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Isaac Hopkins Jarman was born on August 16, 1818, in Jones County, North Carolina, his father, Amos Jarman, was 28 and his mother, Mary Green, was 28. He married Elizabeth Ann Hooks in 1839 in Mississippi. They had 11 children in 24 years. In the1860 census, the family’s fortunes had increased dramatically. Isaac's plantation was worth fifty-four thousand dollars and his personal property was valued at eighty thousand dollars, most of which was made up of seventy-three slaves. Twenty-five of them were children under ten years old. There were seventeen slave houses on his plantation. Their home was served by the post office at Aberdeen, Mississippi.
On February 19th 1864 U.S. Cavalry standing on the front lawn of his plantation Isaac was was. Before he died, he wounded a Union soldier named Wallace. They burned down the plantation home. Took or destroyed 22 mules, 16 horses, 8,000 bushels of corn, tons of hay and other forage, a hundred bales of cotton, 25-hundred bushels of cotton seed, 9,000 pounds of smoked meat, and hundreds of pounds of other food-stuffs. He died on February 19, 1864, in Monroe County, Mississippi, at the age of 45, and was buried in Aberdeen, Mississippi. Isaac is interred at Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi [1]
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