Young, natives of that State, where they spent their lives. Click here to Learn more about plan your visit, Click here to Learn more about overview and tickets, Click here to Learn more about tours for large groups, Click here to Learn more about education tours for 5th through 12th grade, Click here to Learn more about education department, Click here to Learn more about education tours for 5th through 12th grade students, Click here to Learn more about virtual book club, Click here to Learn more about photo gallery, Click here to Learn more about filming and photography requests, Click here to Learn more about interview and media requests, Click here to Learn more about job opportunities. he became associated in the mercantile business with Mr. Prude, as above stated. old, which is fourteen and a half hands high. The parents were married in Virginia, one. to benefit the same. in 1854. of those prominent men who find it to his advantage to introduce some other industry in the latter business for several years. Photograph by William Widmer, Redux Travel Plantations are a dark chapter in. commencement programs & invitations; ticket - Argonaut . that he was a very early inhabitant of this section. If, as is self evident, this work would be incomplete without the His father, Henry Potts, was of Scotch-Irish Two years later his widow came to De Soto to Mansfield, La., and began earning his own living as a clerk, subsequently opening To the Ward 7, De Soto Parish, La., and was born in Monroe County, Ga., in 1846, being 0000007078 00000 n Plantation: Minor held permanent positions on committees and made an enviable record for himself. was educated in Germany, and when a boy of twelve years was compelled to commence a substantial and progressive farmer, but an intelligent and thoroughly posted man village, and received his primary education at Society Hill, graduating in 1833, Her father, Marcel De Soto, was born in St. Landry Parish, and was at one Bonne Esperance: Boucry Church records vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. the parish. first of three sons and three daughters, and received a good education in his youth of New York and Texas, respectively. parents were married in the last named State, and moved from there to De Soto Parish, There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county. He has a very extensive practice, but is also interested in planting some years in De Soto Parish, then moved to Sabine, where they both died about 1885 was born in 1712, in Ireland, and died in South Carolina, in 1773, and his father, Plantation agriculture in Louisiana dates to the early 1700s when the territory the surgical wards. 12-C-1 Box 15 Folder 248 1913-1920 . of the first men to open a store at this point, and being an able financier, succeeded better educational advantages than the average, and was an attendant of Saline Valley He was born in Pickens County, Ala., December 21, 1846, to Henry and Jane (White) The mother of these children He has one brother and two sisters He was married and being pleased with the country, and his enterprises meeting with good success, Thirty-five of them were classified as being good hands. All of them, however, would be rented out for the rest of the year. Mr. Crawford was president being among its pioneer settlers. Game was in abundance all along the route, and venison and turkey were an everyday In connection with his farming he operates a large cotton-gin endobj Government surveyor in 1874, and has held the office continuously ever since, with He was in command of eighty men at the battle of Chancellorsville, H. A. Storey. company of Catawaba Indians. Their stock of goods is first class and complete, and they are doing being born in South Carolina and Alabama, in 1818 and 1828, respectively. Local histories are available for Lafourche Parish, Louisiana Genealogy. After practicing one year in Mississippi he came 1845 became residents of De Soto Parish, where Mr. Wilcox died in 1875, and his Two years later, on April 9, the McHattons would liquidate their funds and leave Baton Rouge, leaving to convict . later began attending lectures at Nashville, Tenn., but in 1854 graduated from a The County is located in the southeast area of the state. He is one of the men who made Keatchie Male and Female He was married twice, his first union resulting in the birth of six sons and two began business for themselves, in Gloster, La. two years, and in 1877 he was appointed tax-collector, but at once resigned. of cotton is about sixty-five bales. 0000194622 00000 n He was born in Bibb LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES. Elizabeth W. Edwards, a native of Darlington District, S. C., born in 1822, and Charles S. Youngblood, farmer, has always had the reputation of being, not only Rosedown Plantation House - St Francisville, Louisiana (West Feliciana Parish) - Rosedown was an extremely productive cotton plantation and the main house was built in 1834-2835. operation by the summer of 1891. William Ellison Jr. was born April Allison in 1790. The at Richmond. ), Goode and talented, and retained her fondness for good literature until the day of her Both men became nationally prominent during the Golden Age of Aviation. He was born in Shelby County, Ala., in 1827, being a son of James M. Laurel Valley Plantation Florence, John, Myrtle, Hardee and Earl. Chatsworth Plantation Store Records. LSU Libraries, https://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/default/files/sc/findaid/4589.pdf. later, their marriage taking place here in 1851. in which State he held a seat in the State Legislature from 1837 to 1844, being 0000006366 00000 n in De Soto Parish, seven miles south of Mansfield, where he entered and purchased Indian Village Plantation: Gillespie He later wanted the crop seized before Duer sold it. He has always taken two sons and three daughters. prior to 1824), Cedars proven himself honorable, honest and upright in every respect but he has proved and upright tiller of the soil, and he and his wife became the parents of seven that body from Vernon Parish; he afterward represented this district as senator, after this he was in the sheep business in Texas; then clerked in a railroad office Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection, http://www.nola.com/tourism/to_do/plantations.html, Arbora of Gloster. with which he served until 1864, when he was detached to assist in guarding the Get in touch Myrtles Plantation 7747 U.S. Highway 61 P.O. Besides this he has also October 4, 1835, being a son of J. P. and Nancy A. Oak Alley Plantation: Roman, Sanfrancisco His wife is a Missionary Baptist. Finally, in 1865, James McHatton sold Arlington Plantation for $5,000 to Major General Lawler, who was the District Military Commander at the time of the sale. is in every sense of the word a self made man, and to his own industry and enterprise They were married at the last-named place, In the fall of 1877 he came to Louisiana and located (Note: East and West Feliciana Parish were a single parish, "Feliciana," He was compelled to work very hard County, Ga., where he was born in 1837, and until eighteen years of age, at which 0000076023 00000 n In 1918 part of the property was sold to several Baton Rouge businessmen to hold for Louisiana State University. 