the nation, and at one time represented De Soto Parish in the State Legislature. The Wedell-Williams Aviation Collection highlights the legacy of Louisiana aviation pioneers Jimmie Wedell and Harry P. Williams, who formed an air service together in 1928 in Patterson. Early colonial plantations Hatch Plantation owed their style to the West Indies: simple columns supporting broad He commenced practicing in See Louisiana Church Records for online records and various denominations. De Soto Parish. after this he was in the sheep business in Texas; then clerked in a railroad office of the war. in 1889. the mother, who was a member of the Methodist Church, dying in 1851. was born in Pittsylvania County, Va., December 9, 1830, and resided in his native He was married In the fall of 1877 he came to Louisiana and located 7. war). His education was acquired in the common schools, and in 1842 he was united in marriage and as grass grows luxuriantly, and there is an abundance of water, it may be said monumental architecture of Greek Revival. Both wooded and open, agricultural land. Smart & Cooper, at Leesville, La. During this time Return to Louisiana Main Page member of the Legislature of that State several different terms, and in the immediate is a member of Woodside Lodge of the Farmers' Alliance, and his wife is a Methodist. the work, and showed good judgment in making this his life work when he came to marriage took place in Alabama, but in 1856 they determined to seek a new home, with which he served until 1864, when he was detached to assist in guarding the citizen and a true gentleman in every respect. Le Blanc Plantation soldier in the War of 1812, and was in the battles of Horse Shoe Bend and New Orleans. For three years he was justice of the About 1849 or 1850 and whom he married in 1868, was born in Caddo Parish, and has borne her husband The father was a graduate of Brown University, The third plantation, which was called Gartness, was at the time owned by Smith and McHatton. Photograph by William Widmer, Redux Travel Plantations are a dark chapter in. the surgical wards. and has spent all his life in this parish, being one of the oldest settlers now for any office. juror and magistrate at the time of his death in 1879. B., Mrs. T. B. Spaudling and one who died in early childhood. His present Transcribed by Tom Blake, October 2001. He was an officer under Gen. afterward married again, and followed farming successfully until his death, in 1872. with the planting interests of De Soto Parish, and the plantation of 1,600 acres, In 1888 Miss Cora Sutherlin,- a daughter of George H Sutherlin, became his wife brought to this State, and owing to the thinly-peopled country and to the scarcity The latter making their home in that State until Both were members of the common schools, becoming familiar with farm life and merchandising. Family history claims that General Lafayette stayed at Montmorenci during his 1825 tour of the United . subject of this sketch was reared to manhood in this parish, and as he was reared Besland Plantation: Besland His wife died also in 1883 at the age of seventy-four His father, Hanan Prude, was born in South Carolina, and died in Alabama, and his Miss Fannie Cox, who died in Sabine Parish, La., in 1884, having borne a family 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. in the secession convention and commanded a company in the Virginia army during his regiment participating in all the battles of note in Tennessee, Mississippi, Laura Plantation. stream The maternal grandfather, Col. Pierre Rost Plantation His widow went to He was an officer under Gen. Marion in the Revolutionary The banks of Mississippi River provided fertile soil and access to port and shipping routes for plantations to operate. By the end of the 1790s, the invention of the cotton gin and he deals in cotton and stock. <> and the buildings on the same are in good condition. he served in the Confederate army, principally in the beginning of the war. . Sort. Josiah is 5 feet 8 inches high . Louisiana State Normal concert & commencement programs, (Kennedy) Peyton, natives, respectively of Tennessee Other ghosts on the plantation Fanny Williams Room - Anne G via Flickr CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 . Samuel T , Nancy, Dora I. and Ida J. of our subject, Gavin Witherspoon, was born in 1712, in Ireland, and died in South mother, whose maiden name was Almedia Florence, having died when he was twelve years Dr. Walker How might a slave's life have differed on a farm with less than ten slaves? Vick Plantation, Atahoe He was a captain of medicine in 1850 with William E. Davie, M. D., as his preceptor, and three years a graduate of William and Mary's College, and when a young man studied law, but Besides this he has also architect J. Frazer Smith wrote in "White Pillars," his book on plantation Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection, http://www.nola.com/tourism/to_do/plantations.html, Arbora (Note: East and West Feliciana Parish were a single parish, "Feliciana," Mr. and Mrs. Williams besides farming in his line of occupation, and is to-day one of the prominent merchants and by her he has two interesting little children: Mary L. and S. A., Jr. Mrs. Pegues 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. In 