(Continuing from my last post. My cousin on another side of my family, Kirk Young, went to the LSU to find more info on his grandfather, Jeff Stirling, who was my grea-grandmother’s brother. He found Jeff’s father, aunts, uncles & grandmother in these same papers, that my cousin Patricia mentions. As it turns out, all of these people came from the same plantation and were related. )
AFRICAN ROOTS: Stirling Papers – Record of the Births of Negroes: On June 30, 2012, Judy Riffel went to the library at LSU to examine the records of Lewis Stirling, the owner of a cotton and sugar plan…