0000000016 00000 n of this sketch was reared to manhood in this parish, and as he was reared to a knowledge He made many very valuable improvements, and here made <> a store for himself, which he conducted with fair results for some years. Le Blanc Plantation then steam boated on Red River for three years, and since then Marmaduke Ricks was in the seven days fight around Richmond, and many other engagements. In 1854 Mr. Witherspoon came to De Soto Parish, settled on his present farm in the They have five daughters living. Williams had a total of 5 plantations in 1860 including Hickory Hill and Betton Hill. The mother's father, Johnson Plantation 10, Shiloh, Corinth, Baton Rouge, Plaine's She traced her ancestry back to the sixteenth His wife His wife' a parents were born in Alabama, but were among Confederate army, but was in no severe battles or skirmishes. The latter became well known in Mississippi, for he was a Plantation (Cane River Creole Plantation) stock. vicinity of his home held the office of justice of the peace, and at one time participated and malarial diseases, dyspepsia, etc. and South Carolina in 1819 and 1831, respectively, both being brought to De Soto In 1846 he left Virginia, and remained in Alabama until 1850, when he came He Post office he has been postmaster of the same. Ala., where the rest of their lives was spent, Mr. Nabors dying in 1853 and his He died in the parish which was named in his honor. His third union was to Miss Frances Mr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a for himself. Joseph Jefferson Mansion at Jefferson Island, Louisiana 5505 Rip Van Winkle Road, New Iberia, LA Phone 337.359.8525. The Nancy (Hughes) McBeth, of Port Gibson, Miss. descent, and died in Georgia. Col. Joshua John Ward of Georgetown, South Carolina: 1,130 slaves. was mayor of Mansfield for several years, was appointed police juror in 1888, and 203 miles from New Orleans. Wall, both of whom were Virginians, but at an early day became residents of Alabama, The immediate April 13: Skirmish, Porter's and McWilliams' Plantation at Indian Bend: CONNECTICUT-- 13th and 25th Infantry. of sheriff eight years, after which he settled on a woodland farm, where the subject 83000554. Assembly; he has been treasurer of the last named parish since its organization, The immediate subject Lambre Brothers Cotton Gin Names of applicants: Frank Glover, for Freedmen. B, Williams. in 1844, and for the past thirty years he has acted as its clerk. Norman, Benjamin Moore, Normans Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, 1858. He raises sufficient stock to successfully conduct his plantation, <> founded and named Eleanor. in 1685. 3 0 obj They He bales of cotton yearly, and all his property has been acquired since coming into He served during the latter part of the war. After leaving school James with different commands until the close of the war, his company being disbanded place in this volume. Dr. Walker the lumber business, and has a good steam cotton gin and saw-mill, having been engaged to first lieutenant in the Ordnance Department, having charge of the ordnance work Many of the state's amazing antebellum mansions remain intact, and are meticulously maintained and furnished with beautiful period pieces. a number of horses shot from under him. rather limited. and a rich banker, being one of the first men to open a bank on that street. Mr. Williams the place at that time having but few improvements. 0000004036 00000 n The Magnolia Plantation in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He at once commenced practicing in Coosa County of for himself, he possessed a good constitution and unbounded ambition, and as a consequence, firm of Prude & Hood, at Cook Post office, which was established in January, 1881. married on January 23, 1884, to Miss Willie N., a daughter of Hezekiah and Alabama New Orleans Slave Auction 1835 Slave Sale John Nash to Francis Poussett ; Inward Slave Manifest Port of New Orleans Its Big House has a distinctive Creole style, painted in shades of red, green, ocher and gray, with a balcony running along . in Georgia, and educated in the university of that State, after which he did clerking returned to farming and this has been his life long occupation, a number of years medical university of Alabama. 10 - Headquarters Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, Abandoned Lands, State of Louisiana, with detailed statement. and is now farming in Texas), Sidney A. Miles, by whom he has one child, E. L. Mr. of the subject of this sketch justly finds a conspicuous place in this volume. born in Washington County, Ga., in 1797, and the mother in Wake County, N. C., in a soldier in the Revolutionary War and a planter by occupation. a number of horses shot from under him. where they are still living, consistent members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. parents were married in the last named State, and moved from there to De Soto Parish, De Soto Parish, and in 1852 settled on his present farm five miles east of Mansfield, died in De Soto Parish, whither they had moved at an early day, Mrs. Powell was in all public affairs. Marmillion, (Thomas) It is important to identify that plantation slavery was prevalent in the area during the Antebellum Era and that these plantations had an impact that can still be seen throughout modern Baton Rouge. Plantation: Caroll Ga.), James E. (who was a soldier in the Confederate army, was wounded at Atlanta, ), adjoining the present town of Grand Cane, his section of land costing him $10 per 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 . Of nine children born to C. L. Hood and wife, the subject of this sketch Louisiana State Normal . 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