Carter Cemetery, Ward 1, St. Helena Parish, La.
File prepared by Deandra Norred Pardue.

This cemetery is taken from the book, St. Helena parish Cemeteries,1914-1987
Published by the St. Helena Historical Association, Inc.
Address: Rt. 1 Box 131; Amite, La. 70422   The LaGenWeb Archives would like
to express their thanks to the Association for giving us permission to put
these cemeteries online.  The society retains the copy right to these works.

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Taken from what I am told is the "Carter" cemetery in the northern part of St.
Helena Parish, Louisiana.  Go to St. Helena Church, go past the church, take
the first left hand gravel road past the church, you will come to a house that
has been burned.  Doc Jenkins, a black man once lived there and the house
burned in 1971.  Follow the road, more or less just a path, cross a hollow, go
on up the hill; about middle ways of this hill, look to the left for a tree
that has been marked.  Go straight out from this tree a short distance and you
will come to this grave.  It has an iron fence around it, tall marker.  This
grave was dug into either the latter part of 1970 or the first part of 1971,
by an unknown party or parties, as far as I know of.  It is also my
understanding that this cemetery is right near what was the old Captain Carter
home.  Grady Terrell, a black man who lives near the old Catha Home (Felix
Catha's parents) showed me where this cemetery was, and also told me it was
the Carter cemetery and he remembered when the large two story home stood.  He
does not remember though if the house burned or was torn down after the
company bought this property.  Just trying to give you some information so you
will have an idea where it is located.  I went to this cemetery myself, copied
the writing on the marker, and saw where it had been dug into.  They started
at the foot and worked about half way up the grave.  This seemed very strange
to me, because if they were looking for jewelry, seems like they would have
started at the head, doesn't it seem that way to you?

Malitta A.
Wife of
Peter G. Quinn
Died May 28, 1860
Aged 39 years
2 months and 12 days

(According to this, she must have been born in 1821, right?)

This grave was the only one in the entire cemetery that we could find that had
a marker.  However, you could see many sinks in this area which I feel sure
were graves, no markers though.  I have been told by others that there were
other markers at this cemetery, because they had seen them years ago, I do not
know.  All I know is, this was the only marker I saw and we looked around
good.

Edyce C. Davis, March, 1972

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