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Armstrong Rolls, Benjamin Leflore has household of 10, 3 males over 16, and 3 children under 10, 10 Slaves. {Benjamin, Mary, Sophia, Sarah, Salina, Adam, Aryan {over 10}, Henrietta, Charlotte and Campbell {under 10}, makes a household of 10} Did not emigrate, appears several children did so after his death. On January 5, 1832 Sophia "LaFlour" and Jessie B. Witt were married in Madison County (Book "E" page 108), and on June 2 of the same year, Sarah LEFLORE married Iradell C. Groves in Madison County (book "E" Page 51). No more information has been found on Jessie B. and Sophia"LaFlour" Witt, but in the U.S. Census of 1850 a "D." Witt is living in the household of Benjamin LEFLORE. In 1899, the descendants of Daniel W. Witt stated that they were descendants of Benjamin LEFLORE, and that the father of Daniel Witt was Jess B. Witt and his mother was a daughter of Benjamin LEFLORE. Iradell C. and Sarah L. Groves appear with the family in the United States Census for the years 1840, 1850 and 1860 in Leake County. As Benjamin LEFLORE and his wife, Mary Juzan, were said to have had only ten or eleven children it is probable that the two daughters cited above had a different mother, from a previous marriage of Benjamin's. In the Armstrong survey of the Choctaws who had farms in cultivation at the time of the signing of the Dancing Rabbit Treaty in 1830, Benjamin LEFLORE is listed as having 100 acres in cultivation. In the Supplemental Articles to the above treaty, Benjamin LEFLORE is named as having a reservation of two sections (1280) acres of land instead ofsharing any Tribal Lands west of the Mississippi River. One of the sections was to include his cultivated land and home site, and the other was to be located on any improved land in "LEFLORE's District". These two sections were described as follows in the list of "Claims suspended for further examination in June of 1836; Claim #75 Section 32 Township 10 Range 6E Claim #190 Section 4 Township21 Range 5E The final roll of Indian Claims Approved as made by Captain F. W. Armstrong, lists Benjamin LEFLORE as having claims approved for 1280 acres, but gives no description as to the location. Family tradition says that Benjamin LEFLORE moved his family to Leake County within a few years after the signing of The Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty. Leake County Deed Books show that he purchased land from Richard and Martha Walker on December 19, 1835. In 1841, he was granted several United States patents for land in Leake County. Also he purchased land on the east bank of the Labutcha Creek from heirs of Chief Pushmataha, who had received it under the terms of the 1830 Treaty. Eventually he owned approximately 7000 acres stretching on both sides of the Meckanooekany River. Aboutthe time he received the United States Patents, Benjamin built a large home for the family near the banks of the river. It had a total of twelve large rooms with eight downstairs being divided by a fourteen-foot central hall. The wide porch ran across the full 80-foot expanse of the front of the home. One of the upstairs rooms was used as a schoolroom and the others as bedrooms. Fireplaces in four double chimneys heated the house. Descendants sold the house in 1904, and it was still occupied by the purchaser when it burned in 1906. Benjamin died in 1863, and Mary Juzan LEFLORE in 1868. They were buried in adjoining graves in the family cemetery, and their descendants erected an ornate double headstone in their memory. Vandals destroyed this in the 1970's. The graveyard and home site havebeen the scenes of repeated instances of vandalism over the past hundred years, seeking to recover a horde of gold which Benjamin was rumored to have buried in his last years. In the period of the 1930's and 1940's, the Federal Land Bank took title to much of the land that had belonged to Benjamin. Since then, descendants have been able to regain some of the land, and it is now in their possession. Many of the descendants of Mary and Benjamin stayed in Mississippi, while others went to the Choctaw Nation areas in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Census, 1840 Leake County male 50-60 {Benjamin}, male 15-20{Adam H., 17}, 2 males 10-15 {Campbell 12 and ?}, 1 male 5-10 {Forbis, 5}, 1 male under 5 {Louis, 3} female 40-50 (Mary Juzan 1790-1800}, 1 female 5-10 {Amanda, 7} , 2 females under 5 {Martha, 3 and ?} Leake County Census 1850, Benjamin 54, wife Mary 40, Arian 25, Manerva? 17, Martha and Lewis, 13, D. Witt, 17 and a manager of the plantation 1850 Turner Harris has C. and Geo Leflore living with him, C. is 23 and a lawyer, Geo is 22 and a student is their cousin, son of William Adam H and Benjamin own several slaves in 1850
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