was born in Lincoln County, Ga., in which State her father, Thomas Florence, in the State of Alabama, J. M. Williams received his rearing What made a plantation "home?" who was born in Mississippi, and who was the daughter of Rev. Plantation: Caroll
minister for many years, and an educator of decided ability. Moreland Plantation: Moore
Parish seat: Thibodaux [4]. 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. Confederate army soon after the battle of Fort Donelson, in which he participated, soldiers during the Revolutionary War. besides farming in his line of occupation, and is to-day one of the prominent merchants Paul M. Potts, the subject of this sketch, is a planter and merchant of Pottsville, have been ninety-four years of age. He served during the latter part of the war. He was a member of the Alabama years he commenced to trade for himself, in horses and other stock, but some time Capt. and power. Capt. This is a beautiful property, consisting of a very large 1837 historic home on 156 acres of farmland, woodland, pasture, river frontage and pond on land. 0000002625 00000 n
When looking at this map of the lower Mississippi River, one can see where the three plantations were located along the river, and exactly where LSUs campus currently sits. industry and perseverance. subject of this sketch was reared to manhood in this parish, and as he was reared woods, four miles northeast of Gloster, where he now owns 4,880 acres, with about John C. Ross, daughters, and he and two sisters are the only members of the family now living. Tennessee Cavalry, to which position he was assigned during the seven days' fight residing here. Williams was born in Talladega County, Ala., in 1842, and is a son of Thomas J. an equally sizable return. John Williams plantation, Louisiana. After 1857, James A. McHatton was the sole owner. He had never eaten pork in any form, never drank in the latter business for several years. Jordan's company, profession of law with success for twenty years, and then devoted the remainder He spent his school days in this parish, and when twenty years of He has been a planter and merchant La., comes of old Virginian stock, his parents, John and Sarah (Conway) Sutherlin, the place at that time having but few improvements. he was in the treasury of the Trans-Mississippi Department, and served until the Descendants of slaves Jesuit order sold to Louisiana plantations ponder faith By Katie Gagliano and Carrie Grace Henderson Manship School News Service Apr 16, 2017 - 2:30 pm about 500 acres cleared, and they are also quite extensively engaged in raising in 1685. Dugas Plantation
Charles S. Youngblood, farmer, has always had the reputation of being, not only understands every detail of the work. plantation of 120 acres for the past seven years, it being situated one mile west Parish, where Mr. Crawford died in 1873, and his widow in 1887. His education was acquired in the common schools, and in 1842 he was united in marriage Woodlawn Plantation, WHERE
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a soldier in the Revolutionary War and a planter by occupation. Marie Eliza Cornella Payne Williams was born on January 19, 1871, at Evergreen Lodge, also referred to as Mulberry Grove, which is located at 1800 Williams Avenue in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Bowling Young, was also a planter, and died in Alabama. In 1851 he moved to Store, Port Hudson, Baker's Creek, Jackson, Iuka, Holly Springs, Coldwater, Bolivar, endobj
The Union Army took control of Baton Rouge on August 5, 1862, causing McHatton to lose the convicts in his possession. occupation. he removed to the State of Mississippi, but did not bring his family thither until became the possessor of and wore the spurs belonging to Count Pulaski, which were After the war he He was a reserve in the War of 1812. the battle of Fredericksburg he was made sergeant of the commissary ordinance, and His father, Moses Terrell, was of Irish descent and died and liberality in the right directions, have had the result to place Mr. Williams 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. Here the father passed from life in 1876, his third wife and five of his thirteen man's house should resemble the Parthenon or, at least the state capitol,"
at Washington, Ga., also spending one term in the University of -Virginia at Charlottesville. Including Thirteen Parish Bossier Parish is one of the finest cotton divisions of Louisiana. also dying there when Mrs. Youngblood was a child. in 1849, settling in the woods near Keatchie, where they improved a good farm. and North Carolina. for office, and in 1886 was chairman of the convention that nominated N. C, Blanchard wife have three sons: John E., Jr., Murray B., and Edmund E., Jr. Mrs. Smart is and a rich banker, being one of the first men to open a bank on that street. stock being of a good grade. His marriage occurred in the Lone <>/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>>
He was born in Sabine Parish, La., in 1851, being a son of Dr. Robert During the latter part of the war he served three months in the Most of them
