Cemetery: Choctaw Island Baptist Church & Cemetery, Natchitoches Parish la. Cemetery read by Gaytha Thompson & Kay Thompson Brown, May 1998 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ************************************************ TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If you are searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. CHOCTAW ISLAND BAPTIST CHURCH AND CEMETERY AFRICAN AMERICAN From the Grand Ecore Bridge travel 2.6 Miles on Hwy 6 toward Clarence and turn right onto La 1225 South and go 1.6 miles and the Choctaw Island Baptist Church and Cemetery will be on your left side on the edge of the road. CHOCTAW ISLAND BAPTIST CHURCH Plaque on front of Church reads: Choctaw Island Baptist Church organized by Brother Acia Edwards 1862. Rev. Pompey Holmes first pastor Deacons: Harry Williams, Henry Turner, Rufus Nash, John B. Williams Sr, John Colan Allen Marcilla, Tresurer Sister Ella Williams, Secretery Rev Mack Jackson, Pastor May 18 AD 1869 A.L. 5969 M.W. Universal Grand Lodge A.F. and A.M. T.J. Hawkins M.W.G.M. M.L. Dugy, R.W.G.S. CHOCTAW ISLAND CEMETERY There are approximately 35 graves that have concrete slabs over them with no markings. There are 4 graves with white wooden crosses with no markings. There are approximately 8 grave sites that are sunken with no markings. ALLEN, ? - B: 1880 D: 1907 ALLEN, Olivia S.-B: 1908 D: 1983 Gone But Not Forgotten BAKER, Ludie Taylor - B: 7 October 1916 D: 2 July 1989 BRADEN, Charlie - B: 1940 D: 1975 One Beloved Brother Weep Not My Soul Is In Heaven BRADEN, Lugene - B: 8 April 1905 D: 9 January 1989 Mother, Asleep in Jesus BRADEN, Raf?ul - B: 2 April 1899 D: 31 May 1970 Father - Asleep in Jesus BRADY, Howard - B: 15 March 1888 D: 20 October 1940 BRADY, Louisiana - B: 12 January 1872 D: 30 December 1947 BARRETT, Essie - No Dates BRAXTON, Gayhell L.- B: 3 August 1926 D: 3 July 1982 Beloved Wife & Mother BRYANT, Charles Ray - B: 1952 D: 1987 5P4 US Army Vietnam BUSH, Josh - B: 1 July 1897 D: 5 February 1963 La Pvt Co. B. 304 Steb Reg QMC WWI CISTAND, Martha - B: 1883 D: 1964 COLBERT, King - B: 10 Apr 1886 D: 4 February 195 COLEMAN, Francis - 1880 - 1957 COMBS, Houston - B: 20 November 1872 D: 1 July 1959 COMBS, Mary Louise - B: 30 August 1884 D: 18 August 1961 DEBLIEUX, Sarah - B: 11 December 1877 D: 14 April 1986 DYAS, Albert - B: 10 June 1889 D: 23 May 1973 DYAS, Alton B. - B: 10 May 1915 D:15 April 1989 DYAS, Magerlean - B: 30 March 1917 D: 7 September 1989 DYAS, Moses - B: 28 April 1919 D: 7 June 1945 LA. Pt. U.S. Army 1349 Eng. DYAS, Olivia Lewis - B: 22 April 1890 9: 8 May 1992 DYAS, Willie B. - B: 15 July 1921 D: 23 December 1991 Pfc. U.S. Army WW II EDWARDS, Ethel Mae - B: 10 November 1928 d: 23 August 1986 EDWARDS, Josephine - No Dates EDWARDS, Nola - No Dates EDWARDS, Peter James - B: 1 September 1930 D: 3 August 1955? LA. Pfc. 467 Sig Am Con Co. EDWARDS, Wendell - B: 17 June 1954 D: 4 July 1979 Pfc. U.S. Army Vietnam GILBERT, Edgar L. - B: 20 July 1945 D: 31 October 1971 GILBERT Sr., O'Neill - B: 15 March 1944 D: 14 December 1994 GISTAND, Martha - B: 1883 D: 1964 or 1961 (unreadable last date) GOLSTON, David Lee - B: 7 March 1959 D:10 July 1994 In Loving Memory / Son / Where The Flowers Bloom Forever HALL, Cleveland - B: 1921 D: 1985 Tec 5 U.S. Army HALL, George - B: 14 March 1875 D: 7 February 1963 HALL, Robert - B: 1880 D: 1959 HALL, Sarah - B: 15 March 1875 D: 16 January 1969 HARRIS, Rev. Alfred - B: 3 November 1873 D: 9 December 1953 HOLDEN, Margaret - B: 6 January 1940 D: 26 March 1997 In Loving Memory / May His Peace Be With You Till We Meet Again HOMES, Sr., Nathaniel - B: 11 July 1912 9: 2 January 1983 JACKSON, David - B: 20 March 1909 D: 16 May 1987 JACKSON, Ivory - B: 16 February D: 13 September 1982 JACKSON, J. Earlean - B: 21 March 1919 D: 13 April 1989 JACKSON, John - B: 2 Oct 1819 D: 4 June 1911 JACKSON, Nodeon - B: 11 March 1951 D:10 Feb.1984 JACKSON, Phillip O. - B: 10 January 1881 D: 12 January 1968 Our Beloved Father / Gone But Not Forgotten JOHNSON, Ina Mae - B: 13 April 1922 D: 30 May 1993 LEWIS, Elenora Hall - B: 6 Apri1 1882 D: 1960 LEWIS, Maurice - B: 10 January 1953 D: 9 March 1982 A1C U.S. Air Force LEWIS, Willie - No Dates MARCELLA, Alfred - B: 30 June 1921 9: 27 November 1972 Sgt. U.S. Army WW II McLEMORE, Samuel B. - B: 4 July 1940 D: 4 June 1966 NASH, Aline - B: 12 September 1902 D: 28 July 1961 NASH JR, Joe - B: 1906 D: 1 November 1975 NORA, Rosa Bell - B: 11 January 1910 D: 23 July 1987 PAYNE, Alemay - B: 1 August 1918 D: 2 March l991 In Loving Memory Of Our Mother / Walkers Family PHILLIPS, Elemia - B: 27 May 1920 D: 30 October 1990 PHILLIPS, Tom H. - B: 2 May 1924 D: Nov 20, 1960 La Pfc. U.S. Army WWII RIVERS, Georgina - B: 1887 D: 1970 TURNER, Gertrude - B: 1 April 1890 D: 7 June 1980 TURNER, Oren - B: 17 March 1898 9: 30 June 1978 WESTERN, Leola -B: 4 June 1904 D: 29 May 1992 WILLIAMS, Doris - No dates WILLIAMS, George - B: April 1885 D: 10 July 1950 Gone But Not Forgotten WILLIAMS, Rose - B: 13 November 1910 D: 18 June 1977 WINSLOW, Lucenda - B: 6 March 1907 D: 17 October 1966 In Memory of Mother