The Political Graveyard: DeSoto Parish, La.

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DeSoto Parish
Louisiana

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in DeSoto Parish

Index to Locations

Near Gloster Trinity Cemetery

Kingston Evergreen Cemetery

Mansfield Mansfield Cemetery

Mansfield Old Mansfield Cemetery

Trinity Cemetery
Near Gloster, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana

Politicians buried here:

Henry Marshall (1805-1864) — of Louisiana. Born in Darlington District (now Darlington County), S.C., December 28, 1805. Member of Louisiana state senate; delegate to Louisiana secession convention, 1861; Delegate from Louisiana to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Representative from Louisiana in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64. Died in DeSoto Parish, La., July 13, 1864 (age 58 years, 198 days). Interment at Trinity Cemetery.

Evergreen Cemetery
Kingston, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana

Politicians buried here:

Philemon Thomas Herbert (1825-1864) — also known as Philemon T. Herbert — of Mariposa, Mariposa County, Calif.; El Paso, El Paso County, Tex. Born in Pine Apple, Wilcox County, Ala., November 1, 1825. Democrat. Member of California state assembly, 1853-55 (10th District 1853-54, 6th District 1854-55); U.S. Representative from California at-large, 1855-57; in 1856, drunk at breakfast, he shot and killed Thomas Keating, a waiter at the Willard Hotel in Washington; charged with murder, twice tried, and eventually acquitted; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Wounded at the Battle of Mansfield, April 8, 1864, and died in Kingston, DeSoto Parish, La., July 23, 1864 (age 38 years, 265 days). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery.

See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

Mansfield Cemetery
Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana

Politicians buried here:

Joseph Barton Elam (1821-1885) — of Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, La. Born near Hope, Hempstead County, Ark., June 12, 1821. Democrat. Member of Louisiana state house of representatives, 1851-61; delegate to Louisiana secession convention, 1861; U.S. Representative from Louisiana 4th District, 1877-81; defeated, 1880. Died in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, La., July 4, 1885 (age 64 years, 22 days). Interment at Mansfield Cemetery.

See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

Old Mansfield Cemetery
Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana

Politicians buried here:

Edgar Williamson Sutherlin (b. 1851) — of DeSoto Parish, La. Born in DeSoto Parish, La., 1851. Son of John Haskins Sutherlin (born 1821). Member of Louisiana state senate. Interment at Old Mansfield Cemetery.

Relatives: Son of John Haskins Sutherlin (born 1821); married to Mary Leigh Williamson (daughter of George McWillie Williamson).

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