Arthur Tasker Grave, TANGIPAHOA PARISH, LA
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Belford Carver, August 3, 2001.

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ARTHUR TASKER

His grave is located in the Kiwanis Park in Ponchatoula, LA.  He was black and the 
first mayor of Ponchatoula from Sep 3, 1873 to Jan 6, 1874.  This park is also in 
the same area that the Tasker Memorial AME Zion Church is located.  He and a group 
of black citizens who had recently been slaves organized the congregation in 
October 1867.  The first building was erected in 1881, which  is located very near 
the Kiwanis Park.  This civic organization has maintained the park  since 1950.

He is said to have moved to Ponchatoula from the Virginia-Maryland area.  His age 
was given as 39 in 1873 which would make his year of birth about 1834.  No date of 
his death has been found as of this writing.  

Belford Carver, August 3, 2001.