Fourth Generation

6. William Jasper DELAFIELD was born on Mar 9, 1823 in Tennessee. He was a planter. He appeared in the census in 1860 in Bossier Parish, LA. He died on Jan 30, 1865 in Sarepta, Webster Parish, LA. He was buried in 1865 in Taylor Academy Cemetery, Cullen, Webster Parish, LA.
Wm. Jasper Delafield in 1850 and 1860 was a planter in Bossier Parish, La., who's P.O. was Cotton Valley, La. Today, Cotton Valley is a town in Webster Parish. He was a Methodist Minister in 1845 when he came to Bossier Parish with his parents. [Pate]

Wm. J. Delafield entered TS21, R10W, SE of Cotton Valley, LA, with the purchase of about 40 acres in S22 on Dec. 13, 1855 and an additional 80 acres in S22 on Oct. 29, 1858. [O'Bier]

William Jasper DELAFIELD and Cynthia MOORE were married on Jan 15, 1846 in Tennessee. They appeared in the census on Dec 9, 1850 in Bossier Parish, LA.⁶ "Great Grandma Delafield and her husband, William, moved to Cotton Valley, La. from Sparta and Spencer, Tennessee in 1848 or 49. They planned to stay one year, make a crop, and move on to Texas. Due to crop failure, they did not move to Texas, but moved northeast 8 miles and homesteaded a tract of land between Sarepta and Shongaloo. My brother, Elton and I own 40 acres of this original homestead." William died in 1865 "...with T.B. He had had the disease for 7 years." [Shelby Ray Braley to Clifford Blunt, July 22, 1967. Photocopy in possession of writer.] Cynthia MOORE (daughter of Thomas MOORE and Sarah Lucinda DOYLE) was born on Mar 25, 1826 in White Co., TN. She appeared in the census on Jun 30, 1880 in Webster Parish, LA.⁷ She appeared in the census in 1900 in Webster Parish, LA. Enumerated with widowed daughter, America Kansas Delafield Houston She died on Jul 4, 1907 in Sarepta, Webster Parish, LA.
"..the Moore family also came to Sarepta from Tennessee and homesteaded land at this time. The Moores and the Delafields came to Louisiana by ox wagons. It is reported that on coming down through Arkansas an ox broke loose - swam the Mississippi and went back home to Spencer or Sparta, Tennessee. Grandma Delafield, as a little girl, lived on the Cumberland River in Tennessee." "..in the early 1900's Granny Delafield broke up housekeeping and moved in with my Grandmother, Kansas Houston - Granny Delafield died July 4, 1907. Her husband, William, died in 1865." [Braley, 1967]

In 1880, Cynthia Moore Delafield was a widow residing in Bossier Parish with 4 of her children. Cynthia resided with her daughter Kansas Houston in 1900 and said that she was the mother of 10 of whom 3 was living. (Pate) William Jasper DELAFIELD and Cynthia MOORE had the following children:

+28	i.	Joseph Frank DELAFIELD.
+29	ii.	John T. DELAFIELD.
+30	iii.	Sarah Ann (Sally) DELAFIELD.
+31	iv.	Alpha Anne DELAFIELD.
32	v.	Emilia Argon DELAFIELD was born on Mar 16, 1854 in Louisiana. She died in 1934 in Louisiana. In the list of children [Braley to Blunt] from the union of William and Cynthia Moore Delafield, the child in this position on his list is named Ida. She: "died a single girl.....died in 1934." [Braley] Emilia Argon, along with Dora Ellen Delafield, "died as young ladies only 2 weeks apart from Yellow Fever."[Pate]
33	vi.	Dora Ellen DELAFIELD was born on Apr 18, 1856 in Louisiana. She died on Aug 24, 1868 in Louisiana. Dora, along with Emilia Argon, "died as single young ladies only 2 weeks apart from Yellow Fever." [Pate] She was buried after Aug 24, 1868 in Springhill, Webster Parish, LA.
+34	vii.	America Kansas DELAFIELD.
35	viii.	William E. DELAFIELD was born on Jul 3, 1860 in Louisiana. He died on Mar 23, 1861 in Louisiana.
36	ix.	Sealy J. DELAFIELD was born on Jul 21, 1862 in Louisiana.
+37	x.	William Bryant DELAFIELD.