This page is for descendants and inquiries related to civilians who lived in the vicinity of Milliken’s Bend, including communities in Madison Parish and Carroll Parish (now divided into East and West Carroll Parishes). Some of these communities included Richmond (now Tallulah); Young’s Point; Delta; Goodrich’s Landing; Lake Providence and others.
Sugar, cotton or corn in plantations of mister Marshall in Milliken’s Bend about 1850?
Thanks for your replay.
Regards. Piero.
I’m sorry, Piero, I don’t have name-by-name lists of residents. However, you may find this online resource helpful, although it is from 1860 rather than 1850. Milliken’s Bend was right on the border of Carroll Parish and Madison Parish, so you may wish to check listings for both of those parishes. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ajac/ And thank you for your inquiry – you helped me to remember this site so I think I’ll devote a post to it!
Three of the significant plantation owners at Milliken’s Bend before the war were Philip Maher, Thomas Fitzwilliam, and Catesby Minis. The Maher and Fitzwilliam relationship went as far back as 1827 when it appears that they landed in New Orleans on the Princess Charlotte, although Fitzwilliam had been in New Orleans since about 1820. Fitzwilliam owned 42 slaves and was married to the former Eliza Watson of St. Louis. When he died of yellow fever in 1853, his wife returned to St. Louis with the children. At one time, Thomas Fitzwilliam owned the land on which St. Patrick’s church is built and sold it to the congregation for a little over $24K in 1835. The 1850 census shows the Maher and Fitzwilliam plantations very near each other, assuming that the census was taken in order by the landholders.
Thanks, Mike. I’m sorry, but I don’t know of any of these names. There are some nice maps at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lamadiso/madisonparishmaps.htm — which reminds me, I need to add that to a more public place on this website, as they really do have some good stuff there. Thanks for stopping by, and good luck with your research!
I’m not sure if my comment went through, so here it is again.
I have a copy of “View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages” by Henry Hallam, published by Harper Brothers in 1839. Inside the front cover is “Frances E. Morancy, Millikens Bend Louisiana, Madison Parish”. My grandmother, Agnes McKee Gilbert (1888 – 1976) of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, told me that she had ancestors from Millikens Bend. She said that to escape the hot, sultry summers they would take a steamboat up the Mississippi River to the Ohio River, then to the Kentucky River, then upstream to Lock 5 near Tyrone, Kentucky (home of Wild Turkey Bourbon today) where they would spend their summer months. I don’t know why they went there, what their connection was to that place. There is a small graveyard near there. One of the tombstones is for Elizabeth White, who was the wife, I believe, of Col Zachary White. My grandmother told me they were also from Louisiana. Can you tell me anything else about these former residents of Millikens Bend?
Thanks
Bill Wiglesworth
Buln Buln
Victoria Australia
Thanks Bill. And your first comment did go through, but I’m approving your second because it contains the additional information about the tombstones. You may have seen this post https://www.millikensbend.com/archives-month-lsu/ in which Honore Morancy is mentioned. The name of Frances is not familiar to me, but I would assume related. You may also want to check the Madison Parish genweb site which has a lot of great information: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lamadiso/ including the email of Dick Sevier who is a wealth of knowledge. Also worth contacting is the Hermione House Museum in Talllulah, LA http://www.museumsusa.org/museums/info/21666 . I hope this helps. And thanks for stopping by.
I see you have a post from Bill Wiglesworth. His grandmother is the sister of my grandfather. How can I reach him?
Pauline McKee
pmckee3@triad.rr.com
Pauline –
I don’t share contact information without individuals’ permission, but I will reach out to him and let him know of your interest, and let him know of your posts here. Since you shared your email in the comment, I will also pass that along. I have not been in touch with him since he posted here in 2014, so I don’t know if I will be successful in reaching him, but I will certainly try.