David Haas, physician and surgeon, Haasville, La. 9. He was one of the early assessors of the parish. Previous to this, and shortly after the death of the mother, E. Ganthier, with his brother, Leon, purchased the home plantation, which they In the above mentioned year, on account of poor health, he determined to try a milder climate and came to Louisiana, and for several years thereafter now living: Mrs. M. H. Spilker, Virginia, George, Robert, Bessie, Josie and Julia. [citation needed] Contemporary descriptions cite the lack of towns, commerce, and economic development. He does a retail business of from $50,000 to $60,000 annually, a fact that speaks louder than words can do as to the success which has attended seven years, five years and six months. researchers should view the source film personally to verify or modify the information in this transcription for their own The term [citation needed], Transportation at the time was extremely limited. In the public and private school of Avoyelles Parish, La., E. E. Tanner was educated, for some years thereafter being engaged in planting in this parish, an occupation to which he was reared. In 1859 he was married to Miss Caroline King, of Opelousas, and the daughter of Valentine King, of one of the prominent Louisiana families. Clarendon Plantation, Evergreen, Avoyelles Parish, LA. He has acquired nearly all Choosing law for a profession, he entered the law department of the Louisiana University (now Tulane), and was admitted to the bar in 1800, just as the war of the sections was declared. He is a young Rosa Cailleteau, was a daughter of Eugene Cailletean connection with his paper for years. About Us | Contact Us | Copyright | Report Inappropriate Material information on numbers of African Americans on the 1870 census who were enumerated with the same surname. The County has Marksville as its seat and the County was created March 31, 1807. Racially related terms such as African American, black, mulatto and colored are used as in He is a hard student, and keeps the roughly apace with the progress of his profession, to which fact no doubt much of his success is due. Walter. interpretation questions and inconsistent counting and page numbering methods used by the census enumerators, interested On June 25 of the same year he was married to Miss Mary H. He served during the entire war. Legend claims that William T. Sherman stopped to rest under the existing oak while being pursued by angry cadets from Alexandria. He was married in New Orleans to Miss Amanda Bouligny, which union has resulted in the birth of nine children: Louise, Charles, Gustave, Corinne, Estelle, Mathilde, Edward, Amanda and Beulah. Dr. Roy is a young strength of the mercantile trade, and he is not- only a gentleman of education and learning, but has high social qualities. HABS LA,5-EVGR.V,1- (sheet 1 of 9) - Clarendon Plantation, Evergreen, Avoyelles Parish, LA Contributor: Historic American Buildings . the State. He and his estimable wife are members of the Baptist Church. If you do not see a thumbnail image or a reference to another surrogate, please fill out a call slip in were therefore more likely possible places of relocation for colored persons from Avoyelles Parish, included the following: (subject) now resides. members. LSU Libraries' Technology Initiatives: lsudiglib@lsu.edu. eructation was obtained in the city of Brotherly Love. John Kemper, was a native of the Old Dominion and of German descent. His marriage, which took place in 1870, was to Miss Octavia For the past three years he has been vice-president of Louisiana Press Association, He has a large cotton-gin on his He is a leader in politics in his locality. A. thorough student of medicine has won for him no less a reputation than has his personal character as a citizen and neighbor. southern cause, he flung aside his books, and when only seventeen years of age enlisted in Company H, Crescent Regiment, of New Orleans, as a private. Federal Census", available through Heritage Quest at http://www.heritagequest.com/ . In many cases, the originals can be served in a few minutes. Mr. Windes is a well-to do cotton planter of Avoyelles Parish, La., this occupation Thomas Overton, attorney at law and ex-judge of the Twelfth Judicial District of Louisiana, was born in St. Landry Parish, La., in 183(5. Dr. W. D, Hatis was reared in the Creole State, attended private schools in the same, was in Mississippi Military Institute for two years, and graduated from Tulane University, La., in 1883. Whether or not the ancestor is found to have been a slaveholder, a viewing of the slave census will provide an informed sense of the extent of slavery in the ancestral Parish, particularly for those who have never viewed a slave census. south Carolina and the mother of Louisiana. To this marriage were born ten children, of whom George Anderson Irion was ninth in order of birth. The father was given common-school advantages and made the occupation of planting his chief calling through life, but was, for a short time, engaged in merchandising in Cottonport. discussions on "Sectionalism," at the meeting of the same association the of large farms must have resulted in lots of duplication of plantation names. 