Scoggins Cemetery - Vernon Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Jane McManus



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From Leesville, go south on US Hwy. 171 until you pass Pickering School 
on the left. Turn West (right) onto Cooper Road and go 3.1 miles. A small 
fenced cemetery is on the left on property that was originally the first 
site of Enon Baptist Church. Today is it private property, and the Enon 
Baptist Church has relocated just up the road on the right. The cemetery 
was abandoned for years, but is now maintained by Cooper and Scoggins 
descendants, Don and Linda May Scoggins. There is only one marked tombstone 
and three graves marked with sandstone at head and foot. The unmarked burials 
were identified in 1990 by a descendant of the Cooper family, Quinlin Scoggins.
He also provided the dates and family information in a letter to a relative, 
Betty Jean Burns Cooper. 
Tombstone inscriptions were read by Jane P. McManus, 26 October 1995, and 
submitted 29 September 2000.

Scoggins, Rebecca Cooper - 17 Feb 1867/9 Jan 1900
        Wife of W.M. [Wilson Mitchell] Scoggins [on slab]:
        H.J. Scoggins - 1892 & L.H. Scoggins - 1886, C.H. Westmoreland
        & Betty Jean Burns, June 1954.
        [concrete slab was placed on top of this grave on 26 Jun 1954]


[3 unmarked burials, 2 are identified as Rebecca Cooper's parents]:


Cooper, Joseph - born 30 June 1824/death date unknown
        [son of James Cooper and Elizabeth Bolling, husband of Nancy Nichols]
Cooper, Nancy Nichols - born 1822 AL  [wife of Joseph Cooper]


Sales, Charley - died at 5 years of age
        [son of Mary Jane Cooper, grandson of Joseph & Nancy (Nichols) Cooper]


[Note:  Henry Joseph Scoggins and Lawrence Hillyer Scoggins are sons of
        Rebecca Cooper Scoggins.  Clay Hillyer Westmoreland is a grandson,
        & Betty Jean Burns is a great granddaughter.]