John Graham Teagle of Winn Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by R. Hugh Simmons
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John Graham TEAGLE is buried in the Bolton/Teagle Cemetery on the old
Calvin Road which passes by the Winnfield High School.  It is about 4 miles
west of the high school and about 1 mile northeast of Jerusalem Church and
Cemetery near the old rock quarry.  The road past Jerusalem Church comes
out on the old Calvin Road just west of the Bolton/Teagle Cemetery.

Half of the cemetery land was donated by John Teagle's father-in-law
Nathaniel Bolton, and John donated the other half.  The Laurel Heights
Baptist Church now has title and custody of the cemetery.  Nathaniel
Bolton's wife Rachel was the first person buried there in 1852.  It was the
highest point of land in the several acres that made up both parcels of
family property.  Nathaniel homesteaded out there in about 1841 or 1842 and
was instrumental in the organization of Winn Parish in 1852.  He served as
first Parish Treasurer from 1852 until the Civil War and was a Mason.

My mother's parents William Roderick and Nettie Teagle Horton are buried
there also.  These two were responsible for nurturing my interest in
Confederate military history at an early age.  W. R. thought that
Confederate General Richard Taylor "hung the moon" when he defeated the
Yankees at Mansfield!  W. R. was born and raised in Tippah County,
Mississippi and came to Winn Parish to teach agriculture in 1911 shortly
after his graduation from Mississippi A&M College [now part of Mississippi
State University].  Nettie was John  Graham Teagle and Martha Ann Bolton's
youngest daughter.  This is not the same Martha Ann Bolton in Annette
Carpenter Womack's line.  If these lines are connected, it goes back
several generations to North Carolina in the mid 1700's.

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