Overview

Location

Bolivar Co., MS

Date Constructed/ Founded

ca. 1840

Associated Surnames

Clark

Historical notes

none

Associated Slave Workplaces

none

Associated Free Persons

• General Charles Clark (b.1811-d.1877) - owner
• Ann Eliza Darden Clark (b.1818-d.1875) - wife of Charles Clark (m.1835)
• Charles Clark, Jr. (b.1835-d.?) - son of Charles and Ann E.D. Clark
• Mary Adelia Clark (b.1836-d.1888) - daughter of Charles and Ann E.D. Clark
• Emma Stewart Clark (b.1840-d.?) - daughter of Charles and Ann E.D. Clark
• Ann Eliza Clark (b.1849-d.?) - daughter of Charles and Ann E.D. Clark
• Frederick Clark (b.1852-d.?) - son of Charles and Ann E.D. Clark
• Charlotte Elizabeth Clark (b.?-d.?) - daughter of Charles and Ann E.D. Clark

Associated Enslaved Persons

1860 MS Slave Census

• CLARK, Charles, 149 slaves (page 186)

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Series II - Clark Family Papers
Delta State University Archives. http://www.deltastate.edu/pages/1308.asp. Also found in the collection is historical information on Doro Plantation and the Clark family. The Charles Clark and Clark Family papers, on microfilm, are part of the collection, as well as a thesis entitled The Operation of Doro Plantation (1852 - 1862) written by Bettie Vaughn Maxwell. There is also a work written by the daughter of Charles Clark, Annie E. Jacobs that is entitled The Master of Doro, an Epic of the Old South.

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• Bolivar County GenWeb: Plantations of Bolivar County, http://www.rootsweb.com/~msboliva/plantations.htm
• Bolivar Co., MS Largest Slave Holders From the 1860 Slave Census Schedules. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/msbolivar.htm
• Delta State University. Doro Plantation Archaeological Artifacts and Reports, http://www.deltastate.edu/pages/1308.asp
• Rootsweb World Connect Project, Ray Stephens 1107

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