Youngblood Cemetery AKA Woodward

Cemetery Record: Youngblood Cemetery located on Highway 448 North of Grangeville, Louisiana.
Submitted by Robert Vernon, OBIWANRV@aol.com

Donated to be put on the USGenWeb By: Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society
Information obtained from the Louisiana Genealogical Register Volume 23, Number 2, June 1976.

Information obtained from the Louisiana Genealogical Register Volume 23, Number 2, June
1976.

S. J. YOUNGBLOOD
Asst. Surgn. C.S.A.

Mary VERNON, wife of
T. J. BANKSTON
2 Feb 1858 - Apr 1898

Also their children:

Daniel V.
12 Sept 1878 - 29 Nov 1881

Etter E.
22 Apr 1883 - 7 Sept 1884

Adolphas
Born dead 15 Feb 1892

T. J. BANKSTON
1856 - 1942

David K. BRECHEEN, so of
J. I. & E. C. BRECHEEN
14 Oct 1897 - 27 May 1898

Emily C. WOODWARD, wife of
J. I. BRECHEEN
17 Jan 1864 - 20 May 1898

H. R. McWILLIAMS
5 Mar 1848 - 11 Jan 1891

W. H. McWILLIAMS, son of
H. R. & E. G. McWILLIAMS
29 Jul 1886 - 1 Dec 1887

Infant, son of H. R. & E. G. McWILLIAMS
Born & died 27 Jan 1889

J. G. HAYDEN, son of
W. T. & M. A. WOODWARD
5 Mar 1880 - 12 Sept 1882

Dan J. VERNON
25 Jan 1827 - 15 Jan 1882

W. T. WOODWARD*
11 Sept 1840 - 4 Jun 1906

M. A. EASLEY, wife of
W. T. WOODWARD*
B 4 Sept 1842

Children of W. T. & M. A. WOODWARD*
Lizza 1862-1862
Emily 1865-1898
Willy 1866-19??
Bunyan 1868-1892
Joseph 1871-1873
Ida 1 May 1874
James 18 May 1876

*Information on one large pillar,
no individual markers.

Banjamin D. ABBOTT
8 Oct 1858 - 20 Jan 1875

Bessie L., daughter of J. P. & N. E. WOODWARD
7 Aug 1900 - 12 Feb 1901

Essie, daughter of J. P. & N. E. WOODWARD
30 Apr 1899 - 12 Feb 1901

Minnie, daughter of J. M. & C. WOODWARD
15 Sept 1866 - 30 Sept 1885

Jimmie, son of J. M. and C. WOODWARD
27 Apr 1880 - 13 Jun 1888

Albert, son of J. M. & C. WOODWARD
14 Jul 1872 - 8 Jul 1874

James WOODWARD
15 Jan 1811 - 9 Apr 1880

J. P. LATHAN, son of T. E. & I. M. HUGHES
19 Mar 1898 - 23 Aug 1898

John, Son of J. M. & C. WOODWARD
17 Nov 1874 - 10 Aug 1888

Marie, daughter of W. M. & O. H. WOODWARD
29 Jan 1902 - 28 Sept 1911

Infant daughter of D. W. & K. A. CHANDLER
Born & died 28 Nov 1898

Hesekiah James CHANDLER
18 Mar 1902 - 18 Apr 1902

Notes from Robert Vernon, 10 Mar 2001

Despite reports that the cemetery had been destroyed I made a trip there just over 10 years ago and found the cemetery to be in fairly good shape although obviously abandoned. Mature trees had taken the cemetery but one had no trouble visiting all the graves.

There are graves in the cemetery that have no headstones and some, at that time, had eroded to the point that if headstones were present they could have fallen into the grave. I did not go probing around to see if headstones had
fallen into graves.

It appeared to me that T. J. Bankson was probably the last burial in the cemtery. However, some of the head stones were modern and polished in appearance so it led me to believe that they had been added years after the date of death.

I have also heard this cemetery referred to as the Woodward cemetery and it is obivious because of the number of burials by this family. Perhaps though S.J. Youngblood was the first burial thus the name.