Boatright Family Cemetery, Union Parish Louisiana 

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by Gene Barron, 10/2001
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	BOATRIGHT FAMILY CEMETERY

Located 6 miles northwest of Farmerville on Odis Farrar place in Sec 4 Twp 21 Range 1W
	Survey 16 May 1976

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AULDS, John G	14 Feb 1883	04 Nov 1884
      son of W. W. & C. R. Aulds

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Note: This cemetery is located on the old homeplace of Powhatan Boat(w)right, a native 
of Virginia and veteran of the War of 1812. He arrived in north Louisiana about 1825, 
settling first in what is now Claiborne Parish. He settled in the Zion Hill community 
about 1835. This cemetery contains numerous unmarked graves, including those of 
Powhatan and his second wife Nancy Burk Boatright:

BOATRIGHT, Powatan	     13 Jul 1790	21 Dec 1880
BOATRIGHT, Nancy Eleanor	   c1792	1870 - 1880



It is also likely that their son Linear Boatright (c1835 - 10 Sept 1862) was buried here when 
he died at home in Union Parish on a sick furlough from the Confederate army (Company H, 31st 
Louisiana Infantry). It is also likely that Powhatan and Nancy's youngest daughter Mary Boatright 
Mears (c1837 - 12 Feb 1879) was buried here after her premature death one year before her father's 
demise at the age of ninety.


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