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Contributors

March 8, 2009

A number of wonderful people have contributed pictures, transcription lists, information, corrections and additions to La-Cemeteries. 

Please email if you have been left off this list.

Libby Dady Alcorn - Provided an article on Hazelwood Cemetery in DeSoto Parish.  Also a transcription list and pictures of the cemetery were provided.  Provided transcription and pictures for Trinity Episcopal Cemetery in DeSoto Parish.

Identified Unknown Cemetery #6 in Caddo Parish as the Roderick Nicholson Cemetery.

Angus Nicholson Cemetery in Caddo Parish location and name provided by Libby Dady Alcorn.

Chris Belena - Provided pictures of Gov. Baker headstone and gravesite in Brooklyn, New  York.

Mr. Bouquet - Guided and transported us to Mullins Cemetery in St. Helena Parish, located deep with private lands without road access.

Carolyn Bland - Located Whitehall cemeteries in Clairborne Parish.

Michael Brandt - Provided pictures of abandoned St. John Cemetery in Terrebone Parish.

Jack Carmena - transcription list for Shaw-McHugh Cemetery in East Baton Rouge Parish.

Desiree Cavalier - transcription lists for Ibert's Memorial Park Cemetery and Patterson's St. Joseph Catholic and  Protestant Cemeteries in St. Mary Parish.

Dot Champagne - transcription list for Afton Villa Plantation Cemtery in West Feliciana Parish.

Linda Cheramie - transcription list for Patterson's St. Joseph Catholic  Cemetery in St. Mary Parish.

Jeri Cobb - submitted Vickers Cemetery in Bienville Parish and is restoring it as well and transcription list and pictures for Howe Cemetery in Red River Parish.  Submitted pictures of Rocky Mount Cemetery in Bienville Parish.  Submitted pictures of Meridian Cemetery in Union Parish.

Dr. Robert S. Conte - Historian for The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, was instrumental is locating Gov. Thomas Bolling Robertson, Louisiana's third governor.  Dr. Conte also provided pictures of Gov. Robertson's grave.

Doris Cooley - identified some Unknown Cemeteries and found location of another cemetery in West Carroll Parish.

Cynthia Daigle - for corrections to Terrebonne Parish Cemeteries

Jerry Davis - for location and information on Little Misery Cemetery in Baton Rouge.

DeeDee Denise DiBenedetto - fantastic investigative researcher contributing numerous findings concerning Louisiana Governors and other historic figures.  Provided all research locating Gov. Beauvais burial cemetery and identifying unmarked tomb.

DeeDee has provided hundreds of articles and hundreds of hours of research for this web site's pages of governors, notables, civil war generals and others.  And now Bonnie & Clyde.  We thank her for her fantastic donations and continued interest in enhancing this web site for Louisiana.

DeeDee provided the synergy needed for locating Gov. Baker in Brooklyn, N.Y. and for locating Gov. Packard in Seattle, Washington.  She obtained pictures of each burial site as well.

DeeDee's recent find is Gov. Thomas Bolling Robertson.  She worked tirelessly and finally found historian Robert S. Conte in West Virginia, who knew the location of the governor.

Jennifer Dyer - A graduate student in History, provided valuable research in our lost Governors search and located Gov. Wiltz cemetery and tomb.

Dale Ducote - transcription list for Bayhill Methodist / Hatfield Cemetery in Avoyelles Parish.  Submitted transcription list for White Chapel Methodist Cemetery in St. Landry Parish, transcribed by Tommy Thayer.

Submitted error correction for Little Flower Catholic Cemetery in Avoyelles Parish.

Charles Haynes - Transcription and pictures of Haynes Cemetery in Webster Parish.

John Head - extensive research on Caddo Parish Cemeteries.  Gave permission for the publication of many of his findings on the Caddo Parish pages.

Alice D. Holland - Stories in Stone, a 160 page book with the transcription of Pythian and Marshall United Methodist Cemeteries in Avoyelles Parish.  The authors have graciously allowed the publication of this important work on this web site.  All rights are reserved by the authors.

Linda Hollenshead - Located Oaks Cemetery in Claiborne Parish.

.Richard B. Horton - East Feliciana Horton Cemetery name, location and transcription.

Myrna Jorgenson - pictures of Sabine Parish cemeteries.  She also transcribed pictures from several other cemeteries.

Terry Landreneau - submitted cemeteries and their locations in Evangeline Parish.

Marilee Meyer - Archivist/Cullum Files/West Point Association of Graduates, provided the eulogy of Gov. Baker written by Bvt. Maj. Gen. George W. Cullum for the 1885 Annual Reunion of West Point Graduates.  Baker was the oldest living graduate.

Paul Moline - submitted pictures of Istre Cemetery in Acadia Parish and Talbert Cemetery in Vernon Parish.

Barbara Munson - Transcription addendum for Mandeville Cemetery in St. Tammany Parish.

Brad Nolan - pictures of Metairie Cemetery in Orleans Parish.

