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LIDDELL FAMILY PAPERS Mss . 1209 1850 - 1869 LSU Libraries Special Collections Page 4 of 6 BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE Moses Liddell(1785-1856) was a prominent planter of Elmsley Plantation, Woodville,Mississippi . In the mid 1840s he sold Elmsley and relocated nearer to his son, St. John Richardson Liddell of Llanada Plantation, Catahoula Parish, La.
His daughter, Emily Jane Liddell (d. 1904), married John Hampden Randolph, a lawyer and cotton planter in Wilkinson County, Miss., and Iberville Parish, La. St. John Liddell (1815-1870) served as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army and resumed planting at Llanada after the war. He was fatally shot by Charles Jones on Feb. 14, 1870 after a long standing feud