Union Hill Cemetery, Rapides Parish Louisiana Submitted by Jane Parker McManus ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** UNION HILL CEMETERY - RAPIDES PARISH From LA Hwy. 28, turn South in Gardner onto LA Hwy. 121. Go through the community of Hineston and turn left on LA Hwy. 112. [Note: There are 2 LA Hwy. 112's in this area, but this one is named Union Hill Road.] About 9.6 miles down LA Hwy. 112 (Union Hill Road), Union Hill Cemetery is located on a hill on the left (East side) of highway. The cemetery is divided by a driveway through the middle, and tombstone inscriptions were recordedas a separate section in the back, and then from the left side from the back fence to front gate by Mary Parker Partain, May 1991, and submitted by Jane Parker McManus on 20 January 2000. [Back Section from left]: Johnson, Jesse - 3 Mar 1917 / 1 Jan 1980 Father Johnson, Beatrice - 19 Mar 1917 / [no dates] Mother [above 2 burials are on double stone] Cloud, Virgie J. - 11 Jun 1903 / 15 Sep 1975 Cloud, Patrick M. - 7 Jul 1895 / 9 May 1981 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Johnson, Eva P. - 24 Oct 1914 / [no dates] Johnson, Everette M. - 16 Dec 1911 / 1 Oct 1988 [above 2 burials are on double stone] See, Walter - 24 Dec 1919 / 24 Aug 1982, Pvt. US Army WW2 See, Lucille S. - 15 Aug 1931 / 31 Mar 1981 [above 2 burials are on double stone] See, Nathaniel - 18 Aug 1989 [handwritten on blue cross, at foot of See Doublestone] [infant burial - no information] Johnson, Calvin Almo - 17 Aug 1938 / 20 Sep 1977 Johnson, Calvin Keith - 29 Oct 1964 / 11 Mar 1983 [above 2 burials have identical concrete slabs, side by side] Willis, Ronald Rex - 1 Jun 1962 / 5 Aug 1978 Son Aultman, Willie Rex - 6 Jul 1917 / 7 Aug 1983, Cpl. US Army WW2 Father Aultman, Myrtle J. - 11 Feb 1917 / [no dates] Mother [above 2 burials are on double stone] Carruth, Van Paul - 26 Oct 1898 / 19 Oct 1979 Father Carruth, Mamie Strother - 5 Mar 1915 / [no dates] Mother [above 2 burials are on double stone] Ray, Sandra G. - 4 May 1947 / [no dates] Wife/Mother Ray, Carvis L. - 9 Mar 1946 / 15 Jun 1984 Husband/Father [above 2 burials are on double stone] - Married 19 Mar 1966 Eaves, Jacqueline D. - 27 Jan 1964 / 19 Apr 1964 Eaves, Robert G. Jr. - 20 Dec 1964 / 30 Apr 1965 Eaves, Toby A. - 20 Oct 1971 / 7 Oct 1971 [above 3 burials are identical, all with photographs, side by side] Ray, Christopher Wade - 24 Feb 1985 / 6 Mar 1985 Tyler, Margo Ray - 7 Mar 1951 / [no dates] Momma Tyler, Larry Shelton (Rev.) - 18 Aug 1949 / 15 Jun 1990 Daddy [above 2 burials are on double stone] - Married 6 Jun 1969 Johnson, Henry - 17 Aug 1900 / 21 Nov 1983 Johnson, Lurean - 18 Apr 1906 / [no dates] [above 2 burials are on double stone] Row 1: Turner, Jerry Lee - 8 Oct 1941 / 7 Oct 1967 [unreadable funeral marker at infant burial - no information] Ray, Candace