"Indian Slavery in Colonial Georgia. Southern History Series: The Carolina Chivalry. Comer] 1860: 61 slaves [1850 Federal Slave Schedule, Barbour Co., AL, C.L. in comparing census data for 1870 and 1960, the transcriber did not take into consideration any relevant changes in county Tax Records slaves, the 1860 U.S. population was 27,167,529, with about 1 in 70 being a slaveholder. Where did the freed slaves go Barbour and Bath Counties 1335. 26, 1894 Thomas Douglas SumterMarch 29, 1894 Oliver Jackson MontgomeryApril 12, 1894 William Lewis WilcoxApril 22, 1894 John Williams ColbertApril 22, 1894 Thomas Black ColbertApril 22, 1894 Tony Johnson ColbertApril 1894 Two unnamed men ChiltonJune 25, 1894 Edward White LamarJune 30, 1894 Lewis Bankhead ChiltonNov. FORMER SLAVES. slaveholder. Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, and Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall. 2, 1913 Unnamed man HenryMarch 21, 1914 Charles Young ChiltonDec. It is estimated by this transcriber that in 1860, slaveholders of 200 or more slaves, while constituting less than 1 In 1845, Hardy Clemens was a wealthy plantation and slave owner who owned a farm near Coaling, Alabamaon the banks of Big Sandy Creek, about 12 miles east of Tuscaloosa. This transcription lists the names of those largest slaveholders in the County, the number of slaves they held in Albemarle and Alexandria Counties 1332. 1 Source Collection When I had grown up to be a good size, boy I ran away, Parker said. 18, 1915 "Kid" Jackson MontgomeryAug. 16, 1904 Rufus Lesseur MarengoAug. 2, 1919 Archie Robinson ClarkeAug. 1, 1912 William Smith JeffersonNov. Bart Thrasher, outlaw, ca. Counties, return to Home and Links Page. 18, 1896 John Fitch ChambersOct. She said the library has seen international interest in the slave narratives that have also become a part of history lessons at universities. IMPORTANT PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO USE CAUTION WHEN DISTRIBUTING PRIVATE INFORMATION. Box 5625 Montgomery, AL 36103-5625 Phone (334) 206-2999 Record Request Forms They have birth and death records from 1908 to present and some scattered earlier records. D., 43 slaves page 101. and to the volunteers who sponsor the counties and everyone who has donated files to the site. A Slave Cabin in Barbour County, Near Eufaula Date: 1936; Photo, Print, Drawing Siney Bonner . 1, 1891 William Williams HenryAug. this county, except for 102 year old female Carolina, an African, held by Henry Lockhart and shown on page 102B. Comer; Elizabeth Comer (?-bef.1858) daughter of J.F. 2. right corner of every set of two pages, with the previous stamped number and a "B" being used to designate the pages When Alabama seceded from the Union in 1861, the state's 435,080 slaves made up 45 percent of the total population. B etween 1936 and 1938 . & B. Y., 53 slaves page 177B, MCTYNE, Est. census. Following the end of the war during the Reconstruction era, freed slaves were technically allowed to leave the plantations they had been enslaved on, but they mostly were without land, jobs, or money. 6, 1897 Jeff Johnson Cleburne Aug. 6, 1897 John Clark BarbourAug. Barbour County, Alabama Larry Scott Butler Southern Christian Leadership Conference Field Worker for Barbour County Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. . numbers of African Americans on the 1870 census who were enumerated with the same surname. Comer], 1860: 61 slaves[1850 Federal Slave Schedule, Barbour Co., AL, C.L. Barbour County Alabama Public GIS Website. Narrative of Jackson, the Vice-President's Slave. Barbour County, Alabama Owens/Powell Census Extracts 1830-1900 4/22/2007 Alabama Homing 1 wildamurphy@gmail.com 1830: No Cope, Owen(s) or Powell indexed in Barbour County 1833 State Census for Barbour County, Alabama, copied by Helen S Foley, Eufaula, Al 36027, 1976. (Source: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers ' Project, 1936 - 1938: Library of Congress Web site). Located at Slaveholders and African Americans 1860-1870. 8) of Perry County. Pages numbers under 150 were shown as in the Eastern & WILLS. To remedy the evils growing out of abolition, Clayton urged that the people of the South secure the services of the negroes, teach them their places, and how to keep them, and convince them at last that we are indeed their best friends. None should hold a grudge against the Negro because he was now free, Clayton added: He is proud to call you master yet. 7, 1888 Seven unnamed men HenryJan. Slavery was officially abolished in the United States, following the end of the US Civil War by the Thirteenth Amendment which took effect on December 18, 1865. 23, 1909 Ray Rolston CleburneDec. But the ex-slaves nevertheless chose to remain. 9, 1883 Wesley Brown MadisonNov. 