Monte Verdi, the 10,700-acre antebellum plantation of Julien Sidney Devereux and Sarah (Landrum) Devereux Garrison, was one of the most economically and historically significant plantations in the state. Devereux family papers in regional and state archives preserve the names of enslaved people who labored there. Their written family history begins with Scott and Tabby, born 1792 and 1787, the eldest in John William Devereux's group of slaves taken with their children and grandchildren from Georgia to Alabama to Texas. Documented African American families at Monte Verdi in 1846 included Scott and Tabby, their son Anderson, and his unnamed wife; Judy and Jim; Sam from the Loftus Plantation and Eliza Henry Mariah; Jinny and Peter; Joanna and Joe; El Mina and Walton; Maria and Lewis; and Green and Phoebe, who founded the Anadarco (Anadarko) Christian Church and School in 1868. Julien Devereux's 1856 probate records name 80 slaves on the estate. After obtaining their freedom in 1865, these men and women sought better lives for themselves and future generations. Some families remained in the area, continuing to work and live in villages and communities on former Monte Verdi lands. As documented in the 1870-1900 U.S. Census and other records, descendants of the 80 enslaved people at Monte Verdi rarely adopted the surname Devereux, instead using names including Anderson, Bagley, Blanton, Booker, Bowens, Bradley, Brantley, Caddell, Cary, Cooper, Freeny, Henry, Lewis, Loftis, Medaniel, Owens, Spencer, Sturns, Tipps, Williams, and others, and today these family names are recognized for humanitarian contributions.