My father's maternal side of the family were slaves on these three intersecting plantations in Copiah County, MS. The slave owners were related and slave marriages were formed among the plantations.
Peachy Ridgway Taliaferro owned (yellow)Spring Hill Plantation. At the time of Peachy's death in 1852, he owned over 90 slaves. Peachy's daughter Mary Peachy Taliaferro married Hezekiah George David Brown who owned (blue)Lucky Hit Plantation. HGD Brown enslaved 46. Edwin Burnley, cousin to HGD, owned (pink)Somerset Plantation. Per the 1860 Copiah County slave schedule, Burnley owned 60 slaves.
That's interesting and a nice map.
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda. My Mom remembers several visits by her mother's Aunt whose last name was Taliafero. She never married or had children. We weren't sure how the name came to our family. Thanks
ReplyDeleteWe need to research this aunt, there is likely a connection to Spring Hill.
DeleteHer name was Rose Taliaferro. She was my grandmother's relation. According to my mom she never married and lived with her family for several years before she died. She was fair and insisted that she not be referred to as a Tolliver. Happy Thanksgiving
DeleteLindaRae, I am very excited to see this blog and this entry in particular. My husband and I were recently in the area looking for the graves of my relatives in these plantations. My relatives are decendents of Peachy Ridgeway Taliaferro. We drove my great uncle Bob Taliaferro's cadilac to go on this journey. Bob Taliaferro is my mother's uncle and he died several years ago. He lived in ElDorado Kansas near my grandmother Margaret Taliaferro Doane most all of his life. I have heard about the family for years and I have been very interested in the relationship Peachy had with his slaves. It is said in our family that most people called him Papa. I wish we would have had this map when we were in the Hazelhurst area. We live in Northern Minnesota so I do not know when we will be in the area again. I would love to know more about you family and the others that you have found in your geneological study. I hope we can continue a conversation around the stories that each of us has heard through the generations.
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