Starkey-Hoover Cemetery, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Don Johnson, 1998
Prepared by Genie Gibbs
Updated by Belford Carver, July 21, 2001.

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STARKEY-HOOVER CEMETERY

Located west of the I-55 Independence, LA exit, 1/4 mile south of LA 40 on the north side of
Labruzza Lane. (About 0.2 of a mile east from West Fontana Road.)

Copied by Polly and Ronald Evans, February 1, 1997
Rows are numbered from east to west, graves listed from south to north.
Updated by Belford Carver, July 21, 2001.

Row 1

CARLEEN C. STARNS
1902 - 1933

SAM B. STARNS
1876 - 1951

DORA H. STARNS
1878 - 1958

LESLIE T. HOOVER
1888 - 1952

THEO A. STARNS
1916 - 1968


MAMIE M. STARNS
1900 - 1972

NATALIE STARNS
1922 - 1976

BERNARD STARNS
1898 - 1976


Row 2

NANCY M. HINSON BANKSTON
June 15, 1887
Apr 17, 1911
W/o A. L. Bankston

ALBERT LEUTELLUS PACKWOOD
Sep 11, 1886
Jul 8, 1906

NANCY UDORA WESTMORELAND HINSON
May 31, 1858
Oct 20, 1911
W/o M. P. Hinson
53 years 4 mos & 2 days

OTTIS WINDOM
Feb 7, 1917
Jan 17, 1918

WILLIAM R. WINDOM
Jan 7, 1893
Sep 16, 1946
US Army, WW I
Pfc, 114 Engrs

Row 3 (There is one marker for the 8 slabs)

SARAH HOOVER
1847 - 1908

SIMEON HOOVER
1880 - 1900

SERENA HOOVER
1875 - 1875

ANTOINE HOOVER
1821 - 1904

EDWARD HOOVER 
1843 - 1909

BENJAMIN HOOVER 
1890 - 1900

FLORENCE HOOVER
1872 - 1879

MARY HOOVER
1877 - 1908

Located outside of the area being maintained, and at the northwest corner:
Two unmarked graves
A concrete coping, approximately 12 feet square.  No headstones.

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Second coping with three concrete markers with names engraved but no dates.  A fourth grave is
unmarked.

MARY KERSTENS (Unmarked.  Wife of James and d/o David & Elizabeth)
              (Mary Miley Kerstens, b. Oct 9, 1884, d. Jan 1, 1965)

JAMES KERSTENS  ("Jake" Kerstens, b about 1869 in Holland, d. Sep 10, 1938)

DAVID MILEY  ("Dave", b. July 1857, d. Jul 4, 1926, m. Dec 12, 1878)

ELIZABETH MILEY  (Elizabeth Drucilla "Liz" Whitten Miley, b. Jan 1862, d. Jul 17, 1930)

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(Information on Kerstens and Miley furnished by great-grandson of David and Elizabeth, Huland Miley of 
Denham Springs, LA, who recently found these graves.)

(More graves may be discovered if additional clearing and cleaning are done.)

BEC