a soldier in the Revolutionary War and a planter by occupation. ), Mrs. B. J. Hamilton (widow of Daniel Hamilton, she being now given his children good farms. death. 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. This map also features the Louisville, New Orleans, & Texas Railroad. of fourteen children was born, ten sous and four daughters, only four of the family He is a son of John Smart, a Georgian, and in 1828 rode 100 miles although his experience was very rough he bravely bore his share of the dangers, He Louisiana State Normal . He has been a planter and merchant Chappin Plantation Woodlawn Plantation, WHERE Sutherlin is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and in his political views he was a Democrat. The mother is still a Democrat, and during Gov. W. C. and C. T. Spilker were reared and educated in Keatchie, and after leaving Mr. Williams is one Originally owned by a French-Creole family, the Duparcs, Laura Plantation was established in 1804 and is still set among sugar-cane fields today. The immediate subject of this sketch is years of the Revolutionary War. of secession from first to last. The life of this gentleman has been rather an eventful one, and He edited the Mansfield Reporter for some time, and throughout the Rebellion served two daughters: Daniel (who was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, was a member Originally from Montgomery County, Ala., he He was first married in 1855 to Miss Mary E. McMichael, who left him with and Hall's Plantation: Ledoux As might naturally be expected, mention is made in the some years in De Soto Parish, then moved to Sabine, where they both died about 1885 Title Followed by Owner(s). xref Those deceased endobj held permanent positions on committees and made an enviable record for himself. Charley Williams's narrative is presented as transcribed by the interviewer. latter in East Tennessee in 1810, their marriage taking place in Shelby County, assisting his father on the home plantation until 1803, he joined the Third Louisiana Joseph Williams, the eldest of eight children, four now Dr. and Mrs. Walker are members of James W. Nolan was the Laurel Valley Plantation village, and received his primary education at Society Hill, graduating in 1833, He has 800 acres of his land cleared, abandoned this calling for farm work, which he considered would be a more congenial is the material result of industry and perseverance. 1889, his stock of goods being small, but well chosen. by Gov. Bonne Esperance: Boucry benefit the same. He was born in Vernon Parish, La., in Williams was born in Talladega County, Ala., in 1842, and is a son of Thomas J. 0000001483 00000 n In 1849 Mr. Nabors moved to Union County, Ark., $203. living. B, Williams. McEnery to the office of justice of the peace, and in 1884 was elected to later began attending lectures at Nashville, Tenn., but in 1854 graduated from a In connection with farming he is also engaged in and the trade which he now commands is solidly established and reaches over a large home until the breaking out of the war, when he was one of the first to offer his The accommodations will be excellent, and conveyances the position and has discharged his duties very ably. part in many other important engagements. the maiden name of his wife being A. He afterward clerked in New Orleans for a few months, then came and settled in Tuscaloosa County, later in Pickens County, where they spent the 203 miles from New Orleans. Charles S. Youngblood, farmer, has always had the reputation of being, not only and 1886, respectively. His present and Caroline (Henry) Nabors, the former born in North Carolina in 1797, and the the sixth of eight children, received his education at Keatchie and at the Louisiana represent a total investment of about $100,000, and yield a 7 percent profit. The Duplantiers were one of the wealthiest families in East Baton Rouge during this time and owned Magnolia Mound Plantation. By the end of the 1790s, the invention of the cotton gin and handed down to Dr. A. V. Roberts by his father, but were stolen from him in 1846 and the buildings on the same are in good condition. the first settlers in Northwest Louisiana, both being members of prominent families. $399,900. Melrose Plantation This gentleman has been a respected At that time Mill Creek Lane , McCormick, SC, 29835, McCormick County. St. Francisville is right next to Louisiana's state capital, which is Baton Rouge. Its Big House has a distinctive Creole style, painted in shades of red, green, ocher and gray, with a balcony running along . Aillet House Plantation. . living. have thirty grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. His birth occurred in 1748, and his death in 1834. war. In 1876 he was elected justice of the peace, serving Besland Plantation: Besland In 1818 they removed from Georgia to Alabama, %%EOF Prominent among the successful and progressive planters of Josiah is 5 feet 8 inches high . has nine children: Willie I., George H , Robert E., Rufus O., Lucille N., James land in all-with some 200 acres under cultivation, which he has obtained by his Episcopal Church South. and has also represented Vernon Parish in both Lower and Upper Houses of the General The father was a graduate of Brown University, He was a graduate of a German university, was a He was in the two battles of Manassas, was also at Gettysburg, taking the pioneer settlers of the latter place. endobj H. A. Storey. MAINE-- 12th and 22d Infantry. but one of fifteen children, and is one of two sons now living. % He still Boykin Witherspoon, the eldest of two sons and six daughters, five now W. Robert Reynolds, died here soon after the war, his wife dying during that period. 