On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:19:01PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > I am looking for slave information on these plantations. Would also like to > know if these plantations still exist? > > Thanks for any help! > > Lynda I don't believe you will find any surviving plantations in Bowie County; perhaps someone will correct me if I'm wrong. The original Charles Moores Plantation, I believe, was round and about Mooresville. Probably the only feature of Mooresville left is Harrison Chapel Cemetery. I was recently shown the site of Sweet Springs, the Charles Moores homesite, which is a mile or so west of Harrison Chapel. Though Willis Whitaker is buried at Harrison Chapel, his plantation (Cedar Grove?) was well into present Cass County. Perhaps near Jefferson. I don't know exactly where. James Thomas Rosborough was brought to Texas as a baby by his mother and Willis. I believe that he started a plantation after the War of Northern Aggression in northern Bowie County on the river. I was recently shown the David (son of Charles) Moores farm house, just west of Hwy59 and south of the Sulfur (just barely in Cass County). It still stands and is quite good condition. If you include Rochelle in your list, this group of families, at one time or another, owned a large fraction of eastern Bowie County. Do you know the book by Mrs. Wright, ".. Descendants of Jean Brown and Isaac Ross.."? -- Onward! Through the Fog! Willie http://austinfarm.org/homegrown