Isaac H. Hilliard

Isaac H. Hilliard
Born	Isaac Henry Hilliard, Jr. 1811 Halifax County, North Carolina, U.S.
Died	June 25, 1868
Residence	Grand Lake, Arkansas, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Nashville
Occupation	Planter
Spouse(s)	Lavinia Leinian Miriam Brannin
Children	Isaac H. Hilliard III Edwin S. Hilliard
Parent(s)	Lavinia Hilliard
Relatives	Hardy Murfree (grandfather)

Isaac H. Hilliard (1811-1868) was an American planter and cotton factor in the Antebellum South. He was an advocate of the Confederate States of America. During the American Civil War of 1861-1865, he moved his family slaves to Texas and later Louisiana. In the postbellum years, he was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson and liquidated his cotton-factoring business. His Arkansas plantation was inherited by his sons.

Isaac H. Hilliard was born in 1811 in Halifax County, North Carolina. He grew up in North Carolina and Virginia.

His grandfather, Hardy Murfree, is the namesake of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. His brother-in-law was George W. Polk, a relative of President James K. Polk and the owner of Rattle and Snap, a plantation in Columbia, Tennessee.

He graduated from the University of Nashville in 1832.

Hilliard inherited land in southern Chicot County, Arkansas from his grandfather, Hardy Murfree. In 1844, he moved to Chicot County to establish a plantation near Grand Lake, Arkansas, which he co-owned with his brother-in-law George W. Polk. They hired an overseer from Kentucky, James H. Garrett. As of 1850, they owned 550 acres of land and 151 African slaves as well as "three horses, twenty-four mules, thirteen dairy cattle, thirteen oxen, seventy-five other cattle, and a hundred head of swine." By 1860, he owned 1,939 acres of land.

He was a Partner of Hilliard, Summers and Company, a cotton-factoring firm based in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he spent much of his time.

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