St. Louis Cemetery No 1

New Orleans, Louisiana

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click photo to enlarge		 Karen and I do tend to go to old cemeteries and visit graves of famous people from Bonnie Parker to the Earp’s to Boot Hill to Big Nose Cate, Doc Holliday and the list goes on. While in New Orleans we went to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. This ended up being one of the more interesting ones we have ever been to and learning about how they reuse each crypt was fascinating. It is a myth that they bury above ground because of the water table. Google “a year and a day morning tradition lafayette cemetery” if you want to learn about it. There is some interesting facts about St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans.

click photo to enlarge		 The picture to the left was in the movie "Easy Rider" and Fonda's tearful character famously, and scandalously, ends up in the arms of a statue atop the Italian Benevolent Society tomb. The picture in the lower left is Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen. The pyramid is Nicholas Cage's future tomb. Then I put the picture of the GILLY tomb so you can see they reuse the same tomb over and over. A vault can be reused after a year and a day. If you family has a vault and the last person in the tomb was put there less than a year and a day you have to rent one until they year and a day passes then you can be put in our family vault.

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