Old Jackson Cemetery
Rapides Parish, Louisiana

This information is provided to the Louisiana Genealogy   Project by Jane McManus.


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Directions:   This small cemetery, probably not more than 50-foot square, is
located 3.0 miles north of Cheneyville near Lloyd's Bridge on the Veaver
Plantation.  Go down Munson road, turn left on turn-row that goes to the
back of a cane field (1993).  The area is not fenced and is actually in the
can field (1993) bordered on one side by the turn-row and sugar cane on the
remaining three sides.  Permission to enter should be obtained from Henry
Corley who leases the land.  Tombstone inscriptions were recorded by Mary
Parker Partain, September 1993, and submitted by Jane P. McManus, July 2000.

Jackson, Matilda Ann - 7 Oct 1829 / 21 Oct 1829
     Daughter of Henry Jackson & Esther E.[Elvira] Tanner

[unknown burial, stone laying face down on top of obelisk about 5' tall,
cannot be read, but the base is still in place.]

Jackson, Avery, son of R. H. & M. M. Jackson - 16 Apr 1852 / 27 Aug 1853
     [this obelisk is laying on the ground, but readable]

[brick-lined burial that is sunken - no information]

Jackson, Mary Melvina, wife of Robert H. Jackson - 4 Aug 1826 / 3 Mar 1859
     [daughter of Elzaphan Jackson & Mary Stokes] [this stone is laying on
the ground]

[small base for tombstone, but no marker - no information]

Herbert, Edwin Charles - 24 Nov 1815 Norfolk Co. VA / 25 Feb 1846
     [son-in-law of Henry & Esther Tanner Jackson] [obelisk is laying on
ground]

Other known burials as reported by Dr. Stafford in the Stafford book:

Herbert, Sarah Jane Jackson, wife of Edwin Charles Herbert, daughter of
Henry & Elizabeth Jackson

Jackson, Robert Henry, eldest son of Henry & Esther Tanner Jackson

Jackson, Henry - 5 Mar 1797 SC / 26 Feb 1856 [son of Reuben Jackson &
Susannah Richardson]
     [he and his wife were buried in the family cemetery on his plantation]

Jackson, Esther Elvira Tanner, 7th daughter of Robert Tanner & Providence
Robert,
     wife of Henry Jackson]