Overview

Location

Marshall Co., MS

Date Constructed/ Founded

ca. 1830

Associated Surnames

Alexander

Historical notes

Happy Hill was the first plantation in Marshall county and was founded by the first white settlers, Robert Burrell Alexander and his father, John Edmund Alexander, both of VA.

Associated Slave Workplaces

none

Associated Free Persons

• John Edmund Alexander (b.1789-d.1857) - founder & owner
• Lucy Robertson Alexander - first wife of John E. Alexander (m.1812)
• Sarah Thrower Alexander - second wife of John E. Alexander (m.1810)
• Robert Burrell Alexander - founder & owner; son of John E. Alexander

Associated Enslaved Persons

1860 MS Slave Census

• ALEXANDER, R. B., 85 slaves (page 34)

Research Leads and Plantation Records

• none reported yet

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• Marshall Co., MS Largest Slave Holders From the 1860 Slave Census Schedules. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/msmarshall.htm
• Marshall County MSGenWeb. Happy Hill Plantation information from The South Reporter, Jul 9, 1998 & Aug 12, 2004. http://marshallcountyms.org/locales/historic.php
• Rootsweb World Connect Project, Alexander's - Southside VA/NC, GA & AL

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