Hardscrabble Cemetery, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Source: The Louisiana Genealogical Register, June 1977
Submitted to the Louisiana Genealogical Register by L. B. Jackson and 
Mrs. A.A. Watson

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HARDSCRABBLE CEMETERY
From Lecompte on Forest Hill Highway to Humpy Strange Road, 5.4 miles.  
Go to Woods road on left called Old Indian Creek Road (100 years old) about 
50 yards to right (few stone are readable). 

By her Side Rests the Offspring of a Tender Mother:
Haleot T. Burges Son
Born October 16, 1835
Died February 22, 1836

Lovatt Alexander Burges
Born February 10, 1839
Died September 26, 1840

John Henderson Burges
Born July 22, 1840
Died September 24, 1841

Mary Mellissa Burges
Born January 9, 1842
Died March 4, 1842

Harriet Burges
Born November 5, 1851
Died July 9, 1855

(Note) All of the above are on one slab
To my Wife 
Mary Emily Smith
Died October 28, 1847 
Age 25

Wife of
Austin W. Burges
Harriet Mary Xavier Terrell
Born June 9, 1815
Died November 4, 1851
Age 36