Bankston Family Cemetery, Washington Parish, Louisiana
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Source:  Cemetery Records: Louisiana, Vol. I, page 1.  Documented and 
compiled by Mrs. Zuma Fendlason Magee and Mrs. Thelma G. Bateman. 1962,
Contributed by Mrs. Dixie Sylvest Moss.

Located in Ward 2 of Washington Parish, La., North of the Mt. Herman-
Clifton Highway, on the farm of Mr. Leon Bankson.  Copied June 15, 1962
by Mrs. R. A. Magee, Franklinton, La.

C. P. Bailey                          Marion Peter Bankston  
Aug. 11, 1812                         July 21, 1861
Nov. 30, 1881 (Mason)                 Nov. 28, 1903

Nicholas W. Bankston                  Young Peter Bankston
March 9, 1859                         Oct. 31, 1823
March 24, 1893                        June 10, 1876

Louisa Magee Bankston                 Sweet Mabel Burch
Dec. 15, 1831                         Sept. 23, 1897                    
March 27, 1920                        Apr. 4, 1904

Ruby E. Burch                         Kate E. Bankston
Sept. 23, 1897                        Wife of W. K. Burch
Feb. 14, 1907                         May 28, 1871
                                      June 21, 1910

W. M. Burch**
Husband of Kate E. Bankston
May 1, 1867
July 4, 1913


The graves of Young Peter Bankston and Louisia Magee Bankston are covered
with a concrete slab with a placque [sic] in the center with the names and
birthdates of each of their 10 children:

C. Olevia 1854; Geneva J. 1856; Leah M. 1857; Nicholas W. 1859; 
Lilie I 1864; Claudius B. 1866; Leon Victor 1869; Kate E. 1871; 
Angus Carl 1874; Marion P. 1861.

*  1 grave unmarked - Alex Brumfield - information given by Mr. Leon 
Bankston, who says he knew the person and remembered that he was buried
there.

** Name - William Meridith Burch - information given by Mr. Leon Bankston.