Francis Sylvest Home Site Cemetery, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Edie McKinney Talley


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Source:  Cemetery Records: Louisiana, Vol. V, pp. 80-81.  Documented and
compiled by Mrs. Zuma Fendlason Magee and Mrs. Thelma G. Bateman in
1976.  Contributed by Mrs. Dixie Sylvest Moss.

Located in Tangipahoa Parish, La. about 9 miles east of Amite, La. or
14 miles West of Franklinton, La., north side of La. Hwy. 16.  Leave
Hwy. 16 at Junction with La. 445.  Go north about 1-1/4 miles to
Friendship Baptist Church, turn right beside the church and go about 
1.8 miles - 2nd cemetery on right.  There is a cyclone fence and
cemetery is well kept.  Live oak trees provide shade.

Large monument just in front of double gate inscribed:

  FIRST AMERICAN SYLVEST
  1808 - FRANCIS SYLVEST - 1896
  From Portugal

  His wife
  1820 - MARTHA STEVENSON - 1882
  Early American Scotch

  Their children:
  1844 - Francis M. - 1904
  1846 - Nehemiah - 1916
  1848 - Simeon - 1905
  1851 - William R. - 1873
  1854 - Mary Ann - 1935
  1857 - Edward A. - 1943
  1859 - John L. - 1928
  1862 - Rosa Elen - 1951

  FRANCIS, MARTHA, AND ONE CHILD ARE BURIED AT THIS OLD HOME SITE.

  SEVEN CHILDREN WENT FORTH, ESTABLISHED HOMES AND REARED OTHERS TO
  PROPAGATE THE FAITH AND SPIRIT OF OUR NATION UNDER GOD.

2 adult graves with concrete slabs - no identity
1 child's grave with concrete slab - no identity

(New)  Double Marker - Sylvest
  Francis                           Martha S.
  1808 - 1896                       1820 - 1882
  Original markers embedded in concrete slabs.

  Francis Sylvest                   Martha Stevenson, wife of
  b. July 5th A.D. 1808             Frances Sylvest
  d. October (illegible}1896        b. A.D. 1820
  88yrs. S mos. 66 days             d. Died (illeg.} 5, 1882
                                    Aged 62 years

Wm. R. Sylvest, son of Francis and Martha Sylvest was born
July 25 A.D., 1851, died March 12, 1875, Aged 21 yrs. 7 mo., 18 days.

Odeal Sylvest, wife of Robert E. Bahm
Feb. 11, 1885 - June 1, 1958

(Thomas Funeral Home Marker )
Elizabeth Mixon - d. Oct. 4, 1970 - Aged 70 yrs., 11 mo., 21 days

Cleon Mixon - Louisiana  Sgt. 36 CO  164 Depot Brigade, World War I
Jan. 18, 1889 - July 28, 1961

Walter A. Meyn - Oct. 3, 1941 - May 6, 1971

Benjamin George Corkern - June 21, 1947 - Oct. 1, 1968

Walter A. Mixon, Sr. - Jan. 19, 1881 - Mar. 18, 1962.

Shelby T. Mixon - Sept. 23, 1922 - Dec.  1, 1967
Foot Marker - Louisiana, Tec. 5 67 Field Hospital,
World War II - Sept. 23, 1922 - Dec. 1, 1967