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Index to Locations
Unknown location
Private or family graveyards
Alexandria McNutt Hill Cemetery
Forest Hill Butters Cemetery
Pineville Alexandria National
Cemetery
Pineville Center Square
Pineville Greenwood Memorial Park
Pineville Mt. Olivet Episcopal
Cemetery
Pineville Rapides Cemetery
Unknown
Location
Rapides Parish, Louisiana
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James Madison Wells (1808-1899) —
also known as J. Madison Wells —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born near Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La., January
8, 1808.
Governor
of Louisiana; U.S. Surveyor of Customs, 1876-79.
Catholic.
Died in Lecompte, Rapides
Parish, La., February
28, 1899 (age 91 years, 51
days).
Interment somewhere.
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Private or family
graveyard
Rapides Parish,
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Joseph Marshall Walker (1784-1856) —
of Louisiana.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., July 1,
1784.
Member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1830; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1840; Louisiana
state treasurer, 1840; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1845; Governor of
Louisiana, 1850-53.
Died January
21, 1856 (age 71 years, 204
days).
Original interment at in a private or family graveyard; reinterment
at Center Square, Pineville, La.
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McNutt Hill
Cemetery
Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Butters
Cemetery
Forest Hill, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
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Clyde Cecil Holloway (1943-2016) —
also known as Clyde C. Holloway —
of Forest Hill, Rapides
Parish, La.
Born in Lecompte, Rapides
Parish, La., November
28, 1943.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 8th District, 1987-93; defeated,
1980 (8th District), 1985 (8th District), 1992 (6th District), 1994
(7th District), 1996 (5th District), 2002 (5th District); delegate to
Republican National Convention from Louisiana, 1988;
candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1991; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Louisiana, 2003; member of Louisiana
public service commission 4th District, 2009-16; died in office
2016.
Died in Forest Hill, Rapides
Parish, La., October
16, 2016 (age 72 years, 323
days).
Interment at Butters Cemetery.
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Alexandria
National Cemetery
Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
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Gillis William Long (1923-1985) —
also known as Gillis W. Long —
of Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La.
Born in Winnfield, Winn
Parish, La., May 4,
1923.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 8th District, 1963-65, 1973-85;
died in office 1985; candidate for Governor of
Louisiana, 1963; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Louisiana, 1964.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; American
Legion; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Lions.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
20, 1985 (age 61 years, 261
days).
Interment at Alexandria National Cemetery.
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Center
Square
Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
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Joseph Marshall Walker (1784-1856) —
of Louisiana.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., July 1,
1784.
Member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1830; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1840; Louisiana
state treasurer, 1840; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1845; Governor of
Louisiana, 1850-53.
Died January
21, 1856 (age 71 years, 204
days).
Original interment at a private or family
graveyard, Rapides Parish, La.; reinterment at Center Square.
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Greenwood
Memorial Park
Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
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Cleveland Dear (1888-1950) —
of Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La.
Born in Sugartown, Beauregard
Parish, La., August
22, 1888.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 8th District, 1933-37.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La., December
30, 1950 (age 62 years, 130
days).
Interment at Greenwood Memorial Park.
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George Shannon Long (1883-1958) —
also known as George S. Long —
of Oklahoma; Monroe, Ouachita
Parish, La.; Pineville, Rapides
Parish, La.
Born in a log
cabin, Tunica, Winn
Parish, La., September
11, 1883.
Democrat. Dentist;
lawyer;
member of Oklahoma
state house of representatives, 1920-22; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Louisiana, 1948;
U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 8th District, 1953-58; died in
office 1958.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in the Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., March
22, 1958 (age 74 years, 192
days).
Interment at Greenwood Memorial Park.
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Harold Barnett McSween (1926-2002) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La., July 19,
1926.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker; writer; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 8th District, 1959-63.
Died in Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La., January
12, 2002 (age 75 years, 177
days).
Interment at Greenwood Memorial Park.
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Mt. Olivet
Episcopal Cemetery
Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
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John Holmes Overton (1875-1948) —
also known as John H. Overton —
of Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La.
Born in Marksville, Avoyelles
Parish, La., September
17, 1875.
Democrat. Lawyer;
chief counsel defending Huey
Long during his 1929 impeachment trial; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 8th District, 1931-33; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1933-48; died in office 1948; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, 1936.
Member, Sigma
Nu; Phi
Kappa Phi; Elks; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; American Bar
Association; Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died, in Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 14,
1948 (age 72 years, 240
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Episcopal Cemetery.
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Thomas Overton Moore (1804-1876) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Sampson
County, N.C., April
10, 1804.
Democrat. Planter;
member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1848; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1856; Governor of
Louisiana, 1860-64; delegate
to Louisiana secession convention, 1861.
Presbyterian.
At the end of the Civil War, the military governor of Louisiana
ordered his arrest
as a Confederate
leader; he fled
to Mexico and settled in Havana, Cuba. Pardoned
by President Andrew
Johnson.
Died near Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La., June 25,
1876 (age 72 years, 76
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Episcopal Cemetery.
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Rapides
Cemetery
Hardtner and Main Streets
Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1979
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Josiah Stoddard Johnston (1784-1833) —
also known as Josiah S. Johnston —
of Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La.
Born in Salisbury, Litchfield
County, Conn., November
24, 1784.
Democrat. Member of Orleans
territorial legislature, 1805; state court judge in Louisiana,
1812; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana at-large, 1821-23; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1824-33; died in office 1833.
Slaveowner.
Killed by an explosion
on the steamboat
Lioness, on the Red River, in Louisiana, May 19,
1833 (age 48 years, 176
days).
Interment at Rapides Cemetery; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Randolph Thornton (1846-1917) —
also known as John R. Thornton —
of Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La.
Born in Iberville
Parish, La., August
25, 1846.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; state
court judge in Louisiana, 1878-80; delegate
to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1898; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1910-15.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in 1917
(age about
70 years).
Interment at Rapides Cemetery.
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Henry Boyce (1797-1873) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Londonderry, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), 1797.
Lawyer;
planter;
circuit judge in Louisiana, 1834-39; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, 1849; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, 1849-61;
resigned 1861; member of Louisiana
state house of representatives, 1865.
Died in Boyce, Rapides
Parish, La., March 1,
1873 (age about 75
years).
Interment at Rapides Cemetery.
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Jesse Atherton Bynum (1797-1868) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Halifax
County, N.C., May 23,
1797.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1823-24, 1827-30; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 2nd District, 1833-41.
Slaveowner.
Died in Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La., September
23, 1868 (age 71 years, 123
days).
Interment at Rapides Cemetery.
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Isaac Thomas (1784-1859) —
Born in Sevierville, Sevier
County, Tenn., November
4, 1784.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee at-large, 1815-17; member of Louisiana
state senate, 1823.
Slaveowner.
Died in Alexandria, Rapides
Parish, La., February
2, 1859 (age 74 years, 90
days).
Interment at Rapides Cemetery.
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