Inventory and Appraisement of Neil Buie's Slaves - 1861

REMEMBERING THEIR NAMES...
Copiah County, Mississippi
Transcribed by Linda Durr Rudd

  1. man LITTLETON valued at $1800 - Thomas Littleton was the blacksmith on the Buie Plantation. Thomas' family consisted of his wife Francis, children Martha Ann, Green, Emeline, and Catherine who are, also, a part of this inventory.
  2. woman FRANCES valued at $650 - (1870-1880)Frances Littleton
  3. girl MARTHA ANN valued at $400 - (1870)Martha Ann Littleton, (1880)Martha Hagans
  4. man GEORGE valued at $700
  5. woman MARINA valued at $700
  6. man CALEB valued at $450
  7. woman NELLY valued at $350
  8. boy CLAY valued at $100
  9. girl DELILAH valued at $650
  10. girl MELISSA valued at $350
  11. girl LUCY ANN valued at $200
  12. man CHARLEY valued at $900
  13. girl IZETTA valued at $250
  14. girl RACHEL valued at $150
  15. man ALFRED valued at $900
  16. man LOGAN valued at $900
  17. man JERRY valued at $400
  18. woman VINEY
  19. and her child REASON valued at $500
  20. man HENSON valued at $700
  21. boy EDMUND valued at $800
  22. boy PERRY valued at $400
  23. boy ABRAM valued at $300
  24. woman ELLEN
  25. and her child WILEY valued at $850
  26. man AUSTIN valued at $400
  27. woman JULIA
  28. and her child ISSAC valued at $350
  29. girl AMANDA valued at $750
  30. boy MILTON valued at $400
  31. boy JAMES valued at $300
  32. man JOHN valued at $900
  33. man JACOB valued at $900
  34. woman CAROLINE
  35. and her child JOHN valued at $500
  36. man BILL valued at $850
  37. man STEVE valued $850
  38. man WILSON valued at $850
  39. man BRICE valued at $850
  40. boy ALICK valued at $850
  41. boy HOWELL valued at $750
  42. man ANDERSON valued at $1000
  43. woman ELIZABETH
  44. and her child MOSES valued at $750
  45. girl EDNA valued at $350
  46. girl MARGARET valued at $10
  47. boy SIMON valued at $250
  48. girl MATILDA valued at $200
  49. man CHARLES valued at $600
  50. boy LITTLE ANDERSON valued at $800
  51. boy HENRY valued at $800
  52. boy CALOIN valued at $800
  53. boy MONROE valued at $650
  54. girl MAHALA valued at $300
  55. woman ANN valued at $450
  56. woman BETSEY
  57. and her child LEWIS valued at $750
  58. girl MILLEY valued at $300
  59. girl SOPHIA valued at $225
  60. man JACK valued at $1450
  61. woman HARRIET
  62. and her child JOELLA valued at $800
  63. girl CASSE valued at $800
  64. man SON valued at $900
  65. woman JANE - (1870)M J Loche, (1880)Jane Lock
  66. and her child WESLEY valued at $850 - (1870)J W Loche, (1880)Westly Locks
  67. girl ELIZA valued at $300 - (1870)Elisa Loche, (1880)Eliza Herring
  68. woman SALLY
  69. and her child SANDIFER valued at $850
  70. boy ARCHY valued at $175
  71. man ISRAEL valued at $1500
  72. woman EMALINE
  73. and her child ANDREW valued at $750
  74. girl ALICE valued at $175
  75. man RICHARD valued at $700
  76. man TOM valued at $800
  77. woman MARY valued at $500
  78. woman HULDY valued at $600
  79. woman JENNY valued at $375
  80. boy GREEN valued at $350 - (1870-1880)Green Littleton
  81. girl LITTLE EMALINE valued at $200 - (1870)Emeline Littleton (1880)Emeline Whaland
  82. girl CATHERINE valued at $125 - (1870)Catherine Littleton


SLAVE OWNER
NEIL BUIE was born October 04, 1801 in Robeson County, NC, and died October 08, 1861 in Copiah County, 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 were: 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.


Neil Buie's Gravesite
Wrights Cemetery
Franklin County, MS



SOURCE
Copiah County Probate Records, Microfilm Number: 8183
MS Department of Archives and History

The Allotment of Neil Buie's Slaves

Buie Homepage

Mississippi Buie Death Index 1912-1943

Remembering Their Names