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- Robert Daniel II was appointed Deputy Tax Collector the the Confederacy in Washington Parish. While serving in this capacity during the war, a black Mammy took care of his children. Robert was 82 years, 9 months and 7 days old when he died. Robert Daniel inherited the home place and portion of land and slaves. He purchased many more acres and slaves. He contributed property for an Episcopal Church which was never built. Not having an Episcopal Church to attend, he never joined any whurch. He was a devout Mason. After the death of Mary Rebecca, April 7, 1863, he married Martha Ann Ruddock in February 1869. Robert sold his land for $1.25 an acre and bought Star Hill Plantation from a bank in New Orleans. This plantation had been seized from a Mr. Perkins. The Citizen Bank of New Orleans held the mortgage on this plantation. Robert paid the bank $7,000.00 for this 1,689 acres. Before moving to Lousiana after the Civil War, Robert told his slaves they were free and could leave, but if any chose to stay on his place, he would give them forty acres and a house and could work for him as a day loborers. Robert's plantation bell was given to the Colored Baptist Church in Varnado to be tolled any time any of his old slaves died. Star Hill Plantation prospered, 32 share croppers raised cotton and other farm crops. Robert had a cotton gin built and a school house. A large store with the first Post Office at Star Hill. He started a family cemetery, a cotton gin, a school house and a church.
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1823 - 1906 (82 years)
