Colonel Van Perkins Winder (18091854) was an American sugar planter in the Antebellum South.
Early life Van Perkins Winder was born on June 3, 1809, in Natchez, Mississippi.WINDER, Van Perkins, Ancestry.comNashville City Cemetery His father was Dr Thomas Jones Winder (1772–1818) and his mother, Harriet Handy (1786–1820).Matthew Montgomery Wise, The Littleton heritage: some American descendants of Col. Nathaniel Littleton (1605-1654) of Northampton Co., Virginia and his royal forebears, Wentworth Printing, 1997, p. 346 He was a descendant of Colonel Nathaniel Littleton (1605–1654).
Career Winder acquired the Ducros Plantation in the Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana in 1845.Anne Butler (ed.), The Pelican Guide to Plantation Homes of Louisiana, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 2009, p. 60 Fred Daspit, Louisiana Architecture, 1840-1860, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2006, p. 268 That same year, he purchased slaves from Thomas Butler.William Kauffman Scarborough, Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-nineteenth-century South, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University, 2006, p. 141
Personal life He married Martha Grundy, the daughter of a judge, Felix Grundy.Chapter 11: "War Hawk" in J. Roderick Heller, III, Democracy's Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2010 By 1860, she owned 202 slaves and 4,550 acres of land.Priscilla Bond, A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2006, p. 221
Death He died of yellow fever on November 8, 1854, at his Ducros Plantation in Louisiana. He was buried at the Nashville City Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee alongside his wife.
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