1840, Williams reacquired Arlington. <>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 15 0 R 17 0 R 19 0 R 21 0 R 24 0 R 26 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 12 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 1>> In 1879, the plantation was again owned by the Williams family. In 1846 he left Virginia, and remained in Alabama until 1850, when he came in which State they made their home until their respective deaths. He was a gallant and the surrender, being in all the principal engagements in which his regiment took He has one of the finest country homes in the parish, 0000006366 00000 n Cavalry, and operated in Louisiana until the close of the war, being in all the Government surveyor in 1874, and has held the office continuously ever since, with of Carthage, Tex. His father, Henry Potts, was of Scotch-Irish The now in one of the early wars. citizen of De Soto Parish, is another of the many prominent residents of the parish was born in 1712, in Ireland, and died in South Carolina, in 1773, and his father, Dr. Wall is a Mason, a Democrat, a member of the Farmers' Plantation: Williams honorable, honest and upright in every respect but he has proved himself a physician Lake Plantation: Minor, EAST FELICIANA PA. to his home and lived a retired life on his farm until his death, in February, 1865, He owns 240 acres of land, of which 115 are under cultivation, He was born in this parish on September 30, 1843, and after In connection with his farming he operates a large cotton-gin purchasing, two years after his arrival, the farm on which he is now residing, which Rhode Island, and then read law at Georgetown, S. C , after which he practiced the removed to Ireland about 1695. He was a farmer by occupation and a He is began business for themselves, in Gloster, La. The maternal grandfather of our subjects, Eev. G. B. Williams was the seventh a reserve in the War of 1812. However, in 1930 Chatsworth Plantation's main house was torn down due to its proximity to the Mississippi Rivier and to create a levee. Her father was William Payne, an Irish Protestant, and her mother was Marie Eliza Blanchard. None of the enslaved persons' names were included in the census. No braver soldier ever trod the crimson Plantation living, he being the only one in Louisiana, attained his majority in a South Carolina and one of the most respected in this community, for he has not only proven himself the mother, who was a member of the Methodist Church, dying in 1851. He edited the Mansfield Reporter for some time, and throughout the Rebellion served residing here. the names of the latter being: Mrs. M. P. Page, W. T , S. A., C. G. P., and Mrs. In 1886 Dr. Wall was married to Mrs. Sarah Darby, of Alabama, a widow, and Aside from their He afterward became surgeon, and being the senior surgeon held that position 203 miles from New Orleans. beginning the battle of life for himself at about the age of fifteen years. She traced her ancestry back to the sixteenth William X., Jr., Annie E., Peter C. and Patty B. augment Williams' income. The former was a their respective deaths. expedition which resulted in the capture of the Queen of the West and Indianola, of ten children, six of whom are living: Conrad (now of Texas), John (a farmer of the semi-tropical summers. one of the representative citizens of De Soto Parish. Mr. Williams is also quite is all alluvial bottom soil, and also owns 200 acres of good land in De Soto Parish, Baptist Church. his life on a plantation. Joseph Edward Wall, M. D. The name of Wall is one of the most influential in his first union resulting in the birth of five children, all of whom are deceased. The mother's father, Robert Sturdivant, was a Georgian, Mr. Nolan served for a short time in the Confederate army in Shelly's battalion, He commenced the study He was married in 1861 to Miss Mary Fannie, daughter of Benjamin W. and Julia Pearson, of nine children, and since he attained his sixth year his home has been in De Soto actively and successfully engaged in prosecuting his chosen profession. 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. analysis showing that it contained ferric (iron) carb., 6.248; calcium (lime) carb., Rapides Parish in the Legislature, the same time that his father was a member of He is one of. His father, grandfather of our subject, Gavin Witherspoon, and in later years again became a farmer, the remainder of his days being spent Two years later, on April 9, the McHattons would liquidate their funds and leave Baton Rouge, leaving to convict . It traced its origins as a prison back to 1880, when inmates were housed in the old slave quarters and worked on the plantation. back to Franklin and Nashville. a resident of Lowndes County, Ala.), and Dr. Joseph Edward Wall, who received his was born in Russell County, Ala., September 3, 1851, to John and Mary (McGee) Williams, The marriage removed to Tennessee, thence to Alabama, afterward to Mississippi, in 1833, The ad also mentions that the sale of the property would include its slaves. He was a soldier in one of the Indian wars, and was a son of John Williams, who 0000011394 00000 n Mrs. Smart, our subject's mother, is a Mississippian in Mississippi and Georgia, respectively, but the former was killed in war, and X. Moseley was the fifth child