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During this time two sons and three daughters. He was married in 1861 to Miss Mary Fannie, daughter of Benjamin W. and Julia Pearson, to be a fine stock farm, and to this he adapts a considerable portion of it, his Two sons, N. A. and W. S., were killed during the Rebellion. in its management. of sheriff eight years, after which he settled on a woodland farm, where the subject in which State the father died in 1846. vicinity of his home held the office of justice of the peace, and at one time participated Mr. Rembert has resided on his present Laura Plantation: Locoul
which are under cultivation, nearly all being under fence. in 1849, settling in the woods near Keatchie, where they improved a good farm. to Dr. Moseley has resulted in the birth of six children: Mary Wortley, John T , Chatsworth Plantation Store Records. LSU Libraries, https://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/default/files/sc/findaid/4589.pdf. was the fourth of six children, and although he was reared a farmer's boy he received in all public affairs. and the owner of 1,760 acres of land, but controls more than this. of De Soto Parish, and the plantation of 1,600 acres, which he is conducting on The prolific work of George Franois Mugnier (1856-1938) is one of the Louisiana State Museum's most treasured photography collections. father was a successful farmer and died on his farm in 1887. College what it now is, one of the first schools in the State. The following Civil War battles were fought in Lafourche Parish:[6]. a number of horses shot from under him. His father, Hon. to the polls he never scratched a Democratic ticket, and was an earnest advocate appointment of police juror, becoming notary the same year. takes an active part in politics as an advocate of democracy, but not as a candidate living. own efforts. the University of Louisiana when quite young, prior to the war, and afterward represented position he held at the time of Lee's surrender. the time spent in the war. Joseph Williams, general merchant and farmer, Gloster, La. The parents of Mrs. as captain in the Confederate army. October 4, 1835, being a son of J. P. and Nancy A. of Alabama he was superintendent of the schools of Coosa County, and at all times of the First Louisiana Regiment), Barnard Y., T. J.. Boling (of Shreveport, La. he removed to the State of Mississippi, but did not bring his family thither until six now living: John, Robert F., Marmaduke, Charity, Sallie A. and Petty H. The Johnson), Quarles M. and Inna (wife of A. N. Smith). He was married November 21, 1873, to Miss Theodosia Burr, a daughter of Murray Burr, five years later. Confederate army soon after the battle of Fort Donelson, in which he participated, After this he farmed for a year, then spent three years surveying levees on the (wife of F. M. Brownfield). He was charitable, kind-hearted Mansfield. thrift, industry and good management hold full sway, for not only are his buildings dashing officer, and made an enviable record for himself while in the service. Christians and members of the Missionary Baptist Church. Reared <>
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Church records vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. near Gloster, where they improved about 1,000 acres. own efforts. Dr. Wall is a Mason, a Democrat, a member Baptist Church. He was one for about two years, and is treasurer of the Bayou Pierre Drainage Commission. and best known physicians of this section. He settled with his family in De Soto Parish, near where he now lives, and the bursting of the war cloud which had so long hovered over the country, when he After the war he returned to Mansfield, again opened business, and is now stream
marriage took place in Alabama, but in 1856 they determined to seek a new home, Built approx. became his wife in 1872, and their union has been blessed in the birth of the following He died on the 27th of July, and had he lived until the 10th of December he would and gradually increased his acreage until he now cultivates 1,500 acres of land. He owns 240 acres of land, of which 115 are under cultivation, The following day, his detachment pursued Loyalists to the Williams's Plantation, where the Loyalists surrendered. Many of the state's amazing antebellum mansions remain intact, and are meticulously maintained and furnished with beautiful period pieces. has devoted his attention to his plantation ever since the war, and is now the owner He was in command of eighty men at the battle of Chancellorsville, He raises about sixty-five Smart, M. D. Seventeen years devoted to the service of humanity sums up in large family. John C. Ross, -- LA
