Dance Family Cemetery in Louisiana - Find a Grave Cemetery

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Located in Section 29 Township 19 Range 6W. Take the Gant Rd from La Hwy 9 and go approx 3 miles west ( approx 1/2 mile west of road going to Candler Cemetery). Turn right on another old logging Rd which turns back east after leaving the parish rd and go another 3/4 of a mile; take trial off to north and go another 1/4 of a mile. Cemetery can be pinpointed by a large Oak tree and two cedar tree stumps. There are no markers in the Cemetery. The list of persons buried came from old family records. The cemetery was once fenced and the wire is still laying around on the ground. The plot is about 25 feet square.

Drew Bridges and Clayton Hampton helped to locate this area and Clayton's father worked for Frank Dance and plowed the fields around the cemetery.

The pictures of markers for this memorial are compliments of Tarah Thomas and her father who trudged through heavy bush and tangled vines to honor two veterans of the Civil War and the War of 1812 and also their pioneer ways of life. They looked for the old homestead but could not find it. Tarah says that she did see a beautiful yellow catcus growing wild and imagined that this is where Rebecca might have planted it.