Cotton-Cordova Cemetery

Spanish Lake, Natchitoches Parish, LA

The Cotton Cemetery, sometimes referred to as the Cotton-Cordova Cemetery, is located in the Spanish Lake - Allen - Ajax area of Natchitoches Parish Hwy 485. In earlier years, the Spanish Lake area was a community of thriving family farms, as the hill lands abruptly gave way to the rich, flat overflow lands of the Red River bayous. Names familiar to area residents and historians include Taplacot Bayou, Gibson Ditch, Blanc Branch, Fish Pond Bottom, Bayou Terre, and Meagason Branch. The area, with its numerous waterways and abundant fish and fowl, was home to Native Americans in even earlier years. Before the advent of the extensive levee system, these bottom lands were plagued with overflows of water, evidence of which can be noted in the early newspapers of the parish. Today, the farm lands surrounding the Spanish Lake area are planted in corn, cotton, soybeans, maize, and rice: all part of the large mechanized farming operations of Natchitoches Parish.

Thanks are extended to Ms. O. Cobb and friends who visited the cemetery in 1998 and compiled the following listing of burials.

Submitted by N. Liles, 10-1998

BAPTISTE, LaCombe no dates, Grandmother to Paul, Joe, and Ely

COTTON, Louvina 23 Jan 1914 - 23 Jan 1914

COTTON, Lula Elaine 02 Sep 1935 - 15 Dec 1935

CORDEVA, Addie Arene 07 June 1868 - 05 Aug 1954

CORDEVA, Eli Albanas 27 Feb 1858 - 23 Sep 1921

CORDOVA, Benjamin - 25 Nov 1891

CORDOVA, Jessie Lee 02 May 1893 - 23 Nov 1917

CORDOVA, Joseph - 05 Feb 1895

CORDOVA, Paul 17 July 1859 - 26 Jan 1931

CORDOVA, Pauline Ebarb 02 Mar 1863 - 09 Feb 1942

CORDOVA, Virginia - 05 Feb 1899

GOODEN, Addie Cordeva 1901 - 1940

GOODEN, Irene 10 Sep 1918 - 26 Oct 1918

MEADOWS, Jack Mack no dates

O'CON, Celes no dates, Mother of Andrew O'Con

WOODS, Grandpa no dates, Stepfather to Paul, Joe, and Ely

WOODS, Grandma Virginia no dates, Stepmother of Paul, Joe, and Ely

RIVERS, Mrs. no dates Of Zwolle