Find A Grave - West Feliciana Parish

Barrow, Alexander b. March 27, 1801 d. December 29, 1846
US Senator. Elected as a Whig to represent Louisiana in the US Senate, he served from 1841 until his death in office. Barrow was born near Nashville, Tennessee, and attended the US Military Academy at West Point from 1816 to 1818. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1822 and moved to Louisiana. By the late 1820s he had abandoned legal practice to run a successful plantation, Afton Villa, in the West Feliciana Parish. As a Democratic member of the State House of Representatives...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Afton Villa Baptist Church Cemetery, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA
Barrow, Gen. Robert Hilliard b. February 5, 1922 d. October 30, 2008
United States Marine Corps General. He served 41 years in the United States Marine Corps, rising from Private to four-star General, and was the Corps' 27th Commandant. Though raised on a plantation in Louisiana, his family was poor. He attended Louisiana State University because it had free tuition at the time, working as a janitor and waiter to pay for room and board. He left early to join the Marine Corps in World War II, going to boot camp at San Diego, California. He remained there as a...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA
Butler, Thomas b. April 14, 1785 d. August 7, 1847
US Congressman. Born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, he became an attorney in 1806, moved to Mississippi Territory in 1807 and was active in the militia as commander of a cavalry troop with the rank of Captain. In 1811 he moved to West Feliciana Parish. Butler owned cotton and sugar plantations, was appointed Parish Judge in 1812, and became Judge of the District Court in 1813. In 1818 he was the successful Democratic-Republican nominee for the US House of Representatives in a special election...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Butler Cemetery, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA
Davis, Sarah Knox 'Knoxie' b. March 6, 1814 d. September 15, 1835
Folk Figure. The daughter of President Zachary Taylor, she is remembered as the first wife of future Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Raised in the itinerant lifestyle of an 'Army brat', she got her nickname from the Army post where she was born and during her growing-up years was educated in Kentucky and Ohio while undoubtedly experiencing at least some degree of the deference commonly shown to the children of senior officers. Knoxie met then-Lieutenant Davis, a West Point graduate...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Locust Grove Cemetery, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA
Dawson, John Bennett b. March 17, 1798 d. June 26, 1845
US Congressman. A Democrat, he was elected to represent Louisiana's 2nd and 3rd Districts in the US House of Representatives, serving from 1841 to 1845. He died in office. Born near Nashville, Tennessee, Dawson attended Center College in Danville, Kentucky and later moved to Louisiana, where he became a planter and dabbled in newpaper publishing. He unsuccessfully ran for Louisiana Governor in 1834, but his political fortunes steadily improved after that. In the late 1830s he was...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA
Hart, John Elliott b. 1820 d. June 11, 1863
Civil War Union Naval Officer. Appointed midshipman on February 23, 1841, he became a Lieutenant in 1855. During the first 18 months of the Civil War, he served aboard the Vincennes and the Santee. On August 5, 1862, he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and in October was assigned command of the Albatross of the West Gulf Squadron. Needing extra protection for his wooden steamer, he had its decks piled with cotton bales and both bales and lumber attached to its sides. At St. Andrew's Bay...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA
Newsham, Joseph Parkinson b. May 24, 1837 d. October 22, 1919
US Congressman. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Elected to represent Louisiana's 3rd and 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1868 to 1869, and 1870 to 1871. Also served as a Delegate to the Louisiana State Constitutional Convention from 1867 to 1868. (Bio by: K)
Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA
Ripley, Eleazar Wheelock b. April 15, 1782 d. March 2, 1839
War of 1812 Brigadier General, US Congressman. A lawyer and politician who served in the Massachusetts legislature from 1807 to 1809, he fought in the War of 1812, being appointed Brigadier General on April 15, 1814. He was brevetted Major General on July 25, 1814, and received a Congressional Gold Medal for his services. Serveding in the Army until 1820, he moved to Lousiana, becoming a prominent lawyer and planter. He was elected to represent Louisiana's 2nd District in the United States...[Read More]
Locust Grove Cemetery, Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA

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