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Saucier, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoyelles_Parish,_Louisiana, New Orleans Notarial Archives Research Center, https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/index.php?title=Avoyelles_Parish,_Louisiana_Genealogy&oldid=5258112. Adolphe J. Lafargue is born in Louisiana in 1802, and died on July 3, 1872, his mother, Deidami Rabalais, born also in Louisiana in 1810, died August 28, 1868; both were of French descent, their ancestors being among the first settlers of the parish of Avoyelles. on November Wier assumed charge he had but a few scholars. Convillion, was a native of the parish of Avoyelles, and a member of one of the largest and best families of Louisiana. The paternal grandfather was a native of Georgia, and the maternal grandfather was a native of He is a member of the Louisiana State Medical Society. He was remarkably successful in his prosecutions. This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Louisiana that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register; or are otherwise significant for their history, their association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.[1][2][3]. Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection. daughter of Dr. Wathen, of Breckinridge County, Ky., a very eminent and Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest although a resident of Marksville, La., was born in Mobile, Ala., October 3, 1842, but at the age of eleven years came to Louisiana, and grew to manhood in St. Landry Parish, where he received an excellent literary education, and afterward finished his knowledge of books in a school of Bingham, N. C., graduating in the classical course. man and a useful citizen, he brought a number of books with him, and his leisure PWey, of Hamburg, La., was born in Switzerland County, Ind., in 1840, am! After the war he returned home and entered journalism, taking charge of the Bulletin with his father, and continuing until the death of the latter, when the paper was turned over to the present proprietor. The Irion family has always been of Baptist persuasion. J. F. Griffin was reared and educated in this State, and in 1875 was united in the bonds of matrimony to Miss Ann J. PURPOSE. Main Page and Louisiana, respectively. distinction at the bar by his talents and eloquence, winning a well earned This transcription includes the 33 slaveholders who held 40 or more slaves in Avoyelles Parish, accounting for 2,684 slaves, or 37 % of the Parish total. clerk of the district court. Published information giving names of slaveholders and numbers of slaves held in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, in 1860, is either non-existent or not readily available. addressed in this transcription. the Besides enjoying to au unlimited extent the confidence and respect of all who know him, he comes of an old and respected family of Virginia. As a leading his extensive practice leads him. hours were devoted to their perusal and study. There is an entry for a 34-year-old. He is a native-born resident of Mansura, La. was born in Bedford County, Tenn., on March 20, 1830, and his parents, Leighton and Susan (Blanton) Ewell, were natives of Virginia and Tennessee, respectively. Alice B. Winn, daughter of Dr. William A. Winn, a leading physician at the time his birth occurring on September ,22, 1800, and he is the son of Leander F. and Adaline (Cainletean) Eliza E. (Phillips) Griffin, both of whom were born in Louisiana, and in this State were reared and educated. In September, 1870, he was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, and there continued to practice his profession until 1880, when he removed to Marksville, La., at which place he was admitted to the Louisiana bar in January, 1890. daughter of F. C. Monnin, a native of France. One of the leading characteristics of our commercial fabric is the size and extent of the mercantile trade in all parts of the Union. The immediate subject of this biography was reared in this parish, and received his early education under the instruction of private tutors and in the Evergreen Home Institute. Avoyelles Parish, for be wdio bears it is a native born resident of the parish, He left his native country for America in 1868, located in New Orleans, where be practiced his profession for one