The Hamiltons
The first of the Stewart children to leave Holly Grove was
Duncan Stewart’s eldest child, Elizabeth, a daughter, born 1798 in Tennessee.
Elizabeth ‘Eliza’ Stewart married Col. William Sutherland Hamilton on 11 June
1818 at Holly Grove. Although Col. Hamilton had just arrived in West Florida,
this was to be the beginning of a long association of the Stewart family with
the families of Louisiana, especially the Felicianas.
John Hamilton (1764-1822) studied law in Scotland and them
immigrated to the US by one source, where he worked as a lawyer and served as a
state legislator in NC. His tombstone,
however, gives his birth in Philadelphia. Then it may be his father immigrated
from Scotland. The tombstone does note
he studied in Edinburgh. He was an active Baptist. He lived in Edenton and Elizabeth City in
northeastern North Carolina and later moved to Louisiana to join his son,
William. John Hamilton of Edenton served in the NC General Assembly in Fayetteville
from 2 November 1789 to 22 December 1789.
It was the first session of this assembly. (Of note Duncan Stewart of Bladen County was
also in this session. Duncan’s daughter Eliza
would later marry John Hamilton’s son, William in Mississippi.)
When John Hamilton moved to Louisiana to join his son, there
was a controversy between John and his son William over property due William
from his mother’s estate. John Hamilton had first married Angel who was the
mother of William, then John Hamilton married a second time to Ann.[1] It
may be he had a daughter, Caroline, with Ann or with his first wife Angel. We
do not have dates to know for sure. Caroline is noted to be the daughter of the
late Col. Hamilton of West Feliciana when she married in 1831.
John Hamilton’s son, William Sutherland Hamilton (b. 3
April1789/87[2],
Edenton, NC) studied at Princeton and was a friend and correspondent of Samuel
Stanhope Smith, President of Princeton.
He served in the US Army as an officer 1808-1817, chiefly in Louisiana
(1812-1816) under Gen. Wade Hampton (1754-1835) where he served as aide-
de-camp as Lt. Col. (Hampton was
appointed brigadier by President Jefferson in 1809. He took command of the Army from Gen. James
Wilkinson in early 1810 in Natchez.[3]) Hamilton became later a planter and
legislator in Louisiana.[4]
William S. Hamilton was a Lt. 3rd US Infantry, 1
July 1808; resigned 1 Nov 1812; Maj. 10th US Infantry, 3 Mar 1812;
Maj. Assist. Inspector Gen. 4 Mar 1813; Lt. Col. 3rd US Rifles 21
Feb 1814; resigned 8 March 1817.[5] He
served also as aide-de-camp to General Wade Hampton and was appointed as
Assistant Inspector General by President James Madison in 1813 and worked for a
time in what was then called Washington City, now the District of Columbia.
Hamilton remained in charge of the 3rd US Infantry Regiment after
the war ended, but in a letter to his father dated 29 July 1815, Hamilton
declared that he does not wish to have a lifelong career in the military, but
“to a political career I am well disposed.”[6]
One source[7]
notes Hamilton was a 1st Lt. 3rd US Infantry, 1 July
1808, resigned 1 Nov 1812. (This may have been in Louisiana). Maj. 10th
US Infantry, 3 Mar 1812. Maj. Assist Inspector General, 4 Mar 1813. Lt. Col. 3rd
US Rifles, 21 Feb 1814. Retained in rifle regiment, 17 May 1815. Resigned 8 Mar
1817. William King was the Col. and commander of the 3rd US Rifles
appointed also on 21 Feb 1814. Ordered to proceed from NC to the Northern Neck
of Virginia with 500 riflemen, 3 Nov 1814. They were to be stationed there
through the winter. A letter of 7 Nov 1814 from WA Scott, Gen. US Army to the
Virginia governor, Lt. Col. Hamilton, “an excellent officer” is now on the
march from NC. 30 Nov. 1814 British Admiral Cockburn sailed up the Rappahannock
shelled and occupied Tappahannock, 30 Nov.-2 Dec. On 4 January 1815 Col.
Hamilton’s corp was stationed at Fredericksburg.
If we look at Wade Hampton’s service we see him appointed
Col. Reg. Light Dragoons in Oct 1808 and Brig. General in Feb 1809 replacing
James Wilkinson as the general in charge of Louisiana. Hamilton may have served
with Hampton during this time. By the
beginning of the War of 1812 Hampton was assigned command of all coastal
fortification around Norfolk Virginia. In July 1813 he was a major general and
assumed command of the army stationed near Plattsburg NY. Hampton led the
American forces at the Battle of Chateauquay 25 October 1813. Hamilton was
appointed inspector general in March 1813 and was serving in Washington City so
probably did not go with Hampton to New York. Hampton resigned in Apr 1814.
A uniform jacket belonging to William Sutherland Hamilton
(1787-1862), a lieutenant colonel with the 3rd US Rifle Regiment was
given by a descendant in 1923 to the Louisiana State Museum in New
Orleans. It was made of dark navy wool
with a red wool collar, cuffs, and tails, decorated with a metallic tape trim
or “tape lace.” Its silver-plate buttons
are stamped with the image of an eagle and a shield bearing the regiment’
number. The style dates to 1810 and this
is the only one in existence of this particular style. The length of the tails reflected the status
of the officer. A descendent[8]
said that “In letters to his father, he said he believed he was not cut out for
military life. He left the military and
became a very successful planter.”[9]
The coatee as it is called was put on display after restoration in 2015 at the
Cabildo in New Orleans. The size of the coat suggests Hamilton was not a large
man.
According to René Chartrand, author of Uniforms and Equipment of the United States Forces in the War of 1812
(1992), this coat is the only one of its kind known to exist in any collection,
public or private. Of a style adopted in 1810 and worn by several infantry
regiments, the navy blue and red wool coat would have been worn with
epaulettes, white breeches, tall boots, and a bicorn hat.[10]
Another source states that Hamilton was commissioned by John
Adams to help establish Ft. Adams.
Hamilton liked the area and received a Spanish land grant for a section
called Laurel Hill. He named the
plantation Tanglewild.[11] Fort Adams was established in 1798 by Col.
James Wilkinson. Hamilton would have
been too young to be involved at this time. Feliciana was a Spanish Colony
until the rebellion of 1810 when it became an independent Republic for a short
time and then part of the Louisiana territory so the Spanish land grant is
quite probable. Hamilton was still in the military until he resigned in 1817 so
probably was not in Feliciana to live until then.