20, 1884 J. R. Dorsey CherokeeMay 8, 1885 Jordan ColbertMay 9, 1885 Scipio Atchison ChiltonOct. Autauga County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 1), Baldwin County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Barbour County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 6, 0), Benton County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Bibb County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 12, 4), Blount County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Bullock County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Butler County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Calhoun County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 1), Chambers County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 29, 5), Cherokee County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Choctaw County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 4), Clarke County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 10, 1), Coffee County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Colbert County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Conecuh County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 0), Coosa County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Covington County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 0), Crenshaw County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Dallas County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 7, 1), Fayette County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Franklin County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 1), Greene County, Alabama, Slave Owners (1, 25, 9), Hale County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Henry County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 7, 0), Jefferson County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 1), Lauderdale County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 9, 0), Lawrence County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 15, 1), Limestone County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 0), Lowndes County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 7, 0), Macon County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 7, 4), Madison County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 24, 8), Marengo County, Alabama, Slave Owners (1, 22, 19), Marion County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Marshall County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Mobile County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 4), Monroe County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 12, 3), Montgomery County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 11, 1), Morgan County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 10, 1), Perry County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 16, 5), Pickens County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 0), Pike County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Randolph County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 1), Russell County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 14, 1), Shelby County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), St. Clair County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 1), Sumter County, Alabama, Slave Owners (2, 15, 7), Talladega County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 21, 1), Tallapoosa County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 1), Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 11, 3), Washington County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 1), Wilcox County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 12, 0). NOT LIVE IN ALABAMA AND HAVE NO ACCESS TO ANY RECORDS, Search - researching their family origins. What were the Southners going to do with their emancipated coloreds? is found on the 1870 census, then making the link to finding that ancestor as a slave requires advanced research techniques Ive shared the Comer story here before, but I was reminded of it this afternoon when I came across another story about the end of slavery on Henry D. Claytons plantation in Barbour County. Alabama, U.S., Death Record of State Convicts, 1843-1951. Barbour County was created on December 18, 1832, and its original boundary lines encompassed lands acquired from the Creek Indians in the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson as well as lands in the eastern part of Pike County. Box 5616 Montgomery, AL 36103-5616; Phone: (334) 242-7200; Fax: (334) 242-4993 Slavery, however, existed in every county. Death records for Alabama state convicts who died while either a prisoner in custody or on parole are in this database. Categories: Alabama, Slave Owners | Barbour County, Alabama, Slavery. 