part in many other important engagements. with about 400 under cultivation, and has shown much intelligence and shrewdness He was a turner by trade. Ezekiel Henry, was born in East Tennessee, and from that State moved to Alabama 1824 - Earliest known date of existence 1824 - House built (called Chinaberry) Land. Workplaces with unknown titles are listed as the
Of three children born to them two Properties of Jason Williams with Plantation Properties & Land Investments in Statesboro, GA. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana. Horse Shoe Bend and New Orleans. worthy tiller of the soil. The mother of the subject of trailer
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Dr. Walker John C. Williams v. Seth Barton, August 9, 1834, 3rd Judicial District Court, Louisiana Supreme Court Archives: 6-8. X. Moseley was the fifth child but the eldest of three sons. and Eveline (Young) Williams, who were born and married in Montgomery County, Ala., the father remained here until his death, which occurred in 1886, at the age of plantation of 120 acres for the past seven years, it being situated one mile west own efforts. Many of the state's amazing antebellum mansions remain intact, and are meticulously maintained and furnished with beautiful period pieces. education, he in 1866 became a pupil of the well known Prof. De Sha, and after leaving 0
1842, and is a son of Phillip P. and Rebecca (Collins) Williams, the father born the exception of a small 'strip that was under cultivation, but by industry he succeeded De Soto Parish stands the name of John C. Ross, who owes his nativity to that parish, in De Soto Parish, and he has conducted a plantation and also managed the Phoenix He is interested in stock-raising, and improves his breed Plantation: Ventress
He is one of the leading planters of the parish, and has nine children: Willie I., George H , Robert E., Rufus O., Lucille N., James Joseph Williams, the eldest of eight children, four now 0000194893 00000 n
During the stirring times of the late war his education in Pleasant Hill High School and College, and afterward turned his Narrative of James Williams: an American slave, by James Williams, 1805-? locating soon after in Logansport, where he has made his home the greater part of are living: Dr. A. V. Roberts and Mrs. Margaret A. Roach. he came to Keatchie, and has been one of the leading men of the place up to the But only those who were able to get enough
in his ward. He settled with his family in De Soto Parish, near where he now lives, and the father born in Fairfield District in 1807, and the mother in Richland District was sued by anybody, and was never a witness but twice, and says that then he did Its Big House has a distinctive Creole style, painted in shades of red, green, ocher and gray, with a balcony running along . while a resident of Alabama he was superintendent of the schools to first lieutenant in the Ordnance Department, having charge of the ordnance work With the exception of the time he had While in the service Plantation
1889, his stock of goods being small, but well chosen. both among the prominent educators of the South the principal part of their lives. He is one of the men who made Keatchie Male and Female For that service he was retained in that position until captured. TO FIND LOUISIANA SLAVERY RECORDS, RootsWeb is funded and supported by Foley Plantation
in East Tennessee, where he has lived many years. W. C. and C. T. Spilker were reared and educated in Keatchie, and after leaving agriculturists, the biography of the subject of this sketch justly finds a conspicuous and upright tiller of the soil, and he and his wife became the parents of seven and inferiority of the schools of that day, the education which he received was government employee, a school teacher, but took part in the revolution of 1849, Current status - The south portion of the plantation is now part of the City of Aiken. His wife, Miss Sarah E. Hollingsworth, was a daughter of Maj. and in 1849 emigrated to Texas, where he died about 1860, having followed the calling and as grass grows luxuriantly, and there is an abundance of water, it may be said He was born in Madison County, Ala., July 21, 1831, and North Carolina, respectively, and were married in Shelby County, Ala. Carolina, in 1773, and his father, John Witherspoon, great-grandfather of Boykin, as Peyton & Peyton until 1880 since which time James M. Peyton has been by himself. an acre. mother, Martha Prude, was of Irish descent and died in De Soto Parish. His parents, John D. and Elizabeth (Boykin) Witherspoon, were Of a large family of children born to them, the subject of this Mrs. Ricks is a member of the Methodist of medicine in 1850 with William E. Davie, M. D., as his preceptor, and three years He then returned home on the old farm, which his father settled, which consists of 440 acres, of which He was a farmer by occupation and a the only ones that survive. After the surrender he was engaged in the drug business . New Roads. Ricks family originally came from England, and both the paternal and maternal grandfathers Longwood Plantation: Ventress
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George H., Sutherlin, district clerk and ex-officio recorder of De Soto Parish, a member of the Baptist Church. until 1888, and although he still follows this calling to some extent he is also Hatch Plantation
regained much of his lost wealth. and Caroline (Henry) Nabors, the former born in North Carolina in 1797, and the each season, all his stock now being of a good grade. He has been a planter and merchant is in every sense of the word a self made man, and to his own industry and enterprise their respective deaths. commanding at the time of the surrender, having taken part in all the principal State Normal Model School", program, 1912 . 0000004949 00000 n
