William Johnson Fort, (Planter)
1819 - 1862 (42 years)
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Name William Johnson Fort [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Suffix (Planter) Born 6 May 1819 Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA 
[1, 3, 4] Gender Male Residence 1850 West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA [4] Residence 1860 St Francisville, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA [3] Died 23 Feb 1862 Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA [1] Buried Saint Francisville, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA [1] Person ID I23797 Brown Genealogy Last Modified 19 Sep 2024
Father William Fort, b. 1760, Edgecombe, Edgecombe, North Carolina, USA , d. 1819, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA (Age 59 years) Relationship natural Mother Mary Johnson Fort, b. Abt 1795, Mississippi, USA , d. UNKNOWN, Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA Relationship natural Family ID F8644 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Sarah Jones Stewart, b. Aug 1826, Mississippi, USA , d. 1913, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age ~ 86 years) Married 17 Dec 1846 Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA [2, 5] Children 1. Jones Stewart Fort, b. 14 Jan 1849, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA , d. 10 Jul 1866, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 17 years) [natural]2. William Johnson Fort, b. 20 Aug 1851, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA , d. 17 Oct 1918, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 67 years) [natural]3. Charles Mathews Fort, b. 1852, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA , d. 1914, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 62 years) [natural]4. Sally Stewart Fort, b. 23 Aug 1854, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA , d. 7 Jan 1936, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA (Age 81 years) [natural]5. Mary Fort, b. 10 Jan 1856, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA , d. 6 Aug 1939, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 83 years) [natural]6. Anna Key Fort, b. 16 Jan 1861, West Feliciana, Louisiana, USA , d. 12 May 1948, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 87 years) [natural]7. Edward Butler Fort, b. Jan 1861, Louisiana, USA , d. 1916, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age ~ 54 years) [natural]8. B Fort, b. Abt 1859, Louisiana [natural]Last Modified 19 Sep 2024 Family ID F8147 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - WILLIAM JOHNSTON FORT (the name is given inaccurately as Johnson on his tombstone) was born in 1819 and died Feb. 23, 1862. His father died six weeks after his birth, and at a family meeting it was decided to· place him in the care of Bennett Barrow of "Rosebank" (see Section I) who was his father's cousin. After his mother's remarriage he went to Wilkinson County with her, returning in 1840 to West Feliciana where he bought from Bartholomew Barrow a plantation called "The Grove." This later was incorporated in "Catalpa." He later acquired "Magnolia" and "Oak Grove." In 1850 an inventory showed him owning the huge total of 235 slaves. In 1860 his total estate was valued at $400,000, an enormous sum for that time and place, most of it created through large-scale sugar production. The Civil War's effects dropped its value to only $20,000 when his property .was inventoried during Reconstruction. William married Sallie Jones Stewart of Mississippi, daughter of Tignal Jones Stewart and Sarah Ann Randolph who owned the plantation "Holly Grove" in Wilkinson County (still standing at Centreville). They lived at "Catalpa", which burned in 1903. (See Chart 2-35)
William Johnston Fort and Sallie Jones Stewart
WILLIAM JOHNSTON FORT, son of William Fort and Mary Johnston, married Sallie Jones Stewart and lived in West Feliciana Parish, La. They had these children:
1) JONES STEWART FORT, born Jan. 14, 1849.
2) WILLIAM JONES FORT, born 1851, died 1918, married first Martha Turnbull Bowman, who was born Feb. 15, 1858 and died April 29, 1898. After her death he married her sister, Mary Bowman, who was born Oct. 31, 1867 and died Nov. 26, 1954. By Martha, William had: a) William Jones Fort, Jr., who married twice, having William III by his second wife; and b) Martha Fort, who married Ernest Burton White of Garyville, La. and had Ernest, Jr. and Glendora White, who married a Dr. Stewart. By Mary, William had: c) Sarah Fort of Baton Rouge; and d) Mary Fort, who married James Thompson.
3) CHARLES M. FORT married Sarah J. Wolf. They are known to have had: William Wall Fort, born April 4, 1888, died April 15, 1928.
4) SALLIE FORT who married Richard Ellis Butler. He was born Jan. 12, 1851 and died Dec. 15, 1915. He had four children of whom only one was living in 1931: Richard Ellis Butler, Jr., who married Jessie Simon and had Sarah Duncan Butler and Mary Fort Butler.
5) MARY FORT who married Thomas Butler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Butler. He was born Dec. 6, 1840 and died Nov. 7, 1922.
6) ANNA FORT.
7) EDWARD BUTLER FORT, born 1862, died 1916.
(A Family Called Fort - The Descendants of Elias Fort of Virginia, by Homer T. Fort, Jr. and Drucilla Stovall Jones, West Texas Printing Company, Midland, Texas, 1970 https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G002302.pdf )
- WILLIAM JOHNSTON FORT (the name is given inaccurately as Johnson on his tombstone) was born in 1819 and died Feb. 23, 1862. His father died six weeks after his birth, and at a family meeting it was decided to· place him in the care of Bennett Barrow of "Rosebank" (see Section I) who was his father's cousin. After his mother's remarriage he went to Wilkinson County with her, returning in 1840 to West Feliciana where he bought from Bartholomew Barrow a plantation called "The Grove." This later was incorporated in "Catalpa." He later acquired "Magnolia" and "Oak Grove." In 1850 an inventory showed him owning the huge total of 235 slaves. In 1860 his total estate was valued at $400,000, an enormous sum for that time and place, most of it created through large-scale sugar production. The Civil War's effects dropped its value to only $20,000 when his property .was inventoried during Reconstruction. William married Sallie Jones Stewart of Mississippi, daughter of Tignal Jones Stewart and Sarah Ann Randolph who owned the plantation "Holly Grove" in Wilkinson County (still standing at Centreville). They lived at "Catalpa", which burned in 1903. (See Chart 2-35)
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