Mars Hill Cemetery, Union, LA submitted by: Fay Kitchens ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ MARS HILL CEMETERY Copied by Fay Kitchens 9/5/1977 & 2/21/2002 From La. Highway 15, take the Point-Wilhite Road to the Henry Road. Turn left on Henry Road and continue to Old Orleans Road. Turn right on Old Orleans Road or Prentice Pardue Rd. (Road seems to be Old Orleans to the left and Prentice Pardue to the right). Turn left on McLeod Road and go to 4-way stop. Turn left on Mars Hill Road. Road will take you to the cemetery. OR at the Old Orleans Rd, turn right on Goldsmith Road. Turn right on Mars Hill Road that will go by the Mars Hill Cemetery. This is in Union Parish. Row 1 Charles G. Green Infant son of Mr.& Mrs. L. G. Green 1/27/1890 Samuel J. W. Staples 1/9/1849 4/22/1881 Johnnie Ray Smith son of John Tom and Ruth Smith 12/28/1940 (Many empty spaces) (Double marker) Laval Franklin Taylor Married 11/26/1948 Mary Elizabeth 2/15/1908 11/2/1975 3/22/1925 Row 2 (3 spaces) Little sister Earnestine Daughter of John Tom & Ruth Smith 3/10/1942 3/23/1966 Earl Smith 10/2/1909 5/2/1911 Little Dener Babe of T. M. and Ella Smith 10/201903 1/6/1904 Mattie Hodge Infant daughter of A. V. & Janie Hodge Annie H. Hodge 12/12/1852 5/1/1920 John J. Hodge 12/1/1848 7/26/1927 A. V. Hodge 11/9/1875 6/19/1922 A. V. Hodge Infant son of A. V. and Janie Hodge (No dates) Miller Smith 1/25/1878 6/19/1984 Mary Ella Hodge Smith 2/21/1879 12/5/1970 Baxter D. Hodge 1/23/1887 11/14/1951 (Double Marker) John Tom Smith Ruth Klemm Smith 4/10/1900 10-1-1986 6/4/1912 5/5/1986 "Grandmother" Elizabeth O. Pitts 1874 1931 Row 3 (4 spaces) Fannie Elma Owens Daughter of S. E. and S. M. Owens 12/18/1903 1/30/1907 Grady Pierce Owens Son of S. E. and S. M. Owens 3/19/1906 1/23/1907 Broken Marker "Infant" only word 5/1895 Eller Owens Daughter of S. E. and S. M. Owens 11/5/1880 5/9/1892 Spencer Edward Owens 7/3/1858 4/4/1923 Sam Owens 8/20/1900 1/29/1932 (Woodmen of the World emblem on marker) "He has gone to the mansions of rest" Susan Aulds Owens 3/10/1868 1/1/1947 "Your memory is dear to us" (Unmarked spaces between graves-about 7) Lou Simpson wife of A. V. Hodge 6/5/1870 4/10/1899 Idus Hodge Daughter of J. J. and A. E. Hodge 12/18/1885 8/8/1908 (3 bare stones between graves) Jerry Hodge Son of J. J. and A. E. Hodge 1872 1878 (Dates difficult to read) (2 bare stones by this grave to end of row) Row 4 (8 bare stones) Victor Horton Son of G. W. & Effie Horton 6/10/1917 3/6/1919 Lillian Horton Daughter of G. W. & Effie Horton Infant Leila Horton Daughter of Robert F. & Sallie Horton Elizabeth (Betty) Horton Daughter of Robert F. & Sallie Horton 2/2/1886 2/13/1917 Robert F. Horton Co. E l Regt. La. Cav. C.S.A 4/11/1836 5/20/1920 Sallie Strozier, wife of Robert F. Horton 5/10/1843 8/28/1918 Grandma Sara Horton Mother of R. F. Horton 1793 1878 Johnny Marlar d. 1878 "Waiting for the resurrection" Janie Marlar d. 1878 "The Lord is my shepherd" (9 bare stones) L. C. Bullock (Louisa Catherine "Kate" Morrison Bullock) 12/26/1856 12/30/1892 "He faltered by the wayside And the Angels took him in." Note: This is not a male but a female. Pronoun used in verse on marker is wrong. Kate married Charles Balak Bullock and is the mother of John Balak Bullock and other children. She was the daughter of Andrew A. and Rachel Turner Morrison. (5 bare stones between L. C. Bullock and her son John Bullock.. At least two of these were her children who died young.) Row 5 (Double marker) Barbara B. Taylor Married 2/19/1955 Jack Taylor 9/14/1935 6/18/1993 1/28/1933 Kristin Kay Taylor 2/11/1981 5/25/1981 Daughter of Jerrol and Regina Taylor Jerrel Taylor 7/28/1961 2/22/1995 (2 bare