RICHARDSON CEMETERY, Wakefield, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
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Located on Hwy 421 south of Wakefield, LA in West Feliciana Parish.
It is located at the home of John D. Spillman.  It is a small cemetery 
enclosed within a fence and is in excellent condition.
Some of these graves were in the above ground vaults of early years.

From the tombstones themselves we find buried here:

These two identical type vaults above ground, possibly married.
Mrs. C. C. Richardson         b June 16, 1804         d March 16, 1858.
Wade H. Richardson            b August 1, 1799        d August 11, 1835.
          ***(Marriage records of this parish shows a Wade Hampton Richardson
married a Charlotte G. Harbour on July 7, 1821, after leaving cemetery,
I wondered if it was C. G. Richardson instead of C.C.)***

Jared N. Richardson           b January 30, 1791      d Jan, ??
          Veteran of War of 1812 and Mexican War.  Unable to read death date.

Benjamin Smith, son of Philander A. and Maryll Smith, 
                              b September 6, 1840     d September 8, 1840.    
          Lived only two days.

Wade Rivers Smith, Philander A. and Maryll Smith,
                              b June 1, 1845          d March 21, 1846.

Philander Calvin Smith, son of Philander A. and Maryll Smith
                              b April 18, ????        d December 8, 1817.

Philander A. Smith            b January 8, 1817       d June 14, 1848.

Mary D. Doherty               b October 17, 1822      d April 3, 1859.

Mary W. Richardson            b December 2, 1865      d April 22, 1955.

One monument two names (evidently husband and wife):
Amanda Rosalie Richardson     b October 1, 1841       d April 23, 1900
          (her maiden name possibly Barrow going by Marriage records of this
           Parish, md Feb 19, 1861)
Wade H. Richardson            b January 19, 1833      d April 18, 1869.

W. Hilliard Richardson        b December 14, 1861     d June 17, 1890.
Leonora Connel Richardson (wife of W. Hilliard Richardson)
                              b October 6, 1861       d September 24, 1928.

One in front row (alone):
Mrs. S. M. Singleton          b July 27, 1827         d November 7, 1853.