Killarney Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana

Date: 1830 [unknown]
Location: Concordia, Louisiana, United States
Surnames/tags: Conner McMurran Slavery

Plantations Index

Killarney Plantation was located on Lake St. John north of the Red River near Trinity northeast of Helena Plantation (now Ferriday) in Concordia Parish, Louisiana.

Farrar Benjamin Conner was born in 1834 on the Clifford Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi. Clifford Plantation was then the home of his parents, William Carmichael Conner Jr. and Jane Elizabeth Boyd Gustine Conner. Farrar married Mary Louise McMurran, daughter of John Thompson McMurran and Mary Louisa Turner of Woodlands Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi. Killarney Plantation was originally the property of the McMurran’s.

Owners

• John Thompson McMurran
• Farrar Benjamin Conner

Slaves of Killarney

Killarney Plantation Slaves: Women and Children Taken to Texas during the Civil War

Transcribed and Submitted by Matthew Arrington

Stampp, Kenneth M. 1989 Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War: Series I, Part 3, Lemuel P. Conner and Family Papers, 1818-1865, Adams County, MS and Concordia Parish, LA.

Farrar took slaves from Killarney Plantation in 1862 to an area on the Brazos River in McLennan County, Texas. It is believed that the slaves were taken to Texas to keep them out of the hands of Union troops who had moved into the Natchez area. Farrar started a second Rifle Point Plantation near Waco in McLennan County, Texas. A family letter gives information that Henry LeGrand Conner, Farrar’s brother, and a trusted Conner slave from Natchez took the Conner slaves from the Rifle Point Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana to Texas. There are no ages attached to the names on this list.

List

1. Mary Yard
2. Hetty(?)
3. Becky
4. Betsy (1)
5. Manau(?)
6. Betsy C. (2)
7. Little Mary
8. Mary Jeff
9. Margaret I.
10. Eliza
11. Martha
12. Adaline
13. Jeannette
14. Cynthia
15. Ann (Unreadable)(?)
16. Mary H.(?)
17. Ellen
18. Margaret
19. Eliza H.
20. Lila
21. Mary Ann
22. Louisa
23. Ann H.
24. Katy B.
25. Lucy Ann
26. Jane
27. Lucy
28. Mary D.
29. Sarah
30. Liza
31. Mary B.
32. Mary I.(?) or J.(?)
33. Louisa
34. Betsy A.
35. Sally
36. Rachel
37. Mabel
38. Susan
39. Zinia
40. Jane(?)
41. Lizy(?)

Children:

1. Dennis
2. Nancy
3. Many(?)
4. Herm's(?)
5. Thornton
6. Louis
7. Wash
8. Agnes
9. John
10. Allie(?)Allen(?)
11. Mary
12. Fanny
13. Mary
14. Suky
15. Claieas(?)Clairast(?)
16. Alice
17. Ted
18. Dick

Sources

• http://sites.rootsweb.com/~aagriots/MS/Adams/Killarney.htm
• http://sankofagen.pbworks.com/w/page/14230644/Killarney%20Plantation