At Neal Auction in New Orleans, December 2016, a letter
dated Nov. 12, 1811, to William S. Hamilton singed by Daniel Clark, proposed to
sell land near New Iberia and Bayou Sarah.[12]
Daniel Clark (1765-1813) was the nephew and heir to his uncle, Col. Daniel
Clark (d. 1800). The Clarks owned Clarksville Plantation in Wilkinson County as
a country retreat. They were both very influential men in Louisiana. Clark
continued land speculations in the region on a vast scale, buying and selling
thousands upon thousands of acres.[13]
The 1811 date would be at a time Col. Hamilton was still in the army but he may
have been thinking of buying land in Louisiana as a future place to settle.
Another source states that William S. Hamilton, Lt. Col. US
Army, descended the Mississippi from Fort Rock Island, Ill. in flat boats to
New Orleans where he fought in 1814.
(However other sources have Hamilton serving in North Carolina and
Virginia in 1814.) Coming back north they made encampment near the Louisiana
Mississippi border where he met Miss Eliza Stewart. Hamilton returned north and then came back to
marry Miss Stewart and resign his commission.[14] He was practicing law in St. Francisville, in
the Felicianas when he married in 1818.[15]
Col. William S. Hamilton married Elizabeth (Eliza) Stewart,
daughter of Duncan and Penelope Jones Stewart of Holly Grove on June 11, 1818
at Holly Grove.[16] “William S. Hamilton, late Lieutenant
Colonel, Rifle corps, who served in the late war, counselor at law, St.
Francisville, La. and Miss Eliza Stewart, daughter of Lt. Gov. Duncan Stewart
of Miss. Married 11 June at the plantation of her father.”[17] Eliza was born in Tennessee in 1798[18]
and was the eldest child of Duncan and Penelope Stewart.
In 1820 the census lists the Hamiltons on Thompson Ck. in
Feliciana Parish (W. Feliciana in 1824) with 4 slaves. In 1830 there are 63 slaves and in 1850 there
were 172 slaves and $213,000. In 1860, $169,800, 172 slaves.
WS Hamilton ran for the US Congress in 1822, 2nd
District, Louisiana, coming in second in a three man race, losing to Henry H.
Gurley. A broadside of his candidacy, May 1822, Feliciana Parish was issued to
“The Electors” of the Second Congressional District. It is a long dissertation.
I find the most interesting comment to be, “My occupation is the same, with
most of your selves, the tillage of the soil.”[19]
He only had 4 slaves in the 1820 census but no doubt had aspirations of a
planter as by 1830 he had 63 slaves and more later. He also practiced law.
William S. Hamilton was on the first board of trustees of
the College of Louisiana in Jackson 1825. In the early twentieth century, the
college of Louisiana moved its campus to Shreveport and became Centenary
College of Louisiana. He served in the Louisiana House of Representatives,
1828-1830. He was appointed to the powerful post of Surveyor General of Louisiana
and Mississippi by President Andrew Jackson in 1829. Hamilton ran for governor
of Louisiana as a Jacksonian Democrat in 1830 but came in second behind Whig
candidate André Bienvenue Roman. In a statement that ran in the newspapers of
the day, Hamilton claimed that he could not abide by the provision of the
Louisiana constitution that allowed the state legislature to choose the
governor from among the top two vote-getters, and because he came in second to
Roman, he conceded the election to him.[20]
Jockey Clubs had sprung up rapidly along the
Mississippi. A racing season was
reported at St. Francisville as early as March 1831. The owners of the St. Francisville Jockey
Club were William R. Barrow, Bennett H. Barrow, William H. Barrow, Ira Smith,
William Hamilton, Robert H. Barrow, Richard Haile and John B. Hereford. They sold in 1840 their acreage of 262
arpents to Daniel Turnbull since the St. Franciville Jockey Club was defunct.
This would become part of Turnbull’s Rosedown Plantation.[21]
M. Ghirardi proposed to commence a dancing school in
Woodville on 1 June 1843. Interested
persons were to refer to Col. Wm. S. Hamilton, Wm. Stamps and HS White.[22]
WS and Eliza Hamilton’s first child, Duncan Stewart Hamilton
was born in May 1819 in Mississippi, most likely at Eliza’s mother’s home,
Holly Grove. This would have been Duncan
and Penelope’s first grandchild. Col.
Hamilton had been an army officer until 1817 and a home may not have been ready
for the new bride or she just wished to be with her mother. They had another
child, Franklin Henry born in Mississippi in 1829 although they had a son born
in 1824 in Louisiana. One source has the couple’s first seven children born in
Mississippi.[23] Their son, Douglas Montrose, born 1827 notes
on his tombstone that he was born in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Eliza may have had several of her children at
her mother’s at Holly Grove in Wilkinson County. The Hamiltons lived at Tanglewild Plantation
in West Feliciana Parish near Laurel Hill.
They buried their first son Duncan Stewart Hamilton at age 1 in 1820 at
Tanglewild so were presumably in residence at that time. The 1850 census list
all the children born in Mississippi except Jefferson born in Louisiana. The
Hamiltons were listed in Feliciana Parish in the 1820 census. William S.
Hamilton is noted to own an 8 acre lot in the town of Woodville in 1850.[24]
The Woodville Republican in October 1850 reported that the “very commodious and
elegant house belonging to Col. Hamilton has been procured for the Woodville
Female Institute, Rev. CS Hedges, Principal.”[25] Does William Hamilton have a house in
Woodville and why?
The Hamiltons had eleven children from 1819 to 1838. Duncan
Stewart Hamilton was born in 1819 and died in 1820. The second son Franklin
Henry Hamilton was born in 1824 and died in 1826. The third son, Douglas
Montrose was born in 1827. He lived and
married Amanda Barrow, dying in 1880.
His family would inherit Tanglewild.
A fourth son, Franklin Henry Hamilton, b. 1829 was killed in 1848 in Rio
Frio Mexico.[26] The fifth child was a girl, Catherine S.
Hamilton, b. 1831. She married Newitt
Vick Lane. William Belhaven Hamilton was
born 1832, married Anne Herbert. The
next were twins born in April 1833: Jones Stewart Hamilton and Penelope Stewart
Hamilton. Jones Stewart married twice:
first to a cousin Caroline Stewart and then to Fannie Buck of Jackson,
Mississippi. The eighth child was
Winfield Scott Darington Hamilton b. 1834, m. Penny Smith. Number ten was Washington Hamilton b.
1837. The last child was Jefferson
Hamilton, 1838-1913.