stones and some empty spaces) Mary Frances Moore 4/12/1861 9/23/1944 F. N. B. Moore 2/26/1853 5/27/1928 Luanna Wilhite Daughter of F. N. B. & M. F. Moore 8/27/1882 8/12/1899 Infant Daughter of F. N. B. & M. F. Moore B & D 2/11/1897 Beulah D. Moore Daughter of F. N. B. & M. F. Moore 3/23/1887 1/11/1888 (6 stones and some empty spaces) Walter R. Horton U. S. Army World War II 11/7/1915 1/15/1985 Marker with only the words "Unknown" George W. Horton 4/13/1887 4/7/1972 (1 bare stone) Georgia A. O. Bell Daughter of T. W. and E. J. Bell 12/20/1860 11/10/1863 Mary F. Bell Daughter of T. W. and E. J. Bell 12/8/1864 6/29/1868 Tolbert Priscila Bell Daughter of T. W. & E. J. Bell 1/16/1863 6/1/1864 (2 bare stones) John B. Bell Son of T. W. & E. J. Bell 9/23/1866 11/12/1880 (2 bare stones) Row 6 Robert W. Hammonds Son of G. W. Hammonds 7/20/1915 11/5/1915 (Broken marker) Lois Henry Hammonds Wife of George W. Hammonds Dates Unknown Alice Hinton Henry Wife of Tom F. Henry Dates Unknown Tom F. Henry 4/23/1851 9/14/1904 Benjamin Franklin Henry Son of Tom & Alice Henry 3/10/1880 10/5/1885 (2 bare stones) William M. Henry 2/25/1844 12/6/1875 (9 bare stones) Susan A. Neal 2/8/1868 4/10/1959 Martha A. Strozier 4/10/1826 7/14/1871 Samuel Gatharite Strozier 7/17/1822 4/11/1902 Mary E. Strozier 9/15/1831 5/12/1903 Julia Taylor Daughter of Tom & Lena Taylor 11/13/1892 Effie Taylor Infant Daughter of Tom & Lena Taylor 6/15/1896 Miriam Taylor Son of Tom & Lena Taylor 12/28/1900 1/28/1902 Calvin Taylor Son of Tom & Lena Taylor 2/15/1898 9/15/1902 Julius Taylor 1/13/1892 12/10/1910 (Double Marker) Tom Taylor Lena Strozier Taylor 4/10/1872 9/19/1958 5/1/1872 12/10/1910 Fermon Bronell Pardue 5/1/1915 10/11/1976 (3 bare stones and l empty space) (Double marker) Ila Mae Simpson Lee Wilburn Simpson 7/24/1894 5/1/1964 5/26/1900 10/29/1959 "EVANS" painted on stone "EVANS" painted on stone (Double marker) Charles Augustus Roddy Dovie Taylor Roddy 11/18/1914 3/6/2001 11/25/1914 (Double marker) Ernest Farrell Mealer Ocile Taylor Mealer 11/30/1927 8/11/1978 9/27/1922 (Double marker) John Robert Taylor Lorene Owens Taylor 11/23/1909 4/13/1985 11/5/1910 11/6/1982 Row 7 (4 bare stones) Alice Leone Bridges 12/17/1962 8/15/1980 "She can never quite leave us a thousand sweet memories are holding her fast." Leone Lewis Taylor 9/24/1905 12/12/1947 (1 bare stone) (Double marker) William Francis McCormick Married 2/18/1919 Mattie Henry McCormick 11/17/1864 11/24/1956 6/9/1877 2/26/1961 Mary L. Turberville 7/25/1852 9/12/1927 Austin Turberville 5/21/1851 10/11/1923 Miss T. Turberville 12/14/1887 1/21/1958 (Spaces and 19 unmarked stones to end of row) Row 8 Eda Ann Taylor 4/22/1911 5/18/2001 "Everybody's Aunt Eda" Brother Dewitt Taylor 11/26/1913 11/2/1976 "Weep not, he is at rest" Alice Henry Taylor 9/26/1886 8/5/1970 (Eastern Star Emblem on marker) "God took her home, it was his will, but in our hearts, she liveth still" Clarence E. Taylor 10/9/1882 11/20/1964 (Masonic emblem on marker) "Taps have sounded, Goodnight dear one, until the great reveille" Cleaver H. Taylor 12/26/1888 1/3/1978 "Always loving, always loved" Robert E. Taylor 2/15/1885 4/1/1939 (Masonic emblem on marker) "He was the sunshine of our lives" J. R. Henry 4/24/1849 3/6/1930 Dalma Taylor Daughter of R. E. and C. Taylor 3/30/1917 7/8/1921 Infant of C. E. and A. E. Taylor 1/9/1918 1/23/1918 Margarete, wife of J. R. Henry 4/6/1853 6/1/1914 Clayton Henry Son of J. B. and L. E. Henry 11/5/1905 8/13/1912 Thelma Taylor Daughter of R. E. and C. Taylor 9/3/1908 9/11/1910 Infant of J. R. & L. M. B & D 1910 Infant of J. R. and L. M. B & D 1/34/1909 L. D. Henry Son of J. R. and M. E. Henry 11/27/1874 12/16/1897 "In Love and Remembrance" "Bless are they that die in the Lord" Note: This is Lawrence Dow Henry who married Ella Wallace, daughter of William Andrew and Mary Elizabeth Tidwell Wallace. He was the father of Paulyne and Dow Henry. Seburn Son of J. R. & M. E. Henry 9/13/1891 10/3/1892 (Empty space) Elizabeth A. Hester Wife of Robert Hester 1824 6/27/1896 R. S. Hester (Robert S. Hester) 9/12/1824 11/7/1883 Dewitt Henry Son of J. S. and E. A. Henry 7/5/1889 9/29/1889 Baby son of R. B. & Irene Henry 4/10/1899 8/14/1900 Eunice Gilliand Daughter of A. W. and Lazzio Gilliand 12/6/1900 6/29/1902 John Willie Henry B & D 5/2/1905 Elizabeth Ann Hester, wife of J. S. Henry 3/25/1848 4/9/1924 J. S. Henry 5/27/1847 2/21/1906 Ruth Maree Henry Daughter of Dr. & Mrs. J. R. Henry 10/15/1907 7/21/1908 Thelma Lucille Henry Daughter of Dr. & Mrs. J. R. Henry 1/29/1906 10/30/1912 Mary "Mollie" T. Henry 9/23/1879 7/6/1971 "Our beloved mother a truly virtuous woman" George G. Henry 9/18/1877 9/28/1965 "Gone but not forgotten" (Many empty spaces) Thelma Higgins Henry 3/15/1912 1/26/1979 Jasper Jack Henry 3/28/1903 4/9/1982 Row 9 Annie Owens 1/24/1903 5/8/1922 (Double marker) Della Jane Owens Charles Elbert Owens 10/12/1921 4/16/1853 11/9/1921 Mattie Owens Daughter of J. A. & Florence Owens 9/25/1894 11/15/1894 Hardy Calk Son of A. T. and N. E. Calk 12/9/1894 12/27/1894 J. T. Owens Son of J. A. & Florence Owens 10/3/1900 8/14/1901 (Dlouble marker) Julius A. Owens Florence E. Owens 9/6/1860 6/18/1901 3/23/1871 5/23/1959 "Father, let the grace be given that we may meet in heaven" Susan Horton Henry wife of Robert Henry Dates unknown Robert H. Henry 6/14/1821 8/26/1893 Mary Henry 6/15/1836 11/25/1922 (Bare stone) Infant babe of W. L. P. & C. A. Henry B & D 7/8/1909 W. J. Henry Babe of W. L. P. & C. A. Henry 12/8/1894 Mattie E. Henry Daughter of S. R. and M. E. Henry 10/14/1899 11/25/1900 Infant twin babies of Shep & Ether Henry Dates Unknown James B. Taylor 4/16/1857 12/18/1889 Eugenia Taylor - Ray 10/6/1855 2/1/1937 (Bare stone) Daniel B. Henry Son of S. R. & M. E. Henry 1/22/1896 1/23/1896 Samuel E. Henry Son of S. R. & M. E. Henry 9/4/1891 7/6/1903 Shearwood R. Henry 8/10/1870 8/29/1910 Ether Henry Latham 5/29/1877 11/20/1957 (Double marker) James Benjamin Henry Elizabeth Tidwell Henry 2/22/1882 10/1/1964 10/17/1882 4/6/1951 William E. Latham 9/7/1874 4/32/1957 (Empty space) Odis Lee Littleton Married 9/10/1927 Fay T. (Taylor) 12/12/1905 1/2/1969 2/9/1910 2/23/1986 Regna L. Littleton 1/8/1931 3/2/1996 (Double marker) Paskel J. Taylor Married 7/3/1941 Lillian A. 9/13/1920 3/9/1977 9/22/1919 8/18/1983 Row 10 (Many empty spaces) Blance Henry Owens 2/8/1904 2/23/1970 Overt Owens 1-2-1902 6/19/1959 (Empty space) James E. Taylor 9/30/1905 2/9/1991 Woody B. Taylor 12/18/1913 3/2/1981 "God, grant him eternal rest" Thelma Taylor "My Wife" "Her memory is dear to us" 9/7/1915 5/13/1934 James H. Taylor 3/19/1884 3/9/1940 Maud T. Bridges 8/30/1888 10/4/1971 Walter M. Taylor, Sr. U. S. Navy WWII 12/12/1910 12/5/1982 (About 2 spaces) Basil Von Bayles LA Pvt 9 French Morta R BN 9 Div 4/6/1923 Amber Nicole Tatum Daughter of James & Evelyn Tatum 6/14/1991 Row 11 Charles Westley Taylor Sr. 11/27/1907 3/31/1967 (Double marker) Elbert Fred Hodge married 10/7/1942 Margaret Henry Hodge T Sgt US Army WW II 8/5/1923 12/1/1915 9/24/1986 "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be" (Empty spaces) (Double marker) Norman Barr Taylor Married 12/9/1934 Myrtle Hart Taylor 7/1/1916 3/29/2001 3/15/1918 4/4/1985 Row 12 unmarked grave On Back row of cemetery Darrel Wayne Allen 8/25/1965 6/18/1994 Husband of Vickie, Father of Laura Culpepper, Jacob 11/11/1981 12/20/2002