DeSoto Parish, Louisiana 1861 Slave Owners This file generously donated to the Louisiana Genealogy Project - African American Archives by Gaytha Carver Thompson Typed by Trudy Marlow ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,1890; Pg.235-236 The slave owners of the parish, who paid taxes on nine or more slaves in 1861, with the number of slaves owned by each, are given as follows: Name Surname # of slaves owned E. Adams 11 W.D. Atkins 16 Thomas Abington 13 Thomas R. Adams 10 W.W. Armistead 36 Lockwood Allison 53 J.M.N. Arrington 10 Thomas and Mary McKinney 16 M.H. Alexander 22 Mrs. M.A. Alston 14 R.H. Armistead 12 Alpronson Allen 15 Caleb Adams 10 George C. Burns 50 James Bradford 11 William L. Beard 24 W.R. Burke 9 W.H. Billingsley 10 W.W. Boon 9 James Bonds 56 Harris Brantley 39 Mrs.W.B. Benson 14 T.W. Brodnax 15 Mrs.M.C. Best 20 Mrs.Mary Bradley 9 William Crosby 34 D. Cresswell 9 Samuel Clarke 43 Mrs.M.A. Coody 12 J.M. Chapman 9 James Cowley 30 Thomas J. Carrell 9 Stephen D. Chapman 31 Mrs.Maria Childers 56 B.F. Chapman 72 A. Conway 35 James Cox 24 Mrs.Rebecca Chambliss 9 William G. Cater 13 A.J. Cuffey 13 A.M. Chapman 64 A.M. Campbell 10 Mrs.Maria Davidson 21 Mrs.Mary De Soto 18 B.S. Dickson 26 J.F. Durham 10 Dr.A.J. DuBose 18 Mrs.M.C. Durham 26 H.J. Davis 9 0.L. Durham 23 Woodson Davis 8 William I. Davis 23 C.H. Durham 10 D. Eatman 29 John Evans 12 W.J. Edwards 11 C.A. and E.A. Edwards 223 Gory M. Eldridge 44 Onofre Flores 9 W.T. Fortson 47 R.D. Forster 20 Mrs.M.F. Fortson 22 C.D. Frierson 11 G.P. Frierson 51 R.B. Frierson 9 John P. Fincher 8 S.C. Furman 32 Aaron Ferguson 32 H.P. Fullilove 20 J.W. Fair 15 Wade Forster 13 Mrs.Catherine E. Fortson 14 Pedro Flores 10 R.F. Gills 21 Jehu Gillispie 14 L.Q. Griffin 9 Hunt& Gillispie 14 Aaron Gandy 13 T.T. Goldsby 14 T.M. Gilmore 39 J.B. Gamble 24 S.E. Guy 24 Y.W. Graves 62 Mrs. May Rogers 26 Thomas M. Gatlin 152 Mrs. Nancy Gamble 17 John A. Greening 103 A.T. Guy 14 John Glassell 35 James M. Graham 15 W.H. Hoel 15 Mrs. L.K.K. Hogan 50 Josiah Hill 17 Mrs. Amanda Hobgood 14 John F. Haily 17 W.E. Hall 31 John T. Hardin 18 James W. Howard 23 W.G. Hale 42 Mrs. R.F. Haden 20 John Holmes 25 John E. Hall 22 Thomas J. Harrell 17 R.S. Hatcher 10 C.N. and Robert Horn 18 T.P. Hall 35 Robert Hall 10 M.H. Hale 61 G.E. Harris 33 R.B. Hollingsworth17 Mrs. Elizabeth Hood 9 G.G. Haden 45 A.M. Haden 11 Mrs. P.E. Hall 9 John Hampton 14 Robert Holmes 16 Miss Annie Haden 11 J.T. Henderson 28 Charles Hungerford 11 James M. Hollingsworth 16 James Ivey 19 E.P. Ivey 11 Jessie Ivey 33 H.C. Ivey 20 Samuel Ivey 32 B.F. Jenkins 16 J.B. Johnson 31 Mrs. Silvey Johnson 10 G.W. Jefferson 12 Samuel Johnson 16 Warren Jackson 11 John Jordan 13 R.T. Johnson 