Penelope Stewart died in 1843 at Tanglewild, the home of her
daughter Eliza. She was taken home to Holly Grove for burial.
The 1860 US census notes William S. Hamilton residing at the
Pennsylvania Hospital for Insane. His death
notice in the ‘Philadelphia North American’ on 27 Dec 1862: Hamilton, on 24th
December W. Philadelphia, aged 75, Col. William S. Hamilton of Laurel Hill, W.
Feliciana Parish Louisiana.[27]
The 1870 census, 4th ward, West Feliciana Parish:
EC Hamilton, 68, farmer (This would be Eliza, her husband
died in 1862), Duncan, 30, Jefferson, 25, retired grocer, WSD 23, b. MS, PS 19,
MS, and Penelope 5, LA.
Eliza Stewart Hamilton died in 1871 and is buried at the
Hamilton plantation, Tanglewild, near Laurel Hill in West Feliciana Parish,
Louisiana. Her husband William
Southerland Hamilton is not buried there.
One source says he was buried in Tennessee where he died in 1870[28]
and another says he was buried in Philadelphia.[29] The notice in Philadelphia of his death
suggests he was probably buried there in 1862. ‘Find a grave’ gives his burial
in Philadelphia.`
A descendant, Hamilton Willis (great-great-great-grandson),
lives at Tanglewild now (2000’s). He
lives in the third house on the plantation.
The first house was brick on the east side of Hwy. 61. This burned and was replaced with another
house in a different location in the late 19th century. This also burned and was replaced with the
present house about 30 years later in the late 1910’s.[30] Hamilton Willis’ brother Dan also lived on
the Tanglewild Plantation.
The cemetery at Tanglewild near Laurel Hill, West Feliciana
Parish, Louisiana is on Hamilton Willis Rd. about one half mile from Hwy. 61.
John Hamilton of Edenton, North Carolina
Son of Alexander Hamilton of Udston, Scotland
b. Philadelphia 1764
d. Feliciana 28 July 1822
educated at New Ark, Delaware and Philadelphia and Edinburgh
Counselor at Law, Maryland, North Carolina and Louisiana
Legislator of NC
(John Hamilton was invited by his son William S. Hamilton to
join him in Louisiana.)[31]
Eliza C. Hamilton
Wife of Col. William S. Hamilton
Died May 11, 1871
Age 74
Jefferson Hamilton[32]
Dec 1, 1838
Sept. 28, 1913
Duncan Stewart Hamilton
Eldest son of WS Hamilton and Eliza C. Stewart
b. Mississippi, 4 May 1819
d. Louisiana, 16 Aug 1820
Franklin Henry Hamilton
Son of William S. and Eliza C. Hamilton
b. Mississippi, 24 May 1829
d. Vol. US Army at Rio Frio Mexico, 8 Jan 1848
Franklin Henry Hamilton
4th son of WS and Eliza C. Stewart
b. Louisiana, 3 December 1824
d. 17 Sept 1826
Thomas Jefferson Hamilton
Son of John and Ann Hamilton
b. 25 Nov 1808
d. March 9, 1837
Douglas Montrose Hamilton, son of WS and Eliza was first
buried at the plantation, then moved to Grace Churchyard, west side.[33]
The genealogy:
Alexander Hamilton
b. Udston Scotland
John Hamilton m.
1. Angel
b. 1764, Philadelphia
d. 28 July 1822, W. Feliciana, buried Tanglewild
b. 1791
d. 1851
Children of John and Angel:
b. 4 May 1819, MS.
d. 16 Aug 1820, bur. Tanglewild
b. 3 Dec 1824, LA.
d. 17 Sept 1826
b. 27 Aug 1827, Wilkinson Co. b. 22 Nov 1825
d. 22 Nov 1880, d. West Feliciana,
bur Grace d. 29 Jan 1904, bur
Grace
Douglas Montrose Hamilton and his younger brother, William
B. Hamilton (b. 1832) were students in
Louisiana and the University of Virginia, and both soldiers in the Confederate
Army. William B. Hamilton was a sugar
planter on his Red River Landing plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish.[42] His brother Douglas may also have grown sugar
as well.
Amanda Barrow was the daughter of William Barrow who built
Greenwood plantation in 1830.
The 1850 census lists Douglas M. as a planter living with
his wife’s parents. In 1870, 2nd
ward, in WFP; Douglas is a farmer, Anna B., Martha and Calhoun, one servant. In
1880, DM Hamilton, farmer, Amanda, Martha, 27, Charles Stewart, 60, uncle.[43]
Mary Davies, 12, orphan, servant.
Children
of Douglas and Amanda Barrow Hamilton:
1. Martha
Eliza Hamilton m. unmarried
b. 6 Oct 1852, LA
d. 30 Sept 1880 bur Grace
b. 23 July 1854 b. 21 May 1856
d. 27 Feb 1906 bur Grace
d. 17 Dec 1917 bur Grace
Children:
1. Charles
S. Hamilton m.
b. May 1878
Children: 2 boys, 1 girl
The 1920 census list Charles, a farmer, 42, head of
household in W. Feliciana Parish and no others.
One posting on the website of the Stewarts of Ledcreich is
by a person in California who states her ancestor was a black Rose Cummings who
had 6 children with a grandson (Charles is the great-grandson.) of William
Southerland Hamilton who m. Eliza Stewart, Charles S. Hamilton. The black children called him ‘Papa Charlie.’
d. 1950 d. 1974
Children:
1. Montrose
Hamilton Barrow m. Hannah Eldridge Babers
b. 6 Feb 1905 b. 2 May 1908
St. Francisville Rosemound Plantation
d. 13 July 1975 d. 16 Jan 2007
901 Kirby, Houston Harris Co. TX
buried Grace
Manager, Engineering and
Construction
Children:
1. William
Ruffin Barrow m. Mary
b. 3 Oct 1942, Houston, Harris Co.
TX
b. 15 Nov 1948, Houston
3.
Betsey Barrow m.
Steven Stein
2. Alston Belhaven Barrow, b. 1908
Children:
1.
Anne Barrow m. Thomas Wilmot
Klein
b. c. 1947
d. 16 Jan 2014
Children:
1.
Ben Klein m. Sara Wilton
Children:
1. Benjamin
John Barrow Klein, Jr.
b. 23 Nov 2010
2. Andrew
Joseph Klein
b. 3 July 2012
2.
