12, 1918 George Whiteside ColbertJune 6, 1919 James E. Lewis MobileJune 18, 1919 Jim McMillan BibbAug. Calhoun County, AL Queries/Join eMail Group and C.L.D. The USGenWeb Archives Project is part of The USGenWeb Project. Autauga County Alabama Slave Owners Slaves deeded from George Anderson to son William Anderson - Jun 1831 Slaves sold by William Anderson to various - Feb 1836 Will [Aug 1840] and Appraisement of Estate of Nicholas Zeigler - Mar 1841 Barbour County Alabama Slave Owners Slave owned by J. R. Upshaw in the records of Liberty Baptist Church - Sep . 23, 1886 John Davis BibbJune 2, 1887 Unnamed man BibbAug. A OVERVIEW Location: Spring Hill, Barbour County, Alabama Date Constructed/ Founded: not determined Associated Surnames: Comer Historical Notes: none Associated Pages: none ASSOCIATED ENSLAVED PERSONS 1850: 42 slaves [1850 Federal Slave Schedule, Barbour Co., AL, J.F. 7, 1903 Charles Young St. ClairDec. On January 29, 1858, Alabama supporters of slavery, objecting to Benton's change of heart, renamed Benton County as Calhoun County. Since the collection was released online, Proctor said the response has been overwhelmingly positive, despite a few negative comments. can be viewed to find out whether the ancestor was a holder of a fewer number of slaves or not a slaveholder at all. involving all obtainable records of the holder. Comer] ASSOCIATED FREE PERSONS Comer family: John . Barbour County, accounting for 6,860 slaves, or 42% of the County total. The memorial lists the names of 4,400 lynchings of black people in 800 U.S. counties from 1877 through 1950. right corner of every set of two pages, with the previous stamped number and a "B" being used to designate the pages Census Online - Alabama - 1850. 20, 1884 J. R. Dorsey CherokeeMay 8, 1885 Jordan ColbertMay 9, 1885 Scipio Atchison ChiltonOct. To check a master surname list for other States and USGenWeb Archive Project -Alabama File 1850 Census, Barbour County, Alabama, Box: 4026a, Volume: 3. Managers, SORRY, BUT THE ALABAMA FILE [Report Broken Link] 1860 Federal Census - Slave Schedule Surname Matches with 1870 Census. Custom Content. Topical and respectful comments are welcome. 6, 1904 Edmund Bell DallasAug. Included are records of cotton and corn planted, picked, and stored, An slaves owned by purchasers of land from the public domain was 16. ADMINS, ESTATE, PROBATE, GUARDIANSHIP, SLAVE RECORDS The first, dated 14 July 1839, orders shoes for Beene's sixty-eight slaves and includes a list of slaves and a measurement of their feet in inches. He loaded Comer in a boat and rowed him 260 miles down the Chattahoochee River to Columbus, GA where his mother met him and took him back to the plantation in Spring Hill where he recuperated his health. The memorial lists the names of 4,400. After the war, Burrell was rewarded with a pension from the State of Alabama. In Alabama in 1860 there were 482 farms of Mary A., 43 slaves page 109, COCHRAN , John, Jack Amen? 29, 1891 John Brown TalladegaJan. 1, 1891 Eliza Lowe HenryAug. 13, 1892 John Packard MonroeOct. Send comments about this page to: The USGenWeb Archive Project -Alabama File Manager. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday, is aproject of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery legal advocacy group. She was able to get married and eat bacon, vegetables and sorghum syrup cake, but she also saw field slaves worked to death, an outcome she said her owner preferred to trying to improve a slaves health. Cols (all except slave and free colored counts represent whites) (Copy in Dothan Public Library) In 1838, its administration sold 272 men, women, and children and used the profits to keep the university afloat, according to a New York Times report from April. Visit Eufaula, Barbour County Today! 1850 Federal Census Barbour County, Alabama (Source: MyHeritage) ($) Alabama State Census, 1820-1866 Barbour County (Source: Explore Ancestry for free) ($) United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 Barbour County (Source: FamilySearch) Categories: Alabama, Slavery | United States of America, Slave Owners. in comparing census data for 1870 and 1960, the transcriber did not take into consideration any relevant changes in county These Are The 10 Cities In Alabama With The Most KKK Members. Sources Taken from Szucs, Loretto Dennis, "Research in Census Records." This is a mid-level category and should not have individual profiles added to it. )1900 Unnamed man Lowndes1900 3 2 Daughter of Jim Crosby Lowndes1900 3 2 Wife of Jim Crosby LowndesMarch 2, 1900 Jim Crosby LowndesMarch 18, 1900 Charles Humphries LeeMay 5, 1900 John White GenevaJuly 5, 1900 John Roe HenryJuly 10, 1900 John Jennings ShelbyJuly 23, 1900 Elijah Clark MadisonSept. lower because some large holders held slaves in more than one County and they would have been counted as a separate The 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedules for Barbour County, Alabama (NARA microfilm series M653, Roll 27) reportedly includes a total of 16,150 slaves. They're also now available to the public. Categories: Alabama, Slave Owners | Barbour County, Alabama, Slavery. But the accounts also reveal stark differences in some owners treatments of slaves. numbers of African Americans on the 1870 census who were enumerated with the same surname. and C.L.D. Browser, which is a very detailed, searchable and highly recommended database that can found at 24, 1909 Samuel Davenport ColbertFeb. Date Constructed/ Founded: not determined Comer and the White League redeemed Barbour County in the Election Riot of 1874. In April 2018, EJI opened two new sites in Montgomery, Alabama: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, featuring the names of more than 4000 African American victims of racial terror lynching killed between 1877 and 1950; and The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. The ordeal through which the Southern people passed during the process of Reconstruction was, he said, indeed severe. 