Stonewall Cemetery, Bossier Parish, LA
Submitter:  Clifton D. Cardin < cliftondcardin@juno.com >
Official Bossier Parish Historian
6927 U. S. Hwy 80E
Princeton, LA 71067-8445

STONEWALL CEMETERY
Southeast of Bossier City
Bossier Parish, LA
Surveyed  Mar 27, 1999

   Stonewall Cemetery is only one of two cemeteries in Bossier Parish
known to have been moved. It was originally located where the Barksdale
Air Force Base Commissary is now, but was moved in the 1950's to it's new
location. The easiest way to describe the new location, is that it is a
few hundred yards due south of the Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery, off
of Goat Hill Road in southern Bossier Parish. It is legally described as
Government lot 13A, Section 36, Township 17 North, Range 12 West..
   I was taken to this site on March 27, 1999, by Murray Jones of Bossier
City. Murray Jones had seen my cemetery book and had noticed that I did
not have Stonewall listed, but had referred to it in my site locations.
He wasn't able to clearly describe it's location to me, so I had to wait
until he had time to take me there.
   The cemetery is unkept and needs attention. It contains 80 readable
markers and many, many wooden markers placed there in the 1950's when the
burials were moved to this site, on unidentified burial sites. The oldest
headstone there is that of Mary Ann Woodard, who was born October 9, 1859
and died September 21, 1892. Her headstone records she was the wife of T.
M. Woodard. The earliest born person buried there is most likely Louis A.
Taylor, who was born about 1820 and died December 12, 1900 at 80 years of
age.
   The most unique headstone is that of Nathaniel Louis who  was born
November 14, 1878 and died August 14, 1909. His headstone is marked 777,
then 333, then UKT. The deaths of Joe and Lemnon Brown both occurred on
March 24, 1944. They may have been brothers, as they are buried side by
side and have identical headstones. The headstone of William Rogers
reads' ...Earley Blest, instead of Early Blessed..." The headstone of
Sillar Wesley reads that he was 66, but by his birth and death dates, he
would have been 57, I don't know which is correct.
   The headstone of Dave Conway records that he served in the U. S. Army.
If, so he is the only known African-American Union Soldier buried in
Bossier Parish.