Thanks for the info on Linden Plantation. My gggrandfather did bookkeeping for several plantation owners, so this may be the connection. A great aunt listed Linden as her address. What do the numbers in parenthesis mean? Diane ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 5:35 PM Subject: [LA-LGHS-L] Linden Plantation > http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/c81m.html > > Summary: Family papers of Lemuel P. Conner (1827-1891) and Lemuel P. Conner, > Jr. (1861-1943), of Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, and Vidalia, > Concordia Parish, Louisiana. Includes correspondence, with military papers > and letters written during the Civil War; letters from Lemuel, Jr., while at > Louisiana State University (1878-1882), as well as letters from his daughter > Eliza M. B. Conner, while at Smith College, Northampton, Mass. Letters from > Farar B. Conner to his brother Lemuel, Sr.(1866-1867), discuss postbellum > plantation life at Rifle Point Plantation, McClennan County, Texas. Financial > papers include correspondence of Washington Jackson and Co., a cotton > brokerage in New Orleans (1853-1859), the Mechanics' and Traders' Bank > (1875-1876), and family receipts, invoices, vouchers, promissory notes, > merchandise orders, and checks. Manuscript volumes and other records relate > to plantations owned or managed by various members of the Conner family, > including Lake St. John Place (later known as Innisfail), Spokane, and Rifle > Point, all in Concordia Parish, Louisiana; Rifle Point Plantation in > McClennan County, near Waco, Texas; and Killarney, Recard, and Linden > plantations. Legal documents pertain to family legal affairs and family law > firms. Printed items include a variety of mid-nineteenth and early > twentieth-century pamphlets, including some government publications on > taxation, political speeches, legal briefs, and directories for Natchez > (1905, 1911). There are printings of eight general orders issued by S. > Cooper, Confederate Adjutant and Inspector General, February 23-April 6, > 1863. Programs for reunions of the Louisiana Division of the Army of Northern > Virginia (1878-1879, 1881, 1890-1893), and for social functions in Natchez > are also included, as well as programs and record books (baptisms, marriages, > membership) of the First Presbyterian Church in Natchez. J. K. Emmet's Cuckoo > Songster (New York, 1881), a large amount of nineteenth-century sheet music, > and a small amount of manuscript music also form part of the family papers. > Also found are advertisements for Natchez businesses, a few photographs of > the Natchez area, miscellaneous bound volumes, a few issues of antebellum > abolitionist newspapers (1835-1859), and miscellaneous oversize maps, deeds > of land, and mortgages. Papers of Major Henry Chotard (1810-1818), the > Sessions Family (1846-1931), and the Levin R. Marshall Estate (1888-1889) are > also included. > > Related collections:. Audley C. Britton and Family Papers (#1403), Britton & > Koontz Papers (#747), Stephen Duncan Papers (#1403), John Ker and Family > Papers (#3539), Andrew Macrery Papers (#1403), John T. McMurran Papers > (#1403), John Anthony Quitman Papers (#1403), John H. Randolph Papers (#355, > 356), Edward Turner Papers (#1403) > > Citation: Lemuel P. Conner and Family Papers, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi > Valley Collections, Louisiana State University Libraries. > > > Biographical/Historical Note: > William Conner and his wife, Mary Savage, moved from South Carolina and > settled in Adams County, Mississippi, in about 1790. Their son William > Carmichael Conner (1798-1843) was a successful planter in Adams County, and > he and his wife, Jane Elizabeth Boyd Gustine (1803-1883) lived at Linden, and > had nine children: 1) William Gustine Conner (1826-1863) married Eliza C. > Wood, and owned Linden Grove and Rifle Point plantations in Concordia Parish, > Louisiana. He died at the Battle of Gettysburg. He and his wife had six > children, all of whom died without issue. 2) Lemuel Parker Conner was born in > 1827 and died in 1891; more detailed information about him follows. 3) Henry > Le Grande Conner was born in 1829 and died in 1876. 4) Rebecca Anne Conner > (1832-1868) married Douglas Walworth, with whom she had five children. 5) > Farar Benjamin Conner (1834-1904) married Mary Louise McMurran (1831-1864), > daughter of John T. McMurran (1801-1866) and Mary Louisa Turner (1814-1891); > they had three children. He owned and/or managed Rifle Point plantation in > McClennan County, Texas. After Mary Louise's death, Farar married Marie > Chotard, daughter of Major Henry Chotard and Francis Minor, in 1889. 6) > Margaret Dunlop Conner (b. 1836) married General William Thompson Martin > (1823-1910), with whom she had ten children. They resided at Monteigue in > Adams County, Mississippi. 7) Anna Eliot Conner (b. 1838) married Robert C. > Dunbar (d. 1863), and following his death, married Dr. Douglas Starke > Bisland. 8) Richard Ellis Conner (1841-1925) married Margaret Buckner > (1846-1917), with whom he had five children. 9) Mary Anne Duncan Conner (b. > 1843) married T. Casey Witherspoon, with whom she had two children. > > Lemuel Parker Conner was born in Natchez, Mississippi, on September 30, 1827. > He attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. After leaving Yale, he > studied law under John T. McMurran of Natchez, but he did not enter law > practice at that time. In 1848, he married Elizabeth Francis (Fanny) Turner, > daughter of Edward Turner, a prominent Natchez judge, and sister of Mary > Louisa Turner, wife of John T. McMurran. Lemuel Conner was a successful > planter in Mississippi and Louisiana until the Civil War. During the war, he > served at Tullahoma as a lieutenant colonel under General Braxton Bragg in > the Army of Tennessee. After the war, Lemuel Conner and the members of his > family signed oaths of allegiance to the Union, and he returned to Natchez. > > > ==== LA-LGHS Mailing List ==== > LGHS: Serving Louisiana Genealogist since 1953. > Send queries for consideration to be published in The Register > contact Maurice Pecquet at <[email protected]> >