Giffin Cemetery, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Jane Parker McManus 

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GRIFFIN CEMETERY - Rapides Parish

Go North on US Hwy. 165 through the town of Ball, and turn left at red light
(Ball Cut-Off Road).  Go 1.3 miles to Springhill Road in sharp curve.  Turn
right and go .2 miles.  Turn left at Boney Street.  Stop at the last house on
right and get permission to go through pasture fence and for further
directions to cemetery.  

After crossing the creek (small shallow stream), we walked approximately a
quarter mile across a pasture into deep woods.  There is a good fence around a
very dense wooded graveyard, probably about a quarter acre in size.  It was so
dense we could not walk inside the enclosure.  Jack crawled under the brush
and briars which almost formed a wall underneath the small pine trees and old
shrubbery, but found no visible tombstones.  From the outside we did sight two
small tombstones, still in upright position.  On the opposite side of the
enclosure we found another stone, which was face down near the fence.  Jack
went over the fence at this point and turned over the stone.   We could find
no other tombstones in this area.  Inscriptions read by Mary Parker Partain
and Jack Fraziar Jr. in May 1995 and submitted by Jane Parker McManus

Griffin, Anna Edna, daughter of M&M J. E. Griffin - 14 Nov 1901 / 22 Oct 1902  
Griffin, William, son of M&M J. E. Griffin - 11 Sep 1900   [only date]    
     [2 small upright stones]

Maxwell, Thomas, son of W. T. & N. A. Maxwell - 5 Feb 1887 / 8 Apr 1890   
     [tombstone face-down on ground]