The Times-Argus, 20 Oct. 1869, Wed.  Page 1

Col. A. T. Oliver of Austin county, Texas came to Brazil in September 1866.  His fazenda contains at least 400 acres, for which he paid $4,000.  Included in the purchase were a very good dwelling house and ordinary outhouses, with large pastures and some other improvements.  He had, also, a very good corn mill and a frame-up for a large ginhouse and sawmill.  The Colonel is making rapid improvements on his fazenda, is building an immense water wheel, and pushing other improvements as rapidly as his facilities will admit.  His farm is well stocked, and he has the finest water power in the whole country, quite sufficient to turn half a dozen factories.  His land lies in a solid body, and the cultivated portion of it is as beautifully situated as any farm we ever saw.  He has raised two crops of corn and cotton.  From 27 acres in the present year he has 27 bales of lint cotton

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OLIVER, ASA THOMPSON (1819–1873).

Asa Thompson Oliver, planter, was born on November 14, 1819, in Elbert County, Georgia, the son of Simeon and Mildred Oliver. He moved with his wife and children from Mississippi to Texas in the mid-1850s. By 1858 he had acquired almost a half league of prime farmland in the Hempstead area east of the Brazos River in Austin County, now in Waller County.

That year his estate, which included seventy slaves, was valued at almost $48,000. By 1860 he had accumulated 105 slaves and held property worth $205,000, ranking him among the county's wealthiest residents. Following the outbreak of the Civil War in the spring of 1861, Oliver was chosen to help organize public defense as a member of the Central Executive Committee of Austin County. Like most large planters he was badly damaged by the Confederate defeat and emancipation; by mid-1865 his estate had plummeted in value to $25,000. In 1866 he and his wife and three children joined the postbellum emigration of former Confederates to Latin America; they settled in the colony of Santa Barbara D'Oeste in the Campinas district of São Paulo province, Brazil. There Oliver purchased an extensive plantation and a number of slaves and began cultivating his property.

Unfortunately, his wife, Beatrice, and daughter, Indiana, who had suffered chronic distress since the end of the war and remained debilitated during the voyage to Brazil, contracted tuberculosis. Beatrice succumbed to the disease on July 13, 1868. Since there were no non-Catholic cemeteries nearby, Oliver devoted a small corner of one of his fields to burials and interred his wife there. Indiana, age seventeen, died on April 19, 1869, of the disease and was buried near her mother. That same year Oliver's younger daughter, Mildred, fourteen, distraught over the deaths of her mother and sister and burdened with the care of her father and younger brother, also fell gravely ill; she died shortly before Christmas and was interred beside her loved ones. The family burial ground, known as the "Campo," became a significant Protestant cemetery for the American settlers of the vicinity. A. T. Oliver was buried beside his family after he was murdered by one of his slaves on July 28, 1873. Subsequent owners of the Oliver property erected a small chapel on the cemetery grounds.

SOURCE:Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989). William Clark Griggs, The Elusive Eden: Frank McMullan's Confederate Colony in Brazil (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987). Lawrence F. Hill, "The Confederate Exodus to Latin America," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 39 (October 1935, January, April 1936). C. W. Schmidt, Footprints of Five Generations (New Ulm, Texas: New Ulm Enterprise, 1930).

DRUSCILLA Daniels:

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Drucilla D. Oliver married Walter Scott Jones on 11 July 1877 at Jacksboro, Texas. Marriage was officiated by John G. Shinn, the First Christian minister at Jacksboro. Walter Scott Jones was in the union army and would have been compatible with the residents of Jack County since they did not secede from the Union during the Civil War. By 1880, Jones was a farmer and surveyor for the Texas & Pacific Railroad. After his wife's death, he moved away from Jack County. Newspaper accounts show she moved to Jack County, Texas by 1875. Mrs. Walter Scott Jones died at her home on College Street, Tuesday morning, January 29th, after an illness of many months. Her remains were interred in Oakwood cemetery Wednesday evening. Mrs. Jones had long been an exemplary member of the Baptist church and had resided in Jacksboro for a number of years and had many friends who sympathize with the bereaved family.---------daughter of James Daniel - Lydia Davis

Following the Civil War, she with a few of her siblings relocated to a Confederate Colony near Santa Barbara d'Oeste in the province of Sao Paulo, Brazil. There she married a former Confederate planter, Asa Thompson Oliver, in 1870. They had two children in Brazil: Asa Thompson Oliver, Jr. and Catherine Meriwether Oliver. Her husband was killed by one of his slaves in 1873. Mrs. D.D. Oliver and her children, with her stepson, Zimri Shelton Oliver, returned to the States, settling at Jack County, Texas. In Jack County, she married Walter Scott Jones. To this marriage, two daughters, Laura and Annie Jones were born.