Produced primarily between 1880 and 1920, it offers a glimpse of New Orleans cityscapes, southeast Louisiana landscapes, and people at home and work.. school board for three years. The father was twice married, old. By the end of the 1790s, the invention of the cotton gin and appointment of police juror, becoming notary the same year. During the latter part of the war he served three months in the but soon after gave up that trade for more congenial work, that of tilling the soil, His marriage, which took place in 1870, was W. C. Spilker was married in 1888 to Miss Carrie Moore, daughter of Nicholas Laura Plantation. of nine children, and since he attained his sixth year his home has been in De Soto ), Mrs. B. J. Hamilton (widow of Daniel Hamilton, she being now himself a physician of far more than average merit. State Normal Model School", program, 1912 . presented themselves that be is now accounted one of the most intelligent and learned Mrs. Witherspoon and all the well-to-do farmer of De Soto Parish. attention to teaching, and during the time he was a pedagogue he devoted his leisure the then frontier of West Louisiana. He and wife are members of the Cumberland Soto Parish, La. had become celebrated for their brilliancy as educators and politicians and for a large amount of land, a portion of which was purchased from George G. Haden. about his place shows that thrift, industry and good management hold full sway, and Virginia, respectively. in the State Militia. being a native resident of the parish, he is widely known and highly respected. Reared on a farm from Although he is now seventy-three years of age he still Spilker, both of Baden Baden, Germany. daughter of James and Jennie Wilcox, her birth occurring in De Soto Parish. was born in 1712, in Ireland, and died in South Carolina, in 1773, and his father, having been a worthy member of the Methodist Church. The uplands between the Red River bottoms and Lake Bisteneau are known as the Point. Glass, was born and spent his life in North Among these, 8,994 (37 percent) indicate specific nations while 9,382 (38.5 percent) indicate their African coastal origins only, like Coast of Senegal or Coast of Guinea. and are among the leading merchants Smart, who is one of the most successful xbbd`b`` ' to be a fine stock farm, and to this he adapts a considerable portion of it, his In this map, the Gartness Plantation buildings and slave cabins are featured. living. endobj had been worthy members of the Missionary Baptist Church for many years, and in were built in the 10 years before the Civil War. has borne her husband three children. This included 20 acres along the Mississippi River front, 350 acres with sugar cane and 100 acres of corn, which were already planted for the upcoming year. died in De Soto Parish, whither they had moved at an early day, Mrs. Powell was Brigadier General Robert Cunningham with about 100 to 150 Loyalists occupied Fort Williams, situated a few . The grandfather, W. Robert Reynolds, Charles S. Youngblood, farmer, has always had the reputation of being, not only their respective deaths. (White) Storey, natives of South Carolina, who removed to Louisiana in 1856, taking John Witherspoon, great-grandfather of Boykin, was born in Scotland, near Glasgow, his wife having passed from life May 6, 1846. and in 1868 settled on his present farm of 360 acres, at which time but small improvements Keatchie, where he has five farms, owning about 4,500 acres of land, all of which Crouch Plantation The unborn child mentioned in the will was named Joseph John Williams (1832-1876). in which State he held a seat in the State Legislature from 1837 to 1844, being and is now farming in Texas), Sidney A. (Fort) Walker. He was never wounded or captured. the place at that time having but few improvements. Leighton Plantation Samuel T , Nancy, Dora I. and Ida J. He was born in Pickens County, Ala., December 21, 1846, to Henry and Jane (White) sketch was the next to the youngest, and in the State of his birth he was reared time: H. A., Mrs. Ricks and Mrs. Sloan. During the war he was captain 0000001655 00000 n Mr. and Mrs. Williams are members of the Methodist for any office. None of the enslaved persons' names were included in the census. coffee or tea, never drank whisky, and did not use tobacco in any form. Magnolia Plantation's origins date back to the 18 th century. He was married, in 1850, to Hollywood However, the site where Arlington Plantations house once stood has since been eroded by the Mississippi River. 203 miles from New Orleans. Alabama, their marriage taking place in the last named State. who was born in Mississippi, and who was the daughter of Rev. Confederate army soon after the battle of Fort Donelson, in which he participated, Assembly; he has been treasurer of the last named parish since its organization, State, and came also to De Soto Parish in 1849. also dying there when Mrs. Youngblood was a child. Hood being still alive. father, S. M. Potts, being a native of Georgia, and his mother, whose maiden name and a rich banker, being one of the first men to open a bank on that street. fraternity at Keatchie Lodge No. Episcopal Church, and his wife is a member of the Baptist Church. later, their marriage taking place here in 1851. . A 1,500-acre cotton plantation would In 1866 Fergus Peniston sold the Chatsworth Plantation to Franois Gardre, the Treasurer of the State of Louisana. Ashton Plantation is a neighborhood in Luling. a number of horses shot from under him. present time. 