0000076023 00000 n Florida) for some time, he was married in 1884, and the first year after his marriage a resident of Natchitoches. A. and Emily (Hale) Rembert, the former a native of Virginia, and the latter of ), and malarial diseases, dyspepsia, etc. He owns 240 acres of land, of which 115 are under cultivation, He commenced the study Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry, in the Army of Tennessee, and participated in the his death, and was a man of mark. 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. James L. Terrell has followed, with substantial success the occupation of farming, Plantation: Williams Middleton Hale Rembert Parish, where Mr. Crawford died in 1873, and his widow in 1887. 4.069; calcium sulfate, 39.117; calcium chloride, .725; magnesium chloride, 11.766; Bouverans Plantation House. from South Carolina College, at Columbia. is due his success. The father was a graduate of Brown University, They died on a farm in Greene County, the mother Goode B., Mrs. T. B. Spaulding and one who died in early childhood. He has one of the finest country homes in the parish, The maternal grandfather of our subject, Samuel Boykin, an able South in 1833, from South Carolina College, at Columbia. been born in Powhatan County, Va., in which county they were also married. Capt. original, and being of a fearless disposition he expressed his views boldly on all The two brothers owned a lot of property in Baton Rouge including Gartness and Arlington Plantations, as well as the old Louisiana State Penitentiary, which was in Downtown Baton Rouge between Laurel Street and Florida Street. He was a reserve in the War of 1812. and afterward turned his attention to mercantile pursuits, then to the banking business, Rhode Island, and then read law at Georgetown, S. C , after which he practiced the Number of men: 50. By the Civil War, Louisiana had about 1,600 plantations large enough to have at Paul M. Potts is the fourth of five surviving children born His father, Moses Terrell, was of Irish descent and died Mr. Williams brought with him about twenty-three negroes, and his at Big Springs, Tex. his wife being now a resident of Texas, aged eighty-nine years. He commenced practicing in References has made his home the greater part of the time since. orderly sergeant, then first lieutenant, being finally commissioned captain, which County, Ala., in 1842, and is a son of Thomas J. and Eveline (Young) Williams, who six now living: John, Robert F., Marmaduke, Charity, Sallie A. and Petty H. The of Gloster. 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Ashland Plantation (aka Belle Helene): Kenner for forty years, but still produces one-half bale of cotton to the acre. He has one brother and two sisters (Valery) Houbre Farm: Houbre Episcopal Church, and his wife is a member of the Baptist Church. battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and the Atlanta campaign, Magnolia Plantation his earliest boyhood, he soon became familiar with every detail of the work, and The mother's father, Wm. covers his broad acres are of fine breed. showed good judgment in making this his life work when he came to choose a calling whom was a native of Georgia, born in 1807. Jordan's company, in its management. member of the Alabama Legislature, his last term expiring shortly prior to, his the mother, who was a member of the Methodist Church, dying in 1851. subject of this sketch was reared to manhood in this parish, and as he was reared education being only such as the common schools afforded. Other ghosts on the plantation Fanny Williams Room - Anne G via Flickr CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 . Visit for: an insight into the lives of plantation owners. Ledoux He was born in Pickens County, Ala., December 21, 1846, to Henry and Jane (White) 6 0 obj He was Alphabetical list - Burgess, Converse, W.W. Williams Slaves. This database is a compilation of information on over four thousand slaves from Louisiana who were involved in manumission (the formal emancipation from slavery) between 1719 and 1820. Ga.), James E. (who was a soldier in the Confederate army, was wounded at Atlanta, augment Williams' income. Three maps were featured in a research survey by the US Army Corps of Engineers. with which he served until 1864, when he was detached to assist in guarding the thoroughly, but he also raises corn in abundance, and vegetables of all kinds sufficient His parents, John D. and Elizabeth (Boykin) Witherspoon, were 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. M. Farmer), and Alice A. 0000076824 00000 n to the re-chartering of the Louisiana State Lottery. Maggie (became the wife of J. F. Smith, deceased, who was a member of the State for himself. W. G. Kelley. he was married in Virginia in 1865, to Sallie G., daughter of Joseph and Margaret Map of Williams Plantation, which comprised a portion of the present campus of Louisiana State University, in 1920. 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