Hennen Cemetery, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Edie McKinney Talley


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Source:  Cemetery Records: Louisiana, Vol. V, pp. 18-19.  Documented and 
compiled by Mrs. Zuma Fendlason Magee and Mrs. Thelma G. Bateman. 1971.
Contributed by Mrs. Dixie Sylvest Moss.



Located in ZEMURRAY PARK, Fut, Tangipahoa Parish, La. to the right of the 
road entering the park and just before crossing a ravine by way of a 
bridge.  

Within a sturdy concrete coping, seven graves:

  Mary Ann Gray, wife of James Bailey
  Born London, England  Feb. 13, 1832
  Died Chicago, Illinois  Dec. 1914

  James Bailey - Died Mar. 14, 1885 - Aged 66 years, 16 days

  Alford H. Bailey - Born July 9, 1868 - Died Dec. 4, 1933

  Martha Emma Tycer Bailey - Oct. 27, 1863 - Mar. 28, 1958

  Roy A. Bailey - Louisiana PFC Co. A 142 Machine Gun Bn
  March 20, 1893 - Aug. 13, 1959 - World War I

  Grover A. Bailey - Dec. 12, 1884 - Feb. 13, 1969

  Iva Juliet Bailey - June 7, 1900 - Jan. 4, 1972


Within an iron fence, seven listed on two monuments:
Four on one:
  Caroline Louise Hennen, wife of William Mure
  Died Dec. 15, 1851 - age 24 yrs.

  James Hennen - A native of Castlebar, Ireland
  Father of Alfred Hennen (no dates)

  Ann Maria Nicholson, first wife of Alfred Hennen (no dates)

  James Waters Hennen, infant of Alfred Hennen and Ann Maria Davison  
  (no dates)

Three on the other:
  Alfred Hennen - Born 17th October 1786 - Died 19th January 1870

  Ann Maria Hennen - Born April 18, 1801 - Died November 8, 1887

  Ann Davison - Born in New Jersey, April 12, 1783 
  Died in New Orleans, June 9, 1871 in the eighty-ninth year of her age


Apart from and beyond the Bailey and Hennen areas, three graves:

  Alfreda Hennen Caruthers - Oct. 6, 1870
  "It is well with the child called to sing Christmas Eve 1876"

  Ruth Caruthers - Sept. 29, 1909 ( only date given)

  Cora Morris Caruthers - Translated Nov. 12, 1897
  Aged 24 years.  COCOLENA   SISTER

END OF HENNEN CEMETERY

Copied later:
Iva Juliette Bailey - June 7, 1900 - Jan. 4, 1972