Tommy Kline, Jr. m. 1. Alison
Children:
1. Bella
Estelle Klein
b. 11 July 2006
2. Elaina
Camille Klein
b. 20 June 2012
m. 2.[48]
Phylis Horn5
b. 1913 b. 1919
d. 1983, Biloxi d. 2013
Children:
1. N.
Eileen Barrow
2. Douglas
R. Barrow
3. Martha Hamilton
b. Mar 1881
4. Douglas Montrose Hamilton II m. unmarried
b. 25 March 1883, Tanglewild
d. 25 Oct 1960, Tanglewild, bur
Grace
The 1920 census, he is a
farmer. Living with him is his sister,
Nina, 34, brother, Ruffin, 25, sister Mary 22, and an adopted son, 9. A note from a Ms Jo Ann Davis gives the names
of 4 children:
1. Bill Hamilton, 2. Phillip
White, 3. Johnny Hampton, 4. James Davis.
5. Nina Caroline Hamilton m. unmarried
b. Feb 1885, Laurel Hill
d. 19 June 1936, Baton Rouge
6. Lillian Hamilton
b. Aug 1886, LA
7. Calhoun
Barrow Hamilton, Jr. m. Louise Howell
b. Nov 1889 Laurel Hill
d. 3 July 1951, St. Francisville
Children:
1. Douglas
Montrose Hamilton
b. 1926, Baton Rouge
d. 26 Feb 1926, Baton Rouge
b. 4 May 1891, LA b.
16 Feb 1898
d. 26 Nov 1965
d. 9 July 1968
Children:
1. Cyrill
Joyce McIntyre
b. 7 Aug 1920
d. 25 Dec 1923
2. Fred L. McIntyre, Jr.
b. 11 Jan 1926
d. 28 May 1928
9. William
Ruffin Hamilton m.
Barrow
b. May 1894
or Ruffus W. Hamilton m. Belle Branden Buchanan
b. 29 Mar 1893 b. 1 Dec 1901
d. 16 May 1965, bur Grace
10.
Mary Rosalie Hamilton m. (1928) Dr.
Daniel Oscar Willis
b.
11 June 1896 b. 8 May 1875, near Long Leaf,
d. 12
Oct 1978, St. F. Rapides Parish
bur Grace d.
1935
mother and teacher
Children:
b. 1931, Leesville, b. 1930, San Juan, PR
Vernon Parish
d. 13 Mar 1989, Baton Rouge
Hamilton Barrow Willis resided Avalon Plantation, his
boyhood home, near Wakefield, W. Feliciana Parish. His funeral was at St. John’s Laurel Hill,
Rev. Ken Dimmick, rector of Grace, officiated.
HB Willis had served as junior and senior warden of Grace. Studied law at LSU. Involved in Walking Horses and cattle. Co-founder
of the Feliciana Journal 1979-83.[53]
Children:
1. Hamilton
Barrow Willis
Infant son 12 Mar 1953 bur Grace
2. Hamilton Willis m. (22 May) Debbie
b. b. 22 July
Children:
1. John
Hamilton Willis
b. 24 Dec 1996
2. Mary
Austin Willis
b. 18 May 1998
(Debbie had children: Madeline and
Caroline Rowe from previous marriage.)
Hamilton Willis studied agro-economics at LSU in the 1970’s,
80’s, then went to work in Micronesia, the Philippines and China and later E.
Africa and in Cameroons in W. Africa where he helped lay the foundation for
MCWA, an 80 bed hospital. He returned to
W. Feliciana to manage the family timber property and hunting land. He created Finewoods Lumber Co. and after
Hurricane Katrina, he and his wife Debbie developed a residential community on
the south part of Tanglewild, called Woodhaven.[54]
3. Daniel Konrad Willis m. Susan Martin
b. 11 Aug 1954
d. 30 May 2011, bur. Tanglewild
Dan Willis grad Episcopal High School
1972, LSU 1980
LSU Law 1894, Marine Corp 1975-78. Lived
Tanglewild.
Children:
1.
Laurel Kathlene Willis m. Leigh
Martens
Children;
1. Edan
Martens
2. Leah Amanda Willis m. David Orth
3. Jeremy Stuart Willis
b. 5 April
4. Allison Leigh Willis, d.
<2011
4. Tom Melrose Willis m. Peaches
5. Mary
Victoria Willis m.
Phillippe Eulaerts
Lives Waterloo, Belgium
Children:
1.
Victoria Alma Corine Marien Eulaerts
Cousins of Hamilton Willis include Carolyn Porche and
Kathlene Ford of St. Francisville.[56]
Children of
WS Hamilton and Eliza Stewart, con:
4. Franklin Henry Hamilton
b. 24 May 1829, Ms
d. 8
Jan 1848, US Army, Rio Frio, Mexico, bur. Tanglewild
5.
Catherine S. Hamilton m.
(12 Mar 1856, WFP) Newitt Vick Lane
b. 1831, MS
b. c. 1825, MS
Children:
1. Eliza
Lane, b. 1857, MS
2. Kitty
Lane
6.
William Belhaven Hamilton m.
Anne Herbert
b. 11 July 1832, MS b. 25 Oct 1839, MS
d. 10 July 1913, San Antonio[57],
Bexar Co. Tx. bur UVC Cem.
He was educated in Louisiana and UVa. Served in the
Confederacy. William B. Hamilton was a sugar planter on his Red River Landing
plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish.[58] In 1867 he was listed in the Woodville
Republican as administrator of the estate of Mrs. Susan F. Herbert, deceased.[59]
Insurance Agent in 1870 lived Pike Co. MS, NY Life Ins. Co. He moved to Texas
where he raised his family.
Children:
1. Catherine
‘Katie’ B. Hamilton m. William H.
Magruder
b. 1862
Children:
1. William
Belhaven Hamilton Magruder m. (23 June, Bexar Co.)
b. 16 Feb 1894, TX Lydia M Wiseman
d. 28 July 1970, Baptist Hosp. San
Antonia, bur City Cem
Bldg mgr, city bldg
2. Susan
H. Hamilton m. (1891) Henry V. Hildebrand
b. 1865 AL b. 1866, TX
Children:
1. William V Hildebrand, b. 1894,
TX
3. Anne
E. Hamilton, b. 1869/70 MS
4. WB
Hamilton, Jr. m. Frances
Meenham
b. 12 Nov 1872
d. 13 May 1951, San Antonio, bur
Confederate Cem. bank auditor
Children:
1. William
B. Hamilton, Jr. m. 1.
Dorothy Gran Wilson
b. 20 Sept 1906, San Antonio b. Chicago
d. 14 March 1976, bur Columbus Odd
Fellows, Columbus,
Colorado Co. TX, Dist Mgr. Industrial
gas, WWII, d. of skull fx
in a fight.
