Nettles Cemetery

Listing Compiled by Lloyd & Linda Chatham
April 23, 1998

Nettles Cemetery is an old abandoned, unkept cemetery whose location is  unknown to most people. It was evidently located an older community which was known as Castor, LA , but this is not the same community of Castor, which is known today) There are at least 25 unmarked graves within the cemetery and most of the stones that survived are broken and almost unreadable.

At Chatham, take Hwy 4 East toward Columbia about 12 miles. You will be across the Caldwell Parish line at about the 10 mile mark. Look for Mt. Olive Rd. and take a left on it. Go about 100 yds down Mt. Olive Rd. to the transmission tower on your right. Stop here and follow the fence line of the tower property to the top of the hill where you will enter some oak trees which were left when the timber Co. cleared the land. The graves are among these oaks.

NAME; Date of Birth; Date of Death; Additional Known Information
Brock, J.R., 4/14/1870, 3/22/1891 h/o S.J. Brock
Brown, James, 2/10/1827, 7/11/1882
Brown, Safronie, 6/10/1895, 12/23/1895 d/o M.L. & B.W. Brown
Nettles, W.T., 3/30/1826, 2/5/1877
Wood, Elbert, born Feb. 1893, died 7/2/1859 h/o Lettie Wood
Wood, Lettie, born 1798, died 11/8/1848 w/o Elbert Wood