Cemetery: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Sabine Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by:  Jo Ann McCollister Pape jpape@lconn.com (John Pape)


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PLEASANT HILL CEMETERY

Toro, Sabine Parish, LA

Partial listing





Pleasant Hill Baptist Church was founded Aug. 20, 1847 in the southwest

corner of Sabine Parish near Toro Creek, in the Toro Community. (List of 

founding members at end of this page.)



A partial listing of the burials at Pleasant Hill Cemetery,

grouped as they appeared in family plots.



Benard C. McCollister, 3/11/1860 - 11/30/1939

Mary J. McCollister, 9/10/1871-3/1/1956



John Colman McCollister, 7/27/1872-4/28/1948

Philona A. McCollister, 11/5/1887-3/7/1974

Infant: Christopher, 2/8/1917



J.A. McCollister, 12/15/1919-6/14/1945

Pvt. Battery A 590, Field Artillery Btn.



John Marion McCollister, 2/24/1896-10/11/1976

Trudie Jackson McCollister, 12/19/1897-6/16/1990



William Leonerdus McCollister, 5/22/1846-8/9/1883 (Mason)

M. O. McCollister, 2/27/1853-6/24/1905

T. Jeff McCollister, 6/5/1870-10/22/1897

W. L.McCollister, 1/20/1874-1/1/1883

Effie G. McCollister, 12/8/1880-7/31/1883



Sons of John James McCollister and Evelina McCollister:

Andrew N. 12/24/1880-10/29/1882

William C. 3/20/1883-10/9/1884

William C., 3/20/1883-10/9/1884

"A little time on earth he spent

Till god for him his angel sent."



Isham Nettles McCollister, 2/22/1894-12/10/1975

(Pvt, WWI, army)

Eulah M. McCollister, 7/15/1902-2/5/1961

Doris McCollister, 2/12/1927



Daughter of C. L. and Georgia McCollister: Doris, 8/4/1940



Nancy Arthur McCollister Nettles, 11/22/1842-2/9/1924



Isham David Nettles, 3/13/1874-10/22/1929



Martha Nettles Slay, 6/22/1872-3/3/1960



Mary E. Byrd, 12/2/1884-6/23/1963

Louis F. Byrd, 8/25/1879-6/31/1938

Jackson A. Byrd, 9/9/05-6/16/08



Alfred Byrd, 1/27/1839-6/16/1902  (Mason)



Orville P. Byrd, 11/23/1919-5/25/1984

Betty Lott Byrd, 11/3/1925 -  (not deceased as of 8/96)



Gussie Lynch Byrd, 6/29/1902-2/22/1988

Neely Hunter Byrd, 5/27/1894-6/22/1974

Charlcy O. Byrd, 9/12/1897-8/6/1929



Emerson Fisher Byrd, 1893-1940



Clarence M. Byrd, 22/28, 1911-10/21/1976

(Pvt WWI, army)

Alma A. Byrd, 1/26/1928 - (not deceased as of 8/96)



James W. Byrd, 1868-1940



Emma, Wife of J.F. Byrd, 2/9/1872-9/17/1901



Susan Chandler, wife of Alfred Byrd, 1/26/1841- 11/12/1930



Arthur E. Byrd, 8/4/1907 - Not deceased as of 9/97

Emmie Self Byrd, 5/20/1907 - not deceased as of 9/97



Asa Curtis, 12/16/1831-2/1/1900 (Mason)



William Curtis, 1/13/1859-6/2/1944



Mary E. Curtis, wife of W. H. Ford, 3/1/1861 - 5/27, 1898







Plesant Hill Baptist Church



According to previous records several members of the Baptist faith

holding letters, met at Pleasant Hill for the purpose of constituting a

Baptist Church.  The following letters were presented and received:



William Curtis

Ezra Byrd

I. McCollister

John James McCollister

W. C. Southwell

M. C. Hamley

J. Skinner

William Elzey

I. Nettles

Winiford Elzey

Nancy McCollister

Lucretia Broadway

Eleline Southwell

Martha Nettles

Rhoda Byrd



Presbytery:  Allison Phillips and D. C. McCalley

Elder D. C. McCalley was pastor in 1847-1848



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