year, and then, 1869, he removed to Marksville, where he still continues to practice. The father was reared and received a business education in Louisiana, and was engaged in merchandising at this place for many years. planter, and has devoted much of his time to this calling ever since, and his broad acres are devoted to the culture of sugar cane, and his plantation is one, of the finest in the State. He has been an active member of the Louisiana State Medical Society since its organization, and has served three times as vice-president and once as president. Catholic Church. having died while in charge of the institute, the school had deteriorated rapidly, and when Mr. years of age, his first work being done under his father. and in addition to successfully managing these establishments, he also operates a stage and mail line between Bunkie and Marksville, find is now carrying ou ti general mercantile business, at which he is doing well. Of his marriage, three children were bornone son and two daughters the son, E. Bascom Joffrion, was born on February 27, 1802, and died ou November 24, 1884. In 1884 he was elected judge of the Twelfth Judicial District of Louisiana, comprising the parishes of Avoyelles, Map (db m105571) HM: 5 Louisiana, Avoyelles Parish, Big Bend Sarto Old Iron Bridge . Mr. Irion lost his first wife in 1878, and in 1875) be wedded Miss Alice Mort, of Now Orleans. 707-869-2107. Many a deer has forfeited its life by passing within the range of his trusty gnu, and many a fish has swung in mid air at the end of his line. fitted, for he had been familiar with the work from the time he was fourteen . ", visible in, This page was last edited on 9 November 2022, at 17:46. He filled with great credit the In the following year he married Miss Cora Cornay, a daughter of one of the oldest Creole families of St. Mary's Parish, and formerly one of the largest sugar planters of the State. Joseph Rabalais, his Now it's located on the grounds of LSU-Alexandria Campus. He held the rank of lieutenant in the Twenty-sixth Regiment of the line, and rose to the rank of captain in the Seventeenth Regiment of the line, afterward in the Twelfth, the colonel of which he became at a later period. Excluding slaves, the 1860 U.S. population was 27,167,529, with about 1 in 70 being a slaveholder. He does tin annual business of about $20,000, and his large and growing patronage is unquestionably deserved. The maternal grandfather, He was one of the leading politicians of this section, and was very popular and influential, as all men must be who are honest, intelligent find public-spirited. The overflow of the Mississippi River damaged him so seriously, financially, that he left Simmesport to seek fresh fields for his endeavors, and in 1884 located in Evergreen, where he has since The 1860 U.S. Census was the last U.S. census showing slaves and slaveholders. 7, 1833, and comes of an old and honored family. MAP. His father was Arnaud Lafargue, who was born in Orthez, France, October 30, 1775, and at the age of fifty years was married to Miss Marie Heuga, His success has been almost phenomenal, and he is now not only one of the youngest practicing physicians, but one of the leading ones of the parish. On the dissolution of the firm, in 1882. they showed au earning of nearly $100,000. The paternal grandfather. He has never taken a prominent part in political matters, but is a public spirited citizen, and is prominently identified with any enterprise that has for its object the country's good. record ("About This Item") with your request. His parents, Alfred Tarleton and Cecilia Tarleton, moved from Mary Ian! Pearce, daughter of A. G. Pearce, a native of Rapides Parish, La. and afterward took up the study of law, entering the law department of the Louisiana University (now Tulane), at the age of twenty years, but as he was too young to receive a license, he entered the journalistic field, as manager of the Bulletin, of which he became editor and proprietor some three years later, a position he has since held. In 1883 he This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 16:01. His parents, John and Myria (Gibbs) Pavey, Privately owned by descendents of the Gosserand. He was a member of the by a total of 521 slaveholders, and those slaveholders have not been included here. Missouri. The Doctor has a bright future before him. He was of a decided character, energetic, and one of He has resumed the practice of the law, and enjoys to a great degree the esteem and confidence of his fellow-men. Learn more. He was not active in political affairs. William M. Ewell, planter, Evergreen, La. The same year be was married to Miss Margaret Wathen, In 1853 he was I married to Mrs. Martha Lewis, daughter of Jonathan Keen, a native of Georgia, and two children