Ezekial and Myra Melissa Banister Cemetery, Washington Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Edie McKinney Talley
Contributed by the Washington Parish Genealogical and Historical Society


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EZEKIEL & MYRA MELISSA BANISTER CEMETERY

LOCATION:  From Mt. Hermon, east on Hwy 450 to Pleasant Hill Road, turn
right for short distance then right on Buster Spears Road until road
ends at old home site then onto primitive road, take right when road
forks to thicket of tall pines in pine forest.  Catalogued by W. F. &
WILMA RABORN / JACK & FRANCES HARRY 5/6/95

BANISTER, ARDIE MATTHEW, b. 12-13-1901 d. 9-23-1902, s/o Ezekiel & Myra
Melissa Smith Banister

BANISTER, ELLA JANE, b. 8-11-1885 d. 9-8-1885, d/o Ezekiel & Myra S.
Banister

BANISTER, EZEKIEL, b.      , d.          , h/o Myra Melissa Smith
Banister  (He has a tomb here, but is buried in the Mt. Pleasant Baptist
Church Cemetery at Bogalusa)

BRUMFIELD, ANGELINE SMITH, b. 2-27-1855, d. 1-8-1878, w/o James
Brumfield, d/o J. S. & M. A. Smith

GOINGS, _______first person buried in this old cemetery unmarked grave

VARNADO, MOLETA BANISTER, b. 7-14-1891, d. 1911, w/o William Scott
Varnado, d/o Ezekiel & Myra 	Melissa Smith Banister, (tomb here, but
is buried at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Ch. Cem., Bogalusa, LA)

Note:  Seventeen graves were found in this old cemetery, many were either unmarked or unnamed.