PORT UNION CEMETERY -- Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by Kelby Ouchley, 1/2005



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Port Union Cemetery Surveyed on January 10, 2005 by Kelby Ouchley. File prepared 
and submitted by Kelby Ouchley.

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Contributor's Note:
This cemetery is in a remote area inaccessible during wet conditions except with 
4-WD vehicles.  It is approximately 100 feet from the Ouachita River.  Several other 
unmarked graves are obvious at the site.  The area has reverted to forest, most of the 
markers are not upright, and this cemetery is in danger of being lost forever.

I have always heard that this is a black cemetery. Smith, Collins, and Mitchell are 
surnames of known Union Parish slaveholders in the region.

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Cemetery Location:  Sec. 3, T19N, R3E;  
     North 32 degrees, 39.890’, West 92 degrees, 08.490’ (as determined by GPS)
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MARKED GRAVES

Harriet Perkins		1868		May 10, 1928		Age 60

Charlie Perkins		Sept. 26, 1894	Oct. 24, 1923		Age 29

Melinda Smith		Sept. 4, 1862	Nov. 28, 1955		Mother

Viola Mitchell		March 4, 1857	May 30, 1957

Rev. W.M. Ewing		Dec. 15, 1872	Jan. 19, 1948		Father

Mary E. Ewing		1875		1952			Age 77		Our Beloved Mother

Alex Collins*		May 18, 1886	June 3, 1929		Husband


*Immediately adjacent the Alex Collins marker is another grave without a headstone.  
A small footstone with the initials “F.C.”  is present.


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