OVERVIEW
Location: Phillips County, Arkansas
Date Constructed/ Founded: not determined
Associated Surnames: Apperson
Historical Notes: none
Associated Pages: E.M. Apperson Plantation (Shelby Co., TN)
ASSOCIATED ENSLAVED PERSONS
1859: From the Memphis Daily Appeal, Dec. 23, 1859, runaway notice
Jobe – age 19 or 20, “black color, weighs about 180 pounds, very likely, dressed in white Kentucky jeans and worsted cap”; Washington (Wash) – age 21 or 22; “very black, fine teeth, dressed in white Kentucky jeans and white wool hat, and weighs about 150 or 160 pounds, very likely”
1860: 116 slaves (24 slave houses) [1860 US Federal Slave Schedule, Phillips Co., AK]
ASSOCIATED FREE PERSONS
Apperson family: E.M. Apperson – owner of Council Bend Plantation and E.M. Apperson Plantation
RESEARCH LEADS AND RECORDS
- None listed yet
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION
- None noted yet
REFERENCES
- Runaway Slave Blog. Naomi Van Tol. http://spiny.com/runaway/
- US Federal Slave Schedule, Phillips Co., AK, 1860