----- Original Message ----- From: Louis Taunton To: LAUNION-@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:01 PM Subject: Sweet Home Cemetery between Oakland, La and Strong, AR Sweet Home Cemetery was a Methodist Church established in the 1880s by John Lambert Dopson who came to Union County, AR from Elmore County, Alabama. The Church has been torn down (1970s), pews sold and lumber sold and money was put into the cemetery fund for its upkeep. Most of the settlers in the area between Strong and Oakland were from Alabama. The people moved and died out by the 1940s and church services were no longer held. The Methodist Protestant Church was built on the Strong-Huttig Road and the people in that area attend there. There are a few burials each year in the cemetery and the mowing is paid by the fund set up for that purpose in the summer. Some of the tombs were destroyed years ago when the Good Hope Primitative Baptist Church Cemetery (on the state line) was vandalized. Sad, but the vandals were never brought to court nor did they pay restitution. Louis Taunton (native of Strong)

James Barron was one of the unlucky ones who's marker is no longer there ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Taunton" <kinfindr@telepak.net> To: <LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:29 PM Subject: [Union Parish LA] Fw: Sweet Home Cemetery between Oakland, La and Strong, AR > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Louis Taunton > To: LAUNION-@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:01 PM > Subject: Sweet Home Cemetery between Oakland, La and Strong, AR > > > Sweet Home Cemetery was a Methodist Church established in the 1880s by John Lambert Dopson who came to Union County, AR from Elmore County, Alabama. The Church has been torn down (1970s), pews sold and lumber sold and money was put into the cemetery fund for its upkeep. Most of the settlers in the area between Strong and Oakland were from Alabama. The people moved and died out by the 1940s and church services were no longer held. The Methodist Protestant Church was built on the Strong-Huttig Road and the people in that area attend there. There are a few burials each year in the cemetery and the mowing is paid by the fund set up for that purpose in the summer. Some of the tombs were destroyed years ago when the Good Hope Primitative Baptist Church Cemetery (on the state line) was vandalized. Sad, but the vandals were never brought to court nor did they pay restitution. Louis Taunton (native of Strong) > > > ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== > Timothy D. Hudson > Union Parish Louisiana List Manager > TimothyDHudson@hotmail.com > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >