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Facts and Events
Name |
Sarah Jane Young |
Alt Name |
Jane Sarah Young |
Alt Name |
Jane S. Young |
Gender |
Female |
Birth? |
8 Mar 1825 |
Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United States |
Marriage |
16 May 1850 |
Adams, Mississippi, United Statesto James Wistar Metcalfe |
Death? |
15 Apr 1904 |
Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United States |
Burial[2] |
16 Apr 1904 |
Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United StatesNatchez City Cemetery |
Alt Burial[1] |
16 Apr 1904 |
St. Francisville, West Feliciana, Louisiana, United StatesDesert Plantation in the Semple Cemetery |
Sarah Jane Young
- Desert Plantation, St. Francisville, LouisianaS1
- Colonel Robert Semple bought Desert Plantation in Louisiana in 1808 for $12,000.00 from Daniel Clark (Louisiana), affiliated with Louis and Clark Expedition. It was originally part of two Spanish land grants.
- Semple was married to Isabelle Turnbull. The Turnbulls, a prominent family in the area at the time, built Rosedown in St. Francisville. Desert Plantation was built by Colonel Semple and Isabelle in 1808. It was completed in 1812. Colonel Semple acted as architect and builder with help only from the on-site slaves. Colonel Semple died one year after Desert was completed in 1812 of Yellow Fever. Isabelle lived in Desert Plantation for 60 years after her husband's death. She used the house over that time as a hospital for Yellow Fever victims.S1
- Desert Plantation was a cotton plantation of about 1500 acres and consisted of two cotton gins, one and one-half miles of slave quarters, a milk room, a dairy, an outside kitchen, and the main house. After Isabella died in 1873, the plantation passed to the hands of her heirs: her son Robert, and two grandchildren, Sarah Jane Young and Robert Semple Young, all who are buried in the Semple graveyard at Desert Plantation.S1
- In 1883, Desert Plantation was sold to Robert Norman, who only farmed the land. He put four sharecropper families in the house who did not treat it kindly...S1
Bayou Sara, West Feliciana, Louisiana, United States
References
- ↑ History and Scenery, in Desert Plantation, St. Francisville, Louisiana.
- ↑ Sarah Jane Semple Young Metcalfe, in Find A Grave.
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