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A Walk in New Orleans Burial Place 160 Years Deep
Special correspondence from New Orleans recalls St Louis Cemetery No. 1 as a vast above ground necropolis. The article details tomb walls crowded with vaults, the practice of removing remains into a central cellar, and the contrast between somber old monuments and newer lavish graves near Lake Pontchartrain. It notes Governor Claiborne and Myra Clark Gaines among the buried, and reflects on mortality and time's eroding power.
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New Orleans
Claiborne
Myra’ Clark
New Oreans
Othing
Gulf Coast
Bienville
Byron
Lake Pontchartrain
MR. Claiborne
W. C. C. Claiborne
Mississippi Territory
Louisiana
United States
Chalmette National Cemetery
Claiborne Tomb
Myra Clar. Gaines
Crescent City
Moses Folsom