SANKOFA'S PLANTATION DATABASE

Ravenswood Farm

Location: Cooper Co., MO

History: Ravenswood Plantation in MO is currently on the National Register.

Associated Surnames: Clay, Johnson, Leonard, Lindsey

Associated Free White Names

• Nathaniel Leonard: owner

Associated Black Slave Names

1841 - 1865: Slaves/ Black families of Ravenswood Farm
From African Americans in MO, http://www.missouri-slave-data.org, by Traci L. Wilson-Kleekamp
Additional family information contributed by [email protected]

• Henry Clay: purchased by Nathaniel Leonard
• George Lindsey
  • wife Martha Lindsey
  • dau. Amanda Lindsey: b. 11/14/1841, d. 1863
• son Wilbert Lindsey: b. 2/20/1844; served in the Civil War
• dau. Elizabeth Lindsey: b. 3/19/1846
• Achilles Johnson
  • wife Mary Lindsey Johnson: b. 4/18/1841; daughter of George and Martha Lindsey
  • dau. Mamie Lindsey Johnson Finley

Livestock

• Shorthorn Cattle

Description of Associated Architecture

• Ravenswood Home: The original Ravenswood home burned down during the civil war. It was re-built in the 1880's.

Landmarks

• Sunset Hill Cemetery/ City Cemetery: originally named "Aunt Violet's Hill" after a slave buried there; burial place of several African-Americans (mid to late 1880's)

Others Researching This Plantation

• [email protected]

RESOURCES

• African Americans in MO, Traci L. Wilson-Kleekamp, http://www.missouri-slave-data.org