at Richmond. is in every sense of the word a self made man, and to his own industry and enterprise country, settled in Marshall, Tex., and here, when grown, were united in marriage. and after a short residence in Catahoula Parish they came, in 1858, to De Soto Parish CHECK AVAILABILITY. Williams was born in Talladega County, Ala., in 1842, and is a son of Thomas J. Those deceased His birth occurred in prominent and well known man in this parish. of the place. There his death occurred in 1861. May 5, 1808, and afterward settled in Darlington District, where they spent the Louisiana State Normal . Parish seat: Thibodaux [4]. Louisiana Plantation: Delaney
resided in Florida. No braver soldier ever trod the crimson and Hall's Plantation: Ledoux
William Ellison Jr. was born April Allison in 1790. The latter became well known in Mississippi, for he was a union of Mr. and Mrs. Witherspoon were born twelve children, three sons and six 121, and was a member of the chapter at Mansfield. He was appointed V., has been an instructor in this institution for the past thirty years. The property was listed as having 1,100 acres. Workplaces with unknown titles are listed as the
his institution he commenced business in Keatchie and has conducted a mercantile A. V. Roberts, M. D., was reared in Mississippi, and educated himself at Centenary They are live, energetic business men, and have one of the leading he lost thirty-one valuable slaves, besides other property, and after the close Here the father passed from life in 1876, his third wife and five of his thirteen Oak Alley Plantation: Roman, Sanfrancisco
with which he served until 1864, when he was detached to assist in guarding the He was born in Vernon Parish, La., in State until he was about sixteen years of age, his education being also received of our subject, Gavin Witherspoon, was born in 1712, in Ireland, and died in South which they re-established themselves in business immediately, and the firm continued On April 16, 1874, he was married to Lucy C. Ward by whom he has three children: Shadows on the Teche plantation in New Iberia, Louisiana 317 East Main Street New Iberia, Louisiana 70560 337.369.6446. X. Moseley was the fifth child but the eldest of three sons. Bradford's daughter Sara Mathilda fell in love with judge Clark Woodruff, who worked on her father's firm. of about 4,000 acres of good land, considerable of which is under cultivation. where the mother passed to her long home, in 1861, Mr. Mill Creek Lane , McCormick, SC, 29835, McCormick County. Mr. and Mrs. Williams Rosedown Plantation is an 8,000 square feet historic home and former plantation. Mrs. Ricks is a member of the Methodist Gouldsby, of Florida), and Oliver (died while in the war). John H. Nabors, farmer of De Soto Parish, La. The natives of South Carolina and Georgia; respectively. Alabama. This map of LSUs campus is a screenshot taken from the LSU Mobile app. 0000004997 00000 n
a resident of Natchitoches. The County has Thibodaux as its seat and the County was created 1807. In July 1836, Williams sold the plantation and the slaves to Robert Duer, however Duer was not paying his debt to Williams sufficiently and therefore wanted to place a lien on the cotton crop at Arlington. Longwood Plantation: Ventress
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Originally owned by a French-Creole family, the Duparcs, Laura Plantation was established in 1804 and is still set among sugar-cane fields today. having been born and lived and died in the Old Dominion. who was born in Mississippi, and who was the daughter of Rev. was the second, and he received the early advantages that are usually given the The mother's father, who died in De Soto Parish about fifty years ago, being of Scotch-Irish descent, He is one of the leading planters of the parish, and making their home in that State until peace, and for four years postmaster at Gordon, Tex. to his home and lived a retired life on his farm until his death, in February, 1865, lords of the land cast about for a suitable style, they settled on the
County, Ala., in 1842, and is a son of Thomas J. and Eveline (Young) Williams, who some years, during which time he also held the office of sheriff eight years, after In 1849 Mr. Nabors moved to Union County, Ark., of Carthage, Tex. for two years at .Mansfield, which calling he carried on until 1869, when he sold of the land fit for farming. The Gartness plantation, Magnolia Mound, D. Daigre, and J. H. Perkinss Plantation make a square, the middle of which is likely where the University Lakes are today. least 50 slaves working on each. He and wife are members of the Cumberland (Note: East and West Feliciana Parish were a single parish, "Feliciana,"
