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Louisiana Cemeteries presents this page on Louisiana participants in the War of 1812:

JEFFERSON DAVIS CHAPTER  UDC  2091

VALCOUR AIME
CAPT  6 LA MILITIA
WAR of 1812

CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY
1797           1867

St. Louis Cemetery #3
Orleans Parish

FERGUS DUPLANTIER
WAR OF 1812
1783 –– 1844
JOSEPHINE JOYCE
DUPLANTIER
1791 –– 1859

Highland Cemetery
East Baton Rouge Parish

 

GUY DUPLANTIER
WAR OF 1812
1790 –– 1835

Highland Cemetery
East Baton Rouge Parish

HENRY BOUVIER FAVROT
1799 - 1881

Private, 8th Regt, Meriam's Co., War of 1812.  Capt.,
11 th Regt., La. Militia, 1836.  Organizer of company
of free black volunteers for Confederate States Army.
Operator of first regularly established ferry service at
Baton Rouge, beginning 1836.

Highland Cemetery
East Baton Rouge Parish

 

T. P. FAVROT
LOUISIANA
1 LIEUT.
24 INF.  WAR OF 1812
FEBRUARY 11, 1822

Highland Cemetery
East Baton Rouge Parish

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.
 
 Highland Cemetery
East Baton Rouge Parish

PIERRE JOSEPH LANDRY
CAPT
8 LA. MILITIA
WAR OF 1812
JAN 10 1770
MAR 14 1843

St. Gabriel Catholic Cemetery
Iberville Parish

CALEB GRIFFIN MARTIN
US NAVY
WAR OF 1812
FEB  24  1796          FEB  9  1864

Madisonville Cemetery
St. Tammany Parish

 

MOSES NEWSOM
WATSON'S CO.
13 LA. MIL.
WAR OF 1812

Tangipahoa Cemetery
Tangipahoa, LA

(not located in National Archives on-line records)

MIGUEL ANTONIO OURSO
LOUISIANA
PVT    COL LANDRY'S LA MIL
WAR OF 1812
NOV 14 1790     JULY 20 1871

Ascension Catholic Cemetery
Ascension Parish

IN HONOR OF SERVICE
IN THE WAR OF 1812

N. S.
U. S. D.
1812

MAJ. CHARLES PIERRE PERRET

St. John the Baptist Cemetery
St. John the Baptist Parish

 

JOHN RANDOLPH
WAR OF 1812
1777 –– 1837

Highland Cemetery
East Baton Rouge Parish

SAMUEL
SKOLFIELD
CORP
10 & 20
CONSOLIDATED
LA  MILITIA
WAR OF 1812
JAN  29  1794
MAR  20  1866

Magnolia Cemetery
East Baton Rouge Parish

GRANT
 TAYLOR
PVT.  2 REGT. INF.
TENN. VOL. WAR OF 1812
OCTOBER 21, 1859

Taylor Cemetery
St. Helena Parish

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.

Highland Cemetery
East Baton Rouge Parish

 

Gen. Eleazer W. Ripley
Died March 29, 1839
aged 54 years.

Locust Grove Cemetery
West Feliciana Parish

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