Overview

Location

Issaquena Co., MS.

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

Balfour

Historical notes

William L. Balfour who owned and lived on Homestead Plantation in Madison Co. also owned this plantation.

William L. had a son named William Suggs Balfour. William S. married Catherine Hunt in 1850. They built one of the grandest mansions near Natchez on Homewood Plantation. Construction began in 1855 and lasted for five years until the mansion was finally completed in 1860. While the mansion was being constructed, they lived on the Issaquena County plantation (probably Only Plantation) that William inherited from his father, who died during this time.

This plantation probably did not have any sort of grand house for the owners to live in because William L. did not live here; and when William S. inherited it, he built his residence on Homewood Plantation in Adams Co., MS. Only Plantation probably just had a modest house on it for the overseer to live in.

Associated Slave Workplaces

Homewood Plantation (Adams Co., MS)
Homestead Plantation (Madison Co., MS)
Woodside Plantation (Yazoo Co., MS),
Fall Back Plantation (Bolivar Co., MS)
Eyrie Plantation - Balfour (Carroll Pa., LA)
Balfour Family Plantation (Harrison Co., MS)
John W. Balfour Plantation (Marshall Co., MS)
William T. Balfour (Warren Co., MS),

Associated Free Persons

• William L. Balfour (Homestead Plantation) - probably the original owner
• William Suggs Balfour (b.1827-d.1902) - probably the second owner; son of William L. Balfour (Homestead Plantation)

• Catherine Hunt Balfour (b.1829-d.1871) - wife of William S. Balfour (m.1850); daughter of David Hunt (Woodlawn Plantation MS)
• Ann Hunt Balfour (b.1851-d.?) - daughter of William S. and Catherine H. Balfour
• William Lovett Balfour (b.1853-d.?) - son of William S. and Catherine H. Balfour
• L. Balfour (b.1854-d.?) - daughter of William S. and Catherine H. Balfour
• Elizabeth B. Balfour (b.1856-d.?) - daughter of William S. and Catherine H. Balfour
• D.H. Balfour (b.1857-d.?) - son of William S. and Catherine H. Balfour
• Jane Martin Balfour (b.1859-d.?) - daughter of William S. and Catherine H. Balfour
• Josephine Balfour (b.1861-d.?) - daughter of William S. and Catherine H. Balfour
• George Pendleton Balfour (b.1867-d.?) - son of William S. and Catherine H. Balfour
• Charlotte Hunt Balfour (b.1869-d.?) - daughter of William S. and Catherine H. Balfour
• Catherine H. Balfour (b.1871-d.?) - daughter of William S. and Catherine H. Balfour

• Lucy Stone Balfour (b.?-d.1903) - second wife of William S. Balfour (m.aft.1871)
• Mary S. Balfour (b.1875-d.?) - daughter of William S. and Lucy S. Balfour

• G.W. Murfee - the plantation manager in 1860

Associated Enslaved Persons

From the 1860 Federal Slave Schedule, William S. Balfour had 177 slaves managed by G.W. Murfee in Issaquena Co. Thus, these slaves were probably all on Only Plantation.

Research Leads and Plantation Records

• none reported yet

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• Issaquena Genealogy and Histoy Project: The Balfour Family. http://www.rootsweb.com/~msissaq2/balfour.html
• The Hunt Family of Jefferson County, by Andy McMillion. http://www.rootsweb.com/~msjeffe2/hunt_family.htm

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