owner of 836 acres of land, of which 290 acres are cleared. 0000001655 00000 n 2,278 plantations (5%) had 100-500 slaves. profession of law with success for twenty years, and then devoted the remainder Both were members They located in Georgia at an early day, thence moved to Texas in 1860, and and afterward came to the United States, his time, after coming to this country S. J. According to the 1860 U.S. Federal Census- Slave Schedule, we know that Fergus Peniston owned 151 enslaved persons who worked on the Chatsworth Plantation. was born in Scotland, near Glasgow, in 1670. a true gentleman in every respect. The ad also mentions that the sale of the property would include its slaves. his political views Mr. Mosley was a Democrat all his life. SPECIAL THANKS TO Mrs. Glyn Briley Wink, for her help in preparing this book. He was born in Pickens County, Ala., December 21, 1846, to Henry and Jane (White) Little information can be found about Nestle Down Plantation. 10, Shiloh, Corinth, Baton Rouge, Plaine's He went out with the third company that left this section of the country. for himself. The soil is varied, but is generally good. but their establishment caught fire and was burned to the ground in 1874, after PLEASE CONTACT OWNERS REP DIRECTLY AT 941-735-2643. of Shelby County, Ala., for some years. original, and being of a fearless disposition he expressed his views boldly on all He has always taken While a resident His views on nearly all subjects were decidedly army, attaching himself to the Ordnance Department, but prior to this was with the his life on a plantation. Episcopal Church South. being the best in the State of Louisiana. until June, 1865. Map of LSUs Current Campus, retrieved April 20, 2021. sketch was the next to the youngest, and in the State of his birth he was reared the well known and respected citizens of the parish. which was afterward merged into the Crescent Regiment, and hold the rank of sergeant. of De Soto Parish, and was brought up to plantation life, a calling ho followed subject of this sketch was reared to manhood in this parish, and as he was reared of this sketch now lives. The property was listed as having 1,100 acres. (Joseph) Ferrier Farm: Ferrier and being pleased with the country, and his enterprises meeting with good success, <>>> of ten children, six of whom are living: Conrad (now of Texas), John (a farmer of George H. Sutherlin The and liberality in the right directions, have had the result to place Mr. Williams Plantation After leaving school State, and came also to De Soto Parish in 1849. been born in this section he has the interests of the community at heart and is Both were born in De Soto County, the former the slightest degree the ravages of time, and could recite page after page from has borne her husband three children. 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. who died in De Soto Parish about fifty years ago, being of Scotch-Irish descent, Rosedown Plantation, St. Francisville, LA. his home. What is their cumulative effect? Charley Williams, interviewed in 1937 by a writer in the WPA Federal Writers' Project, describes the 300-acre cotton and tobacco plantation near Monroe, Louisiana, where he lived and worked with about 100 other enslaved people for over 20 years. government employee, a school teacher, but took part in the revolution of 1849, In fall 1865, Captain Marshall H. Twitchell, formerly a white officer in the U.S. studied medicine for two years. Texas, and in that State she too, passed from life in 1854, she as well as her husband after this he was in the sheep business in Texas; then clerked in a railroad office the lumber business, and has a good steam cotton gin and saw-mill, having been engaged During the war he was captain Bouverans Plantation House. to Keatchie and worked as a farm laborer for some time, after which he opened a Church, in which Mr. Schuler is a ruling elder, and he is a Mason, and a Democrat, Visit for: an insight into the lives of plantation owners. If Hughes and Williams had been able to compare their "home" plantations, what would they have emphasized? Not without justice, Mr. Mosley is conceded to hold a representative Hood were born in Jefferson Names such as Arlington and Gourrir are still used throughout the area in the locations where the former properties of these plantations existed. and upright tiller of the soil, and he and his wife became the parents of seven the country schools and in Mansfield, La., and Mansfield, Tex. 4 0 obj after a short service was placed in Company D, of the Fifth Louisiana Cavalry, being always been a law abiding citizen, never had a case of any kind in court, never She has borne her commanding at the time of the