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Highland Cemetery (EBR31)
Baton Rouge
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JOHN BAPTISTE KLEINPETER
1797 - 1861
CORPORAL,
CAPT. THOMAS CO, LA. MILITIA
WAR OF 1812. SON OF GEORGE
KLEINPETER
WHO WAS FIRST TO SUCCESSFULLY GROW
SUGARCANE ON
THESE HIGHLANDS; GRANDSON
OF JOHANN GEORGE KLEINPETER, THE ORIGINAL
GERMAN
SETTLER OF 1784. BUILDER OF FIRST
STEAM SUGAR MILL ON THE
HIGHLANDS, 1850.
PRESIDENT OF CITY'S 2ND BANK. FRIEND OF
PRESIDENT
ZACHARY TAYLOR, A FELLOW
FARMER, WITH WHOM HE SWAPPED PORTRAITS.
OWNER
OF 1650 ACRE HARD TIMES PLANTATION
ON HIGHLAND ROAD. GRAVESITE
LOST.
BENJAMIN PARKER THOMAS
1782 - 1835
ON SEPT. 24, 1810, A GROUP OF WEST
FLORIDAIANS
ON HORSEBACK, LED BY GEN.
PHILEMON THOMAS AND HIS MILITARY AIDE,
COL.
BENJ. PARKER THOMAS, SEIZED THE
OLD BATON ROUGE FORT, ENDING 30 YRS.
OF
SPANISH CONTROL OF WEST FLORIDA.
THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER ELIZABETH,
WIFE
AND COUSIN OF BENJAMIN, WAS
BURIED HERE IN 1841 AND LATER FOUR
GRANDCHILDREN. BENJAMIN DIED IN 1835
AND WAS PROBABLY BURIED HERE,
BUT
THERE ARE NO RECORDS TO VERIFY IT.
GRAVESITES ARE LOST.
B. P.
THOMAS WAS A MAJOR IN WAR OF 1812.
FOREMAN, JOHN M., C. S. A., 1837 - 1905
Served in
CO.
B
7 LA. INF.
C. S. A.
"Foreman, John M., Pvt. Co. B, 7th La. Inf. En. June 7
, 1861, Camp Moore, La. Present or absentnot stated on Rolls to Oct., 1861. Present Nov. and Dec., 1861. Present or absent not stated on
Roll for Jan. and Feb., 1862. Present Jan. and Feb., 1863. Rolls from May, 1863, to Dec., 1863,
Absent. Wounded at Fredericksburg, May 4, 1863. In Gen. Hospl., foot amputated. Roll for Jan.
and Feb., 1864, Absent on furlough. Roll for April 30 to Aug. 31, 1864, Absent.
Permanently disabled from wounds.
Appears on Roll of Prisoners of War. Captured in Hospl. at
Richmond, April 3, 1865. Turned over to
Pro. Marshal, April 20, 1865. Born Louisiana, occupation
teacher, Res. Baton Rouge, La., age
when enlisted 20, single."
Above from Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers by Andrew B. Booth
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