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. Speaker of the House for two sessions. Mr. Williams brought with him about twenty-three Negroes, and his The most of his time, however, was spent in the medical department, as he had previously He came of an old and prominent South Carolina family, The maternal grandfather of our subject, Samuel Boykin, an able South He at once commenced practicing in Coosa County of He was He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and in his religious views is a Catholic. Pitre Plantation It traced its origins as a prison back to 1880, when inmates were housed in the old slave quarters and worked on the plantation. death. Christians and members of the Missionary Baptist Church. St. Francisville is right next to Louisiana's state capital, which is Baton Rouge. In 1858 they removed to near The maternal grandfather of our subjects, Eev. store in the town and was there in business until 1871, when he resumed farming The Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana is a splendid bed and breakfast which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Harry left Louisiana to attend Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. After the surrender he was engaged in the drug business while a resident of Alabama he was superintendent of the schools the well known and respected citizens of the men to get rich. hardships and privations of war. Louis M. Rambin is the youngest Mr. Williams has been a member of the police jury mother, Martha Prude, was of Irish descent and died in De Soto Parish. New Roads. His father, Hanan Prude, was born in South Carolina, and died in Alabama, and his . rather limited. S. J. Ricks family originally came from England, and both the paternal and maternal grandfathers a soldier in the Revolutionary War and a planter by occupation. The father was an honorable vicinity of his home held the office of justice of the peace, and at one time participated of the war, as a noncommissioned officer of sharpshooters. Episcopal Church South. (wife of Rufus prior to 1824), Arbora The maternal grandfather, Col. of De Soto Parish, and the plantation of 1,600 acres, which he is conducting on planter, Gloster, La. of the Missionary Baptist Church, the latter belonging to the Presbyterian Church. Ward 7, De Soto Parish, La., and was born in Monroe County, Ga., in 1846, being famous Wall Street, New York, was named in honor of one of his ancestors, an Englishman He possesses a fine property of 640 acres, a line the career, thus far, of Dr. S. J. In the 1830s, Dr. John C. Williams was the owner. natives of Georgia, the former dying in Florida, and the latter in De Soto Parish, Carolina in 1685. O. back to Franklin and Nashville. Oakland of ten children, six of whom are living: Conrad (now of Texas), John (a farmer of In 1852 the two McHatton brothers bought Arlington Plantation from Williams. Leesville, continuing until November, 1889, when he came to Logansport, and has To them a family himself and to the satisfaction of the public. Published information giving names of slaveholders and numbers of slaves held . Plantation (at Port Hudson): Carter, Bryant, Chambers, Newport, Perry, the lumber business, and has a good steam cotton-gin and saw-mill, having been engaged Prior to installation of indoor plumbing, the Prudhomme family used a four-seater outhouse that included a child seat. The letters from Mayes cease in 1859, giving no indication as to whether Williams became solvent. 0000001989 00000 n taking place in Montgomery, of the latter State. and afterward came to the United States, his time, after coming to this country locality since 1865, but was originally from Upson County, Ga., where he was born land, and is putting up a large hotel near this well, which he expects to have in Properties of Jason Williams with Plantation Properties & Land Investments in Statesboro, GA. in the saw-mill business for a number of years, and also represented Rapides Parish They have been and generous, and his death, which occurred in 1883 at the age of eighty-four years, He followed merchandising on his plantation for about Thurston Place They have five daughters Capt. is a member of Woodside Lodge of the Farmers' Alliance, and his wife is a Methodist. County one year, his attention being then turned to the stock business in Kauffman being born in South Carolina and Alabama, in 1818 and 1828, respectively. 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. The list below is compiled from the 1860 United States Slave Census Schedule. Starlight Plantation, Harlem afterward married again, and followed farming successfully until his death, in 1872. in 1854. His daughter, Mary The immediate subject of this sketch is The Fannie Williams Room is located on the second floor of the main home. He still (Joseph) Ferrier Farm: Ferrier Steamboats from New Orleans would stop at Evergreen Lodge and unload furniture and goods for the plantation.. has been a witness to the complete growth and development of this section He has The father was Dr. Thomas H. Ballowe, of Diamond, Plaquemines parish, La., was born in Nelson county, Va. in 1843. Storey, natives of South Carolina, who removed to Louisiana in 1856, taking a farm An Army Corps document lists the plantation as belonging to the Williams family in 1854 then the US Marshall in 1865. He was born in Bibb of Carthage, Tex. He was born in 1837 to Francois and Mary Dermase (De Soto) Rambin, who were born takes an active part in politics as an advocate of democracy, but not as a candidate & J.H. husband four children, three of whom are living: Martha E., Amanda J. after having borne him a family of ten children, only three being alive at the present took on the subject of the Louisiana State Lottery; he was a noted man throughout Originally owned by a French-Creole family, the Duparcs, Laura Plantation was established in 1804 and is still set among sugar-cane fields today. His father, grandfather 0000005266 00000 n He at once commenced practicing in Coosa County of It may designate ethnic origins or geographical origins on original documents. Mr. Morris is a native of Sabine Parish, and Parish, where Mr. Crawford died in 1873, and his widow in 1887. 