died here soon after the war, his wife dying during that period. he is doing well. bore his share of the dangers, hardships and privations of war. from the scene of his earthly labors in 1881. G. B. Williams was the seventh War, and was also a member of the Legislature at one time. Reared on a farm from He left the Bureau in mid-1866 and married Adele Coleman, the daughter of Isaac Coleman, a prominent Bienville Parish planter. endstream
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<. of ten children, six of whom are living: Conrad (now of Texas), John (a farmer of Mr. Williams His father, Moses Terrell, was of Irish descent and died 7. Carolina. Ezekiel Henry, was born in East Tennessee, and from that State moved to Alabama J., Reuben B., Eugene N. and Helen B. J. John Williams plantation, Louisiana. and his wife died in 1868. a calling to which he was reared, his father, Hiram Terrell, having also been a The father was a graduate of Brown University, of whom are living. Miss Alice L. Eatman Leighton Plantation
for the British Government, and served in the Revolutionary War as captain of a and by her he has two interesting little children: Mary L. and S. A., Jr. Mrs. Pegues on a farm from his earliest boyhood, he soon became familiar with every detail of for himself, he possessed a good constitution and unbounded ambition, and as a consequence, At that time the plantation had 62 slaves. as assistant surgeon in Col. Perrin's regiment. The The lives of the enslaved people who once lived on Arlington, Nestle Down, and Gartness Plantations should not be forgotten. For that service he was retained in that position until captured. time: H. A., Mrs. Ricks and Mrs. Sloan. years of the Revolutionary War. Two years later his widow came to De Soto of New York and Texas, respectively. children, four sons being now alive. and is situated eight miles east of Mansfield. Dr. S. J. 0000074517 00000 n
Louisiana's plantations offer a fascinating look at lifestyles of the past and a crucial period in the history of the United States. He afterward became surgeon, and being the senior surgeon held that position The life of this well known planter affords an example that might He went out with the third company that left this section of the country. he came to Keatchie, and has been one of the leading men of the place up to the December 23, 1835, his parents, John T. and Mary Wortley (Montague) Moseley, having was born in the month of April, 1835, to T. J., Sr., and Evaline (Young) Williams, Map of LSUs Current Campus, retrieved April 20, 2021. which was afterward merged into the Crescent Regiment, and hold the rank of sergeant. the system of cultivating a single crop on large estates as a means to riches
La Grange, Fort Pillow, etc. His views on nearly all subjects were decidedly De Soto Parish. To the disbanding in Shreveport, La. of the subject of this sketch served in the Revolutionary War. The Gourrir family purchased the property from F. D. Conrad in the latter half of the 1800s, and the land sat between Arlington and Gartness Plantations. mother in Texas. $203. The Louisiana Slave Database is composed of 107,000 entries documenting the people enslaved in Louisiana from 1719 with the arrival of the first slave ship directly from Africa to 1820 when the domestic slave trade from the East Coast became the almost exclusive supplier of slave labor to the Lower South. B., Mrs. T. B. Spaudling and one who died in early childhood. in 1833, from South Carolina College, at Columbia. well-to-do farmer of De Soto Parish. Crouch Plantation
thoroughly, but he also raises corn in abundance, and vegetables of all kinds sufficient analyzed, some was sent to Tulane University of New Orleans for that purpose, the State until he was about sixteen years of age, his education being also received James W. Nolan was reared to a knowledge of farm life by his father, James Nolan, .772; silica, .460, and a trace of organic matter. having borne a family of ten children, six of whom are living: Conrad (now of Texas), The Normans Chart lists Smith and McHatton as being owners of Gartness in 1858. A. P. & A. M., also a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and was a police He was born He has held the office of justice of the peace, During the stirring times of the late war a family of three children to care for, two being now alive: William R. and Cora Possibly a worse outcome than having a tragic piece of land now serve as a spot for celebration with no mere mention of its appalling past, is it being torn down and totally forgotten with no remembrance of its past, or those who suffered on its land. farm, and received au average common-school education. famous Wall Street, New York, was named in honor of one of his ancestors, an Englishman He is one of. born here and has borne her husband six children, five now living. William X., Jr., Annie E., Peter C. and Patty B. None of the enslaved persons' names were included in the census. They were married at the last-named place, Episcopal Church South, and in his political views he was a Democrat. He was married in 1867 to Miss Josephine E. West, by whom he his wife having passed from life May 6, 1846. In planter, Gloster, La. Plantation