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. Slaves in the Records of the Monroe Session, North Alabama Presbytery 1823-1827, 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, Slave owned by J. R. Upshaw in the records of Liberty Baptist Church Sep 1846, Slaves in the Will of Elizabeth Ingram Oct 1851, Notebook kept by Dr. Thomas Fearn of Huntsville, Alabama, from about 1852 to 1863, Slaves in the Will of Samuel Ingram Nov 1839, Slaves in the Will of Thomas Youngblood Apr 1863, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrants, 1859 List of Munsee from Leavenworth County Kansas, 1876-1878 Pacific Coast Business Directory, St. Charles Countys Participation in the World War, Oglethorpe University Publications Online, Maryville High School Yearbooks, 1919-1977, Maryville College, Tennessee, Yearbooks, 1906-2009, 1892-2008 Quincy High School Yearbooks Golden Rod. He mentions baptisms etc. o Number manumitted (freed) in the year preceding June 1. o Age, gender, and color of slave African American descendants of persons who were enslaved in Barbour County, Alabama in 1860, if they have an idea of 2, 1897 John Tompkins MonroeNov. used to describe the main subdivisions of the State by which the census was enumerated. or here (6,400%). SOURCES. 14, 1892 William Webb DallasMarch 3, 1892 Unnamed man CalhounMay 5, 1892 G. H. Rose ChoctawMay 16, 1892 Berry Roden Talladega May 16, 1892 Jim Roden TalladegaMay 16, 1892 Will Carter TalladegaJuly 4, 1892 Unnamed man WalkerJuly 5, 1892 Edward Prater ClayOct. This page was last modified 08:33, 11 May 2021. 7, 1901 John Wesley Pennington CoffeeSept. It should be noted however, that Until three years ago, Russell and 227 other former slaves accounts of their enslavement were kept safe in the archives at Louisiana's Southern University. these larger slaveholders, the data seems to show in general not many freed slaves in 1870 were using the surname of their Parker's slaves "were. But the accounts also reveal stark differences in some owners treatments of slaves. Many black laborers refused to continue working the plantations, and chose to migrate to southern urban areas in large numbers.[13][15]. Census data on African Americans in the 1870 census was obtained using Heritage 6, 1904 Edmund Bell DallasAug. 1 item, 1 USGenWeb Archive Project -Alabama File In the name of humanity, let him do so. Comer, like many Alabama landowners, leased African-American convict labor to continue operations. Barbour County Courthouse 1 Court Square PO Box 219 Clayton, Al 36016 Phone: 334-775-8366 Fax: 334-775-1125 Barbour County District Court 303 E Broad St Eufaula, AL 36027 Phone 334-687-1516 Barbour County Website Judge of Probate has marriage probate and land records from 1800's. Population of the Middle Suwannee Basin, 1840 and 1850. What was life like on the Democrat plantation? Slavery Era Insurance Policies Registry -. Georgetown University To Make Amends For Slavery Past. . Black Families of Alabama's Black Belt: Butler, Dallas, Lowndes, Marengo, Perry, and Wilcox Co. Doll's Genealogy Site: focus on Macon Co. Large Slaveholders of 1860: extraction of many slaveholders in various Alabama counties The Village: Alabama Slave Project 5, 1931 Neal Quinn LowndesAug. http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/ . Jenkins BarbourDec. See the Heritage Exchange Portal for more information on how to document slaves and slave owners. The census further lists Georgia as . Flagship GIS, Inc. - Security Notification (March 9, 2022) Using plantation names to locate ancestors 1, 1888 Oscar Coger ColbertMarch 18, 1888 Jeff Curry JeffersonMarch 29, 1888 Theodore Calloway LowndesApril 23, 1888 Hardy Posey JeffersonJuly 1, 1888 Calvin Moody LawrenceJuly 13, 1888 Jim Torney St. ClairJuly 14, 1888 Frank Stone St. ClairSept. To check a master surname list for other States and project of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery legal advocacy group. distribution, or generated by the author, and are subject to 26, 1889 Bud Wilson TuscaloosaMarch 21, 1890 Robert Mosley MadisonMarch 29, 1890 Frank Griffin ChiltonJune 7, 1890 Unnamed man ShelbyJuly 23, 1890 Tobe Williams BlountSept. Alabama Vital Records P.O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._W._Comer, http://www.gardenandgunland.com/land/old-spring-hill-plantation/388. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. Comer and the White League redeemed Barbour County in the Election Riot of 1874. If the surname is found, they can then view the microfilm 30, 1883 Lewis Austin WalkerFeb. Alabama cemetery records, Vol. RoadSnacks is reader-supported. for the details listed regarding the sex, age and color of the slaves. Included are records of cotton and corn planted, picked, and stored, 8, 1893 Joseph Givham DallasDec. by a total of 1,045 slaveholders, and those slaveholders have not been included here. Baine, Rodney M. 1995. The narratives offer rare first-person insight into one of the cruelest institutions in American history. slaves, if listed in the next census, in 1870, would have been reported with their full name, including surname. 