Mosely's Bluff Cemetery, Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by John Sellers, 8/2004
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Mosely's Bluff Cemetery, Union Parish Louisiana
Information submitted by John Sellers

Mosely's Bluff on Bayou D'Arbonne is located several miles below Farmerville 
and just about one mile above the modern Lake D'Arbonne Dam (the bluffs are 
on the what is today the southern-most tip of the lake). According to a 1956 
description, the cemetery is located 0.25 miles off the road to Mosely's 
Bluff, which is Union Parish Road #5551. This is in Section 22, Township 
20 North, Range 1 East.

There are only two marked graves.

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H. E. Mosely                         (Henry E. Mosely)
June 9, 1840  -   July 9, 1900


Fannie Anna Mosely
1841 - May 8, 1875

Infant of H. E. Mosely

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Comments: 

Henry E. Mosely moved to Union Parish shortly after the War Between the 
States, apparently between 1867 and 1870 (he did not register to vote in 1867, but 
by 1870 he owned a farm in the parish. Mosely settled a few miles south of Farmerville 
on the bluffs of Bayou D'Arbonne just above the modern dam. In 1885, Farmerville lawyer, 
judge, and newspaperman Thomas C. Lewis, III referred to him as "Capt. H. E. Mosely". 
We do not know if he achieved the rank of captain in the Confederate army or if Mosely 
worked as a steamboat captain on the D'Arbonne.

During the early 1870s, Henry E. Mosely opened a store at the bluffs which 
soon became the center of the local community known as 'Mosely's Bluff'. On 
17 March 1875, the Mosely's Bluff post office opened with Richard S. Ashcroft as the 
postmaster. Henry served as postmaster between 1886 and his death. Upon Henry's death in 
1900, his daughter Lizzie took over as postmistress until the office closed in 1913. 


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