| Summary: | The Turnbull and Bowman families were cotton and sugar planters with properties in West Feliciana, Iberville, and Pointe Coupee parishes of Louisiana. Daniel Turnbull (1799-1861), son of an English immigrant, John Turnbull, founded Rosedown Plantation in 1835. He also operated several other plantations. He lived on Rosedown Plantation with his wife, Martha Hilliard Barrow Turnbull (1809-1876), and their children. Martha, an avid horticulturist, established the extensive gardens at Rosedown. The Turnbull and Barrow families were connected by the marriage of Sarah Turnbull to James Pirrie Bowman. Correspondence, plantation management papers, financial papers, legal documents, personal papers, and printed and graphic materials spanning 1797 to 1955 document the lives of the members of the Turnbull, Pirrie, Lyons, Bowman, and to a lesser extent the Barrow, Stirling and Fort families. The bulk of the correspondence is of Sarah T. Bowman and her children.
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