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The following is available at the Mississippi State University library. I don't know if the papers hold what you are looking for, however.
Lenoir Family Plantation Records. 1792, 1820-1963. ca. 6 cu. ft.
Plantation records and family papers (1792, 1820-1963), of the extended family of William T. Lenoir (1811-1960) and Mary E. Blanchard Lenoir (1810-1894), of Prairie (Muldon), Monroe County, Mississippi. The Hope Hull Lenoir family and the Absalom Blanchard family came to Marion County, Mississippi in the 1830s. William T. Lenoir married Mary E. Blanchard in 1940 and they moved to Monroe County, Mississippi in 1845, having purchased 3,500 acres of land. William A. Blanchard, brother of Mary Blanchard Lenoir, had already moved to Columbus and set up a law practice. W.A. Blanchard also purchased land and operated a plantation in Monroe County. In 1847, William T. Lenoir (son of Hope Hull Lenoir) and Mary Blanchard Lenoir built the large Lenoir Plantation house which still stands at Prairie, Mississippi. William S. Lenoir, Sr., 1842-1911, (son of William T. Lenoir) married Julia Paine (1851-1918). The children of William S. Lenoir , including Sterling Paine Lenoir (1887-1961), inherited Lenoir Plantation. Included are family materials: 76 family letters (1832-1955 and undated), including 12 Civil War era letters; letters to William S. Lenoir and James L. Lenoir at LaGrange College and Tutwiler School in Alabama; 2 letters of Methodist Bishop Robert Paine (then Superintendent of LaGrange College, LaGrange, Alabama), in support of the graduation and qualifications of W.A. Blanchard and William T. Lenoir, 1832; articles of incorporation and other materials documenting the law practice of William A. Blanchard; memorabilia, postcards, publications, World War I materials, clippings and other materials. The collection bulks with financial correspondence, accounts and invoices, deeds, legal materials, and other documents pertaining to the land holdings and cotton plantation operations of the Lenoir, Blanchard and Paine families in Monroe, Clay and Marion Counties in Mississippi, and Marlin, Falls County, Texas. These materials extensively document plantation cotton growing in Mississippi and Texas and the Mobile cotton trade, 1840s-ca. 1920. Other materials in this category include land and oil plats and maps and plans for a gin and a cotton house. The collection also contains 1.5 cu. ft. of 19th and 20th century family photographs and albums. The family also donated 125 books from the families' collection (1744-1972 and undated), including the medical library of Sterling L. Paine, father of Julia Paine Lenoir, Civil War and Mississippi imprints, yearbooks and annuals, and other historical volumes. Unprocessed, but usable with preliminary folder list.
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