A Little-Known Cemetery Index

In the 1950s, the Daughters of the American Revolution undertook the task of indexing many state cemeteries.  They didn’t get all of them, but what they did index is a treasure trove.  I tell people all the time that if you can’t find a burial in the modern indexes, look in the DAR indexes.  The stone may have been legible or still standing when these ladies came through!  The Ouachita Parish Public Library has all twenty-five volumes.  The Ouachita cemeteries that were indexed, along with the page and volume number are:

Antioch Methodist ChurchOuachita1851
Aulds ChapelOuachita1151
BartholomewOuachita1466
BerryOuachita1321
BeulahOuachita1641
BoscoOuachita891
Bry FamilyOuachita1536
BryanOuachita1576
ButlerOuachita1771
CalhounOuachita1791
Carlton Methodist ChurchOuachita1741
Cheniere [No directions.  Could be Cheniere Baptist]Ouachita1411
City [AKA Old Monroe City]Ouachita471
ClaiborneOuachita1431
Clark’s SpringsOuachita1041
ColonyOuachita921
Cosper Ouachita1441
CowanOuachita1191
CypressOuachita1071
DrewOuachita1461
FaustOuachita1211
Frantom ChapelOuachita1721
GolsonOuachita1031
Good Hope ChurchOuachita1471
HasleyOuachita11
HeadOuachita1121
Highway 165 (J.C. William) [AKA Filhiol-Watkins]Ouachita931
HintonOuachita1211
Indian VillageOuachita1561
LapineOuachita1191
Liberty Baptist ChurchOuachita1611
LocharborOuachita971
LogtownOuachita941
LunaOuachita1481
McCormickOuachita1261
McCormick (Continued)Ouachita1301
Mt. OliveOuachita1091
Mt. VernonOuachita1511
Mt. Zion [J.W. Fenton Grave]Ouachita532
NashOuachita1421
New Chapel Hill BaptistOuachita1691
New Light BaptistOuachita911
New SardisOuachita1321
Old SardisOuachita1311
Patton Parker FamilyOuachita6717
Phillips FamilyOuachita901
Pine GroveOuachita1081
Pleasant ValleyOuachita881
RiserOuachita911
RiverviewOuachita16
RogersOuachita1201
SmithOuachita1331
Sparks-ButlerOuachita1291
Spring HillOuachita1001
St. MatthewsOuachita566
Walnut GroveOuachita1221
Wham [NOT the African-American Wham Cemetery]Ouachita911
Willson Family [AKA Tennille, AKA Limerick]Ouachita1546
Wood or NixsonOuachita1031
ZeiglerOuachita1591
Zion Hill AKA ForksvilleOuachita1351

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