McKinney Cemetery

File prepared by Deandra Norred Pardue.
Additional markers copied by Inez B. Tate and grandson, Randy Travis in 1977
This cemetery is taken from the book, St. Helena parish Cemeteries,1914-1987, Published by the St. Helena Historical Association, Inc., Rt. 1 Box 131; Amite, La. 70422 The LaGenWeb Archives would like to express their thanks to the Association for giving us permission to put these cemeteries online. The society retains the copyright to these works.

Directions: About 2 1/2 miles from Greensburg, La., north at the McKinney Home Place.

Sarah Corkern
June 2, 1762
August 9, 1845
"Mother, dead and yet she liveth - Her last words,
"Lord Jesus receive my soul" Peace to her memory"

Jas. C. Taylor
"A member of the bar"
Died August 4, 1849
"Peace to his memory"

Mary Therasher
S.R. & R.A. Corkern
May 1, 1831
September 20, 1831

J.P. Harvel
September 12, 1859
Jan 11, 1860

Sybil McKinney
Wife of S.J. Abbott
Oct 25, 1863
March 2, 1901

Martin Luther McKinney
Mar 6, 1857
July 12, 1918

Nancy Harm (name not clear)
Feb 14, 1856
Aug 11, 1926

John Corkern
June 15, 1757
Mar 19, 1843
"He was a kind and charitable man"
(Mason)

J.U. Harvel
Oct 30, 1862
July 3, 1865

Third son of S.R. & R.A. Corkern
Born & died Jan 20, A.D. 1841

Our Little Emmet
(No other inscription)

John C.T. Corkern
Sept 27, A.D. 1849
Sept 4, A.D. 1852

Japtha McKinney
Co. F 6th Mil.
Mexican War
(Pink Marble Stone)

Eudora Ada McKinney
Aug 4, 1853
Mar 9, 1932

Rose Ann Foster
Wife of S.R. Corkern
Feb 24, A.D. 1812
May 30, A.D. 1842
"She was amiable, died in peace and rests with the Saviour"

John D. McKinney
La. Pvt. U.S. Army
World War I
July 15, 1895
Sept 23, 1962

Thadis Craig McKinney
May 29, 1902
July 16, 1973

Additional markers copied by Inez B. Tate and grandson, Randy Travis in 1977

Elinor Estelle
Dau. Of Gertrude McKinney & Walton W. Watson
Mar 15, 1916
"You have but passed beyond where we can see."

Charles Linwood Latham
Infant son of Nancy Harvin & Martin L. McKinney
Oct 19, 1888
Nov 29, 1888
"Our loved one"

Sybil Billings Clary
Wife of Jeptha McKinney
April 11, 1825
Oct 25, 1863

Charles A. Dyson
Miss Pvt. Co K 16 Regt.
Miss. Inf. CSA
June 4, 1840
Nov 28, 1893

Sarah Adaliza Corkern
Wife of Jeptha McKinney
April 29, 1829
May 3, 1861
"Farewell my love for a season"

Rudolph F. Barbier
Pvt. US Army World War I
Aug 7, 1893
April 12, 1975

Eleanor McKinney Barbier
Born March 5, 1890
Died June 23, 1986

Paul James Harvin McKinney
Oct 22, 1886
Feb 9, 1971