Cemetery: Dowden, Natchitoches Parish La
Submitted by Jane Parker McManus (mcmanus@linknet.net).

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DOWDEN CEMETERY


Located in Natchitoches Parish, in Kisatchie National Forest.  Take Highway
119 to Long Leaf Vista Road, several miles.  Turn right on Parish Road 311,
right on Parish Road 342, left on Parish Road 347.  This small family cemetery
is fenced; its fence being on the boundary of Red Dirt Game Preserve.

Most of the stones are hand-lettered, some skillfully done, others crudely
printed.  Located on a sandy hill, little maintenance is necessary; however,
flowers had been placed on the graves as recently as the past year or so. 
Tombstone inscriptions recorded by Mary Parker Partain, Feb 1990.


McLaren, Adam F. - 28 Oct 1880/21 Apr 1936   "We miss you dear Father, but God
knows best.  When he called you to your home of rest."
McLaren, Hattie B. - 15 Dec 1887/10 Aug 1972    Mother
McLaren, Elcie O. - 3 Apr 1921/14 May 1928  "Oh darling how we mis [SIC] you. 
We loved you but God loved best.  Only budded on earth to bloom in Heaven."
McLaren, Longo - 25 Sep 1909/4 Nov 1911     

Dowden, Martha M. - 3 Jan 1862/20 May 1940     Mother
     "Gone home to Jesus where grief or sorrow pain and death are felt and
feared no more"
Dowden, W. M. - 1 Mar 1857/6 Jan 1923
     "Asleep in Jesus blessed sleep from which none ever wakes to weep"
Dowden, Shelton A., son of W. M. & Martha Dowden - 7 Dec 1882/28 Aug 1886 
Dowden, Marion, son of W. M. & Martha Dowden - 31 Jul 1896 [ONLY DATE]

[2 UNMARKED GRAVES - PROBABLY CHILDREN]
[1 UNMARKED GRAVE - PROBABLY CHILD, ALONE IN LAST ROW]






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