Powers Cemetery, Caldwell, LA submitted by: James & Deviona Newsom ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** POWERS CEMETERY Directions to the Cemetery: 1. From Olla at the intersection of La 125 and La 127 travel North on La 127 approximately 4.5 miles to junction with Parish Road [PR 620] or Hooterville Road. Travel East on PR 620 approximately 4 miles to La 506. Continue North on La 506 approximately 2.8 miles to the Beaucoup Road or Parish Road 605 [PR 605] immediately past the Roberts Cemetery . Turn East on [PR605] and the Powers Cemetery will be located approximately 0.6 mile on the South Side of the Beaucoup Road [PR 605]. 2. From US 165 at La 506 turn West at the US 165 Kelly Exit. Follow La 506 West approximately 14.2 miles to the Beaucoup Road [Parish Road 605] a dirt gravel road located off the East Side of La 506 immediately past the Roberts Cemetery. Turn East on the Beaucoup Road [PR 605] and the Cemetery will be located approximately 0.6 mile on the South Side of the Beaucoup Road [PR 605] 3. From La 126 turn South on the Hebron Road a dirt gravel road. In approximately 8.5 miles the Hebron Road (or Parish Road 323 once you enter Caldwell Parish) becomes a paved road and when it changes from the dirt gravel road to a paved road it becomes La 506. Continue South on Hebron Road/Parish Road 323/La 506 another 0.9 miles to the Beaucoup Road [PR 605]. Turn East on the Beaucoup Road [PR 605] and the cemetery will be located approximately 0.6 miles on the South Side of the Beaucoup Road [PR 605]. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Carter Matthew Foot: Grandfather 1836 - 1885 Benson Infant Daughter of C. A. & Lucy b/d 11-25-1912 Benson C. A. (Possibly G.A.) b. 10-03-1876 d. 03-17-1963 Benson Lucy P. W/O C. A Benson b. 12-25-1886 d. 12-20-1912 Childress Ludie F. [Infant Daughter of R. P. & A. E. Childress] b. 11-15-1887 d. 09-15-1889 Tombstone broken. Gaugh Mary Laird b. 07-20-1892 d. 01-25-1919 Harris Sallie A. [Daughter of R. B. & B] b. 12-22-1881 d. 12-04-1895 Foot: S.A.H. Heitzell Sarah b. 08-17-1902 d. 07-23-1905 Hendrix Elizabeth Colston 1813 - 1896 Hendrix Hanan Hiram 1811 - 1894 Johnson Mary W/O Godfrey L. Thomas b. 09-28-1826 d. 05-31-1886 Kilby Willie I. b. 10-30-1907 d. 04-25-1909 Kilby Infant Daughter of S. D. & S. E. b. 10-10-1906 d. 10-11-1906 Kinnison W. N. b. 12-30-1850 d. 04-10-1910 Kinnison W. T. b. 03-21-1879 d. 04-05-1902 Kinnison Infant Daughter of Philip & Rachel E. December 17, 1912 Kinnison Annie E. W/O W. N. Kinnison b. 08-06-1857 d. 11-01-1923 Laird Eunice Lavonia b. 01-16-1913 d. 12-19-1939 Laird Infant Son of H. N. & Lucy Top: BABY b. 08-15-1907 d. 08-15-1907 Laird Juley P. Mother b. 06-07-1851 d. 04-24-1917 Laird John Nelson [Double Marker] b. 02-28-1883 d. 03-08-1960 Lucy Kinnison Married 01-17-1906 b. 04-14-1889 d. 01-04-1969 Laird James L. S SGT U. S. Army Air Core WWII b. 12-29-1910 d. 11-27-1987 Laird Eunice 12-20-1979 Funeral Home Marker Almost hidden in some shrubs! Riser Funeral Home Laird Martha L. b. 02-28-1860 d. 07-22-1906 Tombstone broken into three pieces. Laird J. H. Father b. 02-03-1855 d. 04-20-1928 Patton Sarah F. W/O S. H. Patton b. 08-12-1859 d. 02-29-1916 Patton Samuel H. Funeral Home Marker Died: August 5, 1940 Marker Very Rusty, but it appears to be a Age 87 Years Riser Funeral Home Marker Patton J. H. b. 04-08-1892 d. 10-06-1939 POWERS ELIZABETH FURGERSON Foot: E.F.P. NEE THOMAS Wife of M. S. Powers Born: 1798 Died: May 14, 1899 Sears Osward C. [Infant Son of M. L. & A. O. Sears] b. 06-24-1905 d. 03-25-1908 Tombstone broken & foot marker nearly out of the ground. Thomas Godfrey L. b. 02-07-1819 d. 04-19-1912 Watson Effie V. b. 08-12-1899 d. 06-28-1910 Watson Julius H. [Son of Coma & Annie] b. 10-09-1895 d. 07-20-1899 Tombstone leaning badly. Watson Sidney Gilbert [Son of Coma & Annie] b. 01-13-1897 d. 12-19-1899 Watson Rubly B. [Daughter of Coma & Annie] b. 08-08-1891 d. 08-30-1900 Foot marker lying beside tombstone. Watson Blanche [Daughter of J. C. & Annie] b. 01-15-1905 d. 07-02-1910 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - One grave marked only with two bricks! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Powers Cemetery file was complied and contributed by: James & Deviona Newsom. The recording was made 22 June 2002.