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Louisiana Cemetery Records Grant to Lincoln Parish

Louisiana Cemetery records are listed by parish then name of cemetery within the Louisiana parish. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Grant Parish Following Cemeteries (hosted At Grant Parish, Louisiana Tombstone Transcription Project) List of Grant Parish Cemeteries Aloha (St. Rose) Cemetery Brady Cemetery Coleman Cemetery Corbett Family Cemetery Frazier Cemetery French Cemetery Georgetown Cemetery Hebron Cemetery Corbett Burials Kimbrel Cemetery Lasyone Cemetery LeMoine Cemetery Lincecum Cemetery Gilly G. LeMoine, Sr. Cemetery Liberty Chapel Cemetery Mt Zion Cemetery Winn-Grant Parish … Read more

Louisiana Cemetery Records Caldwell to Concordia Parish

Louisiana Cemetery records are listed by parish then name of cemetery within the Louisiana parish. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Caldwell Parish Following Cemeteries (hosted At Caldwell Parish, Louisiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Adams Cemetery Hickory Springs Cemetery Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Nettles Cemetery Old New Church Cemetery Palestine Baptist Church Cemetery Zion Hill Cemetery Welcome Home Cemetery (hosted at Interment) Cameron Parish Following Cemeteries (hosted At Cameron Parish, Louisiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Boudoin Cameron 1st Baptist Cemetery Chenier Perdue Cemetery … Read more

Louisiana Cemetery Records Tangipahoa Parish

Louisiana Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the Louisiana county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Following Cemeteries (hosted At Tangipahoa County, Louisiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Albany Missionary Baptist Church Alfred Stevens Cemetery Amacker-Kent Cemetery Amite City Cemetery A’s & B’s C’s & D’s E’s – G’s H’s – K’s L’s & M’s N’s – R’s S’s & T’s U’s – Z’s Amite Memorial Gardens Antioch Cemetery Arcola (Arcola-Roseland) Cemetery (Story of Cemetery and Church) … Read more

Louisiana Cemetery Records Winn Parish

Louisiana Cemetery records are listed by parish then name of cemetery within the Louisiana parish. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Following Cemeteries (hosted At Winn County, Louisiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Listing of Cemeteries Listing of African American Cemeteries Civil War Veteran Soldiers Burial Sites Adams Graves in Winn Parish Allen Cemetery Antioch Cemetery Antioch Methodist Cemetery Atlanta Cemetery Beech Creek Cemetery Bethlehem Cemetery Beulah Cemetery Blake Cemetery Blake Cemetery & Roddick Blake Family Notes Bolton-Teagle Cemetery Boyett Cemetery Brister … Read more

Louisiana Cemetery Records – Terrebonne to West Feliciana Parishes

Louisiana Cemetery records are listed by parish then name of cemetery within the Louisiana parish. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Terrebonne Parish Terrebone Parish Burial Lists Union Parish Abscent Cemetery Acree Carter Cemetery Antioch Church of Christ Cemetery Baughman Private Cemetery Beech Grove Cemetery Alphabetization of Beech Grove Cemetery Bernice City Cemetery Bethel Cemetery Beulah Baptist Church Cemetery Alphabetization of Beulah Baptist Cemetery Birds Chapel Cemetery Blocker-Barrett Family Cemetery Boatright Family Cemetery Brantley Family Cemetery Bryan Family Cemetery Byram … Read more

Louisiana Cemetery Records St. James to St. Tammany Parish

Louisiana Cemetery records are listed by parish then name of cemetery within the Louisiana parish. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. St. James Parish Oak Alley Plantation Cemetery (hosted at Interment) St. John Parish St. John Memorial Gardens (hosted At St. John Parish, Louisiana Tombstone Transcription Project) St. Landry Parish Following Cemeteries (hosted At St. Landry Parish, Louisiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Bellevue Cemetery Cason Cemetery Guillory Cemetery Guillory Cemetery Odom Cemetery St. Louis Cemetery St. Louis Cemetery St. Thomas Cemetery … Read more

