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Page last updated 2/10/2009
What started out as a simple pedigree chart a couple of years ago has grown to link many African American families (Adams, Adger, Baker, Bradford, Brown, Boyd, Cade, Caldwell, Conway, Elder, Ford, Gates, Gatterson, Glover, Griffin, Hale, Hamiter, Head, Hodge, Holden, Hutchinson, Jefferson, Johnson, Montgomery, Odom, Paysinger, Perry, Pierce, Player, Prothro, Smith, Stawell, Taylor, Thomas, Washington, and many more) to river plantations situated along the Red River in rural, northwest Louisiana. Many of our ancestors migrated to these parts by way of the slaveowner and the slave trade from South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. Many came from other states as well but the the largest influx of slaveowners were from those states. The upper Red River contained large slaveowning families, many of whom intermarried, such as the Pickett's, Gilmer's, Marks, Hamiter's, Dickson's, Adger's, Hamilton's, Herndon's, Flourney, Cockrell's, Dixon's, Hodges' and Sandidge's. The merger of slaveowning familiies often blurs the ownership of the slave and makes it difficult to trace their true origination. If you are in possession of records that would help shed light on slaveownership, we would appreciate any documentation you are willing to share.
We are particulary interested in any of the following:
Church records,
conveyance records, diaries, journals,
divorce records, family bibles, photographs, plantation ledgers, probate records, school records and tax records
Please feel free to send whatever you have directly to info@redriversankofa.org
Thanks in advance
People Spotlight
:: Paul Anderson Haralson
:: John Pierce
:: George Paysinger
:: Joseph H. Herndon
:: Huddie Ledbetter, known as Leadbelly
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