Edwards Cemetery, St. Tammany Parish, La. File submitted by Donald W. Johnson 3/99 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen. 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. Location: In Tangipahoa Parish on Snow Creek, where Tangipahoa and Washington Parishers meet; turn South off La. 16 by Sharon Church. Condition: Well kept, although the first nine graves listed were not in good shape. A black cemetery adjoins this one, but has not been copied; it was not kept up like the white cemetery. Copied: November 1, 1977 by Doris Martin Holden. Daniel Edwards January 29, 1787 - July 5, 1877 Elizabeth Bankston Wife of Daniel Edwards 1814 - December 12, 1882 Native of Georgia Corrine Edwards Daughter of Maj. N. S. Edwards & Adaline Edwards Consort of Dv. J. J. Alford November 22, 1852 - September 4, 1872 Ruth Edwards June 6, 1867 - June 18, 1867 Daniel E. Edwards 1840 - 1930 Amanda L. Story Edwards 1857 - 1940 Morgan Edwards March 21, 1841 - August 31, 1864 Catherine Edwards 1844 - 1911 N. S. Edwards November 7, 1816 - October 22, 1894 Adaline Edwards Wife of N. S. Edwards June 12, 1826 - 1887 Eugene Edwards February 27, 1855 - July 18, 1864 M. Birdie Singletary Wife of J. B. Singletary November 24, 1873 - March 17, 1905 Celilia Harriett Wife of J. C. Reeves March 1, 1853 - November 25, 1906 J. C. Reeves, Sr. 1860 - 1925 Infant Son of J. C. & M. C. Reeves September 15, 1907 Jacob Burkley Reeves September 6, 1913 - October 2, 1913 Infant of Earl Holden, Sr. Unmarked Avery Holden September 21, 1900 - August 4, 1969 Bertha Stafford Holden January 12, 1902 Melvin Holden August 29, 1949 - March 5, 1962 Winona W. Holden November 18, 1927 - August 24, 1944 Vernie G. (Corkern) Holden January 15, 1910 - July 27, 1977 Percy C. Holden Apirl 9, 1905 William Holden September 30, 1902 - February 12, 1927 Ella C. Holden February 16, 1877 - November 27, 1955 Leslie Holden January 9, 1872 - April 13, 1940 Emma Stafford Unmarked Lela Mae S. Jenkins October 2, 1910 - March 4, 1972 Joseph Stafford Unmarked Ira E. Stafford July 31, 1874 - May 4, 1923 Infant of T. C. Holden Unmarked slab Huey Holden September 23, 1895 - March 28, 1945 Leland Holden August 23, 1923 Norma Folks Donald Holden July 1933 Nellie Corkern August 23, 1930 J. B. Jones Died: November 4, 1950 Age: 2 years, 3 months, 22 days Joyce DeLayne Infant of Johnny M. Passman & Lavina Wales January 2, 1931 Fred W. Yates October 3, 1894 - August 13, 1968 Infant of W. H. & J. Yates September 14, 1902 William Herbert Son of W. H. & J. Yates March 11, 1912 - February 12, 1914 William Henry Yates Husband of Jennie Sharp March 21, 1876 - June 18, 1936 Maurice O. Yates La., PFC, 10 Eng. Bes. Dep. Co., World War II July 25, 1925 - September 25, 1952 Charles M. Yates La., PFC. 61 Spruce Sq. World War I July 3, 1889 - May 15, 1954 James M. Yates April 30, 1887 - October 20, 1918 Catherine D. Yates Wife of E. Brown June 24, 1878 - March 17, 1915 John S. Yates January 17, 1881 - March 25, 1905 John Mousley Yates January 11, 1845 - August 19, 1922 Sarah J. Blocker Wife of J. M. Yates October 22, 1856 - October 2, 1900 Minor Gardner September 29, 1859 - January 17, 1939 Nellie Yates Spring February 20, 1883 - Glaris T. Spring November 27, 1871 - October 10, 1941 Drewsilla Cooper Wife of John S. Spring August 15, 1837 - February 13, 1915 Married: December 25, 1856 John S. Spring Died: September 5, 1906 Age: 73 years, 7 months Daniel Spring January 9, 1906 - August 23, 1906 Margaret A. Carson Wife of Hansford Sheffield December 21, 1848 - June 25, 1920 Hansford Sheffield April 1, 1852 - June 10, 1916 James M. Blocker II June 3, 1903 - May 9, 1955 Sarah A. Blocker 1859 - 1935 James M. Blocker 1859 - 1915 Many gravesites are marked with bricks, mounds and sinks, and many have been lost to time in this old cemetery. Mr. Percy C. Holden told me the infant child of Ben Toney is unmarked, and a Union Soldier was buried in the back by the fence during the Civil War. I was also told by several people that when digging new graves, diggers often hit an unmarked burial site, and had to change the location of the new grave.