SANKOFA'S SLAVERY DATA COLLECTION

Giles Plantation

Location: Kemper Co., MS
Constructed: 1835

History: ----

Associated Surnames: Giles

Associated Free White Names

• Jacob Giles: owner

Associated Black Slave Names

1810-1857: Slaves of Giles Plantation, born 1810 - 1857
Contributed by [email protected]. It is assumed that all of the slaves took the last name Giles.

• Abram: born 1852
• Alfred: born 1827
• Alick: born 1839
• Amanda: born 1821
• Amos: born 1849
• Andrew: born 1828
  • wife Pauline: born 1834
  • dau. Penny: born 1855
• Archie: born 1842
• Austin: born 1826
• Ben: born 1824
• Caroline: born 1841
• Charles: born 1839
• Charley: born 1854
• David: born 1853
• Delis: born 1839
• Dick: born 1831
  • wife Ally: born 1833
  • son Bryant: born 1856
• Dolly: born 1854
• Edmund: born 1830
  • wife Mildred: born 1823
  • dau. Martha Ellen: born 1856
• Emily: born 1843
• Emmeline: born 1839
• Ester: born 1844
• Fereba: born 1843 (sold)
• Frances: born 1838
• Frank: born 1851
• George: born 1854
• Gustavus: born 1837
  • wife Betsy: born 1838
  • son Squire: born 1857
• Harrison: born 1848
• Henry: born 1851
• Holland: born 1850
• Isaac
  • wife Leak
  • son Tom: born 1856
• Jackson: born 1851
• James: born 1810
• Jane: born 1837
• Jerry: born 1852
• Jim
  • wife Rosana: born 1829
• son Simmon: born 1855
• son George: born 1856
• son Green: born 1856
• John: born 1823 (sold)
• Lawson: born 1854 (sold)
• Leddy: born 1836
• Levi: born 1849
• Lizzy: born 1853
• Louisa: born 1843
• Madison: born 1850
• Margaret: born 1828
• Mathew
  • wife Edna
  • son Joe
  • son Handy
  • son Gilbert
• Ned: born 1821
  • wife Anna
  • son Edmund
• Nelson: born 1841
• Patrick: born 1821
  • wife Motilda: born 1831
  • dau. Lucinda: born 1856
• Patty: born 1853
• Peter: born 1826
  • wife Mary: born 1833
  • son Warner: born 1856
• Phoebe: born 1847
• Rhoda: born 1832
• Sally: born 1829
• Sam: born 1820
  • wife Harriet: born 1833
  • son Emanuel: born 1857
• Sarah: born 1855
• Simpson: born 1854
• Spight: born 1839
• Talleyrand: born 1854
• Virginia: born 1826
• William: born 1855
• Willis: born 1846
• Wyot: born 1855

Agriculture

• Cotton

Description of Associated Architecture

• Main house: Typical story-and-a-half planter house. Guest room and ballroom on second floor. Big fluted columns supporting roof over a long gallary. Side walls finished with hand-made plaster cornices and friezes.

Other People Researching This Plantation

• [email protected]

RESOURCES

• Giles Plantation originally submitted by [email protected]. Thank you!
• Neville,Jones,Giles,Spencer,Harrison Families 1600-1992
• Hometown Mississippi. page 243