Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana
Submitter: B. Jo Branch
Date: 23 Feb 2008
Photos & Readings: 24 Oct 2007 and 4 Feb 2008.
Thank you to Mr. E. Hebert for his original 1996 transcriptions.  It has been of
unmeasurable value to me in reading and photographing the cemetery.




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Parenthesis + number = Feb. photos
>>New Information

Oct Ph#: 109, 108; Feb Ph#: 056

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Pleasant Grove Cemetery, page 01

--Row #1--
Oct Ph# 104, 137, 141

(042)   Percy Gage
b. 1903
d. Aug. 17, 1928

(043) Leona Hardy Cade

*Henry Parish U/M* see next headstone.

>> Were 044, 045, & 046 combined into one headstone?
>>  (044)   Gladys P. Gatchell
b. Jan. 21, 1914
d. Decult Unmarked

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Oct Ph#: 114a; Feb Ph#: 091 - taken from first grave of row #3, showing distance to next
gravesite.

--Row #4--
 >> (090) Adult u/m

>> (142) Wallace B. Smith
b. Dec. 9, 1935
d. Dec. 5, 2002
Sgt. US Marine Corps

(092) Large Brick Tomb Unmarked

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--Row #5--
Oct Ph# 113, 114, 128, 131; Feb Ph# 099, 101, 102.
Ph# 128-3Grvs, ; 114, 112

(129, Feb '08: 093)
Simuel Guidry Sr.
b. May.  6, 1925
d. Dec. 26, 1990

(094) Adult Unmarked

(095) Lucinda Taylor
b.. Mar. 19, 1898
d. Aug. 17, 1988

Ph# 139
(081) Iron Cross Unmarked

(082) B. J. Mathews
b. 1861
d. Jan. 26?, 1932? or Jan. 2, 192?
(The final numbers are very hard to read.

(083) Lizzie Mathews Briggs
b. Sep. 16, 1882
d. Jun. 15, 1946

Ph #140
(086) Sophe Paul POTT
d. Mar. ????

(087) Adult Unmarked

(087) Adult Unmarked

Ph #141
(088) Sophie Mathews
b. 1888
d. 1968

*L. Mathews - headstone not located
Lucy Mathews
b. 1887
d. Oct. 27, 1954

(089) Adult Unmarked

(089) Ad Nov. 20, 1904

(096) Adult Unmarked

(097) Adult Unmarked

(098) Adult Unmarked

(098) Adult Unmarked

>>The next three sites were not located.
(099) Annie Mae Frederick
d. 69 Yrs. Old: May.21, 1945

(099) Horst Frederick

Adult Unmarked

Ph #131, Feb '08: 101, 102
(100) Emma Hebert

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--Row #6--
Oct Ph#: 112, 127

(104) Broken Brick Tomb [Child]

(104) Broken Brick Tomb [Child]

(103, 105) Andison Robertson - concrete cross on top of gravesite of E. Hebert on Row #5.

 Loval Unmarked

(073) Jake Loval
b. Jan. 22, 1907
d. Sep.  2, 1984

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--Row #2--
Oct Ph#: 136; Feb Ph#: 076, 077

(075) Broken Concrete Tomb Unmarked

(074) Millesa Lavol Unmarked

(076) Pete Varise Unmarked

(076) Jasper Loval Unmarked

(076) Edith Henderson Lavol Unmarked

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--Row #3--
Oct Ph#: 113a, 139, 140; Feb Ph#: 078

*Daughter Of Edward Mathews - headstone not located

(079) Edward Mathews
b. Jan. 20, 1862
d. Jan.  4, 1925

(080) Laurene Mathews Lapoint
b. 25, 2000

(045)   Henry Parish
b. 1884
d. 1978

>>  (044)   Anny Campbell
b. 1886
d. 1916

*(046) Adult Unmarked* see previous marker?

(047) Front view of E. Williams
(048)   Ernest Williams Jr.
b. 1935
d. 1964

Adult Unmarked

Adult Unmarked

>>  (050) 5 gravesites

(051) ??? Hunter
b. Jun 28 1?91 (possibly 1891)

>>  (052)
Adult Not Legible

*E. Parish, no headstone located
Ethel Parish
b. Apr. 18, 1893
d. Jan. 27, 1975

Adult Unmarked

>>  (053) Roland "Hot Leg" Hilnot make them fit.
3. Concrete slab, unmarked.
4. Concrete slab, unmarked - the cross was laying next to it on the ground.
5. Cross, marked Mr. Newton Cade.

(168) Adult Unmarked, n/l
>> ??R

Oct. Ph#: 120, 121
(170) Broken Marker Not Legible
>>E. G. ???

(171) Clara Cade Wolrige, u/m
b. Jul. 18, 1878
d. May. 13, 1945

(172) Adult, unmarked

(173) Newton Cade

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--Row #15--
Oct Ph#: 119, 120, 122; Feb Ph#: 174, 176

>> (175) Double marker:
>> Vertie Baker
b. Dec. 07, 1907
d. Dec. 20, 1996
>> (175) Leonard Baker
b. Feb. 12, 1903
d. Feb. 07, 1991

(176) Alice Baker Unmarked

(176) Sam Baker Unmarked

(176) Sam Baker Jr. Unmarked

(176) Aaron Baker Unmarked

(177) Jenette Baker, n/lLegible

>>  (065) Mary L. Cole
b. Aug. 12, 1950
d. Dec. 4, 2002

>>  (066) Roy Wendell Mouton, Jr.
b. Sep. 20, 1961
d. Apr. 7, 2003

(067) Roy Wendell Mouton Sr.
b. Jun. 30, 1932
d. Mar. 14, 1994

(068) Esaw Mouton Jr.
b. 1926
d. 1976

Double-headstone:
(069) Esaw Mouton Sr.
b. Jan. 19, 1881
d. Oct. 22, 1946
(069) Esther Mouton
b. Apr. 28, 1900
d. Nov.  2, 1989

(070) Wolmas Mouton
b. Mar. 25, 1892
d. Oct. 17, 1948

(071) sunken gravesite

(072) Next two gravesites

Lilliel
b. Oct. 21, 1938
d. Aug. 23, 1998

>>  (054) 4 gravesites.  Only the second from the left is marked.

Second from left:
>>  (055) Lawrence Henderson, Sr.
b. May 29, 1937
d. Aug. 5, 2004
Pvt. US Army

Ephriam Cole Unmarked

>>  (057, 058, 059, 060) Unmarked gravesite?

(061) O. R. Murphy

(062) Infant Child Of Wilbert and Louise Cole
b., d. Feb. 13, 1960

Double-headstone:
(063) Robert E. Cole
b. Jul. 11, 1923
d.
(063) Evola Hardy Cole
b. 1895
d. Feb. 9, 1972

(064) Marker Not *(105) Matilda Walker - headstone not located.
d. 38 Yrs. Old, Mar. 22, 1946

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--Row #7--
Oct Ph#: 110, 130, 132, 134, 135; Feb Ph#: 113, 115, 122,

>>Feb. 2008: Gravesites have been re-aligned from the reading done in 1996:
1. Hayward Rice (106, 107)
2. Samuel Rice, Sr. (108)
3. Ella Mae Lyons Rice (109)
4. Albert Rice (110)
5. Unmarked (111)
6. --space-- gravesite? Moody Harris? (114)
7. Nelson Rice (112, 113)
8. Alberta Rice Zeno (metal marker) (115, 116)
9. Adult Unmarked (117)
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