Friendship Cemetery

Provencal, Natchitoches Parish, LA

Friendship Cemetery, Provencal, Natchitoches Parish, LA Location: LA Hwy 117 south of Provencal about three miles, turn east on Parish Road 725, approximately one mile to Friendship Cemetery marker, turn right and about 1-4 mile to cemetery. 44 marked burials.

There are eight 8 unmarked wooden and metal crosses marking obvious burials. Also there is an infant or child's grave marked with a slab and and headstone, but all identification has been removed except a metal marker with April 11 on it. There was apparently a picture or some scripted paper in a raised frame, but water has made this illegible.

Interesting markers are those of Martha Lee Taylor. A new and more legible marker has been placed over the upper area of the grave, adjacent to the older marker. A fitting memorial to both the person buried there and to the person who placed the possibly handcrafted original marker.

A white wire fence 8-12 inches high surrounds what appears to be a double infant-child plot. According to information published in The Natchitoches Genealogist October 1993, furnished by Delores Sparks Kay of Provencal, LA, this may be the burial of COBB twins. Ms. Kay also lists an ORVILLE SMITH as one of the unmarked burials. Submitted by N. Liles - 2-98.

CLARK, Bertha 06 Aug 1901 - Apr 15, 1974

CLARK, Jane 05 Aug 1879 - 11 Nov 192?

CLARK, William C.  15 Jan 1874 - 17 Aug 1961

COBB, Barbara Jean 08 Dec 1947 - Nov 13, 2007, wife of L.C. Cobb

COBB, Curtis 28 Sep 1940 - 10 Sep 1941

COBB, Dellie Elizabeth 20 Apr 1900 - 30 May 1973, wife of William Cleve Cobb

COBB, Earl C. 13 Sep 1918 -13 Jan 1972

COBB, Earl Edward 1959 - 1959

COBB, Enoch Brooks 28 Feb 1885 - 17 May 1970, husband of Lue Crecy Cobb double stone

COBB, Fred D. 12 Apr 1911 - 30 Sep 1915

COBB, Helen Odeal 21 Sep 1929 -07 Oct 1929

COBB, Joseph B. 12 Aug 1912 - 01 Oct 1970, LA TEC5 119 QM Bakery Co WWII

COBB, Joseph Brooks 05 July 1849 - 15 Feb 1918

COBB, L. C. 12 Feb 1939 - 09 Mar 1977, husband of Barbara Jean Cobb double stone

COBB, Leo Cleve 05 Dec 1918 - 14 Feb 1974

COBB, Lorene 30 Sep 1922 - 02 Sep 1995, age 73 - funeral home marker

COBB, Lue Crecy 22 Mar 1883 - 13 May 1982, wife of Enoch Brooks Cobb

COBB, Lue Vicye 05 Sep 1885 - 16 Jan 1916

COBB, Mary Jane 14 Oct 1867 - 21 May 1950

COBB, William Cleve 14 Nov 1886 - 06 July 1960, husband of Dellie Elizabeth Cobb double stone

COBB, Willie Dee 07 Jan 1910 - 05 Apr 1936

HARRISON, Evelyn F. 19 Sep 1886 -29 Oct 1964

HARRISON, Gertrude 17 may 1919 - 01 Mar 1962

HARRISON, James M. 22 Aug 1875 - 08 Mar 1962

HONEYCUTT, Infant 23 Feb 1931 - 23 Feb 1931, dau of Mr. and Mrs. Ivey Honeycutt

JORDON, Van Edward 17 Jan 1895 - 27 Feb 1895, son of W.J. and Anna Jordon

JORDAN, William Regional 'Red'    01 June 1901 - 09 July 1979

KAY, Allen P. 06 July 1910 - 01 Dec 1964, LA Rt Btry B 7 Training Regt. WWII

KAY, Bud Drue 20 Apr 1916 - 22 Jan 1968

KAY, Ella C. 05 Sep 1883 - 24 Dec 1918

KAY, Joseph Eli, Sr. 12 Apr 1876 - 17 Mar 1918 [His name is spelled Joesph on the tombstone]

KAY, Lottie L. 01 Jan 1885 - 24 Sep 1974 wife of Pinkney G. Kay

KAY, Pinkney G. 29 Mar 1872 - 13 Nov 1936 husband of Lottie L. Kay double stone

MARTIN, Raymond Monroe 18 Feb 1926 - 29 June 1989, funeral home marker--age 63

MEADOWS, James 13 Nov 1850 - 10 Feb 1932, stone next to Rhoda Smith Meadows and marked "Husband"

MEADOWS, Rhoda Smith 03 May 1857 - [Mar 1955], stone next to James Meadows and marked "Wife"

ODOM, Cecil Leon, Sr. 21 May 1924 - 01 Aug 1994 Sgt US AIR FORCE WWII KOREA

ODOM, Mae L. Alford 19 Aug 1931 - , wife of Cecil Leon Odom

SCARBOROUGH, Ben F. 1866 - 1950

SCARBOROUGH, Henry Jackson 1893 - 1903

SCARBOROUGH, Thelma Jane Cobb 20 June 1915 - 01 Aug 1983

SMITH, ORVILLE Aug 1, 1922 - Aug 11, 1987 [This marker could have been put into place after the reading of the cemetery]

STRAWTHER, Connie Janell Scarborough 15 Mar 1948 - 10 July 1987

TAYLOR, Martha Lee 05 Sep 1828 -27 Feb 1912 Old-new markers for Martha Lee Taylor

TAYLOR, Vicie 1892 - 1893