OVERVIEW
Location: Lawrence County, Alabama
Date Constructed/ Founded: ca. 1817 or 1819
Associated Surnames: Jones, Sherrod, Wheeler
Historical Notes: none
Associated Pages: Pond Spring Plantation (Lawrence Co., AL)
ASSOCIATED ENSLAVED PERSONS
1860: Male age 81 (b.1779), 2 men age 71 (b.1789), Female age 71 (b.1789), Male age 61 (b.1799), 2 women age 61 (b.1799), Female age 53 (b.1807), Male age 51 (b.1809), Male age 48 (b.1812), Female age 48 (b.1812), Male age 47 (b.1813), Male age 45 (b.1815), Female age 45 (b.1815), 2 women age 43 (b.1817), Male age 43 (b.1817), Female age 41 (b.1819), Male age 38 (b.1822), Female age 36 (b.1824), 2 men age 33 (b.1827), Female age 33 (b.1827), 2 men age 31 (b.1829), 2 women age 31 (b.1829), 3 men age 30 (b.1830), Female age 29 (b.1831), Male age 28 (b.1832), Female age 28 (b.1832), Female age 27 (b.1833), Female age 26 (b.1834), Male age 25 (b.1835), 2 women age 25 (b.1835), Male age 24 (b.1836), 3 men age 23 (b.1837), Female age 23 (b.1837), Male age 21 (b.1839), 2 men age 20 (b.1840), Female age 20 (b.1840), Male age 19 (b.1841), Female age 19 (b.1841), 4 women age 17 (b.1843), 3 girls age 15 (b.1845), Female age 14 (b.1846), Male age 13 (b.1847), 2 girls age 13 (b.1847), 5 girls age 12 (b.1848), Male age 11 (b.1849), 2 boys age 10 (b.1850), Female age 10 (b.1850), 4 girls age 9 (b.1851), 2 girls age 8 (b.1852), 3 boys age 8 (b.1852), 3 boys age 7 (b.1853), Female (mulatto) age 7 (b.1853), Male age 6 (b.1854), Female age 6 (b.1854), 2 girls age 5 (b.1855), 2 boys age 5 (b.1855), Male (mulatto) age 4 (b.1856), 2 boys age 4 (b.1856), 2 girls age 4 (b.1856), 2 boys age 3 (b.1857), 3 girls age 2 (b.1858), 3 boys age 1 (b.1859), 2 girls age 1 (b.1859), 2 girls age 5 mo. (b.1860), Female age 1 mo. (b.1860), Male age 1 mo. (b.1860) [107 total, 21 slave houses; 1860 US Federal Census (Slave Schedule), Lawrence Co., AL, Richard Jones]
ASSOCIATED FREE PERSONS
Jones family: Richard Jones (b.1793-d.1883) – owner; Lucy W. Early Jones (b.1799-d.1869) – wife (m.1818); Peter Early Jones (b.?-d.?) – son; Annie Early Jones (b.?-d.?) – dau.; Edwin Peyton Jones (b.?-d.?) – son; Richard Theodore Jones (b.?-d.?) – son; Lucy Early Jones (b.?-d.?) – dau.; Thomas Harrison Jones (b.?-d.?) – son
Sherrod family: Benjamin Sherrod (b.?-d.1861) – owner of Pond Spring Plantation; Daniella Jones Sherrod (b.1841-d.?) – wife (m.1859), dau. of R. and L.W.E. Jones, inherited neighboring Pond Spring Plantation upon her husband’s death, later married Joseph M. Wheeler
Wheeler family: Joseph M. Wheeler (b.?-d.?); Daniella Jones Sherrod Wheeler (b.?-d.?) – wife (m.?), dau. of R. and L.W.E. Jones, owner of Pond Spring Plantation; Lucy Louise Wheeler (b.1866-d.?) – dau.; Annie Early Wheeler (b.1868-d.?) – dau.; Carrie Peyton Wheeler (b.1870-d.?) – dau.; Joseph M. Wheeler (b.1872-d.?) – son; Ella Wheeler (b.1872-d.?) – dau.; Julia Knox Wheeler (b.1876-d.?) – dau.; Thomas H. Wheeler (b.1881-d.?) – son
RESEARCH LEADS AND RECORDS
- None
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION
- None
REFERENCES
- Ancestry.com. 1860 U.S. Federal Census – Slave Schedules [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.
- Rootsweb World Connect: Copeland, Harris, Lawrence, Neville, Pittman, Turner, Wheeler (Richard Jones, ID: I16296). https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jmljr
- Rootsweb World Connect: Ashford, Rowe, Tate, Warren, Conner and Courtland, Al. Families (Richard Jones, ID: I1803). https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=ashford11_21_13
- Wikipedia: Joseph Wheeler Plantation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wheeler_Plantation
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