| Goodrich's Landing at Alsatia, Louisiana |
| Goodrich's Landing located in the southern part of East Carroll Parish was named for Henry Goodrich, Sarah and Henry Goodrich's oldest son, Henry Goodrich, Jr. In 1872 Henry Jr. was a student at Harvard University. He graduated in 1877, Phi Beta Kappa. He returned to Providence as principal of the White Public School taught at the Fireman's Hall. Sarah's parents were Mr. & Mrs. Oliver J. Morgan. Judge Morgan who had been a storekeeper in Catahoula Parish and then a judge in Ouachita Parish. On April 30, 1832 he bought almost all of "Ward Two" in Carroll Parish for $1.25 an acre.(His property is the parish's first land conveyance record). In the 1850's Oliver was one of the largest cotton producers and slave holders in the state. When he died in 1860 it was estimated at well over one million dollars. Next to Goodrich's Landing was Sarah's brothers' home "Wilton Plantation", which, undoubtably, was named after their birthplace, Wilton, New Hampshire. In 1863 Goodrich's Landing was being used by the Yankees as "a camp of instruction for Negro Men who had just been inducted to the Union army" and "Wilton Plantation had two companies of Union soldiers stationed there." Sarah was now an old woman in her 70's and a war zone was no place for her to be. She became a refugee to Homer, Louisiana. She died in 1863 and her body was carried back to Cosper Cemetery near Goodrich's Landing. |