New Bethlehem Cemetery

New Bethlehem (African-American), 1999, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
Compiled by Darrell Winder and Greggory E. Davies

Located on Harrisonburg Road (Old Natchez Trace) in southeast Winn Parish, near the Grant Parish line. Take La. 471 off La. 34 just south of Atlanta, La. and travel east-southeast approximately 3.4 miles, then west on the Harrisonburg Road approximately 3/10 of one mile. The cemetery is situated across the road from New Bethlehem Church. Of interest, beside the church is one of two remaining one-room schools in Winn Parish. Several unmarked graves are in the cemetery. The listed graves below are in no particular order).

Alexander, Hattie
3-17-1892 - 4-10-1920
Wife of B. Hayes

Alexander, Napolean
12-29-1891 - 2-10-1981

Bobb, Manuey, Jr.
9-17-1940 - 1-31-1990

Bobb, Mattie W.
5-5-1900 - 6-25-1990

Daniels, Fred
9-24-1891 - 12-4-1956
Cpl. QMC Ark. WWI

Fobbs, ?
(nothing else)

Fobbs, Henry
11-30-1907 - 8-27-1998

Fobbs, Jack
no dates

Fobbs, Larcenia
3-17-1898 - 1-4-1981

Fobbs, Pauline
1879 - 1968

Gaines, Callie Watkins
9-1-1892 - 10-5-1968

Gary, Hattie
1897 - 1990

Gleas, Girlee
11-27-1931 - 8-21-1996

Goff, Lora
1847 - 1951

Gordan, Harold A.
3-31-1969 - 11-7-1997

Hall, Henry H.
1-16-1922 - 4-19-1974
Pvt. USA WWII

Hayes, Bessie L.
4-5-1905 - 1-13-1991

Hayes, David
2-14-1917 - 11-5-1974

Hayes, Joe
2-15-1915 - 8-29-1981

Howard, Amy J.
1972 - 1998

Howard, Emanuel
12-31-1896 - 3-5-1963
Pvt. La. WWI
Co. B 523 Engineers

Howard, Emanuel, Jr.
9-15-1940 - 7-12-1969

Howard, Robert D.
1931 - 1993

Johnson, Jessie J.
1913 - 1993

Johnson, Josephine
9-10-1910 - 2-10-1986

Knox, Revirchy
7-3-1915 - 9-3-1993

Manuel, Phoebe
12-14-1878 - 2-19-1916
Wife of Rev. W. P. Henry

Mathis, Hazell
d. ?-?-1982
Cpl. USA WWII

Mathis, Lewis
12-29-1906 - 4-12-1961
Sgt. WWII
386 Eng. Bn.

Mathis, Mary V.
November 1888 - 8-23-1967

Mathis, Sed
6-10-1870 - 8-24-1954

Mathis, Verda
2-1-1919 - 9-3-1953

Matthews, Thomas
9-10-1922 - 4-15-1985
USA WWII

McCain, James
9-15-1882 - 7-1-1962

McMillion, Corene
one marker, no dates

McMillion, Mandias
1884 - 1962

McMillion, Martha
one marker, no dates

McMillion, Nolon
one marker, no dates

McMillion, Paul
5-6-1927
PFC USA WWII

McMillion, Pecola
one marker, no dates

McWright, Odell
1949 - 1998

McWright, Odell
9-4-1928 - 12-24-1972
Pvt. USA Korea

Merchant, Cleo F.
1917 - 1991

Morgan, Annie
d. 4-20-1951

Morgan, Walter
12-16-1898 - 10-25-1974
Pvt. USA

Mosley, Dan
12-29-1864 - 5-10-1945

Mosley, Dugles
1891 - 1918

Mosley, Joyce M.
1949 - 1994

Mosley, P. S.
3-13-1871 or 77 - 4-25-1927

Mosley, Roy
1903 - 1980

Mosley, Tommy
2-28-1909 - 4-17-1984

Pearson, Shirley
d. 7-15-1991

Pearson, Shirley Ann
6-28-1950 - 7-18-1991

Peats, Annie
no dates

Peats, Jack Henry
6-30-1915 - 11-24-1970
Pvt. LA. USA WWII

Peats, Jo Anna
no dates

Peats, John
7-16-1909 - 1-12-19??