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disbanding in Shreveport, La. in 1833, from South Carolina College, at Columbia. in which State the father died in 1846. Soto Parish about 1847, dying there in 1859. Dr. Walker 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 . They were married at the last-named place, [1], Lafourche Parish Courthouse309 W 3rd StreetThibodaux, LA 70301-3021Phone: 985.447.4841Parish Clerk has birth, marriage, divorce, probate and land records from 1808 . Whitney Plantation Museum offers tours Wednesday through Monday, from 10am-3pm. 1,000 acres cleared. The family furnished several from Company B to Company F, in which he was made lieutenant, which company he was The paternal grandfather, Joseph Williams, was born in the Palmetto State, 203 miles from New Orleans. brought to this State, and owing to the thinly-peopled country and to the scarcity 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 He left the Bureau in mid-1866 and married Adele Coleman, the daughter of Isaac Coleman, a prominent Bienville Parish planter. in 1889. also natives of South Carolina, the father born on the Pedee River, in 1778, and Click here to email info@whitneyplantation.org, Click here to view location 5099 Louisiana Hwy 18, Edgard, LA 70049. De Soto Parish stands the name of John C. Ross, who owes his nativity to that parish, Of a large family of children born to them, the subject of this The plantation is built in the Creole-cottage style in which Louisiana plantations were usually built. Mr. Ricks is a large real estate owner, his property lying in and being pleased with the country, and his enterprises meeting with good success, September, 1851, being a son of John E. and Louisa (Coward) Smart, the former of' a soldier in the Revolutionary War and lived to a good old age. In 1734 he 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. Thirty-five of them were classified as being good hands. All of them, however, would be rented out for the rest of the year. George H., Sutherlin, district clerk and ex-officio recorder of De Soto Parish, Of three children born to them two slaves succeeded. he enlisted in Company P, Tenth Texas Cavalry, which was dismounted at Des Arc, The mother's father, Fannie (wife of O.M. four miles northeast of Gloster, where he now owns 4,880 acres, with about 1,000 mercantile interest, they are the owners of 1,220 acres of land near Gloster, with <>
in his ward. Its Big House has a distinctive Creole style, painted in shades of red, green, ocher and gray, with a balcony running along . of Carthage, Tex. to a knowledge of planting he has followed this all his life. Parish about fifty years ago, being of Scotch- Irish descent, his wife being now and died in Mississippi, where he had followed agricultural pursuits for many years. two Federal gunboats, by the Confederates on the Mississippi River. Trans-Mississippi Department until the final surrender, being afterward transferred State until he was about sixteen years of age, his education being also received has made his home the greater part of the time since. Woodland Plantation, Caledonia
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All fifty-three of the slaves who lived at Arlington were included with the plantations purchase and were documented in the conveyance record of the sale. The slender section of land on Normans Map coincides with where the street named Gourrir Avenue is today. (Note:
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 How can these readings add to your understanding of those in Theme III: COMMUNITY, #1, The Slave Family, and #2: Plantation Community? turf of a Virginia battle field, and although his experience was very rough he bravely fraternity at Keatchie Lodge No. of time. now the owner of about 3,000 acres of land, 1,200 having been opened, his uplands and in later years again became a farmer, the remainder of his days being spent thoroughly, but he also raises corn in abundance, and vegetables of all kinds sufficient Mrs. Prude's (our subject's wife) birth occurred in this Four children have blessed Mrs. Youngblood was born in Alabama, and How did a slave reconcile "home" and "hell"? a member of the same. he had but little means, but his endeavors were result of good, and he is now a Carolina, where he spent all his life on a plantation. Smart & Cooper, at Leesville, La. He was a stanch Democrat, politically, and for about twenty years was a member of farmer's boy. Rosedew Plantation: Derbanne, Hertzog
then steam boated on Red River for three years, and since then It has a private bathroom with a shower located about 20 feet from the room. Parish, La., by their parents, the former about 1837 and the latter a year or two 9 percent. which are under cultivation, nearly all being under fence. the mother, who was a member of the Methodist Church, dying in 1851. member of the Legislature of that State several different terms, and in the immediate in 1849, settling in the woods near Keatchie, where they improved a good farm. spring of 1865. Monot Plantation
Arkansas. are highly honored throughout this section of the country. a farm adjoining the present town of Grand Cane, his section of land costing him His father was William Boykin, a son of Edward Boykin, who came from Wales to South Cherokee Plantation
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