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Subject: The John Stow Cemetery
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 01:54:33 EDT

The John Stow Cemetery

The oldest grave in the cemetery reads
Sacred to the Memory of
Abraham Stow, son of
John and Dorcas Stow
April 2, 1802
November 7, 1829
Aged 27 years

To the memory of
Talitha Cumi Anderson
dau. of John and Dorcas Stow
December 5, 1805
February 5, 1830
Remember as you pass by, you must die.
(She was the wife of James Anderson and
believed to be the Mother of Henry P. Anderson
and Mrs. Talitha (Willis) Wood.

Sacred to the Memory of
Mary J. C. Roane, daughter of
John and Dorcas Stow
Born February 9th 1811
Died July 26th 1850

Side by side with low walls and marble slab tops
are the graves of :
Matthew Wood
Born July 29, 1971
Died October 20, 1850
To the memory of Hannah Wood,
wife of Matthew Wood
Born May 17, 1791
Died February 9, 1864
>From information in my files, I glean their
heirs to be:
Samuel Wood born 05 March 1810
Jane Wood born 22 August 1811, Died 4-15-1853 She married Judge
John Taylor, a native of Georgia.
Willis Wood born 20 November 1815
Sarah "Sallie" Wood born 17 April 1819 She married Sheriff William
Cleaton Carr, MD born in 1809 in Laurence Co. Ga.
Died 22 September 1890
Mary Wood born 27 April 1824 Died 07 June 1847 She married Henry P.
Anderson born ca 1815 in the state of Tennessee. They were married
in Union Parish, Louisiana on 15 July 1841 by John O. Feazel, J.P. who
is also the ancestor of Sherry Gresham Gritzbaugh, the compiler of
this sketch.
Mary died in childbirth when her son, William Henry Anderson was born.
They are the ancestors of Sherry Gresham Gritzbaugh.
We were in hopes of finding the grave of Mary Wood Anderson in the
cemetery. If it was there, there was no marker. Her resting place is
known only to God.

To the Memory of John Stow
a native of South Carolina
Born January 3rd, 1780
Died July 28th, 1861
Sacred to the Memory of
Dorcas Stow, wife of John Stow
Born in 1780
Died November 8, 1856
>From my research I glean his children to be
Abraham Stow who may have married Anne Lewis
Tabitha Cumi Stow wife of Dr. James Anderson
Mary St. Clair Stow who married James Roane on 15 October 1824

Talitha E. J. daughter of
John B. and Josephine M. J. Mitchell
February 16, 1858
July 13, 1861

Alexis H. May
June 29, 1845
January 11, 1875
There is a voice from the grave of a loved one sweeter
than song.
There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn
ever from the charms of the living.
Erected by his wife
(This is a marble stone)

Willis Wood
Born December 5, 1813
Died December 1, 1877
63 yrs. 11 months 26 days
An honest man
There is a Masonic emblem on his grave. The marker is
elaborately decorated with carved flowers. It stands
about seven feet tall. It is made of marble.
Willis Wood died from being kicked by a mule. He had
been practicing the "Swedish Movements." His physician
was William S. Kendall. He left his property to John S. Roane.

Talitha Cumi
Wife of Willis Wood
January 29, 1830
July 2, 1906

Sarah Angeline, wife of A. J. Pipes
Born January 1849
Died October 8, 1882

To the Memory of
Grove S. Fitch
born in Lenox, Berkshire Co., Mass.
July 11, 1832
died in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
October 14, 1882
50 yrs. 3 mos. 3 days

John Stow Roane
June 26, 1850
February 15, 1930
Elizabeth Gibson
Wife of J.S. Roane
January 9, 1853
June 24, 1918

To the Memory of my Husband
James A. Roane
October 28, 1874
January 14, 1928
Married to Miss Florence L. Smith
September 29, 1912

I visited John Stow cemetery in November 2000. It had
been restored and was freshly mowed. This is one of the
earliest marked cemeteries in the area. I was in awe of
the beauty which surrounded me. Still living are old crepe
myrtle trees. The graveyard can only be described as
elegant with a quiet dignity all its own. The monuments
were obviously expensive ones. The old rock fence still
stands. I was told that it was built by the family slaves.
The cemetery was once located in Union Parish, Louisiana.
Today it is located seven miles from Ruston in Lincoln
Parish on Highway 33. It is not far from the Union Parish line.
It is interesting that in 1837 Matthew and Hannah Wood
with her brother, Daniel Payne, and his family moved to
what was then known as Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Daniel
Payne, his son-in-law Needham M. Bryan, Col. Matthew
Wood and his three son-in-laws: Judge John Taylor, Sheriff
William Cleaton and Henry P. Anderson were all instrumental
in forming Union Parish from Ouachita Parish in 1839. The
records of Union Parish are replete with their names in this
endeavor

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