Peats, Leola
1911 - 1997

Peats, Lida Mae
6-19-1903 - 10-12-1982

Peats, Ophelia
no dates

Peats, Osborn Hill
3-30-1901 - 7-23-1965
Pvt. LA WWII
58 Avn. Sq. AAF

Pennywell, Jewett
5-8-1908 - 12-25-1959

Pennywell, Willard
2-22-1917 - 8-29-1993
Sgt. USA WWII

Phillips, Addie
d. Feb. 1935

Phillips, Francies
1856 - 6-22-1910

Phillips, Isa
5-1-1891 - 6-10-??

Phillips, Lee
1-4-1875 - 8-13-1962

Phillips, Lueaser
11-20-1877 - 3-11-1943

Phillips, Sister Otelle
2-22-1911 - 11-15-1972

Phillips, Raymond R.
1894 - 1982

Phillips, Viola Brew
2-26-1905 - 6-20-1991

Phillips, William
1857 - 1919

Phillips, Willie
11-16-1889
6-29-1955
1-2-1938
7-24-1958
Pvt. La. WWI
814 Pioneer Inf.
Lorene Phillips Baker

Powell, Loleitha
7-21-1961 - 1-23-1998

Powell, Robert
7-30-1925

Preston, Sedell K.
1941 - 1967

Rodgers, Bessie
b. 2-19-1906

Rodgers, Caleb
7-10-1874 - 8-26-1958

Rodgers, Herschel
5-19-1902 - 6-29-1954

Rodgers, Karry
10-19-1928 - 9-2-1957
PFC USA WWII

Rodgers, Mary
8-15-1872 - 1-25-1916

Rodgers, Sylvester
4-15-1908 - 1-8-1978

Rogers, Josephine
11-7-1879 - 2-26-1963

Rogers, Louis Norman
2-19-1921 - 2-10-1979

Sapp, Arthur
6-8-1881 - 5-16-1956

Sapp, Ben
4-11-1870 - 3-8-1940

Sapp, Berry
10-15-1888 - 3-8-1973
Pvt. USA WWI

Sapp, Mrs. Casty
1-10-1914 - 6-13-1995

Sapp, Clemon
2-1-1896 - 1-7-1975
Pvt. USA

Sapp, Dellia
12-8-1870 - 3-31-1950

Sapp, Elie
1919 - 1983

Sapp, Eliza
d. 12-4-1928

Sapp, Ellis
2-7-1923 - 9-16-1970

Sapp, Emma
August 1884 - February 1941

Sapp, Flossie
1907 - 1992

Sapp, Henretto
1823 - 4-30-1924

Sapp, Jennie Lee
7-19-1892 - 2-23-1958

Sapp, John J.
1923 - 1990

Sapp, Louis
5-6-1864 - 3-1-1934

Sapp, Maudie
7-16-1864 - 4-7-1950

Sapp, R. L.
4-24-1930 - 4-24-1998

Scott, Ella Corene Mosley
3-12-1901 - 1-1-1896

Scott, Sherman
3-4-1894 - 4-10-1977
Pvt. USA WWI

Shelton, Maybelle
1-16-1934 - 1-14-1998

Smith, Ira
2-16-1909

Smith, Jewel, Sr.
d. 11-29-1998
age 71

Smith, Theda M.
3-21-1927 - 3-15-1971

Walker, Odis
1-4-1914 - 5-15-1993

Washington, Andra Shnell
3-12-97

Watkins, Eugean
2-24-1898 - 12-4-1965

Watkins, Green
7-14-1889 - 9-13-1959
Pvt. USA La. WWI

Watkins, Joe
d. 3-5-1960

Watkins, Neverry
d. 3-4-1947
age 61

Watkins, Thomas P.
7-22-1902 - 5-6-1986

White, Alma
3-16-1892 - 11-5-1989

Willis, Emma McWright
12-13-1910 - 10-27-1976

Willis, Jerry Wayne
12-13-1949 - 7-17-1980

Willis, Lee Marshall
1-15-1930 - 9-18-1971

Willis, Leroy
9-30-1908 - 6-19-1978

Willis, Wm. M.
7-19-1939 - 9-1-1991
Sp. 4 USA

Wilson, Guss
2-11-1892 - 10-26-1962

Wilson, John L.
11-24-1970 - 6-29-1991

Wilson, Mary P.
2-17-1908

Wilson, Mary Tamp
12-25-1871 - 10-30-1982

Wilson, Robert
6-6-1886 - 9-1-1962

Young, Audrey
6-28-1909 - 6-6-1974