Cemetery, Schmidt Cemetery, LaSalle Parish, La.




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Compiled by Bobby Brown May 28, 1979
Thank You to Booby for reading and allowing the addition of this cemetery to
the archives.

Submitted by Kathy LeMay Kelly, P.O. Box 219, Trout, La. 71371

SCHMIDT CEMETERY

This cemetery is very hard to locate and is accessible only by walking. To
reach this cemetery take highway 8 West of Jena, turn right at Eden Community
going through the Frances Community turn left on the Old Big Bend Road go
about 5 to 7 miles until you reach a high-line. Turn left, which is going
toward Little River, go about 2 miles and the graded road will stop, continue
down high-line on un-graded road. Go about 1 mile until you come to high-line
pole # 187 turn right on road used by hunters. Continue on this road about 1 ½
miles until you come to a sharp turn to the left, at this curve is evidence of
an old home place. Stop vehicle here, take dim trail to left following steep
bluff edge for about 1/4 mile until you suddenly approach a square marker
about 4 feet tall, among tall pines and thick under brush. Near the only
marker is evidence of a small fenced plot with maybe 3 graves, over them is a
running Rose and Bride's Wreath. Just a few feet away stands the only marker
erected to the memory of John Henry Schmidt, Sr. & Jr. who both died July
1898. 

The following story was told to me by my Grand-Mother Mrs. Mary Hudson Price
concerning their deaths. John Henry Schmidt Jr. was an epileptic and had got
in the back water of Little River in effort to rescue his son, father and son
both drown. A cousin of the Schmidt family relates the Schmidts were born in
Germany and sold ammunition to both the North and South during the Civil War.
They owned a boat named Jena, in honor of Jena, Germany, that they used to
transport guns and ammunition from Germany to the war torn new world. The boat
named Jena was burned below the Schmidt Estate in an inlet just out of the
main channel of Little River to prevent it from getting into the hands of
Union soldiers.

Schmidt, John Henry         March 16, 1832     July 1, 1898
Schmidt, John Henry         Oct. 10, 1878      July 1, 1898