Saint Louis Cemetery
Saint Louis Cemetery is the name of three Roman Catholic cemeteries in New Orleans , Louisiana . The graves are mostly in mausoleums that date from the 18th and 19th centuries. Initially, the graves were also laid underground. After a series of epidemics broke out around 1830, triggered by corpses floating in the water due to the high groundwater level, the city administration issued an ordinance: In future, burials could only be carried out outside the city in Bayou St. John. A burial in the cemeteries within the city was only allowed in above-ground graves.
Saint Louis Cemetery I.
St. Louis Cemetery I is the oldest and most famous cemetery. It was opened in 1789 to replace the older St. Peter Street Cemetery, which is no longer intact, as the main burial site when the city was rebuilt after a major fire in 1788. At this time, Esteban Miro was the Spanish governor of the city, and he introduced the type of above-ground burial, which was popular in Spain at the time, but which only became almost widespread after 1830.
The cemetery is eight blocks from the Mississippi , on the north side of Basin Street , one block from the French Quarter , and borders Iberville. It has been used continuously since it was founded. The cemetery only covers the area of one block, but there are many thousands of dead here. A Protestant section with few mausoleums is in the northwest.
Among other things, the following are buried there:
- Etienne de Boré , a wealthy sugar industry pioneer and first mayor of New Orleans
- Bernard de Marigny , a French Creole playboy who imported the game of craps to the United States
- Barthelemy Lafon , an architect and surveyor who allegedly became one of the Jean Lafitte pirates
- Delphine LaLaurie , a serial killer
- Benjamin Latrobe , an architect and engineer who built the New Orleans waterworks
- Marie Laveau , a well-known voodoo priestess, presumably buried in the Glapion family crypt
- Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial , the first African-American mayor of New Orleans.
- Paul Morphy , one of the first world chess champions
- Homer Plessy , the plaintiff in “ Plessy v. Ferguson ”Proceedings in the Supreme Court
The Saint Louis Cemetery was also used as a location for various series and films; In addition to the series The Originals and Navy CIS: New Orleans , recordings for the 1999 film Doppelmord were shot here.
Saint Louis Cemetery II
St. Louis Cemetery II is located about three blocks from St. Louis Cemetery I on Claiborne Avenue . The cemetery was laid out in 1823. Several well-known jazz and rhythm and blues musicians found their final resting place here, including Danny Barker and Ernie K. Doe . Dominique You , a Jean Lafitte pirate who helped defend the city against the British in the Battle of New Orleans , is also buried here . Even Andre Cailloux , an African-American hero of the Civil War was buried here.
Several notable citizens of the 19th and 20th centuries were buried here, including the Venerable Mother Henriette DeLille , a candidate for canonization by the Catholic Church, and Jean Baptiste Dupeire (1795–1874).
The following politicians and members of the army are buried here:
- Paul Capdevielle (1844–1922), Mayor of New Orleans
- Robert Brown Elliott (1842–1884), member of the South Carolina State Legislature
- Charles Genois (around 1793–1866) Whig Mayor of New Orleans
- Carleton Hunt (1836–1921), Louisiana Representative
- Pierre Soulé (1801–1870), Senator from Louisiana
- Ignacy Szymański (1806–1874) a Polish-American soldier, born in New Orleans. He served in the Confederate Army as Colonel in the Chalmette Regiment.
Saint Louis Cemetery III
St. Louis Cemetery III is located two miles from the French Quarter, about 30 blocks from the Mississippi on Esplanade Avenue near Bayou St. John . The cemetery was laid out in 1854. The mausoleums are usually more heavily decorated than in the other St. Louis cemeteries, including a number of remarkable marble tombs from the 19th century. There were the ragtime -Komponist Paul Sarebresole , the photographer EJ Bellocq and the painter Ralston Crawford buried. St. Louis Cemetery III also has a Greek Orthodox section. For the 1999 film Doppelmord by director Bruce Beresford , scenes were filmed in the cemetery. Further recordings were also made on Saint Louis I.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Doug Keister: Above-Ground Tombs in New Orleans
- ↑ a b The Lafayette Cemetery # 1 in New Orleans , accessed May 25, 2016
Web links
- About the cemeteries in New Orleans (English)