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Facts and Events
Bayou Sara, West Feliciana, Louisiana, United States
References
- Groves, Joseph A. The Alstons and Allstons of North and South Carolina compiled from English, colonial and family records. (Atlanta, Ga.: Franklin Printing and Publishing Co., 1901)
Page 208.
Among the children of John Turnbull and his wife Catherine Rucker, their dau. Sarah married Lewis Stirling of West Feliciana Parish. Robert Semple Young, A. B., who served as a privet in Co. A, Jeff Davis’ Legion in Virginia, during the Confederate war, and resides in Natchez, is a gr-great-grandson.
- STIRLING (LEWIS AND FAMILY) PAPERS Mss. 1866
1784-1938 Special Collections, LSU Libraries
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BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE
Lewis Stirling (1786-1858) was the son of Alexander (d.1808) and Ann Alston Stirling. On July 14, 1807, Lewis wed Sarah Turnbull (d.1875); they resided at Wakefield Plantation in West Feliciana Parish. Stirling owned three additional plantations in Louisiana: Arbroath (West Baton Rouge Parish), Solitude, and Attakapas (St. Mary Parish). Cotton and sugar were cultivated on these plantations, although cotton was the more prevalent crop prior to 1850. The Stirlings also owned a house on waterfront property in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Stirling served as a lieutenant in the 10th Regiment of the Louisiana Militia during the War of 1812. He received a commission as quartermaster of that regiment from Governor William C.C. Claiborne in 1814, at which time Stirling provided supplies for the Louisiana troops. The Stirlings had six children: Catherine, Anne, James, Lewis, Daniel, and Ruffin. James, Lewis, and Daniel were educated at St. Joseph’s College in Bardstown, Kentucky. Lewis pursued further studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. During the Civil War, members of the Stirling family took a number of slaves and moved to Natchitoches, La., and then Smith County, Texas, where they lived near Canton until the war’s end. Stirling’s son, Lewis, earned the title of colonel during the Civil War. As members of Grace Episcopal Church in St. Francisville, Louisiana, the Stirlings donated money for construction of that structure, and the family cemetery is located on the church grounds.
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