Pioneers: Jeremiah Warner, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483


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From:  March 15, 1962 Winn Parish Enterprise-News American


Ira Warner Recalls Life of Confederate

"Jeremiah Warner, Company G, 28th La. Inf." is all that the marble marker
bears and if you stumbled across it you might even think it was misplaced.

In Section 21, Township 11 North, Range 3 West this marble headstone causes a
little wonder as to why it is here.

Ira Warner, who lives on the Sikes-Gaars Mill blacktop, unwinds the story
behind the tomb thusly:

Jeremiah was Ira's great uncle and the place where he is buried was the home
of Jeremiah's father, John P. Warner.

Jeremiah's mother and father also are supposed to be buried near him but
evidence of graves is lacking.

John P. Warner was born in 1783 in Charleston, S. C.  He drifted down through
Tennessee and Arkansas settling at Little Rock when it was a village.

He moved into what is now Shreveport, but didn't like the country and returned
to Arkansas later making his way down the Ouachita to Caldwell Parish.

He settled near the junction of Bayous Castor and Beaucoup just across the
Winn Parish line in Caldwell.

This was in 1832 and at that time he was bound for Texas.  He spent 15 years
in the Lone Star State.

He returned to Winn Parish and died near where Zion Hill Church now stands.  

Jeremiah lingered in the area and about 1852 was a member of a surveying party
which staked a route from Columbia to Natchitoches.

This later became known as the Buckskin Road and when it crossed Dugdemona
River, it paralleled what is now U. S. Highway 84.  

Jeremiah and a brother, James, joined the forces of the United States and
participated in the Mexican War.

Jeremiah was a metal smith and an expert craftsman with the broadax with which
he hewed timbers.

Foundation timbers of a long since tumbled down house near where his grave is
located, bear the smooth marks of the broadax.

Ira remembers that Jeremiah died after 1900 because he can recall his great
uncle visiting him about 1904.