GARRET-BERWICK CEMETERY, Garret Plantation, Bayou Sale, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by R. Paul Adams (adams@mail.lded.state.la.us) This family cemetery is located at lat. 29.7027 North, Long. 91.4688 W, in Section 60, Township-15-South, Range-10-East, on the West side of Bayou Sale Road, (State Route 317), between the Southern Pacific Rail Road and the Intracoastal Waterway. The following tombstone inscriptions and miscellaneous information was compiled by Mrs. Clyde Alpha, Mrs. Southwell Fisher, and Mary Elizabeth Sanders. Sacred to the Memory of Sacred to the Memory of LOUISA BERWICK DAVID BERWICK Born Jan. 1815- Died Jan. 13, 1965 Born Apr. 18, 1808- Died Nov. 13, 1874 Sacred to the Memory of Sacred to the Memory of LEILA and PHOEBE BERWICK EDWARD BERWICK Born May 10, 1852 and June 26, 1855 Born the 2nd March 184_ Died Nov. 29, 1863 Died the_________(Broken) DALLAS BERWICK IRA BERWICK Born 11 Oct. (Broken) Born 21 June (Broken) Died 1 Apr. 1849 Died 13 May 1849 To the Memory of My Beloved Husband JOSEPH STANWOOD BERWICK JOSEPH J. BERWICK Born Nov. 3, 1872- Died Nov. 16, 1896 Born Sept. 15, 1838-Died Nov. 16, 1879 JOSEPH OSCAR ALLEN (2 graves with stones could not be Born Dec. 4, 1863(?) Be approached due to undergrowth) Died July 24, 1867 A large brick square, unmarked, contains Sacred to the Memory of some four graves, probably those of MARIA LOUISA ALLEN JOSHUA GARRET, RACHEL GARRET Born at Keeserville, N.Y. Dec. 8, 1826 CATHERINE GARRET NICKELSON Died Dec. 14, 1881 and RUFUS NICKELSON. Sacred to the Memory of Sacred to the Memory of FRANCIS BENNETT(?) RUTH DENNETT Born Aug. 30, 1815 Born Nov. 12, 1854 Died May 30, 1863 Died May 21, 1863 Sacred to the Memory of Sacred to the Memory of SHAKESPEARE ALLEN, M. D. LOUISA BERWICK Born at Keeserville, N.Y. July 15, 1829 Beloved Wife of Dr. Shakespeare Allen Died at Centerville, La. Sept. 2, 1875 Born May 24, 1836 Died June 17, 1902 Our LITTLE LEO Born March 14, 1858 Died Dec. 17, 1862 COMMENTS:I am a decedent of Joshua GARRETT, and as such wanted to mention the mis- spelling of the family name. Joshua GARRETT, with two Ts came to S. Louisiana in the 1770s and settled on Bayou Nezpique in the County of Opelousas, in what is now Evangeline Parish. Later he moved his family to the County of Attakapas, in what is now St. Mary Parish. Under the governance of the Spanish his name was misspelled in many ways, which was not unusual. In the marriage records of St. Martin de Tours Roman Catholic church in St. Martinville, LA, he is listed as Josue Garrot, and in Spanish Military records, he served in a Spanish milita unit, de la Compagnie de milite des Oppeloussas(sic) and is listed as Josua Garote. During this period of transition, from France to Spain to France, then to the United States there was probably some confusion between the clerics and civil officials as to which language to use to record official events. To compound this continuing error, the name of this cemetery on the N. BEND USGS 7.5 min. Quadrangle is listed as Gratt Cem. I have tried to have this corrected, but as yet have only met with stiff resistance from Washington bureaucrats. USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by R. Paul Adams (adams@mail.lded.state.la.us) (c) Copyright 1997, R. Paul Adams