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




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Location of cemetery:
T. 6S R. 5E
Lot 8 of Section 15
Fractional SE 1/4

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

Source:  Inscriptions were copied from the headstones by Clark Forrest, Jr., Rt. 2, 
Box 397B, Holden, La. 70744, on October 8, 1972.

1. Mattie A. Drumwright
1854 - 1922

2. Gee Nichols Drumwright
1859 - 1937

3. Mansfield Drumwright
Son of Gee N. And M. Drumwright
May 1, 1885 - May 3, 1943

4. Julia E. Sharp
Wife of Mansfield Drumwright
Mar. 17, 1882 - Mar. 16, 1944

The cemetery is located about one mile northwest of the town of Holden.  It is situated near 
the east bank of the Tickfaw River and south of the hard-surfaced parish road which crosses 
the river over Courtney Bridge.  It is shown on the U.S. Geological Survey Map, Amite 
Quadrangle, 1959, as the Drumwright Cemetery.  The cemetery is enclosed in a new storm fence.  
The graves are pointed in a slightly north-west direction.  There appeared to be no unmarked 
graves.

On January 23, 1973, Mrs. Lucille Drumwright Comish informed me that both her great-grandfather 
and great-grandmother were buried in unmarked graves in the Drumwright Cemetery.  He was Gee 
Drumwright who was born in Virginia in 1810 and died in Livingston Parish in January, 1870.  
She was Zeuriah Singletary who was from Louisiana and a widow when Gee Drumwright married her 
in 1842.