Repository for Interesting Documents and Artifacts of a Genealogical Nature
“This deposit of Mr. Baylor Cook is made for the benefit of the following named children, children of his deceased brother Frank Cook, to wit, Virginia, Richmond, Emelia, and Richard
The public trees on Ancestry document enslaved people as I find them in various documents, and their families as the record trail comes forward. There are enslavers as well, in
In the papers of Turnbull / Allain, there is a 4 page handwritten list of about 148 enslaved persons titled “List of Slaves belonging to Bayou Plantation 1st October 1859”.
West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana On March 24, 1835 two married half-sisters recorded a transaction wherein they deeded to each other Enslaved Persons and property they had inherited from their mother
Less than a year before Catherine Turnbull’s death, she created a will determining her burial wish to be interred in her Inheritance Plantation cemetery with other family members. She identified
La Tourrette’s reference map of the state of Louisiana : from the original surveys of the United States, which show the townships, sections, or mile squares, Spanish grants, settlement rights,
107 names listed in her Garden Diary, page undecipherable, Rosedown Plantation, Louisiana. Siege was May 22- July 9, 1863. Special Note: No. 24 Ellick is our Alexander Williams. No. on
152 Names and ages as found listed by Martha Turnbull in her Garden Diary, pages 69-70, at Rosedown Plantation, Louisiana. Special Note: No. 23 Ellick is our Alexander Williams. No.
182 Names as found listed by Martha Turnbull, owner of Rosedown Plantation, in her Garden Diary pages 67-69; an inventory to pay July 1864 Confederate Taxes. Ages appear to be
These Names are from LSU and West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, Clerk documents ordered and transcribed to aid identification of Enslaved people at Rosedown Plantation and other Plantations related through the