Louisiana Cemetery Records Pointe Coupe to Richland Parish

Louisiana Cemetery records are listed by parish then name of cemetery within the Louisiana parish. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Pointe Coupe Parish Following Cemeteries (hosted At Pointe Coupe Parish, Louisiana Tombstone Transcription Project) Bodies Moved from St. Ann’s Cemetery in the Morganza Floodway Chenal Cemetery Cottonwood Cemetery Cottonwood Cemetery St. Ann’s Catholic Church Cemetery St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery St. Mary’s Cemetery St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Cemetery Rapides Parish Following Cemeteries (hosted At Rapides Parish, Louisiana Tombstone Transcription … Read more

Louisiana Cemetery Records Desoto to Franklin Parish

Louisiana Cemetery records are listed by parish then name of cemetery within the Louisiana parish. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. DeSoto Parish Following Cemeteries hosted by USGenWeb Archives All Saints Episcopal Church Cemetery Antioch Cemetery (located at Antioch Church) Barnes Memorial Park Cemetery Belle Bower Cemetery Benson Cemetery Bethel Cemetery Chreene Cemetery Confederate Cemetery Cool Spring Cemetery Ebenezer Cemetery Episcopal Church Cemetery Evergreen Cemetery (Holly) Friendship Cemetery Gravel Point Catholic Cemetery Grove Hill Cemetery Horn Cemetery Logansport Cemetery Mares … Read more

Louisiana Cemetery Records: Livingston – Morehouse Parishes

Louisiana Cemetery records are listed by county then name of cemetery within the Louisiana county. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Livingston Parish Introduction to “Gone But Not Forgotten” Livingston Parish Cemeteries Livingston Parish Cemetery Locations Albany Hungarian Prebyterian Church Cemetery Albany Hungarian Prebyterian Church Cemetery updated Allen Cemetery Amite Baptist Church Cemetery (Old) Amite Baptist Church Cemetery Bankston Cemetery (Holden) Bankston Cemetery (Holden) update Bankston Cemetery (North Albany) Bankston Cemetery (North Albany) update Bartlett’s Tomb Bear Island Cemetery Bethlehem … Read more

Louisiana Cemetery Records Acadia to Calcasieu Parish

Louisiana Cemetery records are listed by parish then name of cemetery within the Louisiana parish. Most of these are complete indices at the time of transcription, however, in some cases we list the listing when it is only a partial listing. Acadia Parish Following Cemeteries are hosted at the USGenWeb Archives Project Fuselier (aka Dupre) Allen Parish Following is hosted by Allen County Public Library Akins Cemetery Arkadelphia Cemetery Bond Cemetery St. Michael African American Cemetery Following Cemeteries are hosted at the USGenWeb Archives Project Akins Arkadelphia Cemetery Black Jack Cemetery Bond Botley–African American Botley Buck Martin Canada – African … Read more

Louisiana Choctaw Habitat

St. Tammany parish, Louisiana, borders on the northern shore of Lake Pontchartrain and is bounded on the east by the State of Mississippi, from which it is separated by Pearl River. In the southern part of the parish are many bayous that flow into Lake Pontchartrain. Extensive marshes and swamps are found between the bayous, in which flourish the magnolia, live oak, black gum, cypress, and palmetto, and vast quantities of Spanish moss hang from the branches of many trees. Back from the swamps and bayous, on slightly higher ground, is one unbroken stretch of forests of longleaf pine (pl. … Read more

History of the Bayou Lacomb Choctaws

Unfortunately very little is known of the history of the people of whom this paper treats. The earliest writers, as well as the oldest maps of the region, designate the Ncolapissa as the tribe occupying the region now included within the limits of St. Tammany parish, at the time of the discovery and settlement of lower Louisiana by the French. The Acolapissa were so closely connected with the Choctaw proper that it is not possible now to distinguish between them. They spoke the same language, probably with only slight local variations. Their manners and customs, in all probability, were similar … Read more

