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Old Cemetery Pics

vetusvates

Gamaliel's Principle
On Sunday, 08 Mar 2009, I took a long Sunday drive I've been meaning to take for several years now. For genealogy purposes. So if you are bored by a little genealogy, or old cemetery pictures, don't torture yourself any further.
I drove south to New Orleans (est'd 1718), across the Mississippi River to the "West Bank" and proceeded west and north on a big loop back toward Baton Rouge.
In St. John The Baptist Parish is a catholic church by the same name, with a cemetery where my greatx7 grandparents are buried in unmarked graves. Their names were Adam (born about 1680) and Jeanne Elizabeth Trischl, and came to america from Strasbourg, France in 1720. They arrived with other french and german settlers on the ship La Garonne in Louisiana, after they reclaimed the ship from a pirate attack in Sainte Domingue, and first stopped at the french post at Biloxi Bay. Settlers from northeast France, and Augsburg, Germany, where the ship sailed from, settled on the banks of the Mississippi up river from New Orleans on what came to be known as "La côte des Allemands" (The German Coast). Adam Trischl had a son named Henri Trichel (simplified name in america) who went north and settled at Fort St. Jean Baptiste de St. Denis (est'd 1714), a french & spanish trapping & trading post, which later became Natchitoches, Louisiana. Oldest settlement of the later Louisiana Purchase.
The Trischl's that remained in the New Orleans area came to spell their name Triche.
These pictures that follow are from the cemetery in Edgard, Louisiana, at St. John The Baptist Catholic Church Cemetery.
You will see the western levee of the Mississippi River in the background of many of the pictures.
Thanks for looking.
 

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Various family crypts (mausoleums). Some over 200 years old, some less. Some no longer in use, some still used.
 

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Lovely pictures! I always like walking through a cemetery. I've found its a wonderful way to come up with names that you haven't thought of! So oddly enough someday when I have a kid I need to name, I will go cemetery walking...

Thanks for sharing the pictures!
 
Tomb and crypt plaques on french.
 

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I love old cemetary's. The oldest one here is where both my parents are buried. I think the oldest graves are only from the early 1800's.
Thanks so much Eric for sharing with us.
 
Thanks for looking.
 

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Nanci, I do too! There was one low brick one that was partially tumbling down, and I got down on my hands and knees and looked in. I could see the old casket handles lying free, but no skull...probably stolen. I could see long bones like the humerus or femur, with tatters of old clothes attached, and I think feet. In nondescript mannish type shoes.
I'm sure you know, when they unseal and open one (they are designed such that when the bodies swell and pop and ooze and drip, it drains to an inner deep drain/trough), they just push the rotted wood and skeleton of the oldest remains, or just the dry remains of the oldest body if it was laid in in no casket, to the side or into the bottom middle trough/pit, and put the newly dead individual in. So even the smaller vaults, that can be walked into, have usually three to four shelves for remains on each side, and house generations of families.

Here's the one I looked into :
 

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I would have stuck my camera in and taken a picture, like a tortoise burrow! That would be so cool! I always wanted to find a body, or a skeleton.
 
You know....next time I will. And I'll try to find a really old one, but one you can still make heads or tails of.
My camera does have a flash,....why didn't I think of that? :laugh:
 
OMG!! I love cemeteries and New Orleans is a future destination for us. Those are inspiring pics. Thanks for sharing.

Hmmm...must visit cemetery.....
 
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Eric! *squeeeeee* They're all so beautiful and interesting and wonderful! I would've soooo taken a pic in that last one. If you see me lurking in this thread a lot then don't mind me. I'm just gazing at all the pics over and over again.
 
That's it!! I'm coming to visit you, Eric! I went walking around a local cemetary today. Quite ironic that you posted this today. The oldest gravesites I could find were only from 1908. I'm trying to find the "secret location" of the "old" cemetaries around here...early 1800's would be nice.

I would LOVE the opportunity to run around in that cemetary for a day...even a night!!

Thanks SO much for sharing!!

Now I'm gonna go post my boring statue photos from today's cemetary walk...
 
I'm sure you know, when they unseal and open one (they are designed such that when the bodies swell and pop and ooze and drip, it drains to an inner deep drain/trough), they just push the rotted wood and skeleton of the oldest remains, or just the dry remains of the oldest body if it was laid in in no casket, to the side or into the bottom middle trough/pit, and put the newly dead individual in. So even the smaller vaults, that can be walked into, have usually three to four shelves for remains on each side, and house generations of families.

Thanks for that lovely visual image Eric. ;)
 
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