Cemetery: Perritt Cemetery, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Kelly Christian Priestly, troubles @ bayou.com
Date:  Feb. 2000



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Perritt Cemetery
Survey made 29 February 2000

Directions:  From Interstate 20 at Arcadia, LA, take Hwy 151 North 5.1 miles.
Turn left on Field Road and go 3.4 miles (paved road turns to gravel road upon 
entering Claiborne Parish; will also pass Macedonia Cemetery on the left).  
Park and locate 4 huge oak trees on right hand side of road, approximately 75 
yards out.  The two Perritt markers are underneath the center oak tree.

Notes:  Both Perritt markers are broken but still readable.  Jane Perritt's 
grave is sunken in about two feet.  According to an elder, at one time there 
were more graves here, but I could find no sign of other graves or markers.

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NAME                     BORN            DIED            Inscriptions

Perritt, Jane            15 Mar 1820     22 Dec 1901     "Wife of William Perritt"
                                                         "Our Mother's Grave"
                                                         "Holy Bible"
                                                         "Alas she has left us her 
                                                         spirit has fled.  Her body 
                                                         now slumbers along with the 
                                                         dead."

Perritt, William         17 Jul 1809     05 Nov 1883     "Husband of Jane Perritt"
                                                         "My Husband's Grave"
                                                         "Holy Bible"
                                                         "Sleep husband dear and take 
                                                         thy rest.  God call you home 
                                                         he thought it best."

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