OLD SPARTA CEMETERY, Bienville Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Lynelle Stevenson Date: Dec 1997 ************************************************ Submitted to the LAGenWeb Archives ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Once the parish seat of Bienville Parish, Sparta was a thriving town with its own courthouse, newspaper, etc. There is no trace of it now except for the cemetery. ----------NAME--------------BORN--------DIED Bates, Annie Hamm --- 8/31/1880 Bates, Annie May --- 05/10/1898 --- 10/04/1900 Bates, Arnold H. --- 07/08/1888 --- 12/04/1968 Bates, Emma Fisher --- 01/02/1897--- 04/15/1979 Bates, Fannie --- 1858 --- 1945 Bates, Jewel D. --- 10/09/1882 --- 02/19/1912 Bates, Joe --- 11/14/1873 --- 02/06/1954 Bates, Mrs Arvia I. --- 08/30/1865 --- 06/28/1944 Bates, Nancy Ellen Strickland ---11/13/1883 --- 03/14/1971 Bates, Oscar L. --- 02/26/1856 --- 04/18/1898 Bates, W.J. --- 08/30/1866 --- 05/25/1931 Blackstock, Kenneth --- 07/18/1898 --- 08/21/1920 Crowson, Lamar Crowson, Mattie Crowson, Richard Moore --- 12/20/1812 --- 04/27/1885 Davis, Eula --- 07/17/1874 --- 12/06/1890 Durham, Fannie Durham, Phill Edwards, Dudley --- 05/20/1878 --- 10/12/1880 Fouts, Thomas Jefferson Jr.--- 06/26/1862 --- 08/01/1866 Freeman, Floye S. --- 05/03/1924--- Freeman, John C. --- 03/28/1918--- Givens, Nettie Elsie --- 10/31/1925 --- 10/31/1925 Givens, Thomas Monroe --- 10/31/1921 --- 10/31/1921 Gregory, W.W. --- age 65 --- 10/13/1950 Gregory, William Louis --- 07/30/1905 --- 12/01/1929 Ham, Annie Bates --- 08/31/1880 --- 08/15/1958 Ham, Fannie Mae --- 05/25/1919 --- 02/01/1965 Ham, Irene Plunkett --- 08/17/1924 Ham, Joe B. --- 11/14/1873 --- 02/06/1954 Ham, William J. --- 03/12/1914 --- 09/19/1974 Hamilton, Marvin --- 02/28/1981--- Hamm, infant son of J.C. --- 02/02/1919 --- 02/02/1919 Hamm, infant son of J.C. --- 07/01/1922--- 07/01/1922 Hamm, Melton --- 09/05/1897--- 06/22/1918 W.J. Harrison --- 06/18/1811 --- 12/30/1884 Head, James Robert (judge) --- 06/25/1824 --- 01/27/1874 Hightower, E.H. --- 08/27/1856--- 02/04/1884 Hightower, T.J. --- 09/28/1830--- 02/15/1885 Howell, Robert B. Sr --- 08/17/1838 --- 02/18/1890 Huckaby, Carl Sr --- 08/19/1924 --- 06/23/1978 Huckaby, Grace C. --- 09/30/1947--- Huckaby, Jim --- 03/29/1901--- 06/29/1934 Huckaby, Joe J. --- 09/05/1874 --- 11/19/1951 Huckaby, Mrs Della --- 02/20/1874 --- 07/06/1920 James, Amanda James, Amee J. --- 10/17/1848 --- 02/03/1898 James, Billie James, Henry J. --- 11/10/1866 --- 08/21/1946 James, Johnnie James, Leah James, Mattie James, Sallie Moon --- 10/20/1869 --- 11/13/1947 James, William Mays, Elizabeth Williamson Mays, William C. McCrary, James H. --- 05/06/1827 --- 06/27/1851 Moon, G.W. --- 04/06/1839--- 08/14/1906 Moon, Mrs G.W. --- 07/21/1837 --- 02/27/1915 Murphy, Durwood G. --- 11/01/1909 --- 05/02/1973 Murphy, Edrie H. --- 11/29/1915 Murphy, Joe Henry --- 02/01/1871--- 01/08/1953 Murphy, Lela May Stewart --- 10/06/1878 --- 02/27/1941 Murphy, Letcher Cox --- 05/04/1910--- 11/29/1913 Murphy, Minnie Bates --- 08/06/1890--- 09/14/1954 Murphy, Thomas J. --- 09/03/1882--- 03/09/1962 Pipes, Ada A. (w/o A.G.) --- 02/21/1880--- Pullig, Cliffie Murphy --- 10/10/1893--- 02/01/1959 Pullig, Lillian Murphy --- 02/09/1896 --- 03/29/1960 Pullig, Missouri Ann Southern ---02/14/1854 --- 05/22/1921 Pullig, R.A. --- 01/01/1882 --- 10/26/1910 Pullig, Thomas A. --- 11/22/1819 --- 09/29/1896 Pullig, Thomas G. --- 06/02/1886 --- 09/17/1970 Pullig, Wyatt Elmer --- 08/19/1888 --- 11/18/1985 Richardson, Algie C. Tarver--- 02/06/1853 --- 03/10/1890 Richardson, Jesse D. --- 1883 --- 1904 Rowell, Barna Harrell --- 1915 --- 1917 Rowell, Caleb M. --- 09/29/1833--- Rowell, infant son of BC and Jennie Rowell, Leolie --- 10/21/1916 --- 11/28/1916 Sheen, Henry --- 11/10/1881 --- 09/11/1883 Sprawls, F. M. --- 11/20/1849 --- 09/01/1879 Stewart, Carrie dau of John and Orie Stewart, Jimmie son of John and Orie Stewart, John E. --- 03/29/1841 --- 09/09/1900 Stewart, Orrie Ann --- 06/23/1845 --- 02/11/1911 Strickland, Henry Clay --- 04/19/1888--- 09/30/1962 Strickland, Nancy Ellen --- 11/13/1883--- 03/14/1971 Upshaw, Eric Denver --- 1906 --- 1981 Vise, Harvard --- 10/23/1905--- 01/16/1972 Vise, Henry K. --- 12/29/1899--- 04/29/1975 Vise, James M. --- 11/08/1879--- 07/02/1918 Vise, Judy --- 11/04/1922--- Vise, Para Lee --- 02/18/1912--- Whitley, Delitha Loe --- 12/09/1824 --- 05/08/1907 Whitlow, C.P. --- 02/08/1845 --- 10/30/1884 Wise, James M. --- 11/08/1879 --- 07/02/1915 Womack, Ava Lue --- 11/13/1921--- Womack, John D. --- 05/05/1914 --- 06/02/1984 -End-