Camp Eight Pentecostal Cemetery

Rapides Parish Cemeteries of LA

Photos and Submitted by Lewis Westfall & Jerry Watson


This cemetery is located on the west side of LA 121 between Gardner and Hineston, LA, at the Otis Community. Camp Eight Turpentine Camp was a community of Black, White, and Mexican laborers who tapped the pine trees and gathered the turpentine.   In the early 1900's when the mill "cut out" and moved away, it left at least one small burial ground.  A Mexican graveyard was supposed to be behind the present fenced cemetery, but nothing remains at this time to mark the spot except a small knoll of pine trees.
 

Branch, Joseph H b 2 Jan 1895 d 8 May 1965

Branch, Maude Cedars b 23 Feb 1902 d 9 Nov 1991

Bullard, JD b 15 Aug 1946 d 4 Oct 1978

Collins, Phillip D b 9 Jul 1937 d 17 Aug 2004  a VA

Collins, Frances L b 4 Mar 1940

Cox, Alvin Levon  Jan 13 1918 d. Oct 30 1992

Cox Helen Capel Apr 12 1921 d May 24 1996

Cryer, Thomas S b 23 Oct 1946 d 25 Jul 2000

Cryer, Wayne Dae (Buster) b 7 Feb 1973 d 15 Apr 2006

Cutts, John Henry b 4 May 1919 d 20 Dc 1986  VA

Cutts, Maxine Vivian b 24 Sep 1922 d 7 Nov 1987

Goodbee, Ada Bell b 5 Aug 1921 d Jun 1994

Graves, Walter W b 5 Oct 1925 d 10 Apr 2007

Guree, Bessie   Apr 04 1948 d. Mar 12 1990

Guree, Otis A b 2 Oct 1913 d 26 Dec 1958

Guree, Miriam B b 6 Jan 1924

Hodges, Gola Lewis Smith b 9 Aug 1899 d 17 Jul 1974

Hunt, Willie T b 29 Jun 1920 d 8 Apr 2003

Stokes, Betty H b 25 Nov 1944 d 22 Sep 2002

Lambert, Jimmie Lewis b 28 Sep 1946 d 19 Feb 2001

Lambert, Peggy Sue b 13 Oct 1945 d 19 Feb 2001

Lewis, Dallas O Sr b 31 Oct 1926 d 5 Aug 1986

Lewis, Dudley Branch b 4 Dec 1923 d 8 Jul 1972

Lewis, Earl Clinton b 24 Sep 1928

Lewis, Charlene Harper b 1 Aug 1933 d 10 Apr 1992

Lewis, James A b 10 Aug 1878 d 8 Oct 1973

Lewis, Luther J b 23 Oct 1909

Lewis, Ella Fair b 23 Dec 1919 d 12 Aug 1996

Lewis, WH b 15 Mar 1952

Lewis, Lillian R b 2 Aug 1952 d 15 Feb 2007

Lewis, Minerva Terrell b 2 Mar 1876 d 6 Sep 1958

Lewis, William C b 27 Oct 1902 d 3 Nov 1970

Lewis, Flora M b 16 Dec 1906 d 13 May 1990

Malone, Dana Amanda b 10 Oct 1986 d 5 Aug 2004

Malone, Della Laverne b 29 Jun 1939 d 2 Jul 1998

Marler, Madison E b 18 Aug 1920 d 25 May 1979

Marler, Gladys B b 17 Sep 1925 d 15 Mar 1975

Monk, James E b 1 Apr 1912 d 8 Feb 1982

Monk, Mavis B b 10 May 1926

Poor, Jewel Lewis b 2 Dec 1912 d 12 Aug 1998

Riggs, Eva Terrell b 2 Dec 1912 d 2 Jul 2002

Smith, Elbert b 23 Oct 1932

Smith, Mary Lou b 29 Jun 1934

Smith, Jeffery Lynn b 6 Dec 1972 d 23 Dec 2001

Smith, Riley "Winford" b 15 Apr 1947 d 23 Dec 2001  VA

Smith, Wilburn T b 18 Sep 1897 d 9 Feb 1960

Smith, William Riley b 14 Jan 1919 d 5 Feb 1996   VA

Smith, Aline L b 15 Mar 1924 d 15 Jun 2001

Terrell, ED "Joe" b 27 Oct 1932 d 30 May 1975

Terrell, Aderine b 28 Mar 1937

Terrell, Esther Joyel b/d 23 Oct 2004

Terrell, George B b 26 Jan 1919 d 29 Dec 1999

Terrell, Gladys S b 13 Jul 1922 d 23 Feb 2005

Terrell, Ronald Ray Sr b 19 Dec 1939 d 30 Jun 2002

Terrell, Sonja Marie b 4 Aug 1940

Terrell, Sanford G b 22 Feb 1925 d 14 Jan 2003

Terrell, Norma H b 12 Jul 1932

Terrell, William Herman b 17 Oct 1910 d 11 Sep 1954

Walker, Daniel "Hoss" b 20 Jan 1946 d 27 Jan 2003

Walker, Linda Lewis b 14 Mar 1949

Ward, Jennifer Faye b 10 Apr 1968 d 11 Aug 1994

Whittington, Hubert b 1 Sep 1914 d 12 May 1972