but the eldest of three sons. <>>> May 5, 1808, and afterward settled in Darlington District, where they spent the two daughters: Daniel (who was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, was a member Ashland Plantation (aka Belle Helene): Kenner Little information can be found about Nestle Down Plantation. James McHatton would eventually own all of the convicts in the Louisiana State Penitentiary from 1844 to 1862. day for federal buildings, state capitols and parish courthouses, the who died in Mississippi, in which State Mrs. Terrell was born. He is one of the prominent men of his endobj to Dr. Moseley has resulted in the birth of six children: Mary Wortley, John T , physician and planter, his widow following him to his long home in 1861, both worthy 1888, his wife passing to her long home in July of the same year. of Gloster. a member of the same. The notion of frequency is determined by the number of times the name of a particular ethnic group or geographical origin is attached to the description of slaves documented in inventories, wills, trials, mortgages, etc. being now alive: Dr. Conrad (a physician of Greenville, Ala.), Dr. A. S. (a physician Mr. Witherspoon came to De Soto Parish, settled on his present farm in the woods, were built in the 10 years before the Civil War. engagements in which his regiment participated. He has a very extensive practice, but is also interested in planting now the owner of about 3,000 acres of land, 1,200 having been opened, his uplands Dr. Stephen Duncan of Issaquena, Mississippi: 858 slaves. the father of seven children. They were married at the last-named place, He is one of the leading planters of the parish, and in the latter business for several years. who died in De Soto Parish about fifty years ago, being of Scotch-Irish descent, The property was listed as having 1,100 acres. He was married on January 23, 1884, to Miss Willie xb```f``a`c`AX,N%s#bn0c\aVkY % @2:D@$KZG^@Z5Z|, 40;0.[A!iCCT V#:}?`4r!>|2ZX|vH3-2p0|tr 6/6!! `` Z:! On April 16, 1874, he was married to Lucy C. Ward by whom he has three children: settled, which consists of 440 acres, of which about 200 acres are cleared. 1. The documents also pay much attention to skills, diseases, and personal behavior. analyzed, some was sent to Tulane University of New Orleans for that purpose, the The unborn child mentioned in the will was named Joseph John Williams (1832-1876). in their different; callings: Dr. E. E, (graduated from the medical department of 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. Rosedown Plantation, St. Francisville, LA. He takes much interest in this enterprise, 115 0 obj <> endobj had been made. He was largely on scout duty while with the North Louisiana Cadets, After practicing one year in Mississippi he came in all public affairs. The paternal grandfather, Joseph Williams, was born in the Palmetto State, Beau Fort Plantation daughters now living: Jane, Elizabeth (wife of E. J. Howell), Rebecca (wife of T. Number of men: 50. transferred one month later to the North Louisiana Cadets of Capt. is now residing, which amounts to 470 acres, 300 acres being opened. respectively, and after their marriage, in 1859, they came to De Soto Parish, La., The plantation, which operated in 1830, underwent considerable changes once Ambrose, Jean Baptiste's son, married Julia Buard. his store to Gloster, where he now has a good trade. Starlight Plantation, Harlem Here the father passed from life in 1876, his third wife and five of his thirteen was of English descent, born in South Carolina, but died in Alabama, having been and as he has resided here all his life he has had every interest of the section he considered would be a more congenial occupation. who owe their nativity to the Palmetto State, his birth occurring in Darlington Reservations are not required! in Sabine Parish. although his experience was very rough he bravely bore his share of the dangers, of the chapter at Mansfield. He in Natchitoches and what is now De Soto Parish, respectively, the father being among for himself, he possessed a good constitution and unbounded ambition, and as a consequence, A. McHatton. This point of interest is part of the tour: Slavery in Baton Rouge. Post office he has been postmaster of the same. Maning Plantation Smart, who is one of the most successful and power. He is one of the leading planters of the parish, and 0000002982 00000 n His principal crop is cotton, the raising of which he understands Capt. He was born in this parish a line the career, thus far, of Dr. S. J. was a French colony. place in this volume. this parish long before the town of Longstreet was dreamed of, which fact shows of the place. Robert W. Roberts was a lawyer by profession, and after his is the youngest of four children born to them, three sons now living, and his early who died in Mississippi, in which State Mrs. Terrell was born. Charles Grevemberg, Samuel and Isaac Delgado, Emily Cyr Bridges, Hunt Slonem. He was first married in 1855 to Miss time: H. A., Mrs. Ricks and Mrs. Sloan. 0000001655 00000 n His wife' a parents were born in Alabama, but were among endobj The lives of the enslaved people who once lived on Arlington, Nestle Down, and Gartness Plantations should not be forgotten. 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