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Spokane Plantation - Concordia LA

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Spokane Plantation

OVERVIEW

Location

Spokane Plantation is located in Concordia parish, Louisiana.

Date Constructed/Founded

ca. 1830

Associated Surnames

Conner, Gustine, Turner, Wood

Historical Notes

Lemuel Parker Conner was the oldest son of nine children of William Carmichael Conner and Jane Elizabeth Boyd Gustine Conner. He was born in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi and grew up on the Berkeley Plantation near the Homochitto River on Second Creek and the Clifford Plantation, 3 miles east of Second Creek’s bend.

Associated Slave Workplaces

Lake Place Plantation (may have been Lake St. John Place), Concordia Parish, Louisiana. .

Killarney Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana. .

Spokane Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana.

Innisfail (formerly Lake St. John's Place) Plantation.

Linden Grove Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana.

Rifle Point Plantation, McLennan County, Texas.

Associated Free Persons

Lemuel Parker Conner - owner
Elizabeth Frances Turner Conner – wife
Judge Edward Turner – father-in-law
William Carmichael Conner – father
Jane Elizabeth Boyd Gustine Conner – mother
William Gustine Conner – brother
Henry LeGrand Conner – brother
Farrar Benjamin Conner – brother
Spencer Wood - owner (later)

Associated Enslaved Persons

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Lemuel P. Conner and Family Papers, 1818-1865, Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I, Part 3, The Natchez Area, Stampp, Kenneth M., Editor, University Publications of America, Bethesda, Maryland, 1989.

Miscellaneous Information

Lemuel Parker Conner was a lawyer and successful planter in the Mississippi and Louisiana area before the Civil War.

References

Goodspeed Publishing, Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, Embracing an Authentic and Comprehensive Account of the Chief Events in the History of the State and a Record of the Lives of Many of the Most Worthy and Illustrious Families and Individuals. Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891.

Wayne, Michael, The Reshaping of Plantation Society, The Natchez District, 1860-1880, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983.

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