were the fruits of this union: Penelope (now Mrs. Y. T. Heard) and Virginia. The above mentioned gentleman is one of the most, successful and prominent physicians in this part of Louisiana, and is ever to be found b}r the bedside of sick and suffering humanity. sound and intelligent views. having removed to this city at the age of sixteen years, at which place he entered the law office of E. H. Thorpe & Thomas J. Inland steam navigation rapidly expanded in the following decades. His marriage which occurred in 1870 was to Miss Lizzie Woodward, who died in 1885, He was in the principal battles of the war, and was left on the field badly wounded at Gettysburg. one vote. House destroyed by fire in 1963. Documentation Compiled After. This transcription includes the 33 slaveholders who held 40 or more slaves Being in easy financial circumstances, he is enabled to give his chief attention to literature to the exclusion of money making, and South Carolina. [citation needed] Cloth, shoes, and clothing were imported from Europe and from the Northeast U.S.[citation needed], The self-sufficiency of plantations and cheap slave labor hindered economic development of the South. The Doctor was married in 1878, to Miss skirmishes. Mr. Lafargue is a man of fine literary qualifications, find being a fine, forcible and eloquent orator, has made many speeches throughout this section for his political friends, doing much to further their interests and the cause of his party. His widow was sixty-seven years of age at the time of her death in 1888. After Lee's surrender he returned to New Orleans, but from 1865 to 1872 was in business for himself in that city. He was also for a number of years, Vital Records consist of civil records of births, adoptions, marriages, divorces, and deaths recorded on registers, certificates, and documents. After the fall of that, place he was paroled, but when exchanged once more enlisted in the same regiment, serving actively until the dose of the war, after which he emigrated to Louisiana, and was here married in 1807 to Miss Ellen Tanner, a daughter of Bladwick Tanner, a native of Louisiana and one of the early settlers of Avoyelles Parish. . [12] The newly mechanized cotton industry in England during the Industrial Revolution absorbed the tremendous supply of cheap cotton that became a major crop in the Southern United States. His social is not less marked than his business prominence. Filled with patriotic ardor, he accepted from the governor of Louisiana a commission as captain of a company of infantry in the State troops. removed with his parents in childhood. He was made the Democratic candidate for the Legislature against his desire some years ago, and lacked only a few votes of being elected. man of tine intellect, as are the other members of his family. She is au exceptionally intelligent, enterprising and well-posted lady, and for many years past has been doing business for herself, first starting out in life for herself as a milliner. Mr. Normand was a planter by occupation, and has at different times been parish judge, find They formerly carried on a large mercantile business in Lexington, but in later life, after the death of years he was engaged as manager of a cooperative store in Grangeville. Mr. Thorpe is one of the leading members of the Louisiana bar, and is generally considered the ablest lawyer at Marksville. Mass times for St. Elizabeth are below. He also owns some valuable town property in Marksville, among which is a handsome Nowhere in Avoyelles Parish, La., is there, to be found a young man of more energy, determination or force of character, than Mr. Frith possesses, and no agriculturist in this section is more deserving of success in the conduct and management of his plantation than he. His command was disbanded at Natchitoches. He is at present, a member of the police jury or Ward No. Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bunkie, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. With an inexpensive cotton gin a man could remove seed from as much cotton in one day as a woman could de-seed in two months working at a rate of about one pound per day. M. K. Pearce. He removed to Louisiana at the age of sixteen years, to take charge of a plantation which his father owned in Avoyelles Parish, and as the public has in him. the mother emigrated with her parents to America when young and settled with them in Lexington, Ky. This, in connection with the loss of money invested in slaves, left him almost penniless, but he was not the one to sit, down in despair. The father was a well-known business man of Deep River, Conn., but when just in the prime of life, at the age of forty-two years, he was called to his long home, his demise occurring in 1857. After the Civil War, railroads took over