Upon an elevated piece of ground, on the west side of the church, is a large enclosure, in which numerous interments have taken place. Here repose the mortal remains of the celebrated Sarah Bishop, the hermitess. Also the following : --

Col. Thaddeus Crane, Erected

died to the memory of the

Sept. 1st, 1800, ■• Rev. Abraham Purdy, A, M.,

aged 71 years, 5 mo. who died at Some rs,

and 20 days. on the 7th day of August,

A.D. 1825, in the 44th year of his age.

Beneath this Monument

lie the remains of , ■ -

Doctor ' ■

Benjamin Delavan^

of the

United States Army,

who died at Natchitoches,

the author of a reply to the review of Dr. Wyatt's sermon, and Mr. Sparks's Letters on the Protestant Episcopal Church, published in Boston, 1821. Also editor of the Church Register, an Episcopal periodical, printed in Philadelphia, In 1807 this church was supplied by the services of the Rev. Benjamin Moore, D.D., Isaac Wilkins, D.D., and the Rev. John Henry Hobart.

484 HISTORY OF THE

State of Louisiana,

26th Nov., A.D. 1827,

in the 36th year of his age,

and was interred here

the ISth of March, A.D. 1S29.

In the immediate vicinity stands the Presbyterian Church, a very handsome wooden edifice, erected in 1847, and dedicated on the 15th of October of the same year. From a date on a semicircular stone, lying in front of the door, we learn that the old church, which stood east of the present building,a was erected as early as 1764. This is confirmed by the followinor items, taken from an old account book in the possession of Mr. John Close :