Louisiana Choctaw Mounds

Several mounds are found within the Bayou Lacomb area. The largest of these is situated about 200 yards north of the right bank of Chinchuba creek, and about 1½ miles in a direct line north of Lake Pontchartrain. The mound has an elevation of between 4 and 5 feet; it is circular in form and has an average diameter of approximately 90 feet. A trench was run from near the center of the mound, extending northeast 47 feet and continuing beyond the edge of the artificial work. This was evidently a domiciliary mound. Two fire beds were discovered. The first … Read more

Choctaw Artifacts

Comparatively few articles are now made by the Choctaw, much of their ancient art having been forgotten. At the present time they purchase the necessary tools and implements at the stores, and other objects are no longer used. The list which follows is believed to include all things of native origin now made by the Choctaw at Bayou Lacomb (1900): Wood Artifacts Mortars and pestles Scrapers, two forms of, used in preparing skins Drum Ball club Blowgun and darts Canoes Leather Artifacts Straps for carrying baskets. Narrow strips used on the ball clubs. Untanned skins used for the heads of … Read more

Choctaw Tanning Method

The hair having been removed, the skin is placed in a mortar, or in a hole cut a log (see image below) which serves the purpose. Eggs and cornmeal mixed with a little water are then poured over the skin, which is thoroughly beaten with a long wooden pestle. The skin is then taken from the mortar and wrung rather dry; a number of small holes are cut around the edge and through these cords are passed, which serve to hold the skin stretched between two upright posts, as shown in plate 12, a. While in this position it is … Read more

Choctaw Pottery

Pipes made by Ahojeobe; small silver ornament

The Choctaw have a strange superstitious belief in connection with the making of pottery. They say that no person except the one who is making the object should see it until after it has been removed from the fire. If another person chances to look on an object while it is being made or before it is burned, the Choctaw believe that it will crack as soon as placed near the fire. Pottery bowls are no longer made, although they are remembered by the living Indians, who recall having seen bowls provided with three small feet; consequently bowls must have … Read more

Choctaw Usage of Horns

Spoons are made by the Choctaw from cow horns (wak lape’she sti’mpa; literally, cow horn spoon). Two good examples are represented in the following image. In describing the manners and customs of the Choctaw, Adair alluded to “their wooden dishes, and spoons made of wood and buffalo horn;” consequently the making of spoons is a continuation of an ancient art.

Choctaw Baskets

The Choctaw are excellent basket makers, although their work at the present time is greatly inferior to that of a generation ago. The best baskets are made of narrow strips of cane, Arundinaria macrosperma (Choctaw, uske), though now, at Bayou Lacomb, they are using the stems of palmetto, Serrenoa serrulata (Choctaw, tala), as cane is no longer found nearby, and to obtain it a journey has to be made to Pearl river, some fifteen or twenty miles away. The baskets now made, with few exceptions, are very crude and rather poorly formed. Brilliant aniline dyes are used in the place … Read more

Choctaw Dyes

The only colors utilized by the Choctaw before they obtained aniline dyes were yellow, red, and black. These, together with the natural cane, gave them four colors to combine in their work. The old Cherokee basket now in the British Museum, known to have been obtained in Carolina in 1721, displays the same colors— yellow, red, and a very dark brown, or black. It is evident that these were the only colors used by the Southern Indians in their basket work. The Choctaw method of making the dye and coloring the material is simple. Yellow – To make a yellow … Read more

Choctaw Dress and Personal Decoration

Cords Narrow strips of the bark of the cypress tree (cupressus disticha; Choctaw, shamgo’lo) serve as cords, which are employed for various purposes. Spanish moss was never used to make ropes. Hair Men wore their hair long enough to enable them to make two braids, one on each side of the head. In front the hair was cut straight across, above the eyebrows. Women allowed their hair to grow very long. Their ancient method of wearing it is shown in the photograph of the old woman, Heleema (Louisa). Metal Ornaments, as pins, earrings, etc., were formerly made by hammering silver … Read more