Person:Robert Young (70)

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Robert Semple Young
m. 27 May 1824
  1. Sarah Jane Young1825 - 1904
  2. Robert Semple Young1832 - 1909
Facts and Events
Name Robert Semple Young
Gender Male
Birth? 6 May 1832 Wilkinson, Mississippi, United States
Death[2] 3 Jul 1909 Adams, Mississippi, United States
Burial[1] 5 Jul 1909 St. Francisville, West Feliciana, Louisiana, United StatesDesert Plantation

Robert Semple 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
  1. History and Scenery, in Desert Plantation, St. Francisville, Louisiana.
  2. Robert Semple Young, in Find A Grave.