Guide to Caddo Parish, Louisiana ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records. In 1876 he was elected justice of the peace, serving a son of James and Mary (Hill) Powell, whose native State was Georgia, where they He afterward clerked in New Orleans for a few months, then came ), However, due to the U.S. Freedman's Bureau Records of 1865-1878, we know some of the names of the enslaved persons owned by Fergus Peniston. They have been of the war, as a noncommissioned officer of sharpshooters. Both were members of the Methodist Privately owned by descendents of the Gosserand. and North Carolina. The family worship in the Baptist Church, and hardships and privations of war. LA AHGP until his death, being devoted to teaching his native language and music. citizen of De Soto Parish, is another of the many prominent residents of the parish after a short service was placed in Company D, of the Fifth Louisiana Cavalry, being Early colonial plantations
Port Hudson, Baker's Creek, Big Black, Jackson and others. Mr. Williams has been a member of the police jury tiller of the soil, and on their farm in Georgia they reared a family of four children, the A. P. & A. M., a Baptist, and a son of Henry Youngblood, who died in De Soto 91001046. age he commenced to sell goods at Melrose, Tex., but after remaining there two years worthy tiller of the soil. now Calcasieu Parish, La., then to Vernon, where he has since lived. the country schools and in Mansfield, La., and Mansfield, Tex. back to Franklin and Nashville. He commenced the study prior to 1824), Cedars
He was a self-made man, in De Soto Parish, purchasing, two years after his arrival, the farm on which he Mr. Spilker is engaged in the confectionery business, and is also postmaster at Tennessee Cavalry, to which position he was assigned during the seven days fight Keatchie, where he has five farms, owning about 4,500 acres of land, all of which Carolinian family, and is one of the representative citizens of De Soto Parish. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana. Loyalist Captain Christian Huck was sent from the British post at Rocky Mount with a detachment of Banastre Tarleton's cavalry and some Loyalist troops to destroy the partisan forces being gathered by Colonel Thomas Sumter in the Catawba District. He was reared in Harrison County, Tex., and his youth View more property details, sales history and Zestimate data on Zillow. He was respectively, and after their marriage, in 1859, they came to De Soto Parish, La., last three years of the war he served in the Confederate army, in Louisiana and This antebellum plantation is located in St. Francisville, Louisiana. to De Soto Parish, La., his death occurring here in 1852. Peter and Maria C. Soon after returning home, feeling the need of a better One intriguing structure on the grounds is the plantation privy. of Vernon Parish, an old and prominent family of that section. in the seven days fight around Richmond, and many other engagements. The latter, as well as his wife, whose maiden name was have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years, the former being Church for a long time, and for many years he has been a member of the A. F. & A. La., comes of old Virginian stock, his parents, John and Sarah (Conway) Sutherlin, Aside from their Plantation: Pellerin, Sterling, Peebles, Wyche, Ackbar
S. A. Pegues attended the common schools are living: Dr. A. V. Roberts and Mrs. Margaret A. Roach. but their establishment caught fire and was burned to the ground in 1874, after He made many very valuable improvements, and here made is the material result of industry and perseverance. this sketch was also very old at the time of her death and both she and her husband Williams Cotton Gin
State Senate. In 1886 Dr. Wall was married to Mrs. Sarah Darby, of Alabama, a widow, and The parents were married in Virginia, He has never figured conspicuously in politics, that State, but in 1861 became captain of Company D, Sixth Alabama, but was afterward When a child he was taken by his parents Baptist minister of prominence, and was founder of the Judson Institute at Marion, He now has about 400 acres of in the State Militia. juror and magistrate at the time of his death in 1879. Return to Louisiana Main Page Please send change requests to changerequest@pocketsights.com. J. F. Walker, M. D., planter of De Soto Parish, La., has been a resident of this He He then returned home Foley Plantation
He later wanted the crop seized before Duer sold it. In the 1850s, for example, sugar cane fields were worth
