New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-01
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Demd-S"me Account "f Our Cemeteries,
TheIr Monuments, and the Men OF Note
There Inferred.
The festival of All Saints Day-a day devoted
to the decoration Of the tombs of the dead-has
always been carefully observed by the population
Of this city It's o decided feature of the place;
the living visit by thousands The resting places Of
those Who sleep the sleep that knows no waking
and regarding the division of The ground into
streets and squares, the numbers who are con
stantiy passing to and fro, our cemeteries may
well be called the cities Of the dead.
| III view of the visits that will to-day be paid
| and for the information Of our readers, we give
below few facts which may prove of general
interest.
The first graveyard that we have any account of
inthe history of the city, was one which formerly
| existed between Rampant and Burgunjy streets,
and Toulouse and St. Anne. About the com
mencemcnt Of the present century this was re-
moved. The st. Louis Cemetery No. ! was es-
| tabshed, aud the remains OF those who had been
hitherto inferred were here transferred. Our
| Oldest monuments, 50 far as we can learn, do not
date back seventy years. There are very few
graves that show even this degree Of antiquity.
| In most Of the buryng grounds Of this city the
bodies are deposited above the earth, in oven like
cells, builtinto the incIosng walls, or in tombs
| or vaults in the body Of the ground itself. 1t IS
only III the Potters Field or foe the destitute and
irendless, owing to the nearness Vi water to the
surface, that the body is restored to the bosom Of
the earth and the dust literally returned to dust
The grounds qs we have before ted are divided
| az right angles, the tOmbs are built very closely
together, $50 close'in the ST. Louis Cemetery No.
soas to render it difficult to pass between many Of
thenl} and their general appearance is entirely
different from that seen iu the resting places Of
the dead elsewhere.
As the ST. Louis isthe oldestinthe city, any one
| who wishes to see the names Of families who have
held high positions should look in these cemeteries
for their remains Here are buried some OF the
| governors, commandants ana city magistrates Of
the olden time. Here lies the remains Of the last
French Governor Laasat, of Governors Claiborne
and F!lIere; here IS a noble monument to Lieut.
Governor Plauche, who was the major command
Ing tue battalon d.Qrleans under Gen. Jackson at
| Caimetle; here lies Gen. Lacoste, another vet
eran ct that wei, and there granite pyramid, in
letters which no longer betray the sharp touch OF
tue chisel tells OF the mumHcence OF Alexander
Mine, VINO, after living " years, died, beqneath-
Ing his property to an Orphan Asylum to be
| founded az hltGepafg, on the lake. Here also re
pose the remains Of our former enterpHslng and
public spirited citizen Samuel j. Peters, OF Judge
Martin, who occupied the bench for thirty-one
years, and OF Daniel Clark the first representative
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