McGinty Place Plantation Cemetery

Historically referred to as the old Cloud homesite, is located near Dodson. John Cloud is widely celebrated as the only known Revolutionary War veteran buried in Winn Parish.
Location & Identification Details
• Specific Location: The cemetery sits roughly one mile southwest of Gansville, Louisiana, on land historically belonging to the old Cloud family homestead.
• Grave Marker: The Shreveport Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) erected a formal military marker at his grave site. The tombstone explicitly preserves his dates, reading: John Cloud, N. Carolina Pvt., Ga. Troup; Feb 5, 1740, Feb 1, 1840.
• The Site: It is a very small, historic plot containing only about seven known grave markers.

Submitted by Annette (Carpenter) Womack of Winnfield
copied: Jan 1985

John Cloud
NC Pvt. Ga Troops
Revolutionary War
b. Feb 5, 1740
d. Feb 1, 1840
DAR marker
NOTE: There is an article about him in the Oct 1997 Legacies & Legends of Winn Parish, published by The Winn Gen. & Hist. Ass. of Winn Parish, Winnfield, LA.

Dr. T. A. Wilkinson
b. Nov 18, 1848
d. Jan 28, 1886

Wilbur Lee Gatlin
b. Sep 19, 1893
d. Jun 22, 1894

Elisha O.
s/o E. K. & M. C. McGinty
b. Oct 31, 1875
d. Aug 22, 1884

NOTE: "These were copied about Dec 1985 by Annette Womack. At that time there was a house on the land, but it burned a year or two later. The graves were growned up with trees and vines. The pasture/field next to the graveyard was suppose to be a slave grave yard, but there were no markers. The field had in past years planted with corn and other crops. NOTE: These markers were not printed in Briley's Cemetery Directory of Winn Parish."