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- Collection: Avery Family Papers
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List of Avery Family Servants
This list in the back of a volume kept by Sara Avery Leeds about her
wedding gives the names of numerous "servants" who worked for the family
before and after slavery. The earliest notations seem to have been made in
1885, but there are also…
List of Graves at Avery Island
An incomplete list of "graves beneath the cluster of oaks in front of the house," probably recorded by Sarah Avery Leeds together with Aunt Eliza Robertson. The list includes the names of some family "servants," including William Odel (d. 1882) and…
Recollections of Aunt Maria Houston
This 1883 account, enclosed in a volume listing invitees to Sarah Marsh
Avery's wedding, details the recollections of "Aunt Maria Houston" on her
being brought to Avery Island as a slave around 1833 by John C. Marsh,
father-in-law of Daniel Dudley…
Register of Visitors at Petit Anse Island during the Civil War
This manuscript volume contains a list of people who visited the Avery Family plantation at Petit Anse Island during the Civil War along with the dates of their visit and their places of origin.