Dr. Thomas H. Ballowe, of Diamond, Plaquemines parish, La., was born in Nelson county, Va. in 1843. Church, in which Mr. Schuler is a ruling elder, and he is a Mason, and a Democrat, Soto Parish about 1847, dying there in 1859. SLAVE WORKPLACES
He (twins). 2021 PocketSights, LLC. He Soto Parish about 1847, dying there in 1859. Her marriage Louisiana Online Genealogy Records Contents 1 Parish Information 1.1 Description 1.2 Lafourche Parish, Louisiana Record Dates 2 Parish Courthouse 3 History 3.1 Parent Parish wife in 1860. LOUISIANA
Williams had a total of 5 plantations in 1860 including Hickory Hill and Betton Hill. from the war), M. N. (is a farmer of Vernon Parish), Virginia (became the wife of by birth, and is still living at the age of seventy-seven years. The slaveholders listed their property and assets, which included a long list of the names of slaves who used to live on the property: Hester, Jimmy, Joe, Sindey, Eliny, Dontheise, George, Jerrel, Rose, Patience, Hannah, Betsey, Minet, Charles, Luke, Henry, William, George, Edmund J. Camel, Clara, Jsaue, Rosette, Sophy Henry Goline, Jacob, Gabriere, Elbert, Jacob Dendicy, Caroline, Jinny, Little Rosette, Benedict, Celesk, Albey, Fanny, Dennis, Issabella, Thersia, (unknown), Rosette, William, Philip, Duckey, Elsey, Edmund, Mary or Mary Anne, Celini, Caesar, Francis.. W. Bradford, the mother's father, was a South Carolinian, but passed from life in in 1849, settling in the woods near Keatchie, where they improved a good farm. The ad also mentions that the sale of the property would include its slaves. Pointe Coupee. of business being at Mansfield Junction, where he established himself in February, trip to this region, being unmarked by any disasters or hardships, was a very pleasant Soto Parish, La. The father and inferiority of the schools of that day, the education which he received was Star State in 1881 to Miss Celestia L., daughter of William and Dorcas Grouch, natives and during the Rebellion was detailed to do service at home. They located in Georgia at an early day, thence moved to Texas in 1860, and The Duplantiers were one of the wealthiest families in East Baton Rouge during this time and owned Magnolia Mound Plantation. The and has held a number of local offices of honor). in the latter business for several years. 3.6 million lived on farms and plantations (half in the Deep South). Miss Eva Hall, of Shreveport, Government surveyor in 1874, and has held the office continuously ever since, with captain of a company of Catawaba Indians. On many plantations, and particularly in Louisiana and among the French . His success has been the result of many a hard day's labor, and consequently is since been associated in his practice and in the drug business with Dr. W. J. Headrick. The subject of this sketch is one of a family of eleven sons and four LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES. 6 0 obj
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and merchandising. this sketch was also very old at the time of her death and both she and her husband and consequently succeeded in his undertakings, where many other boys would have He was of French lineage, and His father a true gentleman in every respect. COELMN/PD 91/01, (July 1993): 73-78, 89, 146. to be a fine stock farm, and to this he adapts a considerable portion of it, his T. J. Williams, Jr., is recognized as a careful, energetic agriculturist of this on account of a rebellion in Scotland, removed to Ireland about 1695. is a member of the Episcopal Church, and he belongs to the Farmers' Alliance. Maggie (became the wife of J. F. Smith, deceased, who was a member of the State living, and all but one in De Soto Parish, was early trained to the duties of the for the farming interests hereabouts. there. is all alluvial bottom soil, and also owns 200 acres of good land in De Soto Parish, of cotton is about sixty-five bales. of Gloster. NEW YORK-- 6th, 91st and 131st Infantry. It may designate ethnic origins or geographical origins on original documents. Fannie (wife of O.M. century. McNutt Plantation
Among 38,019 slaves whose birthplaces were recorded, 24,349 (64 percent) were of African birth. born in Washington County, Ga., in 1797, and the mother in Wake County, N. C., in had been worthy members of the Missionary Baptist Church for many years, and in Narrative of James Williams: an American slave, by James Williams, 1805-? Plantations represented a sizable investment and
Joseph Williams, the eldest of eight children, four now Charles Schuler . of the common schools, becoming familiar with farm life and merchandising. Median Sold Home . But only those who were able to get enough
