Jackson/Sutton Cemetery, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Jane Parker McManus

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Directions:  From US Hwy. 71 in Cheneyville, turn East at the signal light 
(Klock Street) and continue through the town to Bayou Beouf.  Turn right on 
Bayou Road, and follow the bayou until it makes a sharp turn away from the road.  
On the site where the old Pearce home once graced the land, there is now a 
Government Housing Project extending beyond the original home-place and part 
of the field.  

For many years, this small fenced cemetery was on Crescent Plantation, the home 
of Medora Marshall Pearce.  In the 1960's, four tombs were visible with an iron 
fence on the upper part of the bayou side (to the right if you were facing the 
plantation home).*  This burial site was ultimately destroyed, and the land was 
cultivated.  Today, there is nothing to indicate there ever was a cemetery in this 
location.  Fortunately the information and inscriptions on the tombstones were 
copied and preserved by Mary Lea McNutt of Cheneyville, who has graciously offered 
them to us for our cemetery series.

Sutton, Joshua - died abt. 1822
	Sacred to the Memory of Joshua Sutton of Georgia
Sutton, Rachel Williams - died in 1836
	Sacred to the memory of Rachel Williams, wife of Joshua Sutton

Jackson, Emily Ann Sutton, wife of Reuben Jackson - died 5 Oct 1844
Jackson, Reuben - died in 1847
	Sacred to the memory of Reuben Jackson

* Mary Parker Partain remembers this little graveyard being across the Bayou Road from 
where she lived in Cheneyville in the early 1960's.  Her children played in the area 
and remembered there being "a few tombstones inside a little iron fence."  By that 
time the big "Crescent" house had been razed, the huge trees remained until cleared 
for Housing Project.