Caldwell Parish Louisiana Archives - Caldwell Parish Old Cemetery
This inventory was taken on November 20, 2002, by Carole Ann Hall-Zoebel
and Grover Cleveland Hall, jr. 

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Caldwell Parish Old Cemetery
 
This cemetery is a few miles North East of Columbia, on Louisiana State Hwy 4.  It is located 
just off the highway, but is very hard to find. It cannot be seen from the Highway or the dirt 
road to the north of it.  A neighboring property owner took us too it. There was an old piece 
of red plastic tied in a tree on the Highway side of the cemetery, but this was fall and it 
blended in.  Until we were on the cemetery property it was not noticed.

I was told by the neighboring property owner, that the property the cemetery is located on is  
owned by a lumber company.  There is a fence around the cemetery, it is bob-wire and in poor 
condition.  All fence post were broken and the bob wire was on the ground.

To the north of the cemetery  there is a dirt road  coming off east of  Hwy 4, and a second 
fence, in better condition. This fence  is  between the cemetery and the road. 

The cemetery is in very poor condition.  With some of the markers broken, there was a fallen 
tree on one of the markers.  There were several mounds without markers and some indentations 
in the ground that could be a graves.  The indentations were the size of an adult grave and 
they were collapsing in the centers the length of the graves.  I estimate there were at least 
20 graves without markers.