Children:
1. infant
son b. 12 July 1931, Laredo
m. 2. Gladys Kearney
b. 1913
Children:
1
5. Vilbian
E. Hamilton, b. 1875
6. female,
b. 1880, TX
Children of WS Hamilton and Eliza
Stewart:
7.
Jones Stewart Hamilton m.
1. (24 Jun 1856 Wilkinson Co.) Caroline
b. 19 Apr 1833. twin (or Cornelia) Stewart, b. c. 1834, MS
d. 20 June 1907, Hinds Co. d. Nov 1861, dau of Wm. S., son
of
bur. Greenwood Cem James, twin to Duncan Stewart
Jones Stewart Hamilton was born in Wilkinson County. In 1854 he graduated Centenary College,
Jackson, Louisiana as valedictorian.[60] From 1854-1856 he worked with his father on
the plantation. He then went to
Woodville and on 24 January 1856 he married Caroline Stewart, the daughter of
William, son of James, twin to Duncan.
They had two children (a son, William S. who was in the mercantile
business in Jackson, Mississippi, and a daughter, Maude.)
In 1858[61]
Jones Stewart Hamilton was elected sheriff
of Wilkinson County and he was re-elected in 1860. He is noted to be Sheriff, 17 Sept 1861, when
he resigned to join the army[62]
of the Confederacy. His wife, Caroline, died in November 1861. Hamilton enlisted in the first company that
left Wilkinson County to go to Virginia, where he was 1st Lt. in Co.
K, 16th Ms.[63] Caroline Stewart Hamilton had given birth to
William Stewart Hamilton in 1857 and Maude Hamilton in 1861 before she died in
1861.
In 1862 Jones S. Hamilton was Adj. Gen. State of MS. He was ordered back to Jackson and reported
to Governor John H. Pettus organizing and mustering in companies for the
Confederacy. In 1863 he was elected
State Senator for Wilkinson, Adams and Amite Counties. He resigned as Adj. Gen. In 1864 he was made
Lt. Col. commanding a battalion of cavalry, later attached to the regiment
commanded by Frank Powers. One source
lists him as a Lt. Col. in Scott’s Cavalry.[64] Col. Jones S. Hamilton had in Dec 1863 a
sufficient number of companies to form the battalion of cavalry, which he had
been authorized to raise, by special authority from the War Department, to
operate on the Mississippi—between Natchez and Baton Rouge.[65]
Hamilton was paroled 19 May 1865.
He was a member of the Mississippi Peace Commission that
traveled to Washington in 1865 to meet with Andrew Johnson.
After the War Jones S. Hamilton returned to live in Jackson
Mississippi and was elected State Senator from Hinds County. He was a war
claims agent for the state of Mississippi in 1866.[66]
He was a deputy auditor for 5 years. He was the leading partner in a printing
firm, Ham and Power Co. producing the Daily Clarion Ledger, 1865-67. He developed a steamboat operation on the
Pearl River in 1871. He was a State Senator from Hinds Co. 1884-1888.[67] [68]
In 1877 he married Miss Fanny Buck of Jackson. They had five children: Jones Stewart
Hamilton, Jr. b. 1879, Robert Buck, Charles Buck, Mary Buck, and
Jefferson. They lived at Belhaven, a 600
acre estate on the edge of Jackson with flower gardens, tennis courts and
fishing pools.[69] The name is that of the Hamilton family home
in Scotland. One source notes this was the most magnificent house in the
country and Hamilton the wealthiest man in the state.
When Jones S. Hamilton’s son
Jones, Jr. was born, Jones, Sr. told his wife that he would build a
railroad that his son could inherit.
Jones S. Hamilton founded the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad to open up
the pine forests in southern Mississippi.
Mrs. Stewart named the terminus Gulfport. Ironically John, Jr. was killed by a car in
the railroad yards in Jackson as the line was being completed.[70]
Other sites note William H. Hands of the railroad thought Mississippi to far
east for the port terminus and created Gulfport.
In 1878 “On account of danger from yellow fever, Messrs. JS
Hamilton & Co., have moved the Penitentiary convicts from Jackson to
Brookhaven.”[71]
In 1887 Jones Stewart Hamilton received statewide notoriety
for his arrest for the murder of Roderick Dhu Gambrell, a young newspaper
editor. They held opposing views on using inmates for private labor. Gambrell had written several editorials
criticizing Hamilton’s views and had stood against Stewart in a local
election. Stewart was seriously wounded
in the duel in which he mortally shot Gambrell on a bridge separating east and
west Jackson in May 1886. Hamilton’s
wounds delayed his trial which was held in Rankin County February 1888. He was found not guilty. After spending a
year in jail Hamilton was brought into the city by a carriage pulled by 100
prominent residents. A week before the
end of the trial General Adams who had testified to Col. Hamilton’s good
character was attacked by Martin’s newspaper.
Adams went to the news office and ordered Martin to get a gun. Martin went home to get one and they exchanged
fire on the street. Both were
killed. Jones Hamilton came out of jail
with his estate heavily encumbered.
Today Jones Hamilton’s Belhaven estate is an area of Jackson
known by that name. In 1894, the house
became Belhaven College chartered by Dr. Lewis Fitzhugh as Belhaven College for
Young Ladies. It was located on Boyd St.
Fire destroyed the house in February 1895.
In 1910 the college was donated to the Presbyterian Church. In Sept. 1911 the college became Belhaven
Collegiate and Industrial Institute under the auspices of the Central
Mississippi Presbytery at its present site on Peachtree Street in the Belhaven
neighborhood. In 1915 the name was
changed to Belhaven College. In 1954 it
became coed. In 1972 it became
independent of the Presbyterian Church.[72]
Belhaven College was associated with Milsaps for boys.[73]
In 1898 Jones S. Hamilton was the Adj. Gen appointed by
Governor McLaurin taking charge of the organization of a regimen sent by the
state to the Spanish American War.
The 1880 census has JS Hamilton in Jackson, MS. He was then
married to Fannie, age 30. WS is 22, clk. gas hse., Maude, 19, JS, Jr. age 1,
St. John Cage, 5, adopted, MS, Mary Johnson, 24, boarder, Mary Buck, 23,
sister-in-law, 1 servant. The 1900
census has JS Hamilton as a land agent for the GSSRR, wife Fanny, sons: Jones
S. 1, Robert B. 18, MS, Charles B. 16, MS; daughter Mary B. 15, MS. Mary Buck,
43, sis-in-law, music teacher, Amanda Buck, sis-in-law, 41, John T. Cole,
bro-in-law, 43, TN, Jeannie B. sis-in-law, 38, MS, Fanny, niece, 13 MS, Thomas,
nephew, 8, MS and John H. nephew, 6, MS.[74]
He was a member of the Episcopal Church, Knights Templar, a
Mason and Knights of Honor.