S. - 19 Sep 1974 / 20 Nov 1974 Ray, Sim - 21 Nov 1912 / 10 Dec 1970 Father Ray, Lenora - 10 Sep 1920 / 8 Nov 1989 Mother [above 2 burials are on double stone] Row 2: Kennedy, John M. Jr. - 1 Jul 1933 / 5 May 1991 Johnson, Willard M. - 11 Aug 1917 / 18 Jun 1971 Father Johnson, Bonnie T. - 7 Jan 1930 / [no dates] Mother [above 2 burials are on double stone] Goodman, Gregory Keith - 22 Sep 1961 / 24 Sep 1961 Johnson, Edgar Lee - 19 Jan 1915 / 17 Oct 1988 Father Johnson, Eunice Marie - 1 Jan 1922 / [no dates] Mother [above 2 burials are on double stone] Johnson, Mary Strother - 15 Jun 1903 / 18 Jan 1985 Big Mama Johnson, Jesse Pendleton - 13 Jul 1898 / 4 Jan 1981 Big Daddy [above 2 burials are on double stone] [3 vaults, 1 with unreadable funeral marker - no information] Johnson, Charles Larry - 7 Nov 1939 / 7 Mar 1990 Johnson, Grant Eugene - 4 May 1965 / 8 May 1988 [above 2 burials have identical tombstones and slabs, side by side] Wagley, Jessie F. Sr. - died 18 Jun 1989, 86 yrs. [funeral marker at vault] Wagley, Thelma - 30 May 1918 / 24 Jun 1995 Baum, Buck, husband of Carlene Baum - [no dates], Married 5 May 1983 Pollock LA [wedding photo] Stanley, Grover - 24 May 1910 / 1 May 1980 Stanley, Luna S. - 20 Jan 1916 / 2 Mar 1978 [above 2 burials are on double stone] [infant burial - no information] Flek, Casey Marie - 23 Feb 1985 / 23 Feb 1985 Odom, Cynthia Marie - 18 Feb 1959 / 8 Feb 1977 [Left Side] - Row 1: Odom, Hattie F. - 15 Mar 1915 / 18 Mar 1986 Odom, Mike P. - 25 Sep 1907 / 28 Mar 1966 Malone, James C. - 1 Dec 1920 / 6 Jun 1972 Malone, James Pate - 4 Feb 1878 / 30 Mar 1933 Father [5 iron crosses and 1 unmarked burial with no information] Edwards, Sonny - b&d 17 Mar 1937 Edwards, Dorothy - 14 Apr 1947 / 24 Jul 1947 Edwards, Myrtle Mae - 2 Dec 1913 / [no dates] Mother Strother, Murphy, husband of Francis Strother - 1 Aug 1912 / 22 Jul 1944 Strother, Huey, husband of Ailene Strother - 8 Jan 1919 / 3 Jun 1944 Strother, William B., husband of Emmer Strother - 12 Nov 1879 / 23 Apr 1970 Strother, Emmer, wife of W. B. Strother - 16 Aug 1883 / 4 Nov 1951 Mother [above 2 burials are on double stone] Johnson, Hazel Strother - 8 Jun 1914 / 12 Jan 1976 Mother Strother, Emmie J. - 28 Mar 1890 / 17 Feb 1974 Mother [above 2 tombstones are identical on a common slab] Strother, John A. - 1 Apr 1884 / 1 Jan 1937 Strother, Elmer - 30 May 1918 / 17 Nov 1919 Strother, Ernest - 14 Dec 1895 / 17 Jan 1977 Father Strother, Pinkie - 16 Feb 1900 / [no dates] Mother [above 2 burials are on double stone] Paul, Shelby - 20 Nov 1910 / 5 Nov 1987, MSgt. US Army WW2 Korea Row 2: Paul, Clarence E. - 1 Sep 1907 / 12 Nov 1977 Eaves, Ivy - 29 Oct 1905 / 25 Sep 1930 Strother, Azella - 7 Oct 1917 / 1 Jul 1940 Strother, John - 7 Mar 1876 / 23 Dec 1957 Johnson, Virgie M. - 17 Nov 1907 / 22 Feb 1984 Mother Johnson, Charles E. - 20 Dec 1911 / 31 Aug 1985 Father [above 2 burials are on double stone] Strother, Elizer, wife of John Strother - 25 Dec 1875 / 20 Aug 1918 Strother, Livinia - 10 Dec 1893 / 1 Apr 1912 [1 iron cross & 1 unmarked burial - no information] Johnson, Obie D. - 19 Jan 1898 / 7 Sep 1979, Cpl. US Army Johnson, David Crockett - 23 Sep 1868 / 7 Feb 1962 Father Johnson, Elizabeth S. - 29 Oct 1870 / 16 Aug 1909 Mother [above 2 burials are on double stone] Perkins, Masena Johnson, wife of E. L. Perkins - 13 May 1888 / 29 Apr 1908 Lambright, Lucy Johnson, wife of Wm. Lambright - died 27 May 1914, 20 yrs. Lambright, Infant daughter of M&M Wm. Lambright - b&d 27 May 1914 Johnson, T. J. - 12 Oct 1886 / 29 May 1925 Johnson, Manerva, wife of Taylor Johnson - 11 Jun 1869 / 8 Sep 1919 Abel, Joe T. - 25 Jul 1919 / [no dates] Abel, Ethel Fee - 21 Oct 1921 / [no dates] [above 2 burials are on double stone] Fee, Richard - 1889 / 1971 Daddy Fee, Bell B., wife of Richard Fee - 1899 / 1963 Mother Fee, Willie, son of Richard Fee - 12 Dec 1917 / 9 Mar 1942 Fee, Willard, son of Richard & Bell Fee - 2 Aug 1916 / 16 Feb 1917\ Fee, Infant son of Rubin [sic] & Matilda Fee - b&d 8 Feb 1908 [almost unreadable] Fee, Matilda Strother, wife of Ruben Fee - 28 May 1864 / 18 Oct 1930 Fee, Ruben - 9 Apr 1851 / 24 Apr 1945 [3 iron crosses - 2 infant burials, 1 adult - no information] McDaniel, Emily Fee - 18 Nov 1884 / 25 Feb 1941 Cowan, Dolly - 6 Sep 1895 / 5 Nov 1964 Cloud, Myrtie Johnson - 7 Jan 1914 / 24 Apr 1933 Johnson, C. L., son of M&M Livingston Johnson - 7 Jul 1933 / 3 Oct 1952 Johnson, Livingston - 13 Mar 1889 / 13 Sep 1969 Father Johnson, Dovie J. - 7 Feb 1893 / 14 Aug 1973 Mother [above 2 burials are on double stone] [unreadable funeral marker at infant burial - no information] Row 3: Johnson, Mitch - 25 Nov 1886 / 2 Jul 1977 Johnson, Ella Mae J. - 29 Dec 1893 / 14 Mar 1968 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Johnson, Curtis C. - 28 Jan 1916 / 27 Jun 1985 Ashmore, James S. - 12 Nov 1927 / 22 Jul 1981, A2C USAF WW2 Self, Albert - 26 Mar 1869 / 12 Feb 1960 Ashmore, C. C. - 24 Oct 1898 / 6 Mar 1957 Ashmore, James H. - 22 Jun 1886 / 15 Dec 1939 Ashmore, Stella P. - 4 Feb 1895 / 13 Jan 1982 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Perkins, Lencra, daughter of Wm. & Isidee Perkins McDaniel, Isadee - 17 Jul 1891 / 19 May 1938 Ashmore, James L. - 23 Aug 1856 / 9 May 1913 Ashmore, Mary Ann - 15 Jun 1865 / 9 Feb 1913 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Self, Egbert - 1808 / 1885 Storey, Ida, wife of Dave Storey - 12 Sep ?1884? / 24 Jan 1910 Johnson, Irby Lee - 2 Jan 1948 / 2 Jan 1972 Johnson, Jeppy - 4 Nov 1904 / 13 Feb 1974 Johnson, Bessie J. - 20 Oct 1909 / [no dates] [above 2 burials are on double stone] Johnson, Infant son of Jeppy & Bessie Johnson - 17 Apr 1935 Johnson, Vermel, Infant daughter of Jeppy & Bessie