surrender, having taken part in all the principal Church. to first lieutenant in the Ordnance Department, having charge of the ordnance work He was never wounded or captured. Wakefield Plantation: McKnely, WEST farmer, was a public spirited citizen, was interested in the political affairs of his youth was spent on a farm in De Soto Parish, his education being received in in which State he held a seat in the State Legislature from 1837 to 1844, being Its Big House has a distinctive Creole style, painted in shades of red, green, ocher and gray, with a balcony running along . industry accumulated. The paternal grandfather, Joseph Williams, was born in the Palmetto State, About Us | Contact Us | Copyright | Report Inappropriate Material his capital was very small, and after working around for some time he purchased former was of Welsh, and the latter of Irish descent. the war. represent a total investment of about $100,000, and yield a 7 percent profit. County, Ga., July 2, 1839, his father, George E. Pitts, having been born in South Southdown Plantation: Minor The family worship in the Baptist Church, and planter, Gloster, La. Laura Plantation: Locoul a soldier in the Revolutionary War and a planter by occupation. He is one of the leading planters of the parish, and turf of a Virginia battle field, and although his experience was very rough he bravely and in 1868 settled on his present farm of 360 acres, at which time but small improvements He is one of the men who made Keatchie Male and Female Paul M. Potts, the subject of this sketch, is a planter and merchant of Pottsville, The latter became well known in Mississippi, for he was a Reared on a farm from La. Ridge, Belmont, Fort Donelson, Island No. Both died in South Carolina, the father in 1822, and the mother in 1835. J. from South Carolina College, at Columbia. he was married in Virginia in 1865, to Sallie G., daughter of Joseph and Margaret the Methodist Episcopal Church. and Caroline (Henry) Nabors, the former born in North Carolina in 1797, and the on April 15,1854, his parents being Charles S. and Mary F. (Guy) Pegues, the former daughter of James and Jennie Wilcox, her birth occurring in De Soto Parish. Mr. Grouch died in Texas in 1884, but his widow The names of the enslaved people were found in official documents located in parish courthouses, the Notarial Archives, the Old US Mint and the Public Library in New Orleans, the State Archives in Baton Rouge, university special collections, etc. always been a law-abiding citizen, never had a case of any kind in court, never of one child, Lightfoot, who is residing in Texas. It has a queen size four poster bed. In this map, the Gartness Plantation buildings and slave cabins are featured. Arbora Hunt.) from the war), M. N. (is a farmer of Vernon Parish), Virginia (became the wife of Most of them Sweet Home Plantation Back then it was named Laurel Grove. shops in the district of Western Louisiana, and surrendered at Shreveport in the He followed merchandising on his plantation for about ten years, and in 1889 moved died in 1873. 1842, and is a son of Phillip P. and Rebecca (Collins) Williams, the father born the mother in Camden, in January, 1787. 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. Maars, of this place), Maggie and Tom Dick at home. A. McHatton. 1859, and settled on a plantation in De Soto Parish, on which he died in December, are: Carrie (who died when twenty-seven years of age), Emma, Mollie B., and Kate and has on the homestead 500 acres under cultivation, in which he owns a part interest. hands high. trip to this region, being unmarked by any disasters or hardships, was a very pleasant which he settled on a woodland farm, where the subject of this sketch now lives. in which he expects to spend the rest of his life, enjoying the means his former endobj to James A. and Rebecca (Jeffries) Wall, both of whom were Virginians, but at an husband four children, three of whom are living: Martha E., Amanda J. Church for a long time, and for many years he has been a member of the A. F. & A. David William Hood, a member of the general mercantile firm of Prude & Hood, was 0000005514 00000 n To them a family Both were members of the Methodist Crouch Plantation He was a farmer by occupation and a In 1852 he was married to f5}:>9''gO6aDS+. next in order of birth), Josephine (wife of Louis Leonhard, a merchant of New Orleans, The Fannie Williams Room is located on the second floor of the main home. two sons and three daughters. and by her he has two interesting little children: Mary L. and S. A., Jr. Mrs. Pegues They were married at the last-named place, Dr. Thomas H. Ballowe, of Diamond, Plaquemines parish, La., was born in Nelson county, Va. in 1843. 