Francis Sylvest Home Site Cemetery, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Edie McKinney Talley Visited by Belford E. Carver, December 21, 2001 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Source: Cemetery Records: Louisiana, Vol. V, pp. 80-81. Documented and compiled by Mrs. Zuma Fendlason Magee and Mrs. Thelma G. Bateman in 1976. Contributed by Mrs. Dixie Sylvest Moss. Located in Tangipahoa Parish, La. about 9 miles east of Amite, La. or 14 miles West of Franklinton, La., north side of La. Hwy. 16. Leave Hwy. 16 at Junction with La. 445. Go north about 1-1/4 miles to Friendship Baptist Church, turn right beside the church and go about 1.8 miles - 2nd cemetery on right. There is a cyclone fence and cemetery is well kept. Live oak trees provide shade. Large monument just in front of double gate inscribed: FIRST AMERICAN SYLVEST 1808 - FRANCIS SYLVEST - 1896 From Portugal His wife 1820 - MARTHA STEVENSON - 1882 Early American Scotch Their children: 1844 - Francis M. - 1904 1846 - Nehemiah - 1916 1848 - Simeon - 1905 1851 - William R. - 1873 1854 - Mary Ann - 1935 1857 - Edward A. - 1943 1859 - John L. - 1928 1862 - Rosa Elen - 1951 FRANCIS, MARTHA, AND ONE CHILD ARE BURIED AT THIS OLD HOME SITE. SEVEN CHILDREN WENT FORTH, ESTABLISHED HOMES AND REARED OTHERS TO PROPAGATE THE FAITH AND SPIRIT OF OUR NATION UNDER GOD. 2 adult graves with concrete slabs - no identity 1 child's grave with concrete slab - no identity (New) Double Marker - Sylvest Francis Martha S. 1808 - 1896 1820 - 1882 Original markers embedded in concrete slabs. Francis Sylvest Martha Stevenson, wife of b. July 5th A.D. 1808 Frances Sylvest d. October (illegible}1896 b. A.D. 1820 88yrs. S mos. 66 days d. Died (illeg.} 5, 1882 Aged 62 years Wm. R. Sylvest, son of Francis and Martha Sylvest was born July 25 A.D., 1851, died March 12, 1875, Aged 21 yrs. 7 mo., 18 days. Odeal Sylvest, wife of Robert E. Bahm Feb. 11, 1885 - June 1, 1958 (Thomas Funeral Home Marker ) Elizabeth Mixon - d. Oct. 4, 1970 - Aged 70 yrs., 11 mo., 21 days (Ronald Evans recording has date of birth as: Nov 11, 1901) Cleon Mixon - Louisiana Sgt. 36 CO 164 Depot Brigade, World War I Jan. 18, 1889 - July 28, 1961 Walter A. Meyn - Oct. 3, 1941 - May 6, 1971 Benjamin George Corkern - June 21, 1947 - Oct. 1, 1968 Walter A. Mixon, Sr. - Jan. 19, 1881 - Mar. 18, 1962. Shelby T. Mixon - Sept. 23, 1922 - Dec. 1, 1967 Foot Marker - Louisiana, Tec. 5 67 Field Hospital, World War II - Sept. 23, 1922 - Dec. 1, 1967 Copyright 1998 by Sandra McLellan Visited by Belford E. Carver, December 21, 2001. Located 1.8 miles from the Friendship Baptist Church, intersection of Mixon Road and Friendship Church Road, south side of Mixon Road, Holton Community. GNIS Coordinates: 304600N 902001W. Ward 4. T3S R9E Sec 19. Next to Odeal Sylvest Bahm is: Mason, Wallace E. Bahm, s/o Odeal S. Bahm, Oct 16, 1910 - May 24, 2000 See Photo Gallery for headstone of Harriett Bennet Lowry. In the recording done by Polly and Ronald Evans, Apr 3, 1997, there are the following: Row 1 Louisa Spinks Mixon, Nov 20, 1887 - Nov 4, 1974 Virginia Thibodeaux, May 25, 1918 - Mar 19, 1995 Nolan L. Thibodeaux, Nov 24, 1906 - Jan 20, 1975 Row 2 Galen Troy Ballard, Aug 23, 1973 - Sep 8, 1988 James A. Corkern, Feb 16, 1935 - May 24, 1992 Delores Corkern, Mar 3, 1944 - Apr 1, 1991 Cleon B. Mixon, Jr., Jun 3, 1926 - Feb 1, 1980 AMM3 USNavy WW II Row 5 Iley T. Mixon, Sep 30, 1924 - Oct 27, 1979 Row 6 and 7 have listed one unmarked grave each. In Row 8 between William Rankin Sylvest and Odeal Sylvest Baham is listed one unmarked grave. Markers found outside of the fence, one small stone at the base of three different Live Oak trees: Mary Ann Sylvest, 1854 - 1935 Edward Alex Sylvest, 1857 - 1943 Francis Marion Sylvest, 1844 - 1904 These are not graves. BEC