James Cemetery, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Jane Parker McManus

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JAMES (OLD) CEMETERY - Rapides Parish

Directions:  Going South on LA Hwy. 107 from Pineville, turn right onto
Paper Mill Road.  Go to front gate of Kraft Paper Mill; get directions and
permission to enter property.  About 1.5 miles behind the plant is a locked
gate, so permission must be obtained in order to get past this gate.  Go
about 2.0 miles down a dirt road that goes up on the levee for another .5
miles.  From the end of the levee road, one must walk approximately .25 or
.5 miles on what was once a good dirt road.  Now it is rough walking.  At
the time the inscriptions were recorded, there was road construction from
another direction that would give easier access to the area.

The small cemetery (10 feet wide at one end and 16 feet at the other end by
50 feet long) was on the left, at the edge of a deep gully formed by flood
waters.  A few years ago Boy Scouts cleared the area, and fenced it with 1"
binding strips and short steel posts.  Two tombstones have been mended with
these same strips and steel rods for support.  On the other side of the deep
gully, we found what appeared to be many lost burials, but no tombstones.
Some of the stones may have washed into the river near the area.  Only five
marked burials were in this enclosure, but there was space for at least
eight.  The headstones face the dirt road.  Tombstone inscriptions were
recorded by Mary Parker Partain, September 1993, and submitted by Jane P.
McManus, July 2000.

Cozby, Infant daughter of Wm. A. & M. Cozby - [no dates]

James, Clarence - 18 Aug 1847 Cotile LA / 16 Oct 1848
     Son of Wm. C.[William Calvit] & M. R.[Mary Rosanna] James

Sleet, Lucretia E.[Reynolds] - 8 Jun 1852 Rapides LA/ 8 Apr 1876, 23 yrs 10
mos
     [1st] Wife of P.[Phillip] J. Sleet,
     Daughter of John & Eliza [James] Reynolds

Reynolds, Eliza, daughter of D. J. James - 17 Sep 1812 / 24 Mar 1856

James, Daniel - 17 Sep 1786 Orange Co. VA / 21 May 1858