Bickham Cemetery #3, (also known as Abner Bickham Cemetery or Burkhalter
Cemetery); Washington Parish, La.
Submitted by Edie McKinney Talley


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Source:  Cemetery Records:  Louisiana, Vol. 1, pp 4 - 5.  Documented and
compiled by Mrs. Zuma Fendlason Magee and Mrs. Thelma S. Bateman.  1962
Contributed by Mrs. Dixie Sylvest Moss.

Located in Ward 3 eof Washington Parish about 1 mile from Franklinton, La.,
west of Franklinton-Tylertown Highway, on Bogue Chitto River, between Jack
Magee and Benton Burris homes, present owners of the property.  Copied 
Sept. 10, 1962 by Mrs. R. A. Magee, Franklinton, La.

Capt. Abner Bickham                      Zemily A. Brasfield
Georgia Militia, Rev. War                Wife of Wiley A. Strahan
July 26, 1755                            May 15, 1830
Jan. 29, 1834                            June 6, 1864

John Wadsworth                           Lucy
2nd. Lt. Co. I 9th La. Inf. CSA          Wife of John Wadsworth
Aug. 10, 1822                            May 26, 1839
Jan. 2, 1888                             Mar. 15, 1890

Henry McCarty                            Louis Boyd
Feb. 25, 1868                            July 15, 1929
Nov. 2, 1935                             Age 3 yrs. 6 mos. 10 days
(Woodruff's Funeral Home Marker)         (Woodruff's Funeral Home Marker)

Mrs. Lucy Garrett Edwards                Emily J. 
Nov. 14 1941                             Daughter of J. C. and M. A. Foil
Age 63 yrs., 9 mos., 2 days              Nov. 27, 1865
(Woodruff's Funeral Home Marker)         Mar. 24, 1878

Infant son of J. C. & M. A. Foil	 Sarah D.
Feb. 15, 1876                            Daughter of J. C. & M. A. Foil
                                         Nov. 13, 1860 
Homer O.                                 Aug. 10, 1963
Son of ? (impossible to see name)
April 5, 1881 - Feb. 20, 1883

Nianne Garrett*                          Tommy Garrett*
Wife of Henry McCarty                    Grave unmarked
Grave unmarked

Willie Garrett*                          Isaiah Garrett*
Grave unmarked                           Grave unmarked

Emily Peak*
Wife of Isaiah Garret
Grave unmarked

Several more unmarked graves.

*  Information about these unmarked graves was given by the Misses Saddie
and Ethel Magee and Mrs. R. A. Magee, all of Franklinton, La.