Doherty Cemetery

Copied by: Mae D. Haase in 1975
Submitter: Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society
Prepared by: Don W. Johnson

In West Feliciana Parish. Doherty Home said to have stood almost Directly across from Cemetery toward Bayou Sara, but has caved off the bluff.

Mrs. Mary Doherty
Died: April 25, 1827
Aged: [Too worn to Read] years

Caleb Swayze Doherty
Infant child of A. & C. Doherty
[no dates]

Mrs. Massy Doherty
Died: December 27, 1834
Aged: 61 years 5 months
"This tomb is erected by her Surviving Children...."

Anthony Doherty
Died: February 12, 1837
[-no birth date given]

Edward Johnson
February 23, 1860
June 27, 1860
Age: 4 months, 4 days.

Large pile of brick mark spot which it is said was an elaborate 4-shelf vault. Said to have held iron caskets with inscriptions on the caskets. First descrated apparently by grave robbers who are  said to have left these caskets strewn about cemetery. Some say caskets were later buried underground, but much ironwork was taken from here Scrap Drive of World War II, and there is question that perhaps these caskets were put on the Scrap pile, also.

Several depressions appear among marked graves which may be unmarked graves.