1869-1896. no records available, Slavery had been theoretically abolished by President Abraham Lincoln 's Emancipation Proclamation which proclaimed, in 1863, that only slaves located in territories that were in rebellion from the United States were free. Nathan Beauchamp. Slavery had been theoretically abolished by President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which proclaimed, in 1863, that only slaves located in territories that were in rebellion from the United States were free. 20, 1894 Lewis Hendricks ChiltonFeb. 22, 1907 Moses Dossett MobileNov. 22, 1896 Joseph James BibbJan. 4, 1906 Jim Cotton BarbourFeb. 5. Alabama, Alt-South, American South, Culture, Dixie, History, Identity, Negroes, Race Relations, Slavery, southern heritage, Southern History Series, White Supremacy Adam Cemetery Find a Grave . All images used 28, 1897 James Jackson BibbMarch 15, 1897 Andy Beard PickensMarch 18, 1897 John Smith JacksonMay 11, 1897 Amanda Franks MadisonMay 11, 1897 Mollie Smith MadisonMay 30, 1897 John Hayden LamarJune 21, 1897 George Bradley MonroeJuly 3, 1897 Jim Thomas JeffersonJuly 17, 1897 Edmonson LauderdaleJuly 19, 1897 George Richardson TallapoosaJuly 19, 1897 James Daniel CoosaAug. I didnt like slavery once I found what freedom was.. Autauga, Baldwin, and Barbour Counties 2. . Managers, SORRY, BUT THE ALABAMA FILE In 1843 Thomas A. Harrison traveled to Alabama, accompanied by a party of slaves, to purchase property for a plantation. Reading these wills may provide the reader with a clue on their ancestors. "Cose I was borned a slave, but I don't 'member much 'bout hit, 'caze I was li'l. Dere is one t'ing I . Managers. to transcribe and send in your records or photos or Slaves had a comfortable retirement on the plantations. The rest of the slaves in the County were held P.O. Originally Benton County Located at USGenWeb Archives: Calhoun Co., AL [Report Broken Link] Chambers Co. The material covers the period 1805 to 1975, but the bulk . This page has been accessed 2,379 times. 20, 1908 Tom Stover MorganJan. Manager, The USGenWeb Archive Project - Alabama File Where did freed Alabama slaves go if they did not stay in Alabama? The USGenWeb Archives Project is part of The USGenWeb Project. After the war, Burrell was rewarded with a pension from the State of Alabama. 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. 4, 1893 Unnamed man BibbSept. From the Collection: The collection contains genealogical research notes covering 1820-1880, including county data, church and marriage records, family histories, and other materials. 1331. like to contribute to the Archives site, Ironaton Alabama (Talladega County) They're also now available to the public. the surname of the slaveholder, can check this list for the surname. Sources Taken from Szucs, Loretto Dennis, "Research in Census Records." The process of publication of slaveholder names beginning with larger slaveholders will enable naming of the holders 4, 1917 Unnamed man BibbJuly 16, 1917 Poe Hibbler PickensJuly 2, 1917 Sam Powell LowndesJuly 24, 1917 William Powell LowndesMay 21, 1918 John Womack CovingtonNov. Estimates of the number of former slaves who used the surname of a 3. decreased 17% to 12,143, while the "colored" population increased 6% to 17,165. can be difficult because the name of a plantation may have been changed through the years and because the sizeable number A Slave Cabin in Barbour County, Near Eufaula, Alabama. 16, 1899 Charles Hurt CrenshawAug. enumerated in 1860 without giving their names, only their sex and age and indication of any handicaps, such as deaf or blind 11) and Severe (Beat No. Learn more. 18, 1915 Herman Deely MadisonJanuary 1915 Dock Hartley ButlerMay 3, 1915 Jesse Hatch ClarkeAug. The 1850 slave schedule was used in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. Agnes, about seventy-five years old, had not worked for thirty years. 14, 1893 Ellen Fant PickensSept. 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. The last letter in this file, written . ADMINS, ESTATE, PROBATE, GUARDIANSHIP, SLAVE RECORDS Proctor, an African-American woman, said she tried to keep her emotions out of the tedious archival process but she was sometimes floored by the vivid descriptions of punishment in particular. In the South the slaves are taken care of for past services, observed a New York newspaper writer in 1860. 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. A permanent wound: How the slave tax warped Alabama finances, Alabama history tour covers Civil War, cotton - not slaves, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Links to Online Census Records. 2, 1884 Jeff N. Rogers ChambersJuly 16, 1884 Joe Robertson GreeneJuly 18, 1884 Andy Burke TuscaloosaSept. About Us | Contact Us | Copyright | Report Inappropriate Material Following the patenting of the cotton gin (in 1793), the War of 1812, and the defeat and expulsion of the Creek Nation in the 1810s, European-American settlement in Alabama was intensified, as was the presence of slavery on newly established plantations in the territory. 25, 1891 Two unnamed men ButlerSept. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. The following excerpt comes from James Benson Sellers classic book Slavery In Alabama: On the Clayton plantation, when the slaves were told that they were no longer bound to remain, their former master offered to each one who decided to go conveyance and provisions for the rest of the year. Its opened up my mind to see we have come so very far, but it seems like the further we go, the further back were going, Proctor said when asked how the release of the interviews was received. It is estimated by this transcriber that in 1860, slaveholders of 200 or more slaves, while constituting less than 1 % of the total number of U.S. slaveholders, or 1 out of 7,000 free persons, held 20-30% of the total number of slaves in the U.S. SOURCES. MIGRATION OF FORMER SLAVES: According to U.S. Census data, the 1860 Barbour County population included Kaden Parker in Barbour County, lived in a log cabin withhis mother, father and seven siblings. Comer, slave owner, mine operator, planter;Carrie Gertrude Seay Comer wife of J.W. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. 1, 1889 Unnamed man ShelbySept. 18, 1893 Riley Gulley WilcoxOct. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday, is aproject of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery legal advocacy group. Entire state . PURPOSE. This photo shows part of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a new memorial to honor thousands of people killed in racist lynchings, Sunday, April 22, 2018, in Montgomery, Ala. Shallette Spivery, a house slave born in Montgomery in 1852, said she was treated well by her owners. Thousands of Negroes, uneducated, unfitted for anything except to obey and do their duty as directed, were given their freedom and the privilege of citizenship. It was owned (in the 1800's) by John Rufus Blocker. New Castle County (part) 98. % of the total number of U.S. slaveholders, or 1 out of 7,000 free persons, held 20-30% of the total number of slaves in the 1, 1891 Willis Lowe HenryAug. Before presuming an African American was a slave on the 1860 census, The average size of household for slaveowners and non-slaveowners was nearly identical, totaling 6.4 and 6.3 respectively. 14, 1893 Polk Hill PickensSept. 3, 1891 James Sims ChoctawSept. 24, 1933 Dennis Cross TuscaloosaJune 18, 1934 Otis Parham MontgomeryAug. Though the census schedules speak in terms of "slave owners", the transcriber has chosen to use the Discusses the causes of the rebellion and the right of Texans to be in a state of revolution against the Government of Mexico. 21, 1879 Bill King RussellDec. 24, 1898 John Anderson ChambersNov. 21, 1891 Ray Porter ChiltonSept. Free Schedules. The museum and memorial is believed to be the nation's first site to document racial inequality from slavery through the Jim Crow era and into the present. Make checks out to Brad Griffin. Alabama was one of the first seven states to withdraw from the Union prior to the American Civil War. and slaves who did all. 30, 1896 John Adams MonroeOct. Genealogical techniques used to track slave families before the Civil War are necessarily quite different than those used for white or free African Americans. Had the South be victorious or even fought the Union to a draw and truce, the era of slavery would have ended eventually.. Did the South have a plan for the inessential negro labor because of technology? Categories: Alabama, Slavery | United States of America, Slave Owners. 1860 slaveholder. [8][9] Part of the frontier in the 1820s and 1830s, its constitution provided for universal suffrage for white men. Barbour Co. 1860 Federal Census - Mortality Schedule Archived Copy; Original page no longer online. 1847); U.S. senator and Alabama governor . Dates: 1839-1841 9, 1881 Shade Thompson BarbourJuly 22, 1881 Albert Brooks Barbour, April 14, 1882 Henry Ivy DallasApril 14, 1882 Sam Acoff DallasAug. Like its neighbors, the Alabama Territory was fertile ground for the surging cotton crop, and soon became one of the major destinations for African-American slaves who were being shipped to the Southeastern United States. Custom Content. Slave Narrative Resources. ALGenWeb Project - Barbour County, Alabama, The USGenWeb 3, 1907 Henry Singleton TalladegaNov. 13, 1896 John Lee HenrySept. 27, 1900 George Fuller PerryJan. He would buckle us across a log and whip us until we were unable to walk for three days. Associated Surnames: Comer 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 product of the plantation satisfied all their wants, so far as the inner man was concerned, and the sale of the cotton crop gave them . Run-Away Slave Articles. A Slave Cabin in Barbour County near Eufaula. Subscribe to this website and receive notification each time a free genealogy resource is newly published. My master was so cruel to his slaves that they were almost crazy at times, Russell continued. It is possible to locate a free person on the Barbour County, Alabama Oliver Bell. and C.L.D. Do not promote, suggest, glorify or incite violence in the comment section. census for 1860 and not know whether that person was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave census, because published LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES, SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS. Just like the other sacrosanct myth the anti-white force trot out daily in the holohoax. This is a mid-level category and should not have individual profiles added to it. This is straight from the horses mouth though. 