This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Deason, Nash Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EEB.2ACE/854 Message Board Post: The Jesse M Cooper Camp #1665 Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Emma Sansom Chapter, Order of Confederate Rose invite all Family and the public in a Confederate Memorial. The memorial is to be held at 6 p m Saturday, 29 June 2002. We will be honoring John J Deason of the 33rd Arkansas Inf and Benjamin J Nash of the Consolidated Crescent Regiment La. Inf. There will be a Confederate Honor Guard, Color Guard (Southern Guard), and Artillery Battery (Semmes). There will be a twenty-one gun salute and an artillery salute. The OCR's Order of the Black Rose will also place flags and flowers at the graves. UDC ladies will do the eulogies. Directions: From Leesville, La - Go South on Hwy 171 approx. 6 miles. Turn East (left) on Hwy 10 and go 14.1 miles. Turn right on paved Rd. This Rd. does not have a name sign, but does have a Drakes Fork Cemetery sign. Go 1.4 miles to Drakes Fork Cemetery Rd and turn right. This rd dead ends into the cemetery. From DeRidder, La - Go North on Hwy 171 approx 6-7 miles. Turn East (Right) on Hwy 10 and go 14.1 miles. Turn right on paved Rd. This Rd. does not have a name sign, but does have a Drakes Fork Cemetery sign. Go 1.4 miles to Drakes Fork Cemetery Rd and turn right. This rd dead ends into the cemetery.