USGENWEB PROJECT ARCHIVES: TENSAS PARISH LOUISIANA http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/tensas.htm Muir Family Cemetery, On top of an Indian Mound, Sunflower Plantation Recorded by Barbara T. Capdepon, Submitted to the USGENWEB Archives Project by Edith Ziegler FEB 2000 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ At the very top of an Indian Mound, surrounded by an iron picket fence, and down the center of the plot, with two iron gates opening onto each separate plot. Each gate bears the initials and name of the family; the gate to the right has C B & M O Muir, the gate to the left has D Muir. This cemetery is located off Hwy. 605, on Sunflower Plantation which is privately owned. The grave to the left on the first row has a marker for: Archie B Infant son of D. & C. H. Muir Dec 14, 1891 In the second row on the left is a double-head stone for: Carrie H. Rollins wife of Douglass Muir Sept 9, 1855 Dec 21, 1904 Douglass Muir July 16, 1847 Aug 4, 1918 The plot to the right, on the first row is unmarked, but known by family to be: Uncle Willie Muir Son of Douglass Muir 5, July 1886 13, Sept 1938 The family source also states that Charles Muir was buried on this Indian Mound and later moved sometime in 1938-1939, to a burial place in Natchez.