OLD BARKER BRANCH CEMETARY, St. Tammany Parish, LA
Contributed by Cindy Craddock 9/97


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This cemetery list was compiled and published in the book St.
Tammany Parish Cemeteries by Mrs. Doris Holden and Mrs. Dolores
P. Butler. 
Mrs. Doris E. Holden
90 Dewberry Road
Covington, Louisiana 70435

 Mrs. Holden has graciously allowed me to use this material from
her book.

 Cynthia M. Craddock , Host for St. Tammany Parish on the
USGenWeb Project                    

 Old Barker Branch Cemetery

      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.