Jones Stewart Hamilton died 20 Jan 1907 in Jackson
Mississippi.
Children
of Jones Stewart Hamilton with Caroline Stewart:
1. William
Stewart Hamilton m. Julia Y. Sullivan
b. 1 Dec 1857 b. Dec 1863, Missouri
Collegiate Acad. Baton Rouge;
clerk, gas co. Jackson, MS; 1888 cashier Greenville Merchants and Planters
Bank; Postmaster, Greenville 1890; Knight Templar AF & AM
Children:
1. George S. Hamilton, b. 1886
2. William Stewart Hamilton, b.
1888
3. Fannie Hamilton
4. Emma Hamilton
2. Maude
Hamilton
b. 1861
7. Jones Stewart Hamilton m. 2. (1877)
Fanny Buck
(Frances M. Buck) b. c. 1850
Children:
1. Jones
Stewart Hamilton, b. 1879, d. young (is 21 in 1900)
2. Robert
Buck Hamilton m. Lurline Clark
b. 1882
Children:
b. 23 May 1926
Children:
1. Robert
Buck Hamilton
2. Stephen
Stewart Hamilton m. Mimi
Children:
1. Stephen
Stewart Hamilton, adopted 1962
2. Betty Hamilton m. Lake
3. Charles
Buck Hamilton, b. 1883
4. Mary
Buck Hamilton, b. 1885
5. Jefferson
Hamilton, b. 1886
Children of WS Hamilton and Eliza
Stewart, con:
8. Penelope Stewart Hamilton
b. 19 Apr 1833, twin
. 9.
Winfield Scott Darington Hamilton m.
Penny Smith
b. 1834
Children:
1. WSD
Hamilton, Jr., b. Mar 1880
2. Lilly
B. Hamilton m.
Francis R. Hall
b. Nov 1883 b. 1861, England
Children:
6. Robert
W. Hall
b. 1902, LA
10. Washington Hamilton
b.
1837
11. Jefferson Hamilton
d. 28
Sept 1913
In 1879 we read of Jeff Hamilton of Laurel Hill having a
fine assortment of poultry.[80]
In 1880 he had bronze turkey eggs and black breasted red games for sale.[81]
There are 11 tombstones at Grace in the Hamilton plot along
the west fence due west of the entrance of the church:
Mary Rosalie Hamilton Willis
b. 11 June 1896
d. 12 Oct 1978, mother and teacher
Douglas Montrose Hamilton
b. 25 Mar 1883
d. 25 Oct 1960
McIntyre
Cyrill Joyce Fred
L. Jr.
b. 7 Aug 1920
b. 11 Jan 1926
d. 25 Dec 1923
d. 28 May 1928
McIntyre
Florence Hamilton
Fred Leondrus
b. 4 May 1891
b. 16 Feb 1898
d. 26 Nov 1965
d. 9 July 1968
Caroline C. Hamilton m.
(Oct 1831) Dr. Edward T. Farish
Dr.Edward T. Farish of
Woodville, Wilkinson Co. was in Wilkinson Co. by 1824.[83] He married Miss Eliza Smith in February 1826.[84] He dissolved his partnership with JG Gignard
in June 1826.[85] Eliza Farish died 6 March 1830.[86] Dr. Farish was then married in Wilkinson
County to Miss Caroline C. Hamilton, daughter of the late Col. Hamilton of the
parish of West Feliciana, by the Hon Harry Cage in October 1831.[87]
The Mississippi Democrat on 22 Oct 1831 noted the marriage at Sligo of Caroline
Hamilton, daughter of the late Colonel Hamilton and Dr. Edward T. Farish. Sligo is a plantation south of Woodville Miss Hamilton is too old to be the daughter
of Col. William Hamilton (who is not dead) and Eliza Stewart, and would more
likely be William Hamilton’s sister, the daughter of John Hamilton[88]
who died in West Feliciana in 1822. Or
perhaps this is a different family but I don’t think so. In a biography of Lucy Audubon[89]
Caroline Hamilton was a student of Mrs. Audubon at Jane Percy’s Beech Woods in
1823. The record of this is found in the
succession records of John Hamilton[90]
who is presumably her father. Caroline
Hamilton was also a pupil of Mrs. Audubon in 1827 when Mrs. Audubon taught at
the William Johnson’s Beech Grove Plantation.[91]
Caroline S. Farish offered the residence of the late Dr.
Edward T. Farish for sale in January 1836.
Persons who wish to purchase were to contact HM Farish.[92]
HM Farish is an attorney in Woodville,[93]
possibly the brother of Dr. Farish. In
1838 we find Caroline S. Farish wishing to dispose of her place ½ mile from
Woodville on the Natchez road containing about 70 acres of good land, spring,
out houses and a dwelling house.[94]
On the 5th of August 1841, Mrs. Caroline S.
Farish married Truxton Davidson.[95]
Edward Tilghman Farish, b. 7 Aug 1836 in Woodville, was a
lawyer in St. Louis. He was the son of
Dr. Edward T. Farish and Caroline Hamilton of Louisiana, granddaughter of Sir
William Hamilton, Scotish Baron. Edward lost both parents by age 12 and moved
in 1847. He came to St. Louis to live with his father’s family. He was educated at St. Louis University in
1854. He married Lilly Garesche. Again we have another name in the ancestry of
Caroline Hamilton that does not connect. Perhaps she and Dr. Farish had a son
but not in 1836 after Dr. Farish died in 1833.
Another Hamilton mentioned in the Woodville Republican,
“Married in this county…..Mr. SS Bowman to Miss Sarah M. Hamilton, daughter of
James Hamilton of West Feliciana.”[96] Sarah M. Hamilton, wife of SS Bowman, and
daughter of James Hamilton (1785-1848) and Harriet Morris, is buried in the
Hamilton Cemetery between St. Francisville and Jackson. This family does not appear to be connected.
Hamilton Willis who now resides at the Hamilton plantation,
Tanglewild, had an ancestor, Joseph Willis, who was born in Bladen County NC
one year later than his ancestor, Duncan Stewart.
Rev. Joseph Willis m.
