TO Marsena & Eugenia & John Buford Page, Wonder if this is where the "10,000 acre Allen Page plantation" info came from?? As I said before, 10,000 acres is a lot of land!!!! Would have been over 15 Sections, almost half of an entire township.... Do you think it could have been mentioned in Riley's book? Eugenia has Riley's book..... ....maybe she will see what it says about the Allen Page family and how Riley mentioned or refers to the size of the PAGE plantation. Note below that the widow of Allen Page, Sarah (on 1860 Census), is shown to own $10,000 in real estate (value)... which would have been a lot of land in 1860. June - 1860 Conecuh County Census shows: House # 31 Family # 27 Evergreen Post Office *Sarah A. Page, age 50- b.NC $10,000 R.E. $22,265 Assets <nee: Wright> <widow of Allen Page> Mary A. Page, age 29- b.AL Kinchin R., age 24- b. AL - Farm Overseer Susan, age 22 - b.AL - Teacher C. School Haskel, age 18 - b.AL - Student Living nearby: #23 Daniel Witherington (64/SC) Family $2000/$4610 #25 Leander Witherington (32/AL) Family $1000/$2120 Also: nearby 1860 Conecuh County Census/Evergreen Post Office 6 June 1860 Fam# 28 George Johnson 31/AL Farmer $1200/$2500 Martha 29/AL (dau of Daniel & Melissa King Witherington) Henrietta 4/AL Mary 2/AL James 10 mos/AL Also Eugenia: please ask Dan if he has any idea what the value of land (per acre) in the Fork Sepulga area would have been back in 1860. Maybe we can estimate from that info actually how large a plantation (valued at $10,000) Allen Page owned when he was killed. Below is the paragraph that I have in my notes.... but I failed to indicate the source of the data..... (poor research on my part!!!) ------------------- >copied from my notes on Allen Page< "Allen Page (son of Jacob Page) and his wife Sarah Wright, owned the largest cotton plantation in Conecuh County prior to the Civil War. The 10,000 acre Page Estate, located in the community called "Fork Sepulga", extended into Butler County. After Allen Page was killed in 1859, his son, Kinchen Page, assumed responsibility for management of the family cotton plantation. Kinchen managed the plantation from the time of his father's death until the onset of the Civil War that marked the end of prosperity for the Allen Page family. When Federal troops marched into Conecuh County, killing all those who resisted, they burned the courthouse and other public buildings at Sparta. The occupying Yankee troops took over the Page Plantation and transformed it into their field military headquarters until the end of the war." ------------------- Any help will be greatly appreciated. Bill King BillKing@houston.rr.com