It was built in 1852 with the help of Solomon Northup, a slave who was owned by Epps. This is the home of Edwin Epps on Bayou Boeuf as it appeared in the mid-1970's when this photo was taken. born in France) and Clemence (Brochet) Marchive, (born in Belgium) “Chet” Chesterfield Knoll, Father of James Lyle Knoll, Sr.Claude Ferguson – 4 infant sisters: Twins Mary Lee and Minnie Lee, about 1917/1918 Anne Lee, labout 1927 & Ruth Mae, about 1932.Edwin (1867) and Mary Melvina Roberts Epps (1868).However, a few names were located in Find a Grave and from a Transcription List complied by Gladys Sandefur. Unfortunately, the gravesites of those buried in the Fogleman Cemetery were forever lost when a weed cleaning crew demolished the graveyard with high-powered thrashing machines while cleaning the right-of-way for an electrical company. The granite marker, Fogleman Cemetery, is among the many lasting results of her work about the life and times of the slave, Solomon Northup, and his owner Edwin Epps, that occurred at the Epps Plantation along Bayou Boeuf near the small village of Holmesville, in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana from 1845 to 1853, when he was freed at the Avoyelles Parish Courthouse in January 1853. Sue Eakin has been recognized nationally and internationally for her diligence in bringing all that was the narrative of “Twelve Years a Slave” to the front pages of America and to the theater screen’s throughout most of the world. Special note of acknowledgement: The late Ms. Shaw with there being one acre on the land reserved as a burying ground”. 28, 1853 the estate of the deceased John Fogleman was sold in a bid auction at his 184 acre plantation. He married Polly Sandefur there Jan 1, 1849. "John Fogleman, a native of Virginia was in this area in 1846, a witness to his sister’s wedding in the St. Note: * Asterisk information inserted by author. (7) Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, edited by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968), pp. Census of 18 correctly spelled their names as John Fogleman and George Fogleman. Day, Edward Willis, William Hargrove, Rueben Parks, S. Shaw, Martha Vernon, Matthew Vernon, Elisa Sap, Hartgraves, Elijah Johnson, Ann Ray, Joseph Black, Rueben Ray, Madam Green, George “Fogaman”, Samuel Dalton, Jacob Keller, N. Census of Avoyelles Parish listed the following names as being at “Bayou Boeuf”: Henry Slaughter, J. 256 Marriage licenses of James Armstrong-Sally Fogleman and Thomas Shaw-Elizabeth Fogleman, St. Allen (eds) American State Papers, documents of the Congress of the United States in Relation to the Publc Lands (Washington: 1859), Vol. Pierson, Louisiana Soldiers in the War of 1812, p. Hill, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D. (4) Marriage licenses of James Armstrong-Sally Fogleman (1816) and John Fogleman-Polly Sandifer (1819), St Landry Parish. For years afterward members of the Fogleman family continued to live in that area, in both St. Landry Parish, a few miles down the bayou from the present town of Bunkie. *At some time they settled in the vicinity of Holmesville, a village on Bayou Boeuf near the southwest Avoyelles Parish border with St. The George Fogleman family had in the meantime been living in St. His claim to this land was rejected on evidence that he had abandoned it in February 1819. In 1817 George cleared and cultivated about five acres of a 640 acre tract on the west side of Calcasieu River about two miles above Charles Lake. George Fogleman and his son John were soldiers in the War of 1812. He cultivated some of this tract about 1808-09, but apparently moved to another place without taking further steps to establish ownership of it. George Fogleman settled on and claimed 160 acres of United States government Land on the west bank of the Atchafalaya River in St. They moved into Louisiana at least by 1805, the year in which Louis Fogleman, the father of Elijah, was born. George and Sarah Hoozers Fogleman, the grandparents of Elijah Louis, had lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia and probably North Carolina before settling in Louisiana. From Pennsylvania to some of the Foglemans moved south and southwest. The Foglemans were of German origin (the name meaning Birdman in that language) and some of them came to Pennsylvania in the German migration to that colony in the eighteenth century. “The Lord and Fogleman Families” by Clyde W. This is a short history of the man for whom the Fogleman Cemetary was named. Among the early pioneers that settled in “Bayou Boeuf” were George and John Fogleman who were living there in 1820.
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