The Sedan Cemetery is about an acre in size and was apparently started when Josie Woosley’s “Grandpa” Samuel Maddox died in 1915 since his was the first name written in Josie’s Bible (noted below) listing those buried in the Sedan Cemetery. (Tracks Vol I).
Chronological listing of of those buried in Sedan Cemetery as copied from Josie Woosley’s Bible:
“Grandpa” Maddox
Louis Authier
Pat Casey
Mr. Girard
David A. Still
Dave Humphry
Mr. & Mrs. Thompson
Mrs. Henness
Mrs. Potts
“Uncle John’s” two babies
Lockhart’s baby
Mrs. Culver
Cash Morrison’s baby
John Morrison’s baby
Roy Jones’s girl
Taylor’s baby
Weapler’s baby
Miller’s baby
McAllistor’s baby
Porter’s baby
Charles Tripplett’s baby
Charles Hooper’s baby
Henness baby
Lark Porter – died in 1929
Anna Mae Thompson
Blattie babies
Alphabetical listing of those buried in Sedan Cemetery as listed in Josie Woosley’s Bible
“Dates and details added from headstones”
(Additional information added from area residents)
Louis J. Authier: “March 29, 1899. Aged 21 years & 5 months” Listed on findagrave.com
Blattie Babies (2) – See Below:
Blattie, Caroline Ellen Born June 20, 1934 Died July 1934 Age 1 month – findagrave.com
Blattie, Walter Phelan “Phil” Born November 3, 1942 – Died August 15, 1945 at age of 3. Obit at findagrave.com
Pat Casey
Mrs. Alice Ann Culver: “March 10, 1853-November 17, 1900”
Mr. Girard
Asa Henness: “1870-1954”
Mrs. Henness: See below:
Henness Baby – Asa Porter Henness died October 29, 1910 at birth along with his mother Ruth Grenell Porter Henness
Helen Henness: “May 11, 1880-June 6, 1969” Asa’s second wife.
Charles Hooper’s Baby
Dave Humphry
Roy Jones’s girl
Lockhart’s baby – (Harold – Baby of Wylie & Mary Lockhart)
Samuel R. Maddox: “AT REST August 15, 1831 – January 23, 1915” (Listed in Josie’s Bible as “Grandpa”)
Maddox twins – (Listed in Josie’s bible as Uncle John’s two babies)
McAllistor’s baby
Miller’s baby
Cashus M. Morrison
Cash Morrison’s baby
John Morrison’s baby
Lark Porter
Porter’s baby – Female baby of Lark and Lydia Mae.
Mrs. Potts
Bryon Short
David A. Still
Taylor’s baby
Anna May Thompson
Duncan R. Thompson: 1851-1925 – (Listed in Josie’s bible as Mr. Thompson)
Flora Thompson: 1851-1911 (Listed in Josie’s bible as Mrs. Thompson)
Walter C. Thompson
Charles Tripplett’s baby
Weapler’s baby
In (Tracks Vol. I) C.J. Landis notes numerous gray headstones stand today, bleached by weather and time. Inscriptions are almost invisible; headstones are falling over or broken. The lot is surrounded by barbed wire held together by wooden poles and metal posts. Rings of rock are lying on the ground.
Sedan, Montana 