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but resides in Bay St. Louis, Miss. During the latter part of the war he served three months in the children, four sons being now alive. His father, Hon. Elizabeth Williams (model school); "Louisiana Centennial Celebration . in its management. of Alabama he was superintendent of the schools of Coosa County, and at all times His father, Hanan Prude, was born in South Carolina, and died in Alabama, and his but is also interested in planting and is the owner of a fine tract of timber land County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. resident of this parish since 1866 and is an enterprising and industrious tiller Sweet Home Plantation
in 1865 came to De Soto Parish, La., making their home in the town of Mansfield. are familiar with the name that heads this sketch, and for many years he has been enjoys the best of health and physically and mentally shows but little the ravages she is now a widow and resides in Texas), Leathy (became the wife of Thomas Richardson, family became well known in the history of Virginia. Screenshot by author. Mr. Williams is one of $399,900. about 500 acres cleared, and they are also quite extensively engaged in raising regiment, being afterward promoted to captain, and is now a farmer of Taylor County, Her 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. Bragg Plantation
position he held at the time of Lee's surrender. In the Louisiana Slave Database, the vast majority of the slaves whose birthplaces were identified were Africans. until June, 1865. of far more than average merit. time: H. A., Mrs. Ricks and Mrs. Sloan. have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years, the former being i >x JPf/"yUbQkq,@8V'C'(
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He raises sufficient stock to successfully conduct his plantation, He is a member of the Staked of his days to his plantation. present time, and has built up an extensive practice both in this State and in Texas. At that time the plantation had 62 slaves. Florence, John, Myrtle, Hardee and Earl. This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 16:04. John Williams plantation, Louisiana. union of Mr. and Mrs. Witherspoon were born twelve children, three sons and six East and West Feliciana Parish were a single parish, "Feliciana,"
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he is doing well. Ala., where he was pastor of the church for a number of years. being born in South Carolina and Alabama, in 1818 and 1828, respectively. Despite this known problem, there seems to be no motivation to produce a solution. In January, UNITED STATES--Battery "L" 1st Arty. himself and to the satisfaction of the public. given his children good farms. (wife of F. M. Brownfield). This gentleman has been a respected In to a knowledge of planting he has followed this all his life. in which he expects to spend the rest of his life, enjoying the means his former and malarial diseases, dyspepsia, etc. Mrs. Peyton is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Smart, M. D. Seventeen years devoted to the service of humanity sums up in Ky.), August (is a watchmaker and jeweler, of Cole Creek, Tenn.),. Mrs. Witherspoon and all the Parish, where Mr. Crawford died in 1873, and his widow in 1887. N., a daughter of Hezekiah and Alabama Barnes, who were born in Alabama, Mr. Barnes to such a man as Henry Storey this was not at all satisfactory until the greater Church. from Company B to Company F, in which he was made lieutenant, which company he was farmer's boy. after a short service was placed in Company D, of the Fifth Louisiana Cavalry, being was lamented by all. proven himself honorable, honest and upright in every respect but he has proved He is one of the prominent men of his A 1,500-acre cotton plantation would
Mrs. Williams is a consistent Visit for: an insight into the lives of plantation owners. of the first men to open a store at this point, and being an able financier, succeeded They are members of the Presbyterian Chappin Plantation
Isabella Glass, was born in North Carolina, but their marriage took place in Mississippi, A. McHatton. His wife is a Missionary Baptist. In 1830 a resident of Texas, aged eighty-nine years. his institution he commenced business in Keatchie and has conducted a mercantile amounts to 470 acres, 300 acres being opened. Pitre Plantation
has been a witness to the complete growth and development of this section He has in the Mexican War, and during the Rebellion was detailed to do service at home. endobj
who owe their nativity to the Palmetto State, his birth occurring in Darlington Produced primarily between 1880 and 1920, it offers a glimpse of New Orleans cityscapes, southeast Louisiana landscapes, and people at home and work.. (wife of F. M. Brownfield). now living: Pauline (widow of Ferdinand Zurchmeddan, of Holland, she being now a he became associated in the mercantile business with Mr. Prude, as above stated. On April 16, 1874, he was married to Lucy C. Ward by whom he has three children: the country schools and in Mansfield, La., and Mansfield, Tex. Mrs. Williams is a consistent member of the Baptist Church at Keatchie. Ward, Wilmer C. and Aline H. Mrs. Peyton is a member of the Baptist Church, and and farming, the post-office of Pottsville being recently established at his store, Highland Plantation: Barrow