55 Robert B. Jones 33 Enoch Johnson 15 William R. Jackson 10 A.W. Jackson 19 Mrs. N.J. Lee 10 James Jackson 21 Joseph King 25 A.S. Kidd 17 J.E. Kirvin 18 Mrs. Sarah Longmire 15 John E. Lewis 16 I.M. Lea 10 B.S. Lee 10 G.W. Lenoir 11 A.I. Leach 17 Garrett Longmire 15 B.S. Logan 73 Gideon Mosley 11 H.L. Moss 60 Mrs. A.M. Mundy 9 Elbert Miles 11 Henry Marston 31 Isaac Murrell 28 John McGill 12 D.R.W. McIver 19 Daniel McMillen 12 Henry Marshall 152 John J. Marshall 88 John McGlaughlin 28 Samuel McGlaughlin 14 I.N. McCraw 50 Michael McNamara 9 D.B. McMillen 15 S.A. Mimms 18 I.W. Mundy 45 Samuel McMichael 34 John R. Mason 28 M.H. Mickberry 12 B.D. Moore 16 Mrs. Kate Muson 9 W.B. Means 103 Mrs. Susan McCall 11 G.A. Norwood 11 E.C. Norris 20 S.M. Norris 35 I.M. Nelson 18 Mrs. R.T. Newman 9 J.B. Norman 19 Mrs. Sallie Nott 60 J.W. Nolan 30 Jones Persons 22 C.S. Pegues 53 Mrs. A.L. Pegues 10 S.D. Parker 30 Lewis Phillips 13 C.J. Provost 20 George J. Pitts 23 Lanza Phillips 24 William Phillips 29 W.J. Polk 14 Mrs. E.C. Powell 23 Sterlin Powell 9 Enoch Powell 16 John B. Pugh 13 Briant Powell 11 J.B. Pennywell 11 Mrs. R.C. Petrovics 34 B.W. Pearson 40 Mrs. E.A. Parsons 10 T.H. Poland 14 Gen. Henry Philips 50 T.J. Prude 11 Mrs. E.A. Pegues 20 Mrs.MaryW. Pegues 31 Mrs. Martha Paxon 20 A.V. Roberts 20 Israel Rogers 11 Aaron Robinson 9 R.R. Riggs 21 Mrs. S.S. Rawles 27 William Robinson 16 E.S. Riggs 35 Rumbin A.Navile 9 Mrs. M.E. Rives 14 Robert Reynolds 33 Burton Rucker 9 S.H. Rives 10 Mrs. J.A. Rives 29 Jonah Robinson 12 Mrs. Joannah Robinson 12 T.W. Rochelle 15 Mrs. Mary B. Rochelle 54 John W. Reaves 33 D.R. Roach 17 John A. Ross 81 Whitten Rogers 9 J.C. Rives 23 B.T. Robinson 64 J.T. Riddin 48 Charles Riddin 10 G.H. Sutherlin 13 James W. Scott 15 T.F. Scott,Jr. 10 James H. Sample 24 Alfred Simpson 9 J.W. Stephenson 13 R.H. Scott 24 Mrs.Lucinda Scott 22 James Scott 59 H. Sloan 27 Thomas Scott 35 John Sojourner 20 Eli Sanders 17 J.B. Sumrall(minor) 12 Henry Story 14 William Sebastian 12 Thomas Small 12 William Spell 18 Samuel A. Scott 61 Mrs. Mary A. Smith 13 M.C. Shaffer 17 John H. Sutherlin 19 A.J. Taylor 19 Allison Taylor 11 J.M. Terrill 11 Mrs. Isabella Terrill 9 E.H. Turner 26 E.S. Turner 9 J.F. Tompkies 62 W.B. Taylor 13 Mrs. S. TilIman 19 George T. Talbert 11 W.A. Tharp 21 L.L. Tompkies 57 J.B.C. Vircher 12 J.S. Vircher 9 Mrs. Adeline Vaughan 9 James West 37 Joseph Wilder 93 J.D. Wemple 9 B.F. Warton 46 John Watt 11 John W. White 9 J.M. Williams, Sr 20 J.P. Williams 17 Mrs. Mary Williams 42 M.C. Williams 15 E.C. Wilson 59 H.F. Wagley 15 John B. Williams 14 J.W. Wilcox 24 John Wagner 17 P.P. Williams 17 J.H. Warford 32 D.S. Wells 14 Boyakin Witherspoon 128 S.P. Williams 10 T.J. Williams 18