March 17, 2022. SPAR ( Shreveport Parks and Recreation) installed a brand new sign at the entrance of the Star Cemetery. Cherie Gray has been in correspondence with one of the former members of the Star Cemetery Preservation Society- Mrs. Isabelle Woods. The cemetery is on Texas Avenue. It was established in 1883 by 14 African American men from Shreveport who represented 9 Benevolent Societies in Shreveport, Louisiana. There men who fought in the Civil War, WWI and WWII buried in the cemetery. Cherie Gray's great grandfather is buried in the cemetery. This is the first phase of raising awareness of our local collective roots.- ( March 19, 2022)
"United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Assistant Commissioner, 1865-1872," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9TZ-3964-4?cc=2427901&wc=73QQ-XPY%3A1513390902%2C1513497379 : 23 March 2017), Louisiana > Roll 31, Inspection reports of plantations from subordinate officers, May-Dec 1868 > image 91 of 429; citing multiple NARA microfilm publications; Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1861 - 1880, RG 105; (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1969-1980).