1. Rachel Bradford
b. 1764, Bladen Co. NC 2. Sarah
d. 1854, Allen Parish 3. Sarah Johnson
4. Elvy Elizabeth Sweat
Agerton Willis m.
Sophie Story
b. 1785, Bladen Co. b. 1787
Rev Daniel H. Willis, Sr. m.
Ann Slaughter
b. 1817 b. 1820
d. 1887 d. 1876
Daniel H. Willis, Jr. m.
Julia Ann Graham
b. 1839
d. 1900
Dr. Daniel Oscar Willis m.
Mary Rosalie Hamilton
b. 1875
d. 1935
The Baber family of Rosemound Plantation, Laurel Hill, W.
Feliciana Parish are related to the Hamiltons.
b. 4 Aug 1844, Barnwell District, SC b. 18 Apr 1855, Ft. Adams, MS
d. 3 June 1904, Wilkinson Co. d. 5 Feb 1927, NOLA
Bertram Ferman Babers m.
Lucilla Walsh Jackson
b. 18 Sept 1880, Wilkinson Co. b. 16 Sept 1881, Laurel Hill
d. 3 Apr 1962, Laurel Hill d. 30 Dec 1950, Laurel Hill
Children:
- Vincent
Darling Babers, b. 1904
- Bertram
Ferman Babers, Jr. m.
Vida Irma Pelayo
b. 1906, Woodville b. 1908, NOLA
d. 1971 d. 1998, St. Francisville
Children:
b. 3 Aug 1932, Covington, KY b. 7 Nov 1932, Washington Parish
Children:
1. Michael
Stephen Babers, b. 1953
2. Susan
Laurel Babers m. 1. James Dudley
Benton
b. 1955 b. 1951, Port Huesname CA
d.
2008, Bethesda, MD
m.
2. (2016) Brian Dooley
Children:
1. Alyson
Benton
2. Nancy
Benton
3. Ann
Benton
4. James
Michael Benton
5. William
Babers Benton
b. 29 May
6. Cary
Jackson Benton m. (2 June)
Paul Fitzmorris
b. 13 June
7. Emma
Nodl Benton
b. 1 Aug 1956, Christian Co. KY
d. 14 June 2020, Laurel Hill, LA
2. Sharon Mikell Babers, b. 9 Dec
1944
3. Hannah Eldridge Babers m. Montrose Hamilton Barrow
1908-2007 1905-1975
4. Jackson Horatio Nelson Babers, 1910-1983,
Franklin Parish
Sims
Ann, the second wife of John Hamilton, married a second time
to John Sanders Sims. Sims came with his first wife and children from SC to
Wilkinson Co. MS and purchased part of Daniel Clark’s landholdings, a Spanish
grant of 1794. This land called Sligo Plantation, was sold by Clark’s nephew, a
younger Daniel Clark, in 1811 to Revolutionary War General Wade Hampton of SC.
In 1817 Sligo was purchased by John Sims. Sims renamed the plantation Woodlands
and the Sims family owned the land for about 50 years. Sims’ son, John H. Sims
probably built the present house on Woodlands. He was killed during the Civil
War and the heirs lost the land in a lawsuit brought by Sims’ creditors in
1871. It was purchased by Walter L. Ferguson in 1911 and his grandson Prentiss
Ferguson and his wife Margo live there today. Several in the family are buried
in the cemetery on the plantation.[103]
Children:
- Sarah
Sims
- Charles
Sims
- Drucilla
Sims
- Priscilla
Sims
- Mary
Sims m.
Lyles
- John
Sanders Sims m.
1. Nancy
b. 1775, Union District, SC
d. 1856 d. 1823
Children:
1. Martha
Sims
2. Harriett
Sims m. Lewis
3. John
Hampton Sims (1806-1863)
4. Nancy
Sims
6. Laura
Sims
7. Mary
Margaret Sims m. Christmas
8. Charles
Sims (b. 1812, SC, d. 1859) m.
Philadelphia Gordon (1823-1884)
9. Dr.
William Rice Sims (b. 1819) m.
Elizabeth Lucinda Bruce
b. 1791
d. 1851
[1] See
tombstone of their son at Tanglewild
[2] The
death notice notes he was age 75 in 1862, therefore probably born in 1787.
[3] An
Artist in Treason, p. 283 and 289.
[4] Univ.
NC, Chapel Hill Library, Southern History Collection
[5]
Findagrave.com
[6] A Battle
Against Time, LA Museum Foundation
[7] Military
information from Historic register and dictionary of US Army, Vol I. Francis
Bernard Heitman, 1903. IN Find a Grave on the web.
[8] Probably
Hamilton Willis.
[9] Country
Roads, May 2013. Uncommon Threads about textile conservator Jessica Hack of
Algeirs who is scheduled to restore the jacket for $35,000 when the money is
raised. Story and photos by Ruth Laney.
[10] A
Battle Against Time, LA Museum Foundation.
[11] Website
for Woodhaven Development, a part of Tanglewild being developed by Hamilton
Willis.
[12] Neal
Auction, Dec 2016, p. 14. sold for $900.
[13] The
Plantation World….p. 30 to 33.
[14] Miss.
Contemporary Bio, ed Dunbar Rowland
[15]
National Intelligence, 5 Sept 1818.
[16] Duncan
Stewart Founder of Stewart County, Tennessee by Bryan Saunders, Dover, TN. 1997.
p. 37
[17]
National Intelligencer, 5 Sept 1818. The
National Intelligence was published in Washington, DC from 1810 until 1869.
[18] Her
tombstone suggests a birthdate of 1797 but her parents married late in that
year so she was most likely born in 1798. The census suggests she was born in
1800 or 1801.
[19] This
sold at Neal Auction. Dec 2016, p. 24, #157, $700.
[20] A
Battle Against Time, LA Museum Foundation.
[21]
Reflections of Rosedown by Ola Mae Word, p. 15.
[22]
Woodville Republican, 20 May 1843.
[23]
Rootsweb: Descendants in America of the Stewarts of Ledcreich.
[24] WR, 25
June 1850.
[25] WR, 8
Oct 1850.
[26] The Rio
Frio is in Real, Uvalde, Frio, La Salle and McMullen Counties in southern
Texas. Texas became independent of Mexico in 1836 and a state in 1845.
[27]
Findagrave. His grave in Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Ave. Philadelphia.
Plot: Sect L, Lot 415-428, grave 36. Laurel Hill was founded by John Jay Smith,
1836, and is the second ‘garden’ or ‘rural’ cemetery in the US after Mt. Auburn
in Cambridge, MA.
