Van_Perkins_Winder

Van Perkins Winder

Van Perkins Winder

American sugar planter (1809–1854)

Colonel Van Perkins Winder (1809 – 1854) was an American sugar planter in the Antebellum South.

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Early life

Van 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

Winder 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

He 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

He 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

  1. [1]
    WINDER, Van Perkins, Ancestry.com
  2. [2]
    Nashville City Cemetery
  3. [3]
    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
  4. [4]
    Anne Butler (ed.), The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2009, p. 60
  5. [5]
    Fred Daspit, Louisiana Architecture, 1840-1860, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2006, p. 268
  6. [6]
    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
  7. [7]
    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
  8. [8]
    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
  9. [9]
    Minerva, Thibodeaux (December 13, 1854). "Died". Nashville Union and American. Nashville, Tennessee. p. 2. Retrieved November 17, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
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