most of the hauling of goods. birth occurring here in 1857. His great-grandfather, Philip Jacob Irion, was born in Leichman, Germany, in 1733, was reared in that country and educated in Strasburg, Prance, after which he returned to Germany. After the fall of New Orleans the company was disbanded and Mr. Joffrion entered the Eighteenth Louisiana Infantry, subsequently being detailed to take charge of the commissary department at Fort De Eussy, at the fall of the fort. Clarendon Plantation, Avoyelles parish, in the 1930s tags The three others, Rosa Lula, Percival Clarence and Clysse Ursula, are aged respectively, Since 1884 be has followed these callings in Bunkie. After the war closed ho settled in Avoyelles Parish, where he began the practice of his profession, and where, in 1809, he was married to Miss Laura Waddill, a lady of talent and refinement, and eldest daughter of the late John P. Waddill, preferred living a more retired life, devoting himself to his home interests and to the advancement of the locality. Completed in 1790, the site of a tribunal after, Composed of 39 buildings, Evergreen Plantation is an intact major. such as microfilm or copy prints? He attended Shelbyville University, Bedford County, Tenn., and lacked only one year of graduating in that institution, when he was obliged to levae school. of Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, was in battle with the gunboats and various In 1850, the slave census was also separate from the free census, but in earlier years it was a part of the free census. He was very charitable, hospitable and a public-spirited citizen. at Washington in 1877, and is a member of the American Medical Association. acquaintances. color or tint (assuming the original has any), you can generally purchase a quality copy of clerk. Survey number: HABS LA-1248, Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress), Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Miss Irene Broutin was born and raised in the city of New Orleans, and after she was married she moved to the parish of Avoyelles, where she lived the rest of her life, and raised a large family of children. Dr. C. D. Owens, to Kentucky when they were extremely youthful, and there spent a long and prosperous life, and raised a number of sons, whose descendants are now living principally in Louisiana and now resides. only increased by 4%, about 13,000. Tennesseans, and in that State the father was called from the scene of his earthly labors in 1863, his widow still surviving him and residing in her native State. This lady, who was exceptionally talented and refined, died November 27, 1889, at the age of twenty-nine years, her untimely demise being deeply mourned by all. During the Civil War era, Avoyelles had military action as witnessed at Fort DeRussy (Marksville), the Battle of Mansura, and the Battle of Yellow Bayou (Simmesport). Hon. He is a native of St. Landry Parish, La., born November 8, 1849, and is the son of Hon. having three children, of whom Robert R. Irion (subject's father) was second in order of birth. He was born here, October 3, 1855, to Prof. Adolphe Lafargue, who was born in France, and came to the land of the free and the home of the bride when eighteen years of age; tor some time followed the calling of schoolteacher in Natchitoches Parish, where he was Clarendon Plantation, Avoyelles parish, in the 1930s LDL / State Library of Louisiana / State Library of Louisiana Historic Photograph Collection details share Medium sized JPEG 34.56 KiB AWS S3 Properties Manifest 147 B Image Object Open Image Viewer B&W photo, circa 1930s. A. M. Gremillion, publisher and proprietor of Marksville African American descendants of persons who were enslaved in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana in 1860, if they have an idea of the surname of the slaveholder, can check this list for the surname. For a number of years after leaving school Mr. Marshall resided in Madison County, Ala., after which he removed to Memphis, Tenn. where he dealt in cotton until the Louisiana tax records can be used in place of missing censuses and provide lists of residents during years between censuses. This prominent business [citation needed] The Year without a summer of 1816 resulted in famine in Europe and a wave of immigration to the U.S., with New Orleans being the destination of many refugees. Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana 1860 slaveholders and 1870 African Americans (Source: Large Slaveholders of 1860 and African American Surname Matches from 1870) Catalpa Plantation (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy) United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 Avoyelles Parish (Source: FamilySearch) Estate Records
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