John Rembert's 1858 Slave Inventory and Allotment

Copiah County, Mississippi
Filed April 7th 1858

Extracted by Linda Durr Rudd

REMEMBERING THE SLAVES OF JOHN REMBERT

The inventory and appraisement of the goods, chattels and personal estate of John Rembert, deceased.

NAME, VALUE

  1. OLD BUREL -- $350
  2. LITTLE BUREL -- $1400
  3. OLD JIM -- $600
  4. OLD NED -- $950
  5. STEPHEN -- $1000
  6. OLD ISAAC -- $1100
  7. DICK -- $1400
  8. LITTLE NED -- $1400
  9. ALFRED -- $1450
  10. SIE -- $400
  11. BIG JACK -- $1400
  12. CUFF --$1400
  13. CHARLIE -- $1400
  14. ARTHUR -- $1050
  15. ELLIE -- $1400
  16. JOHN -- $900
  17. CLAIBORNE -- $1450
  18. OLD MARY -- $300
  19. ANN and
  20. child SALLY -- $600
  21. LEAH -- $1100
  22. HANNAH -- $1150
  23. LITTLE JACK -- $800
  24. ISHAM $300
  25. CLARISA -- $1000
  26. SYLVA -- $1200
  27. MALISSA -- $600
  28. LITTLE JIM -- $400
  29. MARTHA and
  30. child BILL -- $1100
  31. JEFF -- $600
  32. ELIZA and
  33. child HEZEKIAH -- $1400
  34. NEW MARY -- $800
  35. BILL -- $700
  36. HENRY -- $300
  37. FANNY and
  38. child CHARLOTTE --$1200
  39. GEORGE -- $800
  40. BOB -- $700
  41. ANTHONY -- $450
  42. FRANCES -- $1250
  43. JUDA -- $500
  44. LITTLE ISAAC -- $400
  45. ROSE and
  46. child BETTIE -- $900
  47. JESSE -- $600
  48. ELIZAH -- $300
  49. ALAINDA and
  50. child CHERRY -- $900
  51. MARGARET -- $300
  52. FED -- $300
  53. POASH -- $1200
  54. CILLAH -- $1250
  55. ADALENE -- $300
  56. MARIAH -- $300
  57. JANE -- $1100
  58. CAROLINE -- $1300
  59. LITTLE MARY and
  60. child MIC -- $1200
  61. AMANDA -- $900
  62. LITTLE JANE -- $400



ALLOTMENT of SLAVES

To the Honorable Jackson Millsaps, Judge of Probate of Copiah County, Mississippi.

The undersigned ? appointed by this honorable court at its January Term A.D. 1859 and order and directed among other things to divide the negro property of John Remebrt deceased among his legal heirs and distribution agreeably to the law of descents of this state and to allot to said heirs their respective shares thereof, beg leave respectfully to report.

That pursuant the restrictions contained in the commission hereto atached and herewith returned, and the rule of the statute in this behalf, they assembled for the purpose of making said divisive at the late residence of said descendent in said county on the 4th day of January A.D. 1859 and came to be assembled and collected at said residences of said descendent all of his negro property and divide the same into shares as nearly equal shares according to value, as they could: that they designated said shares as No 1 consisting of the following negro slaves to wit:

Negro Named

LOT 1
Dick, Charlie, Alcinda and child, Margaret, Fed, Posh, Jane, Klavia
(Lot 1 was given to Amelia Rembert Grandberry b. abt 1820, d. 1863. She was wife of Benjamin F. Grandberry.)

LOT 2
Old Ned, Little Burrell, Ann and child, Isom, Leah, Sylvia, Little Joe, Melissa
(Lot 2 was given to Isaiah P. Rembert b. 1826, d. 1884.)

LOT 3
No. A - Little Ned, Martha and child, Bill, Jeff were given to Greg T. Webb.
No. B - Allick, Caroline, New Mary and Harry were given to Will Webb.
(Lot 3 was given to heirs of Judith Rembert Webb b. 1814, d. 1839-1840, wife of William R. Webb.)

Lot 4
Claiborne, Old Jim, Old Mary, Little Jim, Francie, Judu, Isaac, John
(Lot 4 given to Francis M. Rembert b. 1823, d. 1914.)

Lot 5
Stephen, Alfred, Fanny and child, George, Bob, Antony, Hannah, Sirus
(Lot 5 was given to Melissa Rembert Watson b. 1833. She was the wife of William H. Watson.)

Lot 6
Cuff, Arthur, Little Mary and child, Little Jane, Clarissa, Eliza and child, Old Burrell
(Lot 6 was given to Andrew Jackson Rembert b. 1816.)

Lot 7
Big Jack, Big Isaac, Rose and child, Jesse, Eliza, Manda, Silla, Adaline
(Lot 7 was given to Nancy Rembert Thompson b. 1818. d. 1881. Nancy was the wife of Jesse Thompson.)



MATCHING FAMILIES FROM 1870 AND 1880 FEDERAL CENSUSES

1870 - Copiah County, Hazlehurst, MS - Page 303
RICHARD REMBERT, 45 - CINDA, 40 - ANN, 15 - CHERRY, 14 - FRED, 13 - CUFF, 43 - JAMES, 20
Richard Rembert married Alcinda Rembert 10 July 1870 in Copiah County, MS
Maggie Rembert married Frank Calhoun 02 May 1872 in Copiah County, MS
Fred Rembert married Hannah Sinclair 30 Jul 1879 in Copiah County, MS
Cherry Rembert married Henry Jackson 06 Sep 1872 in Copiah County, MS
1880 - Copiah County, Rose Hill, MS - Page 4
RICHARD REMBERT, 56 - CINDA, wife, 40 - FRED, son, 24 - HANNAH, daughter-in-law, 19, VICIE GRANDBERRY, boarder, 60
ALCINDA REMBERT died 11 Feb 1917 in Copiah County.

1870 - Copiah County, Hazlehurst, MS - Page 303
CLABURN REMBERT, 28 - MANERVA, 28 - PHILIP, 5 - AMANDA, 2
1880 - Copiah County, Rose Hill, MS - Page 1
CLAIBORNE REMBERT, 38 - MINERVA, wife, 42, PHILIP, son, 15 - MANDA, daughter, 12 - WILBURN, son, 6 - PREVATTIE, daughter, 4



SOURCE

John Rembert's Copiah County Probate Records - Microfilm Number: 8213
Microfilm is found at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
1860 Copiah County Census - MS
1870 Copiah County Census - MS
1880 Copiah County Census - MS
Alcinda Rembert's Mississippi Death Certificate - #1917-2554
Rembert

Remembering Their Names