Old Keating 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 ********************************************** Old Keating Cemetery St. Tammany Parish, La. To reach this cemetery, we went down highway 40 to Mclain Road, and to the residence of Mrs. Aline Taylor You must have her permission to go through her fenced cattle pasture, since the cemetery Is in a little grove behind the pasture, and by Simalusa Creek. The site of this old cemetery was completely overgrown when we were there. We talked with Mrs. Net Fitzgerald Taylor, age 82, and she told us the cemetery contains about seven or eight unmarked graves. Some of those buried there are: John Keating Mary Fitzmorris - wife of John Keating Lizzie Keating, who was later moved to Simalusa Cemetery Hunt child, whose mother was a Keating Martine Keating Mrs. Taylor also told us that the John Keating above came to the United States from Ireland with Thomas Fitzgerald and a Fitzmorris. They docked at New Orleans, and had planned to go north, but were told about the land being homesteaded in St. Tammany Parish, so they came to St. Tammany Parish on Pepo's Schooner to settle here. The land of these three men joined, and they lived here until they died. Doris Martin Holden and Dolores P Butler - 3 June1976