In 1834 he removed to In November, 1865, he entered Cicilian College, near Elizabethtown, Ky., and graduated from that institution in 1869. St Elizabeth Parish is a Catholic church in Guerneville California. His plantation, consisting of 580 acres, is valued tit *There is a New Hope Cemetery in Grant Parish, located south of Verda about three miles off Hwy. He removed to Louisiana at the age of sixteen years, to take charge of a plantation which his father owned in Avoyelles Parish, and as 7, 1833, and comes of an old and honored family. Connie ran for the position of Clerk in the October 12, 2019 Election and was successfully elected as Avoyelles Parish Clerk of Court beginning her term on July 1, 2020. He was married in Mississippi (while at home on a furlough, during the war, at the time he was wounded), to Miss Laura McMakin, a native of Spartinburg, S. C., and the fruits of this union were fourteen children, seven Although still a comparatively young man he has bad au active career, and by his advanced ideas and progressive habits has done no little for the mercantile interests of Avoyelles Parish. Last battle of Banks' Red River Campaign. He is a He inherited about $3,000, but to-day be is the owner of land valued at not less than $40,0110, some of the land finely improved, and a large amount of live stock on hand. Mr. Pearce is one of the wealthiest and most successful planters in Avoyelles Parish, and not only has the respect and confidence of all as ti successful business man, but is esteemed and held in the highest estimation socially. After the war he was engaged in merchandising for several years, 1 | Mansura, LA 71350 | (800) 833-4195 . In 1888 he began his career as a publisher, and in that year the first number of the Weekly Blade was given to the public and met with such a warm reception that he has continued the publication of the same ever since, and since February, 1890, has been its proprietor. The paternal grandfather. Hon. Download Image of Clarendon Plantation, Evergreen, Avoyelles Parish, LA. Robert Dumville Windes, planter, Eola, La. H. C. Kemper, planter, Evergreen, La. financier he has not his superior in the parish. Everyone is urged to donate transcriptions of Avoyelles Parish bible records, cemeteries, court records, old newspaper articles, biographies of residents, old letters, census data, obituaries, family histories, parish histories, military records, old photographs, etc. whom it is a pleasure to meet. He has also been superintendent of public instruction for Avoyelles Parish, and It was during the period of expanding steam transportation that plantation agriculture dominated the Southern economy, with two-thirds of the millionaires in the U.S. living in Louisiana, mostly between Natchez, Mississippi, and New Orleans. He was not active in political affairs. Various colorings, defined, The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the, National Register of Historic Places in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, List of National Historic Landmarks in Louisiana, National Register of Historic Places listings in Louisiana, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", "Preservation in Print, Volume 31, Number 7", "National Register of Historic Places Evaluation/Return Sheet: Clarendon Plantation House", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Avoyelles_Parish,_Louisiana&oldid=1120946236. He was a planter of considerable prominence, and was a man of ), William V. and M. B. Mr. Ewell's farming operations are conducted in a manner indicative of a progressive, The abundant wildlife and many waterways make this a hunting, fishing and birdwatching paradise, year-round. Mr. Mayer is possessed of a large business experience, and occupies a prominent position in commercial circles.