Joiner "Home Place" Cemetery, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Edie McKinney Talley
Updated by Belford Carter, 2/26/2001

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Source:  Cemetery Records: Louisiana, Vol. V, page 20.  Documented and
compiled by Mrs. Zuma Fendlason Magee and Mrs. Thelma G. Bateman in 1971.
Contributed by Mrs. Dixie Sylvest Moss.

Located in Zemurray Park, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

(Inside the cattle gap and a few feet to left)

A TALL CENTRAL MARKER:
  NATHAN JOINER
  AND WIFE
  AND FAMILY OF
  18TH CENTURY
  FIRST SETTLERS
  OF THIS
  HOME PLACE
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THIS MEMORIAL ERECTED BY
DESCENDENTS  1957
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Three graves have engraved markers:
                                                     BAILEY
  Mary Ann Lester          Brunette Bahm             Jasper Newton
  B. Aug. 29, 1820         B. Mar. 26, 1829          July 29, 1834
  D. Mar. 26, 1879         D. June 6, 1890           March 5, 1902

Three graves marked with three sandstones each, stacked one upon the
other.

Three graves marked with two sandstones each, stacked one on top of
the other.

A single sandstone marker at the foot of Jasper N. Bailey's grave.

Another single sandstone is in line with Brunette Bahm and Jasper
Bailey graves.

Just inside the wooden gate, a single wooden marker with no
identification marks another grave.

End of the Joiner "Home Place" Cemetery.
  
Since recorded in 1971, two War of 1812 markers have been placed in this Joiner 
cemetery at Zemurray Gardens.  One for John Bailey and one for Nathan Joiner.
NSUSD 1812, small metal type markers.  Visited by Belford Carver 2/26/2001.