Gaillard Plantation

OVERVIEW

Location

Gaillard Plantation, Carroll Parish, Louisiana

Approximate Location: Ward 3, Township 21 North, Range 12 East, East Carroll Parish, LA, Highway 134, St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church located on grounds; a cotton gin is operated there.

Date Constructed/Founded

ca. 1846

Associated Surnames

Gaillard, LeGrand, Foster, Glasscock, Farrar, Savage, Conner, Ellis, Delony, Chaffe, Hubbard

Historical Notes

Original Owners were William Luck & Emily Ann Knox.

Thomas Benjamin Gaillard and his sister, Sinah Ann Catherine Gaillard Foster, purchased the east half of the northwest quarter and the east half of the southwest quarter of section thirty-six, in Township fifteen north, or range twelve, East, in the District of Lands subject to sale at Ouachita, Louisiana, containing one hundred and sixty acres and forty-one hundredths of and acre on 6 Jun 1846.

Thomas Benjamin Gaillard was a merchant and lived in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi.

Sinah Ann Catherine Gaillard Foster is shown in records as S. A. C. Gaillard. She was married to Dr. John Foster and they owned and lived at Hermitage Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi.

Other owners include Daniel & Mary Benton Hubbard in 1868, John & Charles F. Chaffe, F. Field Montgomery and Edward James Delony

Census: Slaves on 1860 Slave Schedules (6 slaves, listed as W L Knox), 1860 Mortality Schedule (1slave listed with last name Gaillard), 1870 US Census Location

Other Information: Freedman’s Bureau school operated there; Cemetery located at location

Associated Slave Workplaces

Homeplace Plantation, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana

Heritage Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi

Laurel Hill Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi

Riverlake Plantation, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana

Associated Free Persons

·Thomas Benjamin Gaillard – owner

·Mary Martha Foster Gaillard – wife

·Isaac Gaillard Jr. – father

·Elizabeth Glasscock Gaillard – mother

·Senah Anne Catherine (SAC) Gaillard Foster – sister

·Dr. James Foster – brother-in-law

·Isaac Gaillard Sr. – grandfather

·Tacitus Gaillard – great grandfather

·Anne LeGrand – great grandmother

Associated Enslaved Persons

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Miscellaneous Information

The Gaillard family are possibly the slaveholders of Simon Gaillard, great great grandfather of Edward B Adams. Simon married Hannah Gray and their daughter, Louisa Gaillard married Perry Stewart. Perry Stewart is the great grandfather of Edward B Adams and was born on Rifle Point Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana in 1856.

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

Users Researching This Workplace

• Edward B Adams