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Bayou Memorial Park Flags

 
 
Bayou Memorial Park Flags Marker - 1st Plaque image. Click for full size.
Photographed by James Hulse, May 13, 2021
1. Bayou Memorial Park Flags Marker - 1st Plaque
Inscription.
Dedicated to those who served our country
In the armed forces.


1st Plaque of Names
R.S. "Bob" Rife • Robert L. Wyant • Major Lee Clark • Lloyd F. Love • Sam D. Cole, Jr. • Bill D. Zimmerman • William A. Betterley • Marione E. Barnette • Vernon Stevens, Sr. • Howard McAdams • Dr. Kenneth K. Killen • Delcey R. Merritt • Richard A. Campbell • Raymon L. Owens • Emmett Keating • Elzy "Buddy" Saxton • Russell Ratcliff • Dr. Hall H. Ratcliff • Glenn B. Gremillion, Sr. • Brian Stevens • Pat Dennis • Nicholas J. Olivier • Harry H. Tomlin • Albert D. "Bill" Strozier • Victor Pitre Vegas • Dr. Charles Irving Tucker • Richard T. Watson • William "Bill" Latham • Victor R. Cross, Sr.

2nd Plaque of Names
Jack Aaron Adams, Sr. • Jim Huff, Sr. • Charles H. "Doc Long • Arthur Emile Chauvin, Sr. • W.C. "Dub" Colvin • Dr. Eugene W. Vogt, Jr. • James Purser Raborn • J.L. Deprato, Jr. • Arthur E. Chauvin, Jr. • Theo M. Rabb • George S. Comer, Jr. • Dr. Ben L. Green, Jr. • Frank L. Vogt • Joe Quimby • Albert Forrester • L.W. "Woodie" Davis • Warren Kelly • John H. Maxwell • Clayton Thomas Caskey • Horace Hugh Hammett • Tom Terry Milliken,
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Sr. • Bennett Fudickar, Sr. • James F. Cook, Sr. • James "Jim" D. Lee • Maurice J. Saltzman • Bruce Todd Wilgus • Wayner Tanner • All Veterans of War • Ferriday Junior High Students Who Served in the Military
 
Erected by Ferriday Garden Club.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
 
Location. 31° 37.288′ N, 91° 33.28′ W. Memorial is in Ferriday, Louisiana, in Concordia Parish. It is on EE Wallace Boulevard (U.S. 425) Ό mile south of Delaware Avenue, on the left when traveling south. The marker is located at the Bayou Memorial Park. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Ferriday LA 71334, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Central Louisiana. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Deep South, and in the Mississippi Delta. Globally, it is in North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, the Louisiana Purchase, one of the Confederate
Bayou Memorial Park Flags Marker - 2nd Plaque image. Click for full size.
Photographed by James Hulse, May 13, 2021
2. Bayou Memorial Park Flags Marker - 2nd Plaque
States of America, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Mickey Gilley (approx. 0.6 miles away); The Blues Trail: Mississippi to Louisiana (approx. 0.6 miles away); Jimmy Lee Swaggart (approx. 0.6 miles away); Jerry Lee Lewis (approx. 0.6 miles away); Frank Morris (approx. 0.6 miles away); Haney's Big House (approx. 0.7 miles away); Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker (approx. 0.7 miles away); DePrato Mounds (approx. 1.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Ferriday.
 
The view of the Bayou Memorial Park Flags image. Click for full size.
Photographed by James Hulse, May 13, 2021
3. The view of the Bayou Memorial Park Flags
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on November 26, 2021. It was originally submitted on November 26, 2021, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas. This page has been viewed 574 times since then and 31 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on November 26, 2021, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas.
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