| 10. | William Forman was born on 25 Jun 1791 in Natchez District, Mississippi (son of George Forman and Sarah Jane (Irwin) Erwin); died on 31 May 1864 in Louisiana. Notes:
Forman, William (George & Sarah Irwin) m 15 Dec 1812 Susanne Cole (Opel Ct. Hse: Mar #9)
William Forman was in War of 1812 with an infantry unit (Thompson's Regiment, 16th Louisiana).
St Landry Papers #1412749 William Forman 1838 Sale of Slave to Oscar Staton $135
(Linda Lyle)
William Forman was a veteran of the War of 1812. He was in Thompson's Regiment of La. 16th Militia. He lived in Opelousas and married Susan Cole on December 15, 1812. In 1850 and 1860 La. Census, William Forman and family are living in Calcaieu Parish La. We do not have much information about William or his wife Susan.
According to the 1860 La. Census, the Forman's, William and Susan Forman and Ebenezer and Apolonia Forman and family were living in Calcasieu Parish in area known as Nibletts Bluff. The census lists the Post Office as Ballous Ferry.
It should probably be Ballew's Ferry since the ferry was first run by a fellow named Ballew. Nobody on the 1860 census lived in "Ballew's Ferry"; it was a post office address for a number of folks who lived in the area of Starks and Vinton in southeastern Calcasieu Parish (these towns didn't exist in 1860).
Properly speaking, Ballew's Ferry was in Texas. That is, it's western terminus was on the west bank of the Sabine River in Texas, a few miles North of Orange, known as Madison in 1858, it's eastern terminus was in the vicinity of Niblettsf on the east bank of the Sabine in La.
According to a fellow who used the ferry in the 1830's, Ballew had set up operations in an old building on the west or Texas side of the river. This building had formerly been a temporary slave lodging for Jean Lafitte when he was smugglinves from his main camp on Galveston Island (then part of Mexico) up the Sabine to points farther North where they were sold to slave traders who moved the human contraband on to points deeper in La. and in other southern states. The exact site of both terminals of the ferry is no longer known, but from the writer's description, one can get an approximate idea and it was not a direct crossing from one bank of the river to the opposite bank. The ferry went down river, around the head of an island, then up the Old River, a trip of several miles total.
The 1860 census says Ballous Ferry, La., so the post office must have been on the La. side. This area is now known as the Nibletts Bluff community, and it may have been known by that name then and even before 1860, for a fellow named Nibls listed on one of the early La. censuses, apparently living in that area. It is more likely that the Formans were living in the area of the Big Woods/Edgerly/Vinton area a short distance to the east.
At this same time, 1858-1860, David D. Forman (known as D.D. Forman) and his wife Nancy Simmons, were living in Madison, Texas (now known as Orange)
where the Rev. D.D. Forman was one of the founders of the First Baptist Church.
Steve Forman (Dw4man@aol.com)
William married Susan Cole on 15 Dec 1812 in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Susan (daughter of Solomon Cole and Elizabeth Davis) was born in 1791 in Natchez District, Mississippi; died in 1865 in Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1874 - 1948 (74 years)