Johnson - 13 Sep 1937 Perkins, Leo - 24 Jun 1922 / 29 Jul 1927 Perkins, Allen - 16 Jul 1913 / 24 Nov 1913 Perkins, Evelyn - 7 Jun 1935 / 7 Jun 1935 Perkins, Cecil - 17 Jul 1936 / 4 Jan 1937 Johnson, Michael Ray - 30 Apr 1958 / 17 Aug 1989 Husband/Father/Son Row 4: Ray, Ranel - 29 Sep 1907 / 27 Feb 1988 Ray, Allie J. - 19 Jul 1914 / [no dates] [above 2 burials are on double stone] Johnson, Irene - 24 Apr 1878 / 12 Oct 1964 Mother [2 iron crosses - no information] Laird, Ruby C. - 1908 / 1976 Laird, Steve C. - 1884 / 1973 [above 2 burials have identical markers with marble vase between] Ray, Mary L., wife of Adam Ray - 22 Jan 1852 / 27 Oct 1901 Lard, William - [no dates] Lard, Mary, wife of Wm. Lard - [no dates] Johnson, Eva - 3 Mar 1918 / 7 Apr 1918 Johnson, Artie - 15 Dec 1907 / 17 May 1924 Johnson, Crocket Clyde, son of M&M B. F. Johnson - 9 May 1920 / 9 Aug 1942, Fireman 3C USN "In memory of our son lost in action 9 August 1942 on USS Vincennes" [photo of sailor] Johnson, Benjamin - 24 May 1883 / 29 Sep 1953 Father Johnson, Priscilla P. - 18 Nov 1883 / 20 Nov 1975 Mother [above 2 burials are on double stone] Johnson, George Mason - 19 Nov 1903 / 27 Nov 1989 Father Johnson, Lela Estelle - 16 Feb 1912 / [no dates] [above 2 burials are on double stone] Johnson, Woodrow W. - 27 Aug 1914 / [no dates on tombstone, but obviously a burial here] Johnson, Myrtle Gunter - 3 Jan 1903 / 13 May 1970 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Row 5: Taunton, Daniel S. - 4 Oct 1964 / 17 Sep 1966 Perkins, Ettie P. - 24 May 1918 / [no dates] Perkins, Francis M. - 26 Sep 1915 / 7 Dec 1965, LA Pfc. Army Air Forces WW2 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Taunton, Edward Laverne - 10 Jan 1934 / 15 Oct 1989 Taunton, Sybil Perkins - 29 May 1936 / 12 Oct 1989 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Perkins, Robert Francis - 3 Jul 1883 / 2 Aug 1945 Perkins, Clizela Johnson - 29 Sep 1885 / 26 Mar 1946 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Johnson, Infant daughter of Evelton & Hazel Johnson - 28 Mar 1935 / 16 Apr 1935 Johnson, Lazime - 7 Jul 1860 / 27 Nov 1926 Father Johnson, Virginia, wife of Lazime Johnson - 24 Dec 1867 / 6 Feb 1926 Mother Johnson, Calvin A. - 29 Jan 1879 / 17 Oct 1959 Father Johnson, Louise Edwards, wife of Calvin A. Johnson - 14 Nov 1884 / 18 Apr 1953 Mother Russell, Audie J. - 29 May 1927 / 29 Jun 1976 [unmarked adult concrete vault - no inscription] [above 7 burials are all on a single concrete slab] Johnson, Adellar - 19 Aug 1870 / 12 Jan 1967 Johnson, Gilbert - 22 Oct 1872 / 25 Aug 1942 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Cloud, Jerry - 6 Feb 1866 / 1 Dec 1957 Cloud, Oder - 2 Aug 1892 / 15 Mar 1969 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Cloud, Emma Johnson - 22 Oct 1878 / 21 Feb 1905, Married to Jerry M. Cloud Nov. 1892 