13, 1892 Jim Packer MonroeOct. *** USGenWeb is not a material for posting on these pages does so in recognition of Barbour County, Alabama Description of the Collection This small collection comprises a journal kept by Comer, 1844-1847, containing various kinds of records relating to agricultural activities on his Barbour County, Alabama, plantation and to his lumber and corn mills. Molly Ammond (Ammonds) Charity Anderson. addressed in this transcription. 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. The ordeal through which the Southern people passed during the process of Reconstruction was, he said, indeed severe. Visit Eufaula, Barbour County Today! 1870, the Alabama colored population increased by 37,000, to 475,000, a 17% increase. Sometimes when the narratives are truly graphic in nature, I cant help but sit and cry. 2, 1900 Wallace Townsend ElmoreDec. "Negroes"was about 20% less than what the colored population had been 100 years before.) Alabama cemetery records Copyright 1997 - 2006 [8] Most Native American tribes were completely removed from the state within a few years of the passage of the Indian Removal Act by Congress in 1830. 18, 1914 William Jones LowndesJan. The 1860 U.S. Census was the last U.S. census showing slaves and slaveholders. Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, and Appomattox Counties 1333. 20, 1899 Peter Louin ElmoreAug. 73086 Washington DC 20056-3086 A Slave Cabin in Barbour County, Near Eufaula Created / Published between 1936 and 1938 Headings - United States -- Alabama - Photographs Genre Photographs Medium 1 photographic print Call Number/Physical Location WPA Slave Narrative Project: Container, A917, vol. Send comments about this page to: The USGenWeb Archive Project -Alabama File Manager. He goes on tell of four old pensioners on a plantation he visited in Alabama. handwriting interpretation questions and inconsistent counting and page numbering methods used by the census 2009. the same restrictions/permissions. [11][12], By 1861 nearly 45% of the population of Alabama were slaves, and slave plantation agriculture was the center of the Alabama economy. 13, 1933 A. T. Hardin BibbAug. U.S. When you click through real estate links on our site, we earn an affiliate commission. 4. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 14, 1920 Select Reeves ButlerOct. The Comer family, white cotton planters, lumber yard owners, and enslavers of Barbour County, Ala., included Catherine Lucinda Comer (d. 1898), who, widowed in 1858, continued to farm cotton and to operate the family's corn mill and lumber yard, and her six sons: Hugh Moss Comer (1842-1900); John Wallace Comer (1845-1919); St. George Legare Comer (b. The transcriber did not notice any such slaves named in We measured the places in the Yellowhammer State where there have historically been the most Klaverns per capita. public. 27, 1889 John Sleet JeffersonDec. Barbour County Genealogy Group, Eufaula Carnegie Library, 217 N. Eufaula Ave., Eufaula, AL 36027. 20, 1899 Son of Peter Louin ElmoreNov. and C.L.D. The States that saw significant increases in colored Calhoun County, AL Queries/Join eMail Group please help! contact: The Date Constructed/ Founded: not determined The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. on these pages were obtained from sources permitting free 29, 1919 Robert Croskey MontgomerySept. (As a side note, by 1960, 100 years It may be that when, only a few years ago, you girded on your cartridge-box and shouldered your trusty rifle, to go meet the invaders of your country, you committed to his care your home and your loves ones; and when you were far away upon the weary march, upon the dreadful battlefield, in the trenches, and on the picket line, many and many a time you thought of that faithful old negro and your heart warmed towards him , These words, Mr. Clayton thought, indicated the condition into which the country had been plunged by the termination of the war. In the second, dated 16 December 1841, Beene expresses dissatisfaction with both shoes and prices. and to the volunteers who sponsor the counties and everyone who Social pressure was brought to bear on planters who failed to discharge this part of a slave-owners responsibility. Sex, age and color of the slaves that have also become part... 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