[28] Chuck
Speed
[29]
Hamilton Willis, personal conversation, 2009.
[30]
Hamilton Willis, personal communication, 2009.
[31]
Hamilton Willis, personal conversation, 2009.
[32]
Hamilton Willis said in 2009 that he was Eliza’s grandson but another source
gives him as a son.
[33]
Hamilton Willis
[34] She
married a second time John S. Sims in 1828 in West Feliciana Parish.
[35] Another
source gives 11 June.
[36] Or 1787
according to his death notice.
[37]
Findagrave
[38]
Rootsweb, Descendants in America of the Stewarts of Ledcreich list a Duncan S.
born c. 1827, MS and a Catherine S. b. c. 1831.
[39] Grave
at Tanglewild. Listed in Rootsweb as
Duncan S. b. 1827.
[40] Grave
at Tanglewild lists him as the 4th son. Not listed in Rootsweb.
[41] See
Barrow genealogy. Daughter of William Ruffin Barrow (1800) and Olivia Ruffin
Barrow (1806)
[42] Sugar
Masters, p. 44-45, 65. William S. Hamilton Papers, LSU.
[43] This
was Eliza Stewart Hamilton’s youngest brother who had lived at Lakeside in
Pointe Coupee but was now widowed and blind.
[44]
Daughter of Bennett I. ‘James’ Barrow and Caroline Elizabeth Hall of Live Oak
Plantation. See Barrow genealogy.
[45] Son of
Bennett Livy Barrow, b. 1856. see Barrow
genealogy.
[46] Laurel
Hill Plantation
[47] She and
her husband live in the Lake Rosamund area in the 21st century.
[48] July
2017
[49] On the
2014 Audubon Pilgrimage I learned of these two boys or 3 boys and one is the
father of Anne Barrow who married TWK Klein. I cannot yet confirm.
[50] One
source gives her middle name as Lewis.
[51]
Daughter of Benjamin Horner, b. Nov 1894, Lebanon, Ill, d. 1935, bur Lebanon,
m. Mary Victoria Waymouth, b. London England.
[52] She had
a sister who married Judge Harold Brouillette of Marksville (d. 2016)
[53]
Obit. Some of the grandchildren also
noted in obit.
[54] Website
for Woodhaven
[55] As a
widow (of Avalon and Tanglewild) she was the last editor of the St.
Francisville Democrat, founded 1892 by WW Leake
[56]
Personal communication Hamp Willis, 2011, June.
[57] 1215
McCullough St.
[58] Sugar
Masters, p. 44-45, 65. William S. Hamilton Papers, LSU.
[59] WR, 18
May 1867. This is probably his mother in law.
[60]
Wikipedia
[61] Another
source says 1854 as the beginning of his career as sheriff.
[62] Minute
book of the Wilkinson Co. Board of Police, the forerunner of the Board of
Supervisors. P. 176, Journal of Wilkinson Co. History, Vol. IV, Book II.
[63] MS
Contemporary Bio. Ed. Dunbar Rowland, p. 311-312. 1907. The information in this and the next 4
paragraphs.
[64] Lists
of Officers and privates who volunteered in CSA from Wilkinson Co. compiled by
WC Miller, 19 May 1903.
[65]
Woodville Republican, 19 Dec 1863.
[66]
Wikepedia
[67]
Wikepedia
[68]
yesteryearnews.wordpress.com
[69]
yesteryearnews.wordpress.com
[70]
yesteryearnews.wordpress.com
[71] WR 24
Aug 1878
[72]
Wikepedia
[73]
Personal communication, April 2012, Hamilton Willis.
[74]
Rootsweb, Descendants in America of the Stewarts of Ledcreich
[75] Infro
from obit. Went to Jefferson Military College, Washington MS, attended
Millsaps, Served in army WWII in France and Germany. Law at Jackson School of
Law. Was in adjusting business in Jackson. Also served in Korean War. His obit
also lists grandchildren Lauren Hamilton m. Matt Paschal, Nashville, Stephanie
Hamilton, Samantha Hamilton, Amanda Hamilton; 2 grandsons: Tim J. Fitzgerald
and Brennan Fitzgerald; 2 great grandchildren: Landon Paschal and Clarke
Paschal; a niece Mary Hamilton m. Dewayne Chestnutt,; nephews: Dr. Chet Lake (Reneau)
and Robert Lake (Lisa).
[76] 1 June
1949
[77] buried
Greenwood, Jackson
[78]
Rootsweb
[79]
Tombstone, Tanglewild
[80] WR, 1
March 1879.
[81] WR,17
Apr 1880.
[82]
Woodville Republican, 19 Oct 1833.
[83]
Woodville Republican, 20 Jan 1824.
[84]
Woodville Republican, 21 Feb 1826.
[85]
Woodville Republican, 24 June 1826.
[86]
Woodville Republican, 6 Mar 1830.
[87]
Woodville Republican, 22 Oct 1831.
[88] It is
certainly possible he was a colonel in the revolution.
[89] Lucy
Audubon, A Biography by Carolyn E. DeLatte, p. 144.
[90] Box 41,
1829, Courthouse, St. Francisville.
[91] Lucy
Audubon, p. 171.
[92]
Woodville Republican, 23 Jan 1836.
[93]
Woodville Republican, 2 Apr. 1836.
[94]
Woodville Republican, 24 Feb 1838.
[95]
Woodville Republican, 7 Aug 1841.
[96]
Woodville Republican, 7 Jan 1843.
[97] WR, 30
Nov 1878: While in Fort Adams on Monday last, we dropped in the store of Mr. D.
Babers. He has a complete and large stock of Dry Goods and Family Groceries.
Mr. Babers makes a liberal cash advance on all cotton consigned through him to
the Commission house of Gardner & Gillespie.
[98] WR 8
Feb 1879, Parties in and about Fort Adams can procure Agricultural Leins from
Mr. D. Babers.
[99] Edward
R. Feltus and Mary L. Moreland were married at his house in 1879. WR 5 July
1879.
[100]
WR, 13 Mar 1880, a petition to retail liquor was granted to WW Babers of
Pinckneyville. Possibly a brother in business with D. Babers.
[101]
Lives Rosemound Plantation, built 1894 near Laurel Hill. Flags Along the Way,
p. 181.
[102]
Grad of LSU, MBA at Univ. of KY.
[103]
The Plantation World of Wilkinson Co. MS, p. 258-266.
[104]
Web site for Sims family.
[105]
This appears to be the oldest marker in the cemetery per The Plantation World….
[106]
West Feliciana Parish
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