Part 5. Division of the Black Families By 1808, the estate was settled and divided equally among Percy’s 4 surviving children he had with Susanna Collins Percy. Each received: Equal valued Tracts of the 7100 acres of land Equal shares of the enslaved Black Families One fourth of the stocks…
Part 4. 1804 Inventory of the Black Families The 1794 inventory taken after the death of Charles Percy revealed that the Percy Estate was not only free of debt, but that it had created great wealth, a reported $22,400, not including the value of the land. This meant that the…
Part 3. Inventory of the Black Families 1794 After the death of Charles Percy on January 30, 1794 an inquiry was held, and his death was officially ruled to be a suicide. On February 20, 1794 his neighbors and friends were assembled to witness and appraise the inventory of his…
Part 2. The House of Percy A couple of years after my interview with Booker Minor in 1998, I found a book at the Southern Methodist University Library in Dallas written by Bertram Wyatt-Brown titled The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination In A Southern Family (1994). The book…
PART 1. Interview With Samuel Booker Minor On December 26, 1998, I drove to the home of my cousin Samuel Booker Minor on Wayside Road in Woodville Mississippi. As I was driving, I thought about as a young kid how me and my brothers went down these winding roads with…
On a recent post in the Wilkinson County Mississippi Genealogy Group Facebook page, Monica asked the question: “Have you found any family members impacted during other times in history, i.e. Influenza of 1918?” After thinking over the question for a minute I remembered a family story I was told, and…
