Van Perkins Winder Explained
Colonel Van Perkins Winder (18091854) was an American sugar planter in the Antebellum South.
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]
Notes and References
- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~annieron/Winder/folks/15081.htm WINDER, Van Perkins
- http://www.thenashvillecitycemetery.org/250114_winder.htm Nashville City Cemetery
- 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 https://books.google.com/books?id=_ggxAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Van+Perkins+Winder%22
- Anne Butler (ed.), The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2009, p. 60 https://books.google.com/books?id=z6xF3flz6cgC&dq=schriever+louisiana+ducros+plantation&pg=PA60
- Fred Daspit, Louisiana Architecture, 1840-1860, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2006, p. 268 https://books.google.com/books?id=aRLqAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Van+Perkins+Winder%22
- 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 https://books.google.com/books?id=NHhh94m2PPsC&dq=Ducros+Plantation+1835&pg=PA141
- 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 https://books.google.com/books?id=V2zI5N5NRFcC&dq=martha+grundy+tennessee&pg=PA1804
- 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 https://books.google.com/books?id=bE--xd0d4qsC&dq=%22Van+Perkins+Winder%22&pg=PA221
- News: Died . Thibodeaux. Minerva . Nashville Union and American. Nashville, Tennessee. December 13, 1854. 2. Newspapers.com. November 17, 2015 .