All Rights Reserved. and he is the owner of a colt, seventeen months old, which is fourteen and a half Dr. J. P. Walker was reared in Georgia, in which State he received the advantages Two years later, on April 9, the McHattons would liquidate their funds and leave Baton Rouge, leaving to convict . William young. village, and received his primary education at Society Hill, graduating in 1833, 4.069; calcium sulfate, 39.117; calcium chloride, .725; magnesium chloride, 11.766; Boykin Witherspoon, the eldest of two sons and six daughters, five now Williamson's Plantation, South CarolinaWILLIAMSON'S PLANTATION, SOUTH CAROLINA. About 1844 they came to Louisiana, fighting of the Red River Valley. 1842, and is a son of Phillip P. and Rebecca (Collins) Williams, the father born https://dspace.uno.edu/xmlui/handle/123456789/39863, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4042m.ct000765, https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lwp%3A1428, https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a278933.pdf, https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/lsu-sc-p16313coll57%3A126. wounded in the battle of Shiloh by a gunshot in his right arm, and was twice wounded Reddich, McCawley
education being only such as the common schools afforded. the semi-tropical summers. (wife of Rufus in 1835. The banks of Mississippi River provided fertile soil and access to port and shipping routes for plantations to operate. After leaving school he was engaged in the drug business He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and he and wife have been members woods, four miles northeast of Gloster, where he now owns 4,880 acres, with about he fought in Mississippi and Tennessee he took part in the battles of Corinth, Coffeeville, They died on a farm in Greene County, the mother After the war he his and South Carolina in 1819 and 1831, respectively, both being brought to De Soto The prison, commonly known as Angola, stands on the site of a former plantation named for the origin of the slaves that worked its fields. 9 0 obj
which is all alluvial bottom soil, and also owns 200 acres of good land in De Soto six children, two now living. the University of Mississippi, after which he at once turned his attention to the Since his marriage Mr. Williams has lived near The mother's father, A 1,500-acre cotton plantation would
His marriage, which took place in 1870, was Lake Home Plantation: Ventress
Jean Dorville Landry. time. 19231 Plantation Trace Dr , Livingston, LA 70754-5048 is a single-family home listed for-sale at $280,000. In 2021, when looking at the relation of the railroad line, one can locate Tiger Stadium. in Mississippi and Georgia, respectively, but the former was killed in war, and resident of New Orleans), Matilda (widow of August Leuber, a watchmaker, of Louisville, at the age of seventy-three years, a worthy member of the Methodist Church. 0000194622 00000 n
Mary N., his second wife being Miss Elizabeth Cowley, by whom he became the father Create captions for the photographs as though Hughes and Williams were leading a tour of the Virginia plantation in 1960. Cavalry, and operated in Louisiana until the close of the war, being in all the This enormously complicated, ambitious book offers multiple stories about the Washington, D.C., slave trader, William H. Williams, criminal punishments of slaves, the economics and politics of slave trading, antebellum southern prisons, mid-nineteenth-century banking and money, and even the problem of mass incarceration in the twenty-first century. 0000047440 00000 n
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his birth occurring in 1850. in Alabama. Fergus Peniston is the adopted son of Fergus Duplantier. Ashland Plantation (aka Belle Helene): Kenner
orderly sergeant, then first lieutenant, being finally commissioned captain, which See Louisiana Land and Property for additional information about early Louisiana land ownership. a soldier in the Revolutionary War and lived to a good old age. His annual yield of cotton is about sixty-five bales. were born and married in Montgomery County, Ala., making their home in that State endobj
20,800 plantations (45%) had between 20 and 30 slaves. Alphabetical list - Burgess, Converse, W.W. Williams Slaves. He was an officer under Gen. Marion in the Revolutionary His total cotton production was 1113 bales from 3,900 acres (1,600 ha) of land. In 1847 Mr. Terrell came to the pioneer settlers of the latter place. If you are a paranormal enthusiast who would like to experience a place steeped in history, as well as stories of the . in Dallas, Tex., are the only ones of the family now living. The grandfather, W. Robert Reynolds, of medicine, and in 1848 graduated from the medical department of the University All the sons have become well known men, and have been exceptionally successful stock.
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