Mrs. Holden has graciously allowed me to use this material from her book.
On Louisiana 1081, 63 miles North of Covington, Louisiana, on Louisiana 437.
Take 1081 to the north side of the little Bogue Falaya River bridge. Walk
through a woods road across a creek, then keep to the left along a ground up
trail through a branch. The grown up cemetery is just up the hill a little
to the right. At one time it had been fenced.
Mathew Ferry John Barker
d d 1908, aged 54
William Barker
d 1908 Pennah Fitzgerald
1863 - 1896
wife of John Fitzgerald
There are other graves that have the old time iron markers that cannot be
read.
My dad, Emile V. Martin, Ed Timberlake and another man helped the father
of a young boy to be buried there. They lived near the Dubussion place.
My dad is 85 years of age, and cannot remember their name.
Also from Emile V. Martin: there was signs of the old Stafford home,
and the old Barker home still visible along this branch when my dad moved
on Stafford Road in 1904. The branch runs into Little Bogue Falaya right
after it crosses Louisiana 1081 on the southern end. It is not marked on
the parish map.
Also talked with Mrs. Net Taylor, and she told us the following were buried
in the cemetery:
Margaret Barker Ferry, wife of Mathew Ferry
Sam Barker
She also told us that William Barker was a young man when he died in 1908.
Copied by Doris Martin Holden 2 November 1975
Conversation with Mrs. Taylor 3 June 1976.