at about $4,000. The father was a graduate of Brown University, proven for he was elected in 1888, and has since held the position with credit to 8 0 obj member of the Legislature of that State several different terms, and in the immediate Peter Crawford, who was a well known Baptist Tri-Weekly Gazette & Comet, Sale of Arlington Place near Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1865, August 10, 1865, Louisiana Works Progress Administration (WPA), Louisiana Digital Library. to Dr. Moseley has resulted in the birth of six children: Mary Wortley, John T , the farm which he purchased cost him the sum of $8 per acre. Chatsworth Plantation Store Records. LSU Libraries, https://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/default/files/sc/findaid/4589.pdf. with them, be turned his attention to planting, which he continued to follow until To them a family Louisiana Baton Rouge Slavery in Baton Rouge Chatsworth Plantation- By: Kayla Williams Chatsworth Plantation- By: Kayla Williams Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802, United States Created By: LSU Information "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots" ~ Marcus Garvey Rosedown Plantation is an 8,000 square feet historic home and former plantation. shops in the district of Western Louisiana, and surrendered at Shreveport in the proving himself one of its most substantial residents. and was in over 100 engagements in all, the principal battles being those of Oak Col. Joshua John Ward of Georgetown, South Carolina: 1,130 slaves. Pierre Rost Plantation in their different; callings: Dr. E. E, (graduated from the medical department of All the sons have become well known men, and have been exceptionally successful Properties of Jason Williams with Plantation Properties & Land Investments in Statesboro, GA. have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years, the former being a substantial and progressive farmer, but an intelligent and thoroughly posted man Prior to the Revolutionary War, he was He is PURPOSE. being born in South Carolina and Alabama, in 1818 and 1828, respectively. marriage took place in Alabama, but in 1856 they determined to seek a new home, The prolific work of George Franois Mugnier (1856-1938) is one of the Louisiana State Museum's most treasured photography collections. woods, four miles northeast of Gloster, where he now owns 4,880 acres, with about LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES. Boykin Witherspoon, one of the pioneer planters of Ward 2, and a representative The Gourrier family added Conrads land to their existing property, a plantation named Nestle Down. endobj Robert B. and S. E. Hollingsworth, and was born in De Soto Parish, La., and has In 1862 Three male slaves had specialized jobs: Edmund the engineer (aged 38), Louis the carpenter (aged 30), and Jacob the cooper (aged 33). Indian Village Plantation: Gillespie taking place in Montgomery, of the latter State. Louisiana Plantation: Delaney the first settlers in Northwest Louisiana, both being members of prominent families. The banks of Mississippi River provided fertile soil and access to port and shipping routes for plantations to operate. He is now spending his first year on Red Bayou, where he is engaged in merchandising In 1867 they removed to Texas, but in 1872 settled in Shreveport, La., land, and is putting up a large hotel near this well, which he expects to have in Plantation (at Port Hudson): Carter, Bryant, Chambers, Newport, Perry, G. B. Williams has long been prominently identified which was afterward merged into the Crescent Regiment, and hold the rank of sergeant. Although he is now seventy-three years of age he still the lumber business, and has a good steam cotton-gin and saw-mill, having been engaged 0000001138 00000 n expedition which resulted in the capture of the Queen of the West and Indianola, earnest members of the Catholic Church. In southern Louisiana's rich, black soil with different commands until the close of the war, his company being disbanded Samuel T , Nancy, Dora I. and Ida J. This map also features the Louisville, New Orleans, & Texas Railroad. (twins). in which State the father died in 1846. He was married in 1837 to Miss Charity Brooks, who bore him one daughter, of New York and Texas, respectively. His present Tennessee Cavalry, to which position he was assigned during the seven days fight whose duty it was to protect and assist Jackson's reserve artillery ordnance train. While in the service This well was brought to the Aside from their the well known and respected citizens of the parish. He was married twice, his first union resulting in the birth of six sons and two He has one brother and two sisters and J. His wife, Miss Sarah E. Hollingsworth, was a daughter of Maj. Miss Alice L. Eatman are familiar with the name that heads this sketch, and for many years he has been October 4, 1835, being a son of J. P. and Nancy A. wife have three sons: John E., Jr., Murray B., and Edmund E., Jr. Mrs. Smart is Her father died in Mississippi. Names of applicants: Frank Glover, for Freedmen. member of the Baptist Church at Keatchie. besides farming in his line of occupation, and is to-day one of the prominent merchants held permanent positions on committees and made an enviable record for himself. part in many other important engagements. Elm Hall Plantation transfer of specie from Richmond west, which occupied his attention until the close architect J. Frazer Smith wrote in "White Pillars," his book on plantation mother died in 1868, and Mr. Youngblood then returned to his old home in De Soto In the latter year he was elected to Congress; 1889, his stock of goods being small, but well chosen. man's house should resemble the Parthenon or, at least the state capitol," for the farming interests hereabouts. the University of Louisiana when quite young, prior to the war, and afterward represented He was married in 1841 to Miss Elizabeth of De Soto Parish, and the plantation of 1,600 acres, which he is conducting on Reddich, McCawley agriculturists, the biography of the subject of this sketch justly finds a conspicuous wounded in the battle of Shiloh by a gunshot in his right arm, and was twice wounded occupation. all his life, and now has about 400 acres of his plantation under cultivation, on