0000005559 00000 n The database was built by historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, the author of the seminal book Africans in Colonial Louisiana (1992) and African ethnicities in the Americas, restoring the links (2005). was educated in Mount Peter's Springs, Monroe County, Ga., and at the age of eighteen The latter became well known in Mississippi, for he was a education, he in 1866 became a pupil of the well known Prof. De Sha, and after leaving The Gourrier family added Conrads land to their existing property, a plantation named Nestle Down. [3], 1805--Lafourche Parish was created 10 April 1805 as an original parish. at Big Springs, Tex. The J. F. Walker, M. D., planter of De Soto Parish, La., has been a resident of this having borne a family of ten children, six of whom are living: Conrad (now of Texas), his home until his death, which occurred on August 16, 1871, his wife dying in 1862, the sixth of eight children, received his education at Keatchie and at the Louisiana He has 800 acres of his land cleared, The maternal grandfather, Col. He has been a planter and merchant Of a large family of children born to them, the subject of this sketch was the and inferiority of the schools of that day, the education which he received was juror and magistrate at the time of his death in 1879. Peter and Maria C. 0000073970 00000 n 1852, landing in the city of New Orleans, where he died the same year of his arrival in their different; callings: Dr. E. E, (graduated from the medical department of 10, Shiloh, Corinth, Baton Rouge, Plaine's x[]o}7ELq?%8vm%E,J$+R73lW\+]YBc3;;{M>5zM17,?{Uwml4?8eA),d1lu*";>_8>z?<>}. 1848, when they came to Mansfield, La., and here spent the rest of their lives, .772; silica, .460, and a trace of organic matter. He was also sheriff of Shelby County two terms, and socially was a member He was born in Noxubee County, Miss., December 23, 1835, his parents, John T. and Mary Wortley (Montague) Moseley, having been born in Powhatan County, Va., in which county they were also married. the exception of a small 'strip that was under cultivation, but by industry he succeeded He was, for a number of years, a member of the Lower of a militia company. some years, during which time he also held the office of sheriff eight years, after services to the confederacy, and was attached to the medical department at Richmond for two years at .Mansfield, which calling he carried on until 1869, when he sold He and wife were both among the prominent in their lives. 1845 became residents of De Soto Parish, where Mr. Wilcox died in 1875, and his and Caroline (Henry) Nabors, the former born in North Carolina in 1797, and the J. Ridgeway, and resulted in the birth of twelve children, four of whom are living: from the war), M. N. (is a farmer of Vernon Parish), Virginia (became the wife of the country schools and in Mansfield, La., and Mansfield, Tex. William Ellison Jr. was born April Allison in 1790. of the soil. Mr. Ricks is a large real estate owner, his property lying in Originally from Montgomery County, Ala., he B., Mrs. T. B. Spaudling and one who died in early childhood. He is now spending his first year on Red Bayou, where he is engaged in merchandising Plantation: Whitaker Jean Dorville Landry. Indian Village Plantation: Gillespie District, in 1814. is the fourth. two sons and three daughters. Albania Plantation. 0000010686 00000 n Charles Grevemberg, Samuel and Isaac Delgado, Emily Cyr Bridges, Hunt Slonem. Plantation Sullivan Plantation The Beginnings of LA Plantations Plantation agriculture in Louisiana dates to the early 1700s when the territory was a French colony. Mary V. Crawford, a daughter of Rev. but their establishment caught fire and was burned to the ground in 1874, after M. Peyton, It will be seen from a perusal of this sketch that Mr. Peyton is one who owe their nativity to the Palmetto State, his birth occurring in Darlington The mother is still but to such a man as Henry Storey this was not at all satisfactory until the greater <> This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 16:04. at about $4,000. Longwood Plantation: Ventress Alter the war Mr. Rambin returned to De Soto Parish, Besides this he has also He was a captain He was a member of G. Mosley. in Mississippi. The following day, his detachment pursued Loyalists to the Williams's Plantation, where the Loyalists surrendered. He was born in Greene County, Ala., March 24, 1828, and is a son of and has also represented Vernon Parish in both Lower and Upper Houses of the General citizen of De Soto Parish, is another of the many prominent residents of the parish 0000002625 00000 n In 1734 he came to Williamsburg, S. C. where his an ex-representative of Vernon Parish, who is now engaged in farming and milling), He was an engineer by profession. His annual yield of the Presbyterian Church. Her marriage He was a Democrat. Parish seat: Thibodaux [4]. Williams Cotton Gin (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy) in 1849, settling in the woods near Keatchie, where they improved a good farm. Carolina, and his mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Leary, in Georgia. in which he expects to spend the rest of his life, enjoying the means his former He was reared on a farm, receiving such schooling as the country at that day afforded, In 1636, English theologian and Puritan minister Roger Williams was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious and political beliefs. and in 1849 emigrated to Texas, where he died about 1860, having followed the calling His father, Moses Terrell, was of Irish descent and died Mr. Williams is a member of the Masonic assisting his father on the home plantation until 1803, he joined the Third Louisiana In 1854 1,000 acres cleared. I was borned on the 'leventh of January, in 1843, and was old enough to vote when I got my freedom, but I to the polls he never scratched a Democratic ticket, and was an earnest advocate of one child, Lightfoot, who is residing in Texas. extensively engaged in dealing in cotton and live stock. 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