Roane Family Cemetery
Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Location: Private property on north side of Hwy. 80, 3 miles east of Ruston, just east of Rough Edge Road. On northeast corner of old frame home on property; chain-link fence, one large monument with all names listed and numbered grave markers.
Submitted by Marilyn Juliet Roane, D.V.M. on July 19, 2002.
Transcription reads as follows, with additional information on individuals in parentheses:
ROANE CEMETERY
March 25, 1852 – July 21, 1854 (daughter of James M. and Henrietta Row Roane)
August 24, 1853 – May 24, 1862 (son of James M. and Henrietta Row Roane)
January 24, 1851 – July 21, 1859 (son of James M. and Henrietta Row Roane)
October 16, 1857 – July 24, 1873 (daughter of James M. and Henrietta Row Roane)
Grandson of J. M. and Henrietta Row Roane (son of Francis Marion Gilbert and Sarah Ann Roane Gilbert, b. 28 June 1872, died 26 October 1873)
Grandson of J. M. and Henrietta Row Roane (son of John Constantine and Sarah Barnett Roane, b.a. 1872)
June 7, 1854 – January 15, 1891 (husband of Alice Kittorah Roane McLeroy who was daughter of James M. and Henrietta Row Roane)
June 15, 1889 – July 18, 1907 (son of S. Franklin and Alice Kittorah Roane McLeroy)
January 1899 (named Elizabeth and Henrietta; Henry S. Roane is son of James M. and Henrietta Row Roane)
November 16, 1899 – 24 November 1902 (son of Henry S. and Tamar Sanders Roane)
29 August 1905 – 16 November 1906 (son of Henry S. and Tamar Sanders Roane)
January 1910 lived 8 days (named John S.)
July 22, 1824 – December 16, 1898
December 11, 1823 – December 25, 1901