Colonel Van Perkins Winder (1809 – 1854) was an American sugar planter in the Antebellum South.
Van Perkins Winder | |
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| Born | June 3, 1809 |
| Died | November 8, 1854 |
| Cause of death | yellow fever |
| Resting place | Nashville City Cemetery |
| Occupation | Planter |
| Spouse | Martha Grundy |
| Parent(s) | Thomas Jones Winder Harriet Handy |
| Relatives | Felix Grundy (father-in-law) |
Early life
editVan 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
editWinder 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
editHe married Martha Grundy,[2] the daughter of a judge, Felix Grundy.[7] By 1860, she owned 202 slaves and 4,550 acres of land.[8]
Death
editHe 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
edit- ^ a b c WINDER, Van Perkins, Ancestry.com
- ^ a b c d Nashville City Cemetery
- ^ a b 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 [1]
- ^ Anne Butler (ed.), The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2009, p. 60 [2]
- ^ Fred Daspit, Louisiana Architecture, 1840-1860, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2006, p. 268 [3]
- ^ 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 [4]
- ^ 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 [5]
- ^ 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 [6]
- ^ Minerva, Thibodeaux (December 13, 1854). "Died". Nashville Union and American. Nashville, Tennessee. p. 2. Retrieved November 17, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
