After working for a Haitian sugar planter, he arrived in Mississippi in 1833 and purchased one hundred square miles near the Tallahatchie River from the Chickasaw chief Ikkemotubbe.
After working for a Haitian sugar planter, he arrived in Mississippi in 1833 and purchased one hundred square miles near the Tallahatchie River from the Chickasaw chief Ikkemotubbe. He served as second in command during the Civil War under Colonel Sartoris, but returned home in 1866 to find his wife Ellen Coldfield dead. His mansion, known as his namesake "Hundred," was burned down by his daughter Clytie, who feared the authorities were coming after his son Henry, who killed Charles Bon. FTP, identify this progenitor of the family featured in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
After working for a Haitian sugar planter, he arrived in Mississippi in 1833 and purchased one hundred square miles near the Tallahatchie River from the Chickasaw chief Ikkemotubbe.
Thomas {Sutpen}