Bankston Cemetery, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
File prepared by Sherry Sanford




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Bankston Cemetery
Northwest of Holden, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
T. 6S R. 5E
NE 1/4  NE 1/4

1980, Published by Edward Livingston Historical Association, Inc., P.O. Box
67, Livingston, La. 70754-0067

Oldest birth date from inscription: Willmuth Woodard Picket (No. 3)
1785 - June 29, 1861

Oldest burial date from inscription:  Willmuth Woodard Picket (No. 3)
1785 - June 29, 1861

This cemetery is located between the towns of Holden and Livingston.  It is
situated one mile north of U.S. Highway 190 near the junction of the
north-south Smith Road with another parish road which runs east-west and is
unnamed.  The cemetery is on the west side of the hard-surfaced Smith Road. 
It is shown on the U.S. Geological Survey Map, Amite Quadrangle, 1959, as the
Bankston Cemetery.  The cemetery consists of only a small area which is
enclosed by a wire fence with treated posts.  There appeared to be a few
unmarked graves.

Source:  Clark Forrest, Jr., Rt. 1 Box 237B, Holden, La.  70744, who visited
the cemetery on October 8, 1972.

1. Infant son of John Simpson Hutchinson

2. Ina Hutchinson
Aug. 20, 1903 - Dec. 1903

3. Willmuth Woodard Picket
Wife of W.W. Ware
1785 - June 29, 1861

4. Infant son of Simp and Stella Glascock

5. Odell Glascock
Infant daughter of Ethel and George M. Glascock

6. Norwood Galscock
Infant son of Ethel and George M. Glascock

7. Ethel M. Glascock
Apr. 9, 1897 - Mar. 13, 1955

8. Emily F. Everett
Wife of Howell J. Bankston
Sept. 28, 1858 - Sept. 27, 1892

9. Howell James Bankston
Aug. 24, 1840 - Aug. 3, 1913

10. Maxwell Oddner Hodges
Aug. 4, 1892 - Apr. 22, 1924