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    1. New on the Archives tonight & a cemetery question
    2. Karen Rice
    3. We now have Shady Grove Cemetery, surveyed by Paul Tolbird and submitted by Mary Davis-Odom. Tim has finished the September, October, and November 1885 abstracts and they are in the newspaper files. I formatted these at work, and I forgot I have a 19" monitor there, so I made the sentences too long without a wrap. It will make it hard for those of you with smaller monitors to read, and I apologize. As soon as I get some spare time I will re-formatt them. Now, the qestion about cemeteries. Recently my friend Stephanie, who does the African American Archives for Louisiana asked if we had any new African American Cemeteries up. I realized that - other than supposing that some of the cemeteries - like maybe Shiloh? - because they had African Americans listed on the membership rolls during slave times - also have African American sections, like Springhill Cemetery does - that I don't know if any of the cemeteries on that list of place names on the Parish History page are African American or not. Some must be. Also, in these articles Tim is abstracting, some people are referred to as being interred in the Jewish Cemetery. Does anyone know which one that is, and whether or not any of the ones on the list have either an African American section or are an African American cemetery? Every time I think I've learned a bit about Union Parish history, I find nine new things I don't know! Karen

    12/13/2001 01:56:08