Cemetery: Rochelle Cemetery, Grant Parish, Louisiana
Source: The Colfax Chronicle Volume 122, Number 23,Thursday, June 4, 1998
Submitted to   USGENWEB   -   byKay Thompson Brown250 Dupont AveMadison Tn 37115Diggersinc@aol.com


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THE ROCHELLE CEMETERY

The Rochelle Cemetery, located near Georgetown in the uppermost corner of
Grant Parish, has been abandoned for nearly 30 years. The first graves were
discovered recently by Grant Parish jail inmates were working under the
direction of jailer Carrol Perkins.

 One grave marker was inscribed with "P.C.Street, C.O.B. 37 GA INF, CSA".
 Also found was that of Percy Bennett, who wasborn Aug. 2, 1871 in
 London, England and died in Grant Parish in 1914. As the inmates continued
 to work, three more iron-fenced family plots were located and were being cleared
 and cleaned up, cutting through years of underbrush, briars, and garbage. Located
 near Georgetown, "Rochelle" was a huge company town of sawmill employees and their 
families. It provided a home for more than 1,000 persons,most employed by the mill.
 During its heyday, it was just as large as Colfax today. Of course, as time passed
 and the sawmill closed down, people moved from thearea, leaving behind deceased
 loved ones in the cemetery, where many of the inhabitants and employees were buried.