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Month: September 2021

Black Families of Edgefield Plantation – Woodville, Mississippi: Part 8

Posted on September 1, 2021September 14, 2021 | by Alvin Blakes | 16 Comments

Part 8. The Last Owner Nathaniel Ware sold the plantation and the enslaved families to John Connell, a plantation owner, and former Sheriff of Woodville. Connell, who married Eliza Chinn of Kentucky in 1826, died in 1831, and Eliza Chinn Connell and their two minor children inherited the estate. In…

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