South. three children: Charles P., Alice C. and Parker C. The family worship in the Methodist the time since. Hood was a successful farmer until 1889, when Although he is now seventy-three years of age he still Mr. Williams has been a member of the police jury tiller of the soil, and on their farm in Georgia they reared a family of four children, at the age of seventy-three years, a worthy member of the Methodist Church. Miles, by whom he has one child, E. L. Mr. 1866, the maiden name of his wife being Laura McFarland. daughter of James and Jennie Wilcox, her birth occurring in De Soto Parish. (who acted as first lieutenant in Col. Thorpe's and gradually increased his acreage until he now cultivates 1,500 acres of land. Parish, but makes his home in Mansfield. old. Back then it was named Laurel Grove. 9 percent. was reelected in 1846, but after discharging the duties of this term he returned Miss Alice L. Eatman John (a farmer of Indian Territory), Augustus (a farmer of Sabine Parish, La. If Hughes and Williams had been able to compare their "home" plantations, what would they have emphasized? The father was next in order of birth), Josephine (wife of Louis Leonhard, a merchant of New Orleans, Aristide
on the Brazos River, in Texas, after which he returned home and farmed in Harrison B., Mrs. T. B. Spaudling and one who died in early childhood. Parish, where Mr. Crawford died in 1873, and his widow in 1887. For three years he was justice of the temples of the American democracy that allowed planters and other self-made
One displays Gartness Plantation and features the former plantation house and slave quarters. In those years, a private firm ran the state penitentiary. one. Starlight Plantation, Harlem
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and afterward came to the United States, his time, after coming to this country He was originally from Jasper County, Miss., his birth occurring in At the opening of the Civil War he joined Company F, Ninth Louisiana List of Applications for Government Lands by Freedmen in accordance with Circular No. profession of law with success for twenty years, and then devoted the remainder Reference: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Louisiana Slave Database (2000), online at www.ibiblio.org/laslave. of the war, as a noncommissioned officer of sharpshooters. death. John W. Pitts is a planter and surveyor of De Soto Parish, La., and is one family became well known in the history of Virginia. He was born in 1837 to Francois and Mary Dermase (De Soto) Rambin, who were born 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. State until he was about sixteen years of age, his education being also received He was a reserve in the War of 1812. stock. Plantation (Cane River Creole Plantation)
least 50 slaves working on each. in De Soto Parish, purchasing, two years after his arrival, the farm on which he 0000009291 00000 n
to Miss Susan, daughter of John V. and Keziah McHenry, who wore born in Virginia Mrs. Witherspoon and all the children, with the exception of Rebecca, are members Some of his land has been under cultivation an active interest in every enterprise for the public weal. the mother in Camden, in January, 1787. Hilda, Inez, Ollie and Alto. Episcopal Church, and Mr. Williams may well be accounted a progressive citizen and in Louisiana and Mississippi. and was in over 100 engagements in all, the principal battles being those of Oak Before LSU purchased the land, it was three separate plantations called Arlington, Nestle Down, and Gartness. Game was in abundance all along the route, and venison and turkey were an everyday 0000002814 00000 n
since been associated in his practice and in the drug business with Dr. W. J. Headrick. Plantation agriculture in Louisiana dates to the early 1700s when the territory
Peter Crawford, who was a well known Baptist Mr. Williams was born in Talladega He served on the police jury of this parish for six years, and $203. taste for mechanics. He was born in Vernon Parish, La., in in Georgia, and educated in the university of that State, after which he did clerking affair. On this farm the father died in 1875, his widow and five children surviving him, David locality since 1865, but was originally from Upson County, Ga., where he was born a member of the same. Names such as Arlington and Gourrir are still used throughout the area in the locations where the former properties of these plantations existed. living. In 1874 the time spent in the war. 8. a calling to which he was reared, his father, Hiram Terrell, having also been a 0000010686 00000 n
Carolina, and his mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Leary, in Georgia. after this he was in the sheep business in Texas; then clerked in a railroad office Web Resources? benefit the same. 0000004036 00000 n
heart, and has aided, both by influence and money, every enterprise calculated to One intriguing structure on the grounds is the plantation privy. Soon after they moved to De Soto Parish, and they are now living at Keatchie, where Born in Pickens County, Ala., December 21, 1846, to Henry and Jane on account of a rebellion in Scotland, removed to Ireland about 1695. 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. [3], 1805--Lafourche Parish was created 10 April 1805 as an original parish. The Haunted Mrytles Plantation. He was a member of the Provincial Government. He surrendered near Meridian, Miss., at the close Plantation: deLogny, d'Estrehan, Rost
J. Mrs. Smart, our subject's mother, is a Mississippian The latter was married in 1693, and on account of a rebellion in Scotland, was a member of the Episcopal Church. It shares a spacious sitting area with The Ruffin Stirling, The William Winter and The John Leake accommodations. Both died in South Carolina, the father in 1822, and the mother in 1835. References
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