OVERVIEW

Location

Located near Lake St. John in Concordia Parish, Louisiana.

Date Constructed/Founded

ca. 1830

Associated Surnames

Gustine, Conner,

Historical Notes

Innisfail Plantation was formerly Lake St. John Place Plantation and called Lake Place was owned by Doctor Samuel Gustine who migrated from Pennsylvania to Mississippi Territory with his brother Dr. Lemuel Gustine. A letter written by a descendant of Dr. Gustine gave information that Dr. Gustine may have been in partnership with his brother, Dr. Lemuel Gustine. Dr. Samuel had sole ownership when he died in 1845. In his Will, he left one third of his estate which included the Lake St. John Place Plantation and Rifle Point Plantation to his sister Jane Elizabeth Boyd Gustine Conner widow of William Carmichael Conner of Berkeley Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi; one third to his four nieces, Rebecca A. Minor wife of William J. Minor, Sarah E. Gustine, Matilda D. Gustine, and Margaret D. Gustine, daughters of his deceased brother James Gustine; and one third to Samuel Gustine, son of deceased brother Lemuel Gustine.

Jane Conner sold Lake St. John Place plantation to her son Lemuel who changed the name to Innisfail.

Associated Slave Workplaces

Rifle Point Plantation (Concordia Pa., LA), Killarney Plantation (Concordia Pa. LA), Spokane Plantation (Concordia Pa., LA), Linden Grove Plantation (Concordia Pa., LA), Rifle Point Plantation (McClennan Co., TX)

Associated Free Persons

• Lemuel Parker Conner - owner
• Elizabeth Turner – wife
• Jane Elizabeth Boyd Gustine Conner – mother
• Dr. Samuel Gustine – uncle
• Judge Edward Turner - father-in-law

Associated Enslaved Persons

• Lake Place Plantation had 36 slaves listed in the inventory of Dr. Gustine’s estate.

Research Leads and Plantation Records

• State of Louisiana, Parish of Concordia, Succession of Dr. Samuel Gustine, Succession Record Book E, 1840-1846, pages 555-560,
• Lemuel P. Conner and Family Papers, 1818-1865, Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I, Part 3, Stampp, Kenneth M., Editor, University Publications of America, Bethesda, Maryland, 1989.

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• 1860 U. S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules: Concordia, Louisiana; L. P. Conner Rifle Point Plantation, 134 Slaves

Users Researching This Workplace

• Edward B Adams