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James Stuart Douglas was a plantation owner in Tensas Parish, Louisiana,
USA. He was probably the son of the James Douglass Sr. detailed
below:
Buck Ridge Plantation, Tensas Parish, Louisiana, USA,
Founded ca. 1837
Listed in the 1860 Slave Schedules with seventeen slaves.
James S. Douglass Sr. left the plantation in his will to his wife,
Emeline Evans Douglass and his brothers, Stephen Douglass and Archibald
Douglass. In 1840, a parish judge ordered the sale of Buck Ridge
Plantation, slaves, cattle, corn, etc. The property was purchased by
Emeline Evans Douglass and Archibald Douglass, James' brother.
Buck Ridge Plantation was owned by James Stuart Douglass, Sr. until he
died in 1837. He left it to his wife, Emaline Evans Douglass, and his
brothers, Stephen Douglass and Archibald Douglass. Emaline changed its
name to Shady Grove Plantation. She remarried in 1841 to Maxwell Bland.
When she died in 1849, she left the plantation to her children. But, her
husband, Maxwell, sold the property without the permission of the minors
- and it later became a court case when the children wanted their
property.
Shady Grove Plantation, Tensas Parish, Louisiana, USA,
Founded ca. 1837
James S. Douglass Sr. left the plantation in his will to his wife,
Emeline Evans Douglass and his brothers, Stephen Douglass and Archibald
Douglass.
In 1840, a parish judge ordered the sale of Buck Ridge Plantation, slaves, cattle, corn, etc. The property was purchased by Emeline Evans Douglass and Arhibald Douglass, James' brother.
Elsewhere, it is recorded:
Jas. A. Douglas, Black Ridge 89 slaves
Geo. Douglass, Shady Grove 83 slaves
William D. Rollins, planter, Point Pleasant, La., who was originally
from Claiborne county, Mississippi, born in Port Gibson on July 29, 1850, and
was the son of Amariah and Lucinda (Russell) Rollins, married, on May
29, 1834, Miss Lucinda Russell, a native of Tennessee, and to them were
born twelve children, including Mary B, who married James S. Douglas.
James and Mary Douglas had seven children: Blanche (wife of Capt. B.
Leathers), Archie, George, Lulu (wife of W.J. Hardee), Mary, John R. and
Allen T.
James Stuart Douglass, born 3 Mar 1838 in Claiborne County, Mississippi,
USA,
died 16 Apr 1890 (aged 52) in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, USA
He is buried in Wintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson, Claiborne County,
Mississippi, USA in plot Section A, Lot 22
married
Mary B. Rollins Douglass, born 7 Mar 1836, died 7 Mar 1903 (aged 67)
She is buried in Wintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson, Claiborne County,
Mississippi, USA in plot Section A, Lot 22
Find a Grave lists children (with grave markers) as:
• Infant son Douglass, unknown–1879
• Infant daughter Douglass, 1858 – unknown
• Blanche Douglass Leathers, 1860–1940
• James S. Douglass, 1867–1882
• James M. Gillespie Douglass, 1872–1878
Note that this conflicts, apart from Blanche, with the list above.
Cotton sales:
Note:
Tensas Parish was the home to many successive indigenous groups in the
thousands of years before European settlements began. Some village and
mound sites once built by these various peoples are preserved today as
archaeological sites.
Following Indian Removal by the United States government in the 1830s,
the land was sold and this area was developed by European Americans for
cotton plantations, the leading commodity crop before the Civil War.
Planters moved into the area from the eastern and upper South, either
bringing or purchasing numerous enslaved African Americans as workers.
They developed plantations along the river and Lake St. Joseph, as
waterways were required for transportation routes and access to markets.
In 1861, according to the United States Coast Survey map, 90.8% of the
parish's inhabitants were slaves.
The Douglas family would appear to be early settlers.
Supplementary comment:
Jacob Stewart, the great great grandfather of researcher Edward B. Adams, became an agent on the Buck Ridge Plantation while working there after the Civil War. Jacob was born in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi in 1830. He became a slave on the Rifle Point Plantation, Concordia Parish, Mississippi, after being bought while a small boy by Dr. Samuel Gustine. Jacob married Ellen Hall on the Buck Ridge Plantation. Ellen was born on the Hole-In-The-Wall Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana. Jacob and Ellen remarried years later in Natchez, Mississippi after obtaining an official marriage license.
See also:
• Tensas marriages
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