Felder Cemetery, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
File prepared by D.N. Pardue



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From the book entitled "The Free State - A History and Place-Names Study
of Livingston Parish" by the members of the Livingston Parish American
Revolution Bicentennial Committee in cooperation with the Livingston 
Parish Police Jury and the Louisiana American Revolution Bicentennial
Commission, 1976.  Reprinted by permission.  Dedicated to the memory of
Reuben Cooper and Raymond Riggs.

FELDER CEMETERY  When Hugh Jenks, a prominent Port Vincent businessman

now deceased, acquired a substantial tract of land north of that

community, his property contained an old burial ground called Felder's

Cemetery, which was then one acre of land on the east bank of Gray's 

Creek.  He decided in 1944 to add four more acres to the cemetery, and

thus deeded five acres, more or less, to the community, bringing the

front boundary line out to La. Hwy. 16, Pete's Highway.

     In the oldest section of the cemetery, some of the tombstones in-

dicate burial dates as far back as 1823.  According to some older res-

idents of the community, even older graves were never marked or their

markers were lost.

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