This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XCB.2ACI/707 Message Board Post: Hello all. This is a partial listing of surnames listed in Black Bayou Cemetery. Hope this helps someone. If you want information regarding one of the surnames listed, I will be happy to post it for you. (Dates of death range from 1886 to 1960) BLACK BAYOU: This old cemetery is on the Vivian-Gilliam highway, about four miles from Vivian. There was a Baptist church beside the cemetery, but it was burned down during a forest fire several years ago. Black Bayou cemetery is uncared for, and many of the markers are of native stone. Whitehead, White, Thomas, Gray, Garner, Hurdle, Pitts, Thompson, McLain, Thomason, Gibson, Grambling, Cox, Harrington, Parker, Allen, Chappell, Frazier, Peninger, Williams, Wilkins, Comer, Burney, Bruner, SPears, Festervan, Taylor, Law, Ivins, Conley, Harris, Robertson, Owens, Hugh, Warden, Clark, Barr, Massey, Chiles, Parker

I am interested in the listings for the surnames "White & Spears" Thank you so much, Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick ----- Original Message ----- From: <jjcsmarshall@aol.com> To: <LACADDO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 2:52 PM Subject: [LACADDO] Listing of Surnames in Black Bayou Cemetery, Vivian > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Cemetery > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XCB.2ACI/707 > > Message Board Post: > > Hello all. This is a partial listing of surnames listed in Black Bayou Cemetery. Hope this helps someone. If you want information regarding one of the surnames listed, I will be happy to post it for you. (Dates of death range from 1886 to 1960) > > BLACK BAYOU: This old cemetery is on the Vivian-Gilliam highway, about four miles from Vivian. There was a Baptist church beside the cemetery, but it was burned down during a forest fire several years ago. Black Bayou cemetery is uncared for, and many of the markers are of native stone. > > Whitehead, White, Thomas, Gray, Garner, Hurdle, Pitts, Thompson, McLain, Thomason, Gibson, Grambling, Cox, Harrington, Parker, Allen, Chappell, Frazier, Peninger, Williams, Wilkins, Comer, Burney, Bruner, SPears, Festervan, Taylor, Law, Ivins, Conley, Harris, Robertson, Owens, Hugh, Warden, Clark, Barr, Massey, Chiles, Parker > > > > > ==== LACADDO Mailing List ==== > History, Links & whatnots of Louisiana > http://www.angelfire.com/d20/wkrp_oo > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

jjcmarshall, You have a surname of Thompson listed for Black Bayou Cemetery. Can you post what info you have about this surname. Some of my kin were up northwest of Shreveport from Blanchard on up to Vivian. Thanks for your help. Ronald Thompson