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• Barbarin, Isidore    b. September 24, 1872  d. June 12, 1960
  Jazz Musician. He played trumpet and mellophone in the Excelsior and later the Onward Brass Band, which was one of the most renown brass band in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1900 until the end of World War I. He was also a driver of the horse-drawn buggies that undertakers used as hearses until automobiles arrived. Jazz legend Louis Armstrong referred to him as "Pops. (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
  Plot: Tomb # 218
   
• Bouligny, Charles Dominique Joseph    b. August 22, 1773  d. March 4, 1833
  US Senator. He was elected as an Adams-Clay Republican Senator from Louisiana to the United States Senate, filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry John. He served his term from 1824 to 1829.
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Clark, Daniel  b. 1766  d. August 16, 1813
  US Congressman. He was educated at Eton College and immigrated to New Orleans in 1786. He was active in land speculation, banking, slave dealing, and the import and export of manufactured goods and food items including sugar and flour. New Orleans was under Spanish and then French control, so Clark made use of his relationships with members of the government to became a broker for US businessmen. When Orleans Territory was organized Clark was appointed to its Legislative Council, but declined...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• De Bore, Jean Etienne    b. December 27, 1741  