Wederstrandt Cemetery
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Wederstrandt Cemetery

Saint Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, USA

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    Coordinates: 30.78298, -91.37029
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The Wederstrandt Cemetery is located on Police Jury property and can be accessed through the park. The park is currently owned by the West Feliciana Parish Hospital and will be developed post 2014. The cemetery is located on an artificially raised mound at the edge of a steep ravine. Probing shows the old ground level is from 1-2 feet down. All of the headstones (5) are supine. At least one of the broken stones has a standing base, indicating that they may have been originally located here. Others do not seem to be broken and may have been pulled. The headstones are bounded by a four foot chain link fence. It is possible that the cemetery was much larger as the raised mound is very large. Some of the dead were victims of Yellow Fever.
A plat map says this cemetery is on the former Shady Grove tract(N/E 1/2) of Rosedown Plantation (North part). There was an old home site located in the general vicinity of the cemetery as indicated by old maps, debris, and huge, ancient cedar tree stumps.
This cemetery may have another name. It was called that here because of the abundance of Wederstrandt's buried there.

The Wederstrandt Cemetery is located on Police Jury property and can be accessed through the park. The park is currently owned by the West Feliciana Parish Hospital and will be developed post 2014. The cemetery is located on an artificially raised mound at the edge of a steep ravine. Probing shows the old ground level is from 1-2 feet down. All of the headstones (5) are supine. At least one of the broken stones has a standing base, indicating that they may have been originally located here. Others do not seem to be broken and may have been pulled. The headstones are bounded by a four foot chain link fence. It is possible that the cemetery was much larger as the raised mound is very large. Some of the dead were victims of Yellow Fever.
A plat map says this cemetery is on the former Shady Grove tract(N/E 1/2) of Rosedown Plantation (North part). There was an old home site located in the general vicinity of the cemetery as indicated by old maps, debris, and huge, ancient cedar tree stumps.
This cemetery may have another name. It was called that here because of the abundance of Wederstrandt's buried there.

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