Overview
Location
Ward 3, Township 21 North, Range 12 East, Section 4, (East) Carroll Parish, LA, 1,400 acres
Date Constructed/ Founded
not determined
Associated Surnames
Childers, McGraw, Sparrow, Houghton, Voelker, Millikin, Patten
Historical notes
Hastin M. (died 1834) & Matilda (McGraw) Childers (died 1852) owned in 1824; Edward & Minerva (Parker) Sparrow owned in 1852; Dr. Nathaniel Houghton (Lived and operated an office at Arlington only); C.A., Sr. & Kate (Ashbridge) Voelker; James S. Millikin
As per Hastin M. Childers’ will, his slaves were emancipated and conveyed to Liberia with passage money and clothing for a year; his plantation and fortune were given to his wife Matilda who later married Thomas Robedeau Patten in 1837. Houghton practiced with Balfour, Stacy, Goodrich, Montgomery and Walsworth. Edward Sparrow was the lawyer who drew up the will of Matilda Childers-Patten and was set to purchase Arlington for nearly $50,000 in 1852 which included 80 slaves. That sale was canceled and then was finalized in 1859 for $75,000. Kate (Ashbridge) Voelker was related to Edward Sparrow.
Arlington is in the National Register of Historic Places – Building #80004476
Census: Appeared on the 1860 Slave Schedules (2 slaves, listed under Sparrow and Edward Sparrow), 1860 Mortality Schedule (10 slaves listed with last name Sparrow), 1870 US Census Location.
Associated Slave Workplaces
none
Associated Free Persons
Associated Enslaved Persons
Research Leads and Plantation Records
Miscellaneous Information
References
- A Place to Remember, East Carroll Parish 1832-1975 by Georgia Payne Durham Pinkston; East Carroll Parish Tax Assessors Roll 2006-2007 for legal land descriptions
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