The Allotment of Neil Buie's Slaves - 1861

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Extracted by Linda Durr Rudd

Schedule B

Exhibiting the personal estate of Neill Buie deceased, Sr., divided into nine shares and one share again subdivided allotted respectivily to Nancy Buie, Joseph Buie, Doratha Jones, Emily C. Covington, Ophelia J. Calvit, Elizabeth Warren, Alexander M. Buie, Robert W. Buie, Nancy Elizabeth McCall and Doratha Virginia McCall by the undersigned commissioners, as in the annexed report expressed to wit:

Shares and Lot Number 1 Allotted to Robert W. Buie
negro man named CALEB, negro woman named NELLY, negro boy named CLAY, negro girl named DELILAH, negro girl named MELISSA, negro girl named LUCY ANN, negro man named CHARLEY, negro girl named IZETTA, negro girl named RACHEL, negro woman named JENNY...

Shares and Lot Number 2 Allotted to Doratha Jones
man JERRY, woman VINEY and her child REASON, man HENSON, boy EDMUND, boy PERRY, boy ADAMS, woman ELLEN and her child WILEY, girl LITTLE EMALINE, girl CATHERINE...

Shares and Lot Number 3 Allotted to Ophelia J. Calvit
man AUSTIN, woman JULIA and child ISAAC, girl AMANDA, boy MILTON, boy JAMES, man JOHN, man RICHARD, woman HULDA...

Shares and Lot Number 4 allotted to Elizabeth Warren
man JACOB, woman CAROLINE and child , man BILL, woman SALLY and her child SANDIFER, boy ARCHY, woman MARY, boy GREEN...

Shares and Lot Number 5 Allotted to Joseph Buie
man ALFRED, man LOGAN, man ANDERSON, woman ELIZABETH and her child MOSES, girl EDNA, girl MARGARET, boy SIMON, girl MATILDA...

Shares and Lot Number 6 Allotted to Nancy Elizabeth and Virginia McCall
boy HOWELL, man CHARLES, boy HENRY, boy CALVIN, boy MONROE, girl MAHALA, woman ANN...
Share and Lot Y Allotted to Nancy Elizabeth McCall
boy CALVIN, boy MONROE, man CHARLES, girl MAHALA...
Share amd Lot H Allotted to Doratha Virginia McCall
boy HENRY, boy HOWELL, woman ANNE...

Shares and Lot Number 7 Allotted to Nancy Buie
man STEPHEN, man WILSON, woman BETSEY and her child LEWIS, boy LITTLE ANDERSON, girl MILLY, girl SOPHIA, man TOM, man JIMMY BANKS...

Shares and Lot Number 8 Allotted to Alexander M. Buie
man JACK, woman HARRIET and her child JOELLA, girl CASSEY, man SUN, woman JANE and her child WESLEY, girl ELIZA...

Shares and Lot Number 9 Allotted to Emily C. Covington
man BRICE, boy ALICK, man ISRAEL, woman EMALINE and her child ANDREW, girl ALICE...

The only Negro slaves named in Neil Buie's 1855 Will were bequeathed to his wife Nancy Buie: LITTLETON and his wife FRANCIS and her child MARTHA ANN, GEORGE and his wife MINERVA...



SLAVE OWNER

NEIL BUIE was born October 04, 1801 in Robeson Co., Nc, and died October 08, 1861 in Copiah Co., MS. He married NANCY SMITH. She was born Abt. 1802 in Ga. They are buried in Wrights Cemetery in Franklin County, MS. Neil Buie was part of a large slaveholding family. He owned 76 slaves in 1860 according to the 1860 Copiah County Slave Schedule.

Children of NEIL BUIE and NANCY SMITH are: JOSEPH BUIE, b. November 11, 1831; ALEXANDER MERCER BUIE, b. April 18, 1834; ROBERT WASHINGTON BUIE, b. Abt. 1838; EMILY C. BUIE, b. September 19, 1840; OPHELIA L. BUIE, b. Abt. 1842; WILLIAM BUIE, b. January 29, 1828; and ANN BUIE.



SOURCE
Copiah County Wills
Microfilm Number: 8183
Mississippi Department of Archives and History

The Inventory and Appraisement of Neil Buie's Slaves

Mississippi Buie Death Index - 1912-1943

Remembering Their Names