Slaves of Eleazar Houston, Mississippi

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: [unknown]

This is a workspace to document and identify the slaves of Eleazar Houston. His son John Jefferson Houston also owned a few slaves in Kemper County, MS.

Contents 1 1850 Slave Schedule 2 1860 Slave Schedule 3 1870 Census neighbors likely former slaves 4 Sources

1850 Slave Schedule

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Age, gender, race

1. 47 Female B
2. 45 Male B
3. 36 Female B
4. 34 Male B
5. 25 Male B
6. 21 Male B
7. 17 Female B
8. 14 Male B
9. 12 Female B
10. 10 Female B
11. 7 Male B
12. 2 Female B

1860 Slave Schedule

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Age, gender, race

1. 57 Female Mulatto
2. 55 Male B
3. 50 Female B
4. 45 Male ?
5. 45 Male Black
6. 34 Male Black
7. 25 Female Black
8. 21 Male Black
9. 18 Male Black
10. 15 Female Black
11. 15 Female Black
12. 12 Female Black
13. 12 Male Black
14. 10 Female Black
15. 4 Male Black
16. 1 Male Black

1870 Census neighbors likely former slaves

Mississippi Kemper Kemper County

• Silas Houston (p. 79) b. 1804 Mississippi (and family)
• William Houston (p. 79) b. 1841 Mississippi

People known to have been enslaved by Eleazar and/or his family

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68J7-1WJ?cc=1420440&wc=MJC6-MNB%3A1042937201%2C1042966701%2C1042966702 : 22 May 2014), Mississippi > Kemper > Kemper county > image 26 of 65; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BS3-LM3?cc=3161105&wc=816S-T38%3A1610406201%2C1610623101%2C1610303601 : 16 October 2019), Mississippi > Kemper > Other > image 21 of 75; citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).