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.