Ronald Pellegrin - Pictures of:

Assumption Parish

Assumption Catholic Cemetery
Christ Episcopal Cemetery
Immaculate Conception Cemetery
St. Philomena Cemetery
St. Elizabeth Cemetery

Lafourche Parish

St. Joseph Cemetery
St. John the Evangelist Cemetery

St. James Parish

St. James Cemetery

Terrebone Parish

Bisland Cemetery
Chauvin Cemetery
Dugas Cemetery
Garden of Memories
Halfway Cemetery
Magnolia Cemetery
Sacred Heart Cemetery
St. Bridgette Cemetery
St. Elie Cemetery
St. Francis de Sales No.1 & No. 2 Cemeteries
Picou Cemetery
Terrebonne Memorial Cemetery

Anne D. Plaisance - Stories in Stone, a 160 page book with the transcription of Pythian and Marshall United Methodist Cemeteries in Avoyelles Parish.  The authors have graciously allowed the publication of this important work on this web site.  All rights are reserved by the authors.

Frank K. Roshto - Pictures of Bayou des Glaises Church Cemetery headstones.

Charles Rue - transcription list addendum for Magnolia Cemetery in Calcasieu Parish.

Gladys Sandefur - permission to publish her transcriptions of these cemeteries:

Avoyelles Parish

Bayou des Glaises Baptist Cemetery
Bayou Rouge Cemeteries
Big Bend Baptist Cemetery
Hatfield Cemetery (aka Bay Hills Methodist)
Marshall Cemetery, Thomas Douglas
Millburn / Morrison Cemetery
Vernon Family Cemetery

Evangeline Parish

Vandenburg Cemetery

Rapides Parish

Stafford Cemetery

St. Landry Parish

Barbreck Cemetery (aka Old Morrison Cemetery)Big Cane Baptist Cemetery
Dubuisson Cemetery
Gardner-Hinckley Cemetery
Magnolia Ridge Plantation Cemetery
Moundville Cemetery
Mt. Olivet Baptist Cemetery
Old Garland Cemetery
Old Washington Cemetery
Whipp Cemetery
Whiteville Cemetery

Vernon Parish

West Cemetery

Winn Parish

Kimbrel Cemetery

Ann Brown Singleton - transcription list and headstone photos of Brown Family Cemetery in East Feliciana Parish.

Dianne Smith Smiley - Pictures of Rosehill Cemetery in East Feliciana Parish.

Gwen Sawyer Smith - Pictures and transcription of Rocky Branch Cemetery in Union Parish contributed in memory of Merton Barry Bennett, Jr.  Pictures of New Hill Baptist Church Cemetery in Ouachita Parish.

John Spaulding - Pictures of site and hedstone of Katherine Flanders Pelton in Center Cemetery in East Hartford, Connecticut.  John is the archivist of Friends of Center Cemetery.

Brenda Spicer - Provided beautiful pictures of Washelli Columbarium and the niche of Gov. Packard in Seattle, Washington.

Joseph Slattery - extensive research on Caddo Parish Cemeteries.  Gave permission for the publication of many of his findings on the Caddo Parish pages.

Bob Smith - transcribed pictures for Minor Town Cemetery and provided transcription list for Concord Methodist Cemetery in West Feliciana Parish.

Tommy Thayer - Transcribed White Chapel Methodist Cemetery in St. Landry Parish.

H. F. Tucker - Located cemeteries in Pointe Coupee, East and West Feliciana Parishes.

Paul Vincent - Pictures of Dudley J. LeBlanc grave site for Notables Section.  Also, the many following cemetery pictures:

Ascension Parish

First Pilgrim Calvary Missionary Baptist Cemetery

Assumption Parish

St. Elizabeth Cemetery

Bienville Parish

Holder Cemetery

Iberville Parish

Rising Star Baptist Cemetery
St. Gabriel Cemetery

Jackson Parish

Mt. Zion Baptist Cemetery
Prospect Cemetery
Quitman Baptist Cemetery

Jefferson Parish

Grand Isle Cemetery

Lafourche Parish

Our Lady of Prompt Succor Cemetery

Lincoln Parish

Vienna Cemetery

Pointe Coupee Parish

Lettsworth Cemetery
St. Mark Cemetery

St. Landry Parish

Atchafalaya Cemetery
Courville Cemetery
Mt. Pleasant Baptist Cemetery
Odom Cemetery
Palmetto Methodist Cemetery
Sacred Heart Cemetery
St. Mark Cemetery

St. Mary Parish

Shadyside-Fairfax Cemetery

Vermillion Parish

LeBlanc Catholic Cemetery
Shell Beach Cemetery

West Feliciana Parish

Starhill Cemetery

Judy Wiley - Contributed pictures for Hayes Cemetery, Oak Grove United Methodist Cemetery, Tyler Cemetery and Vick Baptist Cemetery in Avoyelles Parish

Zack Woodard - Transcribed Webster Cemetery in Webster Parish.