Rosalie

R8.198
Jacques Telesphore Roman Succession, St. James Clerk of Court, Probate 0683
Value: $1500 (includes mother and four siblings)
Lists Meana as Rosalie’s mother
Lists Rosalie, Raphael, Elizabeth, Charles, and Genevieve as siblings
R5.075
Inventory of Jacques Telesphore Roman’s New Orleans home (owned by Henri Roman and Marie Octavie Roman Buchanan), New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 46 act 132
Value: $1,200
R5.240
Settlement and Partition of Oak Alley Plantation, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 46 act 174
Purchase price: $14,750
Vendor: Estate of Jacques Telesphore Roman; Vendee: Henri Jacques Roman
R5.081
Bill of Sale, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 46 act 175
Purchase price: $1,700
Lists Rosalie as mulatto
Lists  Rosalie as a domestic and seamstress
R5.073
Transfer of Records, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 45 act 107
Listed as being located at the Roman’s home in New Orleans
Lists Rosalie as mulatto
R5.074
Transfer of Records, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 45 act 108
Listed as being located at the Roman’s home in New Orleans
Lists Rosalie as mulatto
R17.006.21
Letter from Celina Pilie Roman to her son Henri Roman, Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, LaRC 179 Roman Family Papers
Dated: January 3, 1863
Celina wrote that Rosalie threatened to leave multiple times but refused to go. Celina slapped her in an attempt to make her leave but Rosalie still refused to leave. 
R17.006.23
Letter from Celina Pilie Roman to her son Henri Roman, Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, LaRC 179 Roman Family Papers
Dated: January 7, 1863
Celina wrote that Rosalie has tricked her but refuses to give details. Rosalie was described as a “dunce” but shipped her trunk to the plantation before leaving the city altogether. Henri was instructed to “put her to work in the fields and punish her well for me [Celina]”.
 
* Denotes estimated date based on available records.