Cemetery: Bludworth Cemetery, Natchitoches Parish, La



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BLUDWORTH CEMETERY
Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana

The Bludworth Cemetery is located some five miles west of the Kisatchie
Forestry Work Center, which is about twenty miles south of the LA Hwy 6 and LA
Hwy 117 junction at Hagewood, LA, eight miles west of Natchitoches, LA. The
cemetery is situated on lands formerly owned by Poitevent Bludworth (middle
1800's) and later owned by the Dowden family (J. A. 'Andy' Dowden and son,
Squire Edward Andrew Dowden, and grandson, James Andrew Dowden). 

Well populated in the early 1900's by farmers and stockmen (horses, cattle,
and sheep), the area boasted a church and a school: the Lone Star School. It
is felt that the oldest marked burial in this cemetery is the gravesite of the
wife of Poitevent Bludworth, Mary Elisabeth Applewhite Bludworth. A large
stone marker is located nearby, but it has no inscription to indicate the
burial of her husband. 

There are a number of other stones of various sorts which appear to mark
unidentified burial sites. While the cemetery is fenced and well marked, it is
located within the Kisatchie National Forest acreage, and the roads are often
impassable. 

************** Peace in the Valley ***************

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ALFORD, J. J. ( May 1, 1862 / May 23, 1929 ) 
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ALFORD, Lennor E. ( February 3, 1894 / August 9, 1895 ) 
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ALFORD, Lloyd W. ( November 12, 1901 / December 29, 1902 ) 
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ALFORD, Kathleen C. ( November 27, 1870 / August 18, 1919 ) 
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ALFORD, Mrytie Helen ( September 14, 1933 / July 10, 1934 ) 
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BLUDWORTH, M. Elisabeth A. ( Died March 9, 1845 ) 
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DOWDEN, S. E. A. ( March 20, 1861 / October 18, 1914 ) 

(Son of J. A. Dowden and Narcissus Davis)

(Husband of Sarah Emmarilla Hildebrand ( Nov. 22, 1855 / Nov. 28, 1961)

(Buried at Pine Grove Cemetery, Hagewood, LA)

(Father of James Andrew Dowden ( April 20, 1886 / Nov. 14, 1973)

(Buried Middle Creek Cemetery, Sabine Parish, LA)

(Father of Robert Allie Dowden ( Sept. 28, 1881 / June 6, 1962)

(Buried Pine Grove Cemetery, Hagewood, LA)
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MOSS, Jessie Julius ( April 16, 1905 / March 1, 1925 ) 
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MONTGOMERY, Johanna E. ( May 21, 1888 / November 22, 1914 ) 

( nee Alford)
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***Information furnished by the Beasley and Dowden Families***