First Cemetery, Cameron, Louisiana
Submitter: Beverly Delaney
Date: Jan. 2000

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                      FIRST CEMETERY OF CAMERON
                             CAMERON,LA.

The first cemetery in Cameron was located behind the Hebert Theriot homeplace on the Henry property. 
It was started in the early 1800's when very few people lived in Leesburg as it was called then. 
The area is just a few yards south west of the parish courthouse under oak trees which are probably 
more than one hundred years old. Hurricane Audrey did extensive damage to the cemetery leaving only 
2 markers and graves. The oldest graves are all in one plot.

In 1946, the skeleton of an airplane pilot still fastened in his seat belt was found on Broussard's 
Beach. His unidentified remains were buried here. The last person to be buried here was an accountant 
who lived in Cameron and did income tax service for the public. He died in 1950.