Van Perkins Winder
| Van Perkins Winder | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
June 3, 1809 Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi |
| Died |
November 8, 1854 Schriever, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana |
| Cause of death | yellow fever |
| Resting place | Nashville City Cemetery |
| Residence | Ducros Plantation |
| Occupation | Planter |
| Spouse(s) | Martha Grundy |
| Parent(s) |
Thomas Jones Winder Harriet Handy |
| Relatives | Felix Grundy (father-in-law) |
Colonel Van Perkins Winder (1809-1854) was an American sugar planter in the Antebellum South.
Early life
Van Perkins Winder was born on June 3, 1809 in Natchez, Mississippi.[1][2] His father was Dr Thomas Jones Winder (1772-1818) and his mother, Harriet Handy (1786-1820).[1][3] He was a descendant of Colonel Nathaniel Littleton (1605-1654).[3]
Career
Winder acquired the Ducros Plantation in the Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana in 1845.[4][5] That same year, he purchased slaves from Thomas Butler.[6]
Personal life
He married Martha Grundy,[2] the daughter of Felix Grundy.[7] By 1860, she owned 202 slaves and 4,550 acres of land.[8]
Death
He died of yellow fever on November 8, 1854 at his Ducross Plantation in Louisiana.[1][2][9] He was buried at the Nashville City Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee alongside his wife.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 WINDER, Van Perkins, Ancestry.com
- 1 2 3 4 Nashville City Cemtery
- 1 2 Matthew Montgomery Wise, The Littleton heritage: some American descendants of Col. Nathaniel Littleton (1605-1654) of Northampton Co., Virginia and his royal forebears, Wentworth Printing, 1997, p. 346
- ↑ Anne Butler (ed.), The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2009, p. 60
- ↑ Fred Daspit, Louisiana Architecture, 1840-1860, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2006, p. 268
- ↑ William Kauffman Scarborough, Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-nineteenth-century South, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University, 2006, p. 141
- ↑ Chapter 11: "War Hawk" in J. Roderick Heller, III, Democracy's Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2010
- ↑ Priscilla Bond, A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2006, p. 221
- ↑ Minerva, Thibodeaux (December 13, 1854). "Died". Nashville Union and American. Nashville, Tennessee. p. 2. Retrieved November 17, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