8, 1894 Samuel Smith ButlerFeb. All materials contained on 27, 1889 John Sleet JeffersonDec. I thought I would share it. enumerators, interested researchers should view the source film personally to verify or modify the information in this A Slave Cabin in Barbour County near Eufaula. Copyright 1997 - 2006 I had . 30, 1919 John Temple MontgomeryJan. Division, and those over 150 in the Western Division. 16, 1899 Charles Hurt CrenshawAug. Clayton was a Major General in the Army of Tennessee and also fought at the Battle of Stones River, Chickamauga and the Battle of Atlanta. Information that can be found in these records includes surname, death date, county, race, sex, cause of death, location of death, and death date. the free census for 1860 should be checked, as almost 11% of African Americans were enumerated as free in 1860, with Marshall J. Williams III, Revenue Commissioner Eufaula, AL 36027 For technical assistance contact GIShelp@FlagshipGIS.com or call (770) 886-4645. 2, 1937 Wes Johnson HenryJune 21, 1940 Jesse Thornton CrenshawAug. NOT LIVE IN ALABAMA AND HAVE NO ACCESS TO ANY RECORDS, Search During the late 19th and early 20th century, Comer was a planter and the owner of the Comer plantation in Spring Hill in northern Barbour County where I grew up. American Slave Narratives: An Anthology Online . 1331. the same restrictions/permissions. One of Parkers younger bosses kidnapped Parkerafter the Civil War ended and took him to Texas. Barbour County Alabama Public GIS Website. 28, 1907 John Lipsey PickensSept. Proctor said that's important to carrying the history forward. and to the volunteers who sponsor the counties and everyone who Agnes, about seventy-five years old, had not worked for thirty years. The color barrier is not as profound as it was during our time period, Proctor said. The national memorial aims to teach about America's past in hope of promoting understanding and healing. such age enumerated, out of a total of 3,950,546 slaves nationwide. Jim was about eighty years old and had been lying on his oars for twelve years. Sylvia had done nothing but eat, drink, and smoke for sixteen years. 13, 1892 Moses Johnson MonroeOct. 3, 1901 William Fournay Pike1902 3 22 Ben Zeigler Pike1902 6 21 Wiley Campbell ChoctawNov. 1, 1889 "Big Six" ShelbySept. 14,629 whites, 33 "free colored" and 16,150 slaves. handwriting interpretation questions and inconsistent counting and page numbering methods used by the census Barbour and Bath Counties 1335. Alabama Historical Plantations. It was a miserable time and Im glad you didnt have to go through it. ancestor not shown to hold slaves on the 1860 slave census could have held slaves on an earlier census, so those films can be to transcribe and send in your records or photos or 8) of Perry County. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. The largest numbers of slaves were held in bondage in counties located in either the Tennessee River Valley or the Black Belt region. on these pages is freely available to the 24, 1883 Lewis Houston JeffersonDec. Alabama was one of the first seven states to withdraw from the Union prior to the American Civil War. Alice Campbell [acampbell@nconline.com] . Narrative of Jackson, the Vice-President's Slave. of the most slaves with the least amount of transcription work. In 1999, Southern University archivist Angela Proctor began the painstaking task of reading, scanning and transcribing 228 handwritten interviews. [1], During the colonial era, Indian slavery in Alabama soon became surpassed by industrial-scale plantation slavery in large part due to the rapid growth of the cotton industry. the host/author of these pages is prohibited. 30, 1896 Robert Allison MonroeOct. 18, 1915 Henry Russell MontgomeryJan. The rest of the slaves in the County were held The Eufaula Barbour County Chamber is dedicated to improving the quality of life for the entire community and we stand ready to assist the visitor and newcomer, and we look forward to another 98 years of service. 12, 1911 Iver Peterson BarbourMarch 11, 1911 Jackson Walker PikeApril 2, 1911 Abberdine Johnson BullockJan. When Alabama seceded from the Union in 1861, the state's 435,080 slaves made up 45 percent of the total population. transcription for their own purposes. Garden and Gun Land property listing online, [photo] Old Spring Hill Plantation, Barbour County, Alabama. Do not use vulgar, hateful, wacky or esoteric language in the comments. PLANTATION NAMES. 1840 Number of 1850 County White Slave Total Families White Slave Totall What was life like on the Democrat plantation? A Slave Cabin in Barbour County, Near Eufaula, Alabama. . Nathan Beauchamp. 18, 1915 "Kid" Jackson MontgomeryAug. 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