Liberty Chapel Cemetery Area Landowners

Liberty Chapel Cemetery Area Landowners - prior to 1910
For: Liberty Chapel Cemetary Records and Website
By: Grady L. McFarland

Following is a listing of land ownership of SOME families connected with
Liberty Chapel. These are records of property bought or homesteaded from
the USA. Date of deed does NOT always give a true idea of when or if,
person moved on land. Example: John A Allbright moved to just North of
Liberty Chapel prior to 1880, but did not get title/deed until 1903.
I did NOT research private land sale records, as most of the early
records have been destroyed.

Liberty Chapel property is located in the NW/4 of SW/4 of Sec 16 - T8N -
R2W. There is only 120 ac of privately-owned land in Sec 16 - remainder
is owned by US Forest Service.

Most of the original private land was obtained by the US Forest Service
in the 1930's when Kisatchie National Forest was formed. There are
scattered plots of privately retained land throughout this area.
Swafford heirs still retain ownership of Swafford block land. I did not
trace down current ownership of most private tracts.

Land descriptions are listed as Section # - Township # - Range #.
Range location is 2 West unless so noted. Ones listed are in the Liberty
Chapel vicinity. Consult a Forest Service or parish section map for
location proximity.

Property owners:

Allbright, John A 8-8-2 160 ac 2/12/1903

Brister
Benjamin 8-7-1W 3/10/1905
Charles H 26-8-2

Creed
William N 20-7-2
Basil E 28-8-2 2/02/1901

Deen
Francis Marion 18-8-2 39 ac 5/01/1906
Mary E 20-9-2 80 ac 9/26/1905
Oliver Bertie 22-8-3W 160 ac 2/16/1905
Lou C 14-9-2 120 ac 9/26/1905
Rufus Marion 34-9-2 160 ac 3/14/1904
Thomas J 30-7-2 320 ac 10/01/1860
Wilton Prestridge 8-8-2 80 ac 5/01/1906

Elkins, Columbus 18-8-2 120 ac 4/06/1903

Gentry
Allen 5-6-2 120 ac 5/10/1861
Ida 30-8-2 153 ac 12/17/1902
Nathaniel 20-8-2 40 ac 5/10/1861

Gilmore
James T 2-9-3W 40 ac 6/01/1848
Nancy 2-9-3W 80 ac 7/30/1846

Gray
Alexander M 28-8-2 160 ac 5/11/1900

Harvey, James A 14-8-2 120 ac 1/30/1896

Hay, Issac E 24-8-2 160 ac 5/02/1905

Hyde
Eben E 26-9-3W 40 ac 7/31/1907 (Note: Ebb bought this from USA - however,
he lived just North of Liberty Chapel beside the Old Military Road.)

John Thomas 18-9-2 70 ac 7/13/1902; 20-9-2 160 ac 5/01/1906
Elizabeth Amanda 18-9-2 150 ac 4/06/1903; 8-9-2 160 ac 10/28/1904

Johnson, Martin R 36-8-2 157 ac 9/26/1905

Logan, William F 14-8-2 80 ac 3/23/1901

Mackie, William 31-7-1E 40 ac 6/15/1837; 17-7-1W 40 ac 7/02/1860

Moore, Benjamin F 18-7-2 had some 320 ac

Neal
Edmund A 31-9-2 40 ac 7/01/1859
Stephen A 7-8-1W 40 ac 12/07/1859; 12-8-2 40 ac 7/02/1860

Nugent
Edmund 8-7-2 40 ac NW-NW 8/05/1837
Cynthia 29-6-2E 40 ac 8/30/1858
Charles R 15-9-1W 160 ac 7/01/1859
Issac 1-9-1W 40 ac 4/22/1901
Julia M 30-8-2 80 ac 11/13/1905
Matthew H 8-7-2 40 ac SESE 5/15/1862; 14-8-2 160 ac 9/01/1860;
          also 8-7-2 120 ac 7/02/1860
Matthew C 12-8-2 160 ac 2/27/1901
Nelson 3-9-1W: 4/10/1843, 7/01/1859 & 9/01/1860 - total of 314 ac
Wesley A 20-8-1W 80 ac 6/02/1900

Ober, George E 4-8-2 1906

Oglesby, Alfred 30-9-2

Orr, George W 36-8-2 4/08/1896

Patterson, James J 12-8-2 160 ac 11/12/1900

Pennington, John T 22-9-2 160 ac 10/28/1904

Sandford
Sarah A 10-8-2 80 ac
Elmer C 8-8-2 40 ac

Stevens
William Andrew 32-8-2 320 ac 12/07/1859
James 20-8-2 320 ac 12/07/1859

Swafford
Thomas 17-7-2: 6/15/1837, 6/20/1837, 10/01/1845
"       6-8-2: 4/10/1843, 4/10/1843, 10/01/1845
Thomas F: 6-8-2 80 ac 9/01/1849
"       : 36-9-3 200 ac 7/1860
"       : 31-9-2: 6/01/1861, 6/09/1861

Tyson, William 24-7-2 200 ac 12/05/1861; present location of Dry Prong

Waits, Levi 11-9-2 1859

Watson, J A 31-8-2 308 & 77 ac 9/01/1860

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