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Facts and Events
Col. Robert Semple Jr.
- 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.S3
- Col. Robert Semple was married to Isabelle Turnbull. The Turnbulls, a prominent family in the area at the time, built Rosedown Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. 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 Plantation 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.S3
- 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.S3
- 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...S3
Bayou Sara, West Feliciana, Louisiana, United States
References
- Arthur, Stanley Clisby; Charles Patton Dimitry; and George Campbell de Kernion. Old Families of Louisiana. (New Orleans, Louisiana: Harmanson, 1931)
Pages 355, 361, 2009.
Page 355 - Robert Semple, brother to Steele Semple -
Page 361 - Robert Semple, a brother of Sarah Jane Semple who married Col. Thomas Butler (q. v.), was descended from the Semples of Kirkhouse, Scotland...Kirkhouse Semples'
- Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.
Patrick Lawrence Hogue/Samples and Robert Semple, Jr., 'of Fort Defiance, Ohio' 'Desert Plantation, Louisiana' are 1st cousins 6 times removed. Their common ancestors are Samuel Semple, Sr., the 'Pittsburgh Lawyer' and Susannah Wilkins.
This is the Semple Family from Long Dreghorn & Kirkhouse, Scotland
Bagby, Alfred. King and Queen County, Virginia. (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1908), Page 378.
This from Col. Fleet of Culver: Thos. Walker, ancestor of the distinguished Dr. Thos. Walker, and Riveses of Albemarle (see Thomas Walker (explorer)), and Gov. Thos. Walker Gilmer (see Thomas Walker Gilmer), was from K. & Q." - Semple, John and James S., were sons of Rev. James Semple of England. John settled in King and Queen, marrying a Miss Walker. There son, Robert B.A. Croghan[sic] Semple[recte] married Lucy Clark, and their son, Major Croghan, then a mere youth, held the fort at Sandusky against Gen. Proctor (see Henry Procter (British Army officer)) with a large force of Indians and whites. He also distinguished himself at Tippecanoe (see Battle of Tippecanoe).
Arthur, Stanley Clisby; Charles Patton Dimitry; and George Campbell de Kernion. Old Families of Louisiana. (New Orleans, Louisiana: Harmanson, 1931), Pages 355, 361, 2009.
Page 355 - Robert Semple, brother to Steele Semple -
Page 361 - Robert Semple, a brother of Sarah Jane Semple who married Col. Thomas Butler (q. v.), was descended from the Semples of Kirkhouse, Scotland.
Hereditary Sempill Lords of Blackburn, Kirkhouse, and Long Dreghorn & Clan Sempill
- History and Scenery, in Desert Plantation, St. Francisville, Louisiana.
- Patrick Hogue (Samples). Everett Family and the Choctaw Trading Post, the (Factory).
- Biographical and historical memoirs of Louisiana: embracing an authentic and comprehensive account of the chief events in the history of the state, a special sketch of every parish and a record of the lives of many of the most worthy and illustrious families and individuals. (Chicago, Illinois: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1892)
Page 374, (1892).
JUDGE ROBERT SEMPLE. The career of a lawyer is a succession of contests, and the successes made in the legal profession are probably more than in any other calling in the life examples of the “survival of the fittest.” To become distinguished at the bar requires not only capacity, but also sound judgment and persevering industry, and these qualifications are admirably combined in Judge Semple. He was born in Wilkinson county, Miss., November 5, 1850, the fifth of ten children born to the second marriage of Robert Semple, whose father (ie. Robert Semple) was an officer in the United States army holding his commission from President Washington. His father (ie. Robert Semple) emigrated from Scotland about 1755, and settled in Cumberland county, Penn., where during the war of the Revolution he was sheriff. He was descended from the Kirk house branch of the noble Scottish family of Semple, who for over 600 years were barons of wealth and power in the west of Scotland in the barony of Renfrew and held large possessions in the counties of Lenark and Ayr.
- ↑ 'of Fort Defiance, Ohio' 'Desert Plantation, Louisiana'
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