Oretta Cemetery, Beauregard Parish Louisiana Submitted by Evelyn Cole Date: July 1997 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ORETTA CEMETERY Listing Compiled by Evelyn E. Cole and Roberta B. Doty August 15. 1992 Annotations by La Vaughn H. "LV" Hayes are preceded by LVH Oretta is located between Singer and De Quincy, LA, not very far off LA 27. Turn west near the Oretta fire station on Broadway Road. Follow the pavement to a stop sign on Hargrove Road. Turn right (north). The cemetery is on the right about 1/2 mile on this road. Just before you get to the cemetery, if you are watching for it, you can see one grave in the corner of yard. The story that was told to us was: When ___ LORENZE died and they went to dig the grave, they were told this would be in the cemetery. As you can see, the cemetery property was farther down the road. ============================================================================== == BURLESON, LOTTIE DEC 5 1962 SEP 2 1986 BURNETT, NATO HA MAR 24 1882 FEB 3 1983 BURNETT, ODIS B\D MAY 24 1969 BURNETT, ROBBIE KEITH ---MAY 13 1981--- CAMPBELL, CLIFF JOHNNY 1944 1985 MM-Pvt USARMY CLARK, BOBBY PAUL B\D JAN 12 1987 FOSTER, ANNIE APR 13 1899 DEC 6 1973 [LVH: w/o Thad Foster] FOSTER, DAVID JAN 16 1960 JAN 17 1960 s\o N.A.\EVA FOSTER FOSTER, LATHAN FRANCIS AUG 26 1914 JUL 21 1959 FOSTER, N.A. MAY 15 1936 APR 23 1971 FOSTER, R.O. 1918 1928 FOSTER, ROBERT A JAN 16 1960 AUG 27 1960 FOSTER, THAD JR FEB 16 1925 JAN 26 1968 MM-USARMY WWII [LVH: s/o Thad and Annie (?) Foster] FOSTER, THAD MAY 3 1886 MAR 6 1948 [LVH: s/o John W. and Cora Lee (Havens) Foster, h/o Annie (?) Foster] GEAREN, MARVIN OCT 15 1913 JAN 29 1966 MM-Pvt USARMY WWII HOLLIE, ADA DEC 20 1913 JAN 17 1946 HOLLIE, BABY AUG 8 1942 HOLLIE, BABY JAN 17 1946 HOLLIE, GILBERT NOV 29 1904 MAR 6 1950 HOLLIE, JERRIE WAYNE JUL 21 1941 DEC 25 1959 HOLT, JACK H NOV 25 1955 NOV 19 1988 [BELOVED SON,BROTHER,UNCLE-WE LOVE YOU] KOURTNEY, CHARLIE JUN 1 1900 DEC 20 1981 KOURTNEY, JOHNNY L OCT 13 1960 FEB 19 1961 KOURTNEY, ROSA SEP 22 1905 FEB 18 1983 [BABY DOLL MA] LORENZ, ANNA FEB 19 1907 JUL 5 1986 LORENZ, CHARLES L 1878 1937 [F] LORENZ, DANIEL ANDREW DEC 14 1918 DEC 6 1976 MM-Pfc USARMY WWII LORENZ, EUGENE SEP 16 1943 DEC 27 1951 LORENZ, JOSEPHINE "BARTA" FEB 19 1886 FEB 15 1991 [M] LORENZ, MARY COURTNEY DEC 26 1925 DEC 18 1967 [M] LORENZ, THEODORE R NOV 9 1905 MAR 15 1978 [F] MAIN, WILLIAM DAVID 1935 1976 MM-Pfc USARMY [PHOTO] McKNIGHT, CYNTHIA JAY AUG 5 1896 MAY 4 1991 McKNIGHT, EDWARD DEC 12 1920 NOV 19 1938 McKNIGHT, GEORGE SR MAY 29 1887 APR 15 1957 [F] MORROW, GEO. W. DEC 23 1868 DEC 10 1915 [W.o W.] PARKER, BABY B\D OCT 31 1957 dau\o H.R.PARKER PARKER, HARVEY J FEB 6 1912 JAN 9 1989 h\o THELMA G PARKER [DADDY] PARKER, INFANT B\D JAN 4 1980 inf\o HAROLD PARKER PARKER, KENNETH RAY "HICKEY" OCT 12 1962 NOV 19 1988 [PHOTO] PARKER, STEVE 1948 1949 PARKER, THELMA G JUN 9 1915 AUG 24 1979 w\o HARVEY J PARKER [MAMA] SHEMEZ, ROBERT 1868 APR 11 1917 [SNIDER FUNERAL HOME.DeQUINCY,LA] STEWART, WALTER LEE AUG 22 1923 JAN 16 1993 * WALLACE, H.D. "SNOOKIE" APR 8 1919 JAN 4 1976 [PHOTO] YELLOT, ARTHUR M JUL 8 1946 SEP 7 1966 YELLOT, BABY JUN 27 1942 ============================================================================== ==