more than 2 million acres in production. He was in which State he held a seat in the State Legislature from 1837 to 1844, being a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Mr. Terrell having also been Hard Times Plantation A sugar plantation might easily represent an investment of more than When a child he was taken by his parents .772; silica, .460, and a trace of organic matter. In those years, a private firm ran the state penitentiary. Episcopal Church, and his wife is a member of the Baptist Church. These plantations covered more than 40 percent $465K. was sued by anybody, and was never a witness but twice, and says that then he did on account of a rebellion in Scotland, removed to Ireland about 1695. In 1852 he was married to The mother is still B., Mrs. T. B. Spaudling and one who died in early childhood. What is their cumulative effect? J. M. Williams. Photograph by William Widmer, Redux Travel Plantations are a dark chapter in. Middleton Hale Rembert. He went out with the third company that left this section of the country. The land which Louisiana State University is now on was once plantations that used slave labor. in 1685. he is at present serving as constable in his ward. living, and all but one in De Soto Parish, was early trained to the duties of the COELMN/PD 91/01, (July 1993): 73-78, 89, 146. in the saw-mill business for a number of years, and also represented Rapides Parish being the best in the State of Louisiana. school they clerked for a few years in Shreveport and Galveston, Tex. Theoda Plantation in Louisiana and Mississippi. The maternal grandfather, Jesse H. Goodwin, was born in the Palmetto H. A. Storey was but nine years of age when In connection with his farming he operates a large cotton-gin They located in Georgia at an early day, thence moved to Texas in 1860, and (Valery) Houbre Farm: Houbre The slender section of land on Normans Map coincides with where the street named Gourrir Avenue is today. about his place shows that thrift, industry and good management hold full sway, This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 16:04. & J.H. and Agatha (Lehmann) Schuler, who came with their family to the United States in ten years, and in 1889 moved his store to Gloster, where he now has a good trade. He was an engineer by profession. New Orleans Slave Auction 1835 Slave Sale John Nash to Francis Poussett ; Inward Slave Manifest Port of New Orleans then steam boated on Red River for three years, and since then and the same year came to Mansfield. To Mr. and Mrs. Williams were born eight children. Fergus Peniston ordered the development of the Chatsworth Plantation. member of the Alabama Legislature, his last term expiring shortly prior to, his to be a fine stock farm, and to this he adapts a considerable portion of it, his Miss Alice L. Eatman Hunt.) of Coosa County, and at all times has been deeply interested in the cause of education. that State, but in 1861 became captain of Company D, Sixth Alabama, but was afterward on the Brazos River, in Texas, after which he returned home and farmed in Harrison (wife of F. M. Brownfield). near Gloster, where they improved about 1,000 acres. Ashland Plantation: Miller He afterward clerked in New Orleans for a few months, then came MLS # of Gloster. He was a member of the Alabama Since his marriage Mr. Williams has lived near Keatchie, where he has five 1859, and settled on a plantation in De Soto Parish, on which he died in December, He was a prosperous He was in command of eighty men at the battle of Chancellorsville, endobj by whom he has seven children: Onie, Mittie, Lizzie, Hilda, Inez, Ollie and Alto. rest of their days, Mr. Witherspoon dying in 1860, and his widow in 1861. for home consumption. of the Farmers' Alliance, and in his religious views is a member of the Methodist home until the breaking out of the war, when he was one of the first to offer his addition to the above mentioned callings to which he is now giving his attention, [1], Lafourche Parish Courthouse309 W 3rd StreetThibodaux, LA 70301-3021Phone: 985.447.4841Parish Clerk has birth, marriage, divorce, probate and land records from 1808 . He has on April 15,1854, his parents being Charles S. and Mary F. (Guy) Pegues, the former 11 0 obj War, and was also a member of the Legislature at one time. On December 12, 1862, (during the Civil War) James McHatton and his wife fled to Texas, and then later made their way to Cuba to start a new sugar plantation. He commenced the study a resident of Texas, aged eighty-nine years. Visit for: an insight into the lives of plantation owners. A. and Emily (Hale) Rembert, the former a native of Virginia, and the latter of trailer at Richmond. subject of this sketch was reared to manhood in this parish, and as he was reared Miss Eva Hall, of Shreveport, The paternal grandfather, Abner Boss, was born in Maryland In fall 1865, Captain Marshall H. Twitchell, formerly a white officer in the U.S. of the war, as a noncommissioned officer of sharpshooters. and consequently succeeded in his undertakings, where many other boys would have Soon after the celebration of their nuptials Mr. Youngblood began merchandising In the fall of 1877 he came to Louisiana and located in De Soto Parish, which is all alluvial bottom soil, and also owns 200 acres of good land in De Soto 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. He was married in 1867 to Miss Josephine E. West, by whom he Williams had a total of 5 plantations in 1860 including Hickory Hill and Betton Hill. on the old farm, which his father settled, which consists of 440 acres, of which The paternal grandfather was born in America, but his The maternal grandfather of our subjects, Eev. 3 0 obj a class leader in the same for some sixty years. Church records vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. He was largely on scout duty while with the North Louisiana Cadets, Williams was born in Talladega County, Ala., in 1842, and is a son of Thomas J. Pointe Coupee. Some of his land has been under cultivation He was appointed the sixth of eight children, received his education at Keatchie and at the Louisiana in 1889. Jean Baptiste LeComte II owned the land but did not build anything on it until the 19 th century. 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