 Charlotte County Virginia People of Color |
Slaves on Westview
Plantation
Charlotte Co., VA
Submitted 7-19-04 by Kathy
Liston
The following are slaves named in the Elam papers. In 1832, John Elam built Westview plantation in the Roanoke District of Charlotte County, Virginia. The following names are taken from original papers given to me by descendants by marriage of the Elams, with the exception of the Inventory of John Elam, dec’d (on file in the Clerk’s office). The death info is also on file at the Clerk’s office. I currently own Westview, however, I am not an Elam relation. I have also compiled and posted separately a more extensive list of former slaves working for wages at Westview after the Civil War. Some of the following names are also found on that list.
1847
- Slaves named in the inventory of John Elam, dec’d.:
Negro men: Sam, Isaac, Miles, Bob
Negro boys: Armistead, William,
Arthur
Negro Women: Frances, Ann & 5 children, Winney
& 3 children (Winney died
Dec. 9, 1854 of scarlet
fever.)
“Two old women” – Mary and Kendis
Slaves
hired by Martha Jane Elam (widow of John Elam and Francis S. Williams, husband
of her daughter Isabella):
1851 – hired from George M. Lawson: man Kiah
hired from L. S. Skidmore: man Clem,
man Jim (house joiner), and boy David
1853
– hired from L. S. Skidmore: Clem,
Anthony, Edmund, and Charles
1855
– Hired by James D. Crawley from Martha J. Elam – man William (carpenter)
Visits
by the doctor were frequent. Most were
simply recorded as “visit to negro woman” or “negro boy,” but occasionally the
person was named:
1857
– Bob, Mary Jane, Davy, Frances (“in labor;” Frances’s infant, Ana Maria, born
April 30, 1857, died of “fits” two months after she was born. In March 1859, she lost a second child to
“fits,” Dick, age 6 months), Arthur (Arthur, son of Winney, died of pneumonia,
Nov. 12, 1857, age 29)
1858
– Ann, boy Louis, Chelsea, Davy, boy David, Sam, boy Frank, Isaac, Angelina
(Angelina, age 39, died October 1858 of typhoid fever)
1860
– Davy
1863
– Judy, Armistead, Sally, Elvira, Frank, Polly, Jane
Submitted July 19, 2004 by