Plantations; Plantation overseers; Choctaw Agency (Oktibbeha County, Miss.); Cattle; Swine; Agriculture; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses; Spinning; Rice, Augusta H., 1831-1906
Letter from plantation manager A. B. Parks in Choctaw Agency, Mississippi, to Augusta Hopkins Rice, reporting that he slaughtered some hogs and is sending her some meat and produce. He also writes about cattle and spinning. 1864.
Swine; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses; Starkville (Miss.); Curry family; Taxation; Confederate States of America; Oktibbeha County (Miss.); Bond, Sarah E. (Sallie), 1830-1902
Form completed by Sarah E. Curry to account for the number of hogs slaughtered on her plantation between April 1863 and March 1864. She records 3 hogs for a total of 580 pounds, with 34 pounds due to the Confederate States government. Witnessed...