Van Perkins Winder

Van Perkins Winder
Van Perkins Winder
Born	June 3, 1809; Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi
Died	November 8, 1854; Schriever, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana
Cause of death	yellow fever
Resting place	Nashville City Cemetery
Occupation	Planter
Spouse(s)	Martha Grundy
Parent(s)	Thomas Jones Winder; Harriet Handy
Relatives	Felix Grundy (father-in-law)

Colonel Van Perkins Winder (1809-1854) was an American sugar planter in the Antebellum South.

Early life

Van Perkins Winder was born on June 3, 1809 in Natchez, Mississippi.[1][2] His father was Dr Thomas Jones Winder (1772-1818) and his mother, Harriet Handy (1786-1820).[1][3] He was a descendant of Colonel Nathaniel Littleton (1605-1654).[3]

Career

Winder acquired the Ducros Plantation in the Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana in 1845.[4][5] That same year, he purchased slaves from Thomas Butler.[6]

Personal life

He married Martha Grundy,[2] the daughter of Felix Grundy.[7] By 1860, she owned 202 slaves and 4,550 acres of land.[8]

Death

He died of yellow fever on November 8, 1854 at his Ducross Plantation in Louisiana.[1][2][9] He was buried at the Nashville City Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee alongside his wife.[2]

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References

WINDER, Van Perkins, Ancestry.com
Nashville City Cemtery
Matthew Montgomery Wise, The Littleton heritage: some American descendants of Col. Nathaniel Littleton (1605-1654) of Northampton Co., Virginia and his royal forebears, Wentworth Printing, 1997, p. 346
Anne Butler (ed.), The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2009, p. 60
Fred Daspit, Louisiana Architecture, 1840-1860, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2006, p. 268
William Kauffman Scarborough, Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-nineteenth-century South, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University, 2006, p. 141
Chapter 11: "War Hawk" in J. Roderick Heller, III, Democracy's Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2010
Priscilla Bond, A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2006, p. 221
Minerva, Thibodeaux (December 13, 1854). "Died". Nashville Union and American. Nashville, Tennessee. p. 2. Retrieved November 17, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

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[ancestry-1] WINDER, Van Perkins, Ancestry.com

[cemetery-2] Nashville City Cemtery

[matthewmontgomery-3] Matthew Montgomery Wise, The Littleton heritage: some American descendants of Col. Nathaniel Littleton (1605-1654) of Northampton Co., Virginia and his royal forebears, Wentworth Printing, 1997, p. 346

[pelican-4] Anne Butler (ed.), The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2009, p. 60

[freddaspit-5] Fred Daspit, Louisiana Architecture, 1840-1860, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2006, p. 268

[6] William Kauffman Scarborough, Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-nineteenth-century South, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University, 2006, p. 141

[7] Chapter 11: "War Hawk" in J. Roderick Heller, III, Democracy's Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2010

[8] Priscilla Bond, A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2006, p. 221

[9] Minerva, Thibodeaux (December 13, 1854). "Died". Nashville Union and American. Nashville, Tennessee. p. 2. Retrieved November 17, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.