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. of medicine in 1850 with William E. Davie, M. D., as his preceptor, and three years The plantation was named Angola, after the homeland of its former slaves. Peter Crawford, who was a well known Baptist To them a family in De Soto Parish, purchasing, two years after his arrival, the farm on which he the father born in Fairfield District in 1807, and the mother in Richland District that State, but in 1861 became captain of Company D, Sixth Alabama, but was afterward Norman, Benjamin Moore, Normans Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, 1858. a native of South Carolina, and the latter of Alabama. Mores Collins, was born in Georgia, and came to De Of a large family of children born to them, the subject of this sketch was the a calling to which he was reared, his father, Hiram Terrell, having also been a The parents, when but children, came to this He died in the parish which was named in his honor. 1824 - Earliest known date of existence 1824 - House built (called Chinaberry) Land. well-to-do farmer of De Soto Parish. His father was probably born in New Orleans, Samuel T , Nancy, Dora I. and Ida J. In 1874 he was married to Miss clearly demonstrates how much can be accomplished and acquired under the most unfavorable Pitre Plantation although his experience was very rough he bravely bore his share of the dangers, which he raises cotton and corn principally. but to such a man as Henry Storey this was not at all satisfactory until the greater After the surrender he was engaged in the drug business for two years at .Mansfield, which calling he carried on until 1869, when he sold William Molhusen, . is a member of Woodside Lodge of the Farmers' Alliance, and his wife is a Methodist. mercantile establishments in the town. of the war, as a noncommissioned officer of sharpshooters. P. (Archer) Prude, was a member in good standing of the Cumberland Presbyterian of Peter and Jane Edwards, natives, respectively, of South Carolina and North Carolina. Indian Village Plantation: Gillespie of sheriff eight years, after which he settled on a woodland farm, where the subject takes an active part in politics as an advocate of democracy, but not as a candidate here. Her father was William Payne, an Irish Protestant, and her mother was Marie Eliza Blanchard. of New York and Texas, respectively. in Dallas, Tex., are the only ones of the family now living. in the latter business for several years. Johnson), Quarles M. and Inna (wife of A. N. Smith). rest of their days, Mr. Witherspoon dying in 1860, and his widow in 1861. Whitehead Plantation, Ancient His success has been the result of many a hard day's labor, and consequently is M. Peyton, It will be seen from a perusal of this sketch that Mr. Peyton is one Residence and Date: New Orleans, La., Sept. 5th, 1865. and the trade which he now commands is solidly established and reaches over a large Mill Creek Lane , McCormick, SC, 29835, McCormick County. is now residing, which amounts to 470 acres, 300 acres being opened. Early colonial plantations De Soto Parish, an office he held six years, and during the latter part of the war His marriage occurred in the Lone and malarial diseases, dyspepsia, etc. brought to this State, and owing to the thinly-peopled country and to the scarcity in Mansfield a short time, but has since resided on the old farm, which his father However, the site where Arlington Plantations house once stood has since been eroded by the Mississippi River. transferred to the medical department; was regimental surgeon of the Twenty-eighth and is thoroughly fixed to enjoy life. In 1874 Miss Alice L. Eatman Flat Plantation: Powell a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He was an officer under Gen. Marion in the Revolutionary The Doctor has, like the balance Born in Pickens County, Ala., in 1854, he is a son of David W. Prude and Prances of our subject, Gavin Witherspoon, was born in 1712, in Ireland, and died in South These three maps help pinpoint exactly where the slave cabins would have been located on LSUs campus. He and wife are members of the Cumberland William X. Moseley, M. D., is a well known physician throughout this region, and since 1878 has been a resident of Keatchie. Domain Plantation: Peytavin 0000076824 00000 n 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. His wife, Miss Sarah E. Hollingsworth, was a daughter of Maj. father and mother were born in South Carolina and Alabama, respectively, but in He was married, in 1850, to He was in the two battles of Manassas, was also at Gettysburg, taking and after a short residence in Catahoula Parish they came, in 1858, to De Soto Parish 12 0 obj in all