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This is part 1 of a series about Louisiana Gov. Joseph Marshall Walker and his gravesite.
The broken remnants of two marble headstones that once marked the graves of Gov. Joseph Marshall Walker and his 5-day old grandson John Holt, Jr., born July 31, 1851, are visible from Bayou Rapides Road. 
Their headstones, weathered by the elements, were moved from their original locations marking their graves decades ago. The graves were part of a family plot on land that was once a large plantation owned by Walker.
Many years ago a farmer plowed over the cemetery, said local historian Mike Wynne.
  He moved the markers but plowed over the cemetery. So the location of the actual cemetery - which we can estimate - is lost, he said. ....

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