Cloud, Timothy - 31 Aug 1952 / 24 Aug 1969 Cloud, McKinley - 8 Jun 1909 / 11 Jul 1983 Dyer, Infant of Arthur & Elizabeth Dyer - 21 Aug 1917 Row 6: Johnson, James Kevin - 3 Mar 1963 / 1 Feb 1983 Son Johnson, Bettie Eaves - 21 Jan 1930 / [no dates] Mother Johnson, [no inscription[ - Daddy [above 3 burials are on triple stone] Johnson, Floyd - 3 May 1905 / 8 Jul 1933 Father Johnson, Lenora Laird, wife of C. C. Johnson - 19 Jun 1875 / 25 Jan 1915 Johnson, C. C. - 20 Jul 1871 / 6 Mar 1907 Johnson, Ward, son of C. C. & Lenora Johnson - 27 Aug 1902 / 21 Aug 1905 Hatch, Minnie Johnson - 22 Jun 1912 / 4 Apr 1979 Mother Johnson, Pinckney M. - 26 Feb 1894 / 12 Aug 1984 Johnson, Isabelle - 15 Feb 1874 / 9 May 1965 Johnson, Priscilla - 30 Mar 1896 / 18 Nov 1984 Sister Johnson, Ellee - 2 Mar 1884 / 20 Jun 1913 Johnson, Elizabeth nee Gibson - 27 Feb 1840, 28 Mar 1909, Husband Obey Johnson" Johnson, Obey - 20 Aug 1840 / 19 Jun 1911 Johnson, Bobby L. - 27 Aug 1910 / 9 Mar 1974, LA SSgt. USAF WW2 Korea Johnson, Denie, son of Lafayette & Indiana Johnson - 1 May 1908 / 2 Dec 1911 Doyle, Flordy, daughter of Leon & Dela Doyle - 21 Nov 1919 / 21 Jan 1920 Doyal, Macey, daughter of L. & D. Doyal - 19 May 1907 / 31 Aug 1907 Johnson, Emmie, daughter of M&M Sidney Johnson - 14 Sep 1905 / 21 Aug 1907 Perkins, Infant son of Nola & Winfred Perkins - 3 Jul 1938 Perkins, Winfred Jr. - b&d 17 Sep 1953 Johnson, Eula - 30 Sep 1907 / [no dates] Johnson, Lloyd - 24 Oct 1907 / [no dates\ [above 2 burials are on double stone] Row 7: Johnson, Ray T. - 2 Dec 1950 / 15 Sep 1973 Johnson, Edna Mae - 1 May 1927 / 6 Jun 1969 Johnson, Lester R. - 5 Dec 1922 / 13 Feb 1964 Johnson, Mitchell K. - 28 Dec 1894 / [no dates] Johnson, Hattie R. - 15 Jun 1897 / 12 May 1968 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Johnson, Wilmer Ellee - 6 Apr 1921 / 14 Nov 1970, US Army WW2 Johnson, Infant son of Homer & Lucy Johnson - b&d 7 Jan 1933 Johnson, Homer - 23 Sep 1907 / 17 Feb 1991 [funeral marker] [2 unmarked concrete vaults - no information] Cloud, Hardy - 15 May 1911 / 13 May 1990 Daddy Cloud, Roy Allen - 27 Apr 1941 / 11 Jan 1973 Johnson, Stewart - 27 Mar 1882 / 20 Dec 1945 Father Johnson, Dovie Stanley - 22 Oct 1892 / 2 Aug 1927 Mother Johnson, Infant son of Stewart & Dovie Johnson - 15 Jul 1927 Johnson, Infant daughter of Stewart & Dovie Johnson - 1 May 1922 Johnson, Alice Lee, daughter of Eugene & Anna Johnson - 21 Jan 1921 / 30 Apr 1922 Cloud, Charles A. - 23 Jul 1935 / 7 Aug 1935 Cloud, Jimmie - 1936 / 1948 Cloud, Sylvia Mae - 1938 / 1949 Cloud, Dwight L. - 15 Aug 1943 / 16 Dec 1954 St.Clair, Mae Johnson, wife of L. D. St.Clair - 12 Dec 1899 / 29 Jun 1947 Willis, Dennie - 23 Jun 1909 / 17 Feb 1971 Willis, Avanna J. - 1 May 1897 / 9 May 1984 Mother Perkins, Finley - 3 Apr 1895 / 1 Aug 1928 Father Perkins, L. E. Sr. - 28 May 1881 / 23 Jul 1972 