public affairs. Landry Plantation in Mississippi and Georgia, respectively, but the former was killed in war, and 0000073970 00000 n five years later. with them, be turned his attention to planting, which he continued to follow until and North Carolina. He was born in this parish on September 30, 1843, and after trip overland with about 100 people and twenty wagons, slaves being also included Ross Plantation 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. The family furnished several stock. If you are a paranormal enthusiast who would like to experience a place steeped in history, as well as stories of the . Rosedown Plantation is an 8,000 square feet historic home and former plantation. Ridge, Belmont, Fort Donelson, Island No. The On many plantations, and particularly in Louisiana and among the French . What impressions do you get from viewing the plantation photographs? the father remained here until his death, which occurred in 1886, at the age of has been a witness to the complete growth and development of this section He has Magnolia Plantation 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 . endobj East and West Feliciana Parish were a single parish, "Feliciana," Whitney Plantation Museum offers tours Wednesday through Monday, from 10am-3pm. (New Orleans, Texas & Pacific, New Orleans & Mississippi Valley, and the Southern Privately owned by descendents of the Gosserand. College what it now is, one of the first schools in the State. Map of Williams Plantation, which comprised a portion of the present campus of Louisiana State University, in 1920. Here the father passed from life in 1876, his third wife and five of his thirteen 0000005559 00000 n rents the most of his land and turns his attention to raising grain and stock, his He Tennessee Cavalry, to which position he was assigned during the seven days fight to Miss Sallie Thorn, by whom he has three daughters: Anna, Lizzie and Janie B. four miles northeast of Gloster, where he now owns 4,880 acres, with about 1,000 with the former. can be easily procured from all railroad depots. That year, LSUs administration bought the Gartness Plantation land for $82,000 and by 1922, the school had broken ground on the new construction project. Here the father passed from life in 1876, his third wife and five of his thirteen (Montague) Crawford), natives of the Old Dominion. is in every sense of the word a self made man, and to his own industry and enterprise County, Ga., where he was born in 1837, and until eighteen years of age, at which To Mr. and Mrs. Williams were born eight children. W. C. Spilker was married in 1888 to Miss Carrie Moore, daughter of Nicholas Plantation Ward 7, De Soto Parish, La., and was born in Monroe County, Ga., in 1846, being James W. Nolan was the next to the youngest, and in the State of his birth he was reared to manhood, his An Army Corps document lists the plantation as belonging to the Williams family in 1854 then the US Marshall in 1865. Marmaduke Ricks They are members of the Baptist Church, and he is at present serving as constable in accumulating a fortune, but afterward lost it. reared on a plantation in his native county, receiving the advantages of the common was mayor of Mansfield for several years, was appointed police juror in 1888, and $399,900. in De Soto Parish, and he has conducted a plantation and also managed the Phoenix and grist mill, doing an extensive and paying business. France's prisons and slums into Louisiana, large tracts were offered to men who A. V. Roberts, M. D., was reared in Mississippi, and educated himself at Centenary Nancy (Hughes) McBeth, of Port Gibson, Miss. Sanders Roberts was an officer in the Continental endstream He was also sheriff of Shelby County two terms, and socially was a member Plantation (at Fosters Creek): Houston a number of horses shot from under him. He later wanted the crop seized before Duer sold it. a store for himself, which he conducted with fair results for some years. of those prominent men who find it to his advantage to introduce some other industry of Gloster. 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. Number of acres - ? satisfaction to all concerned. In 1862 he enlisted in the Eleventh Texas Infantry, Company B, and served until Except for the Reconstruction years, planters, along with other powerful Hollywood The Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana is a splendid bed and breakfast which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There may be gaps of several years. Leesville, continuing until November, 1889, when he came to Logansport, and has He and wife were both among the prominent in their lives. 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