1860 Federal Census Slave Schedule

[Erato]

Does anyone have access to the 1860 Federal Census Slave Schedule?  I would like to know whether Francis B. Tarr, a resident of Union Precinct, Greene County, Alabama, was a slave owner [let us hope that he was not].  He was recorded as a clerk in 1860, employed by W.P.H. Gordon, a merchant and planter.  Was Gordon a slave owner?

[JJen]

Hi,

I do not have full access to the records, however it would appear that W P H Gordon was a slave owner of three -

Age   Gender      Race         Slave owner       Home in 1860
18   Female   Black           W P H Gordon   Greene, Alabama
25   Male           Mulatto   W P H Gordon   Greene, Alabama
20   Male           Black           W P H Gordon   Greene, Alabama

JJ

[*Sandra*]

There is an ancestry tree for Francis B. (Frank) Tarr 1835–1927 - is that the one ?

born 28 January 1835 - Lewiston, Lincoln, Maine died 23 December 1927 - Eutaw, Greene, Alabama

Note - Frank B. Tarr was a plantation owner 10 miles out of Eutaw, Alabama, USA and was in Confederate Army in the Civil War.  His son Walter worked as a Plantation manager according to US Gov.

Sandra

[Erato]

Thanks, JJen and Sandra.  Yes, that is the correct one and I'm puzzled by him - how he came to settle in Alabama.  He was born in Maine and is the only ancestor I've found who moved to the South before the Civil War and the only one who fought for the Confederacy.  He survived the war but W.P.H. Gordon did not.  Francis returned to Greene County and married Gordon's widow, thereby becoming a merchant and farmer himself.