Perkins, Ida J. - 30 Dec 1892 / 24 Sep 1968 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Lambright, Beverly June - 6 Aug 1934 [only date] Lambright, Lilah Jeanne - 19 Aug 1943 / 20 Aug 1944 Wagnon, Wesley D. - 1 Sep 1914 / 12 Oct 1987, Pvt. US Army WW2 Wagnon, Melinda J. - 11 Jul 1913 / [no dates] [above 2 burials are on double stone] Eaves, Infant son of M&M Clifton Eaves - 2 Feb 1932 / 17 Jul 1932 Eaves, Clifton - 2 Dec 1906 / 12 Jun 1963 Father Eaves, Evie J. - 23 Jul 1905 / 25 Mar 1970 Mother [above 2 burials are on double stone] Johnson, Velma - died 2 Jun 1989, 51 yrs. 4 mos. 4 das. [funeral marker] Row 8: Strother, Horace W. - 27 Dec 1906 / 7 Jan 1974 Strother, Elizabeth Ray - 20 Dec 1909 / 5 Jun 1968 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Strother, Infant daughter of M&M Horace Strother - 29 Nov 1949 Strother, Gregory Lane, son of M&M Gene Strother - b&d 30 Apr 1966 Brooks, Irble S. - 19 Sep 1930 / 13 Mar 1975 Johnson, Chan - 30 May 1913 / 6 Oct 1981 Daddy Johnson, Mable - 31 Sep 1920 / [no dates] Mama [above 2 burials are on double stone] Johnson, Brenda L. Loring - 23 May 1954 / 24 Feb 1989 Ritter, Crystal C. (Miss) - 26 Sep 1979 / 9 Jul 1990, 10 yrs. [funeral marker] Stokes, Jessie A. - 27 May 1915 / [no dates] Stokes, Frank E. - 21 Aug 1906 / 2 Feb 1976 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Ashmore, Joshua D. - 12 Dec 1883 / 31 May 1976 Ashmore, Ophelia J. - 27 Jun 1892 / 1 Oct 1969 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Johnson, William S. - 12 Feb 1902 / 17 Jul 1981 Ray, Maud P. - 3 Feb 1906 / [no dates] Ray, Joe L. - 28 Sep 1905 / 18 Dec 1972 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Ray, May P. - 17 Oct 1904 / 9 Apr 1960 Ray, Clint - 8 Feb 1901 / 19 Nov 1967 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Potts, Agnes P. - 1 Sep 1929 / [no dates] Potts, William H. - 2 May 1929 / 16 May 1983 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Paugh, William Kenneth - 18 Mar 1922 / 19 Aug 1985, SFCd US Army WW2 [Double stone with only one side inscribed] Row 9: Perkins, Lyndal E. - 8 Aug 1955 / 7 Nov 1986 Auttonberry, William Michael - 21 Jan 1958 / 22 Jan 1958 Stanley, Elizabeth T. - 27 Nov 1946 / 1 Oct 1977 Stanley, Doris M. - 26 May 1940 / [no dates] Stanley, Bolton - 25 Oct 1938 / 4 Nov 1971 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Stanley, Frank - 13 Feb 1907 / 22 Jul 1977 Turner, Madeline Stanley - 12 May 1935 / 30 Sep 1981 Cloud, Peggy Marie - 17 Apr 1947 / 30 Nov 1949 Johnson, Greene - 10 Aug 1906 / 15 Jun 1953 Row 10: Maricle, Bobbie J. - 2 Dec 1933 [only date] Maricle, Felix - 8 Jun 1910 / 21 Mar 1986 Maricle, Verdie P. - 31 Aug 1911 / 2 May 1989 [above 2 burials are on double stone] Johnson, Craig A. - 21 Feb 1959 / 18 Dec 1983 Johnson, Reginal Gene, son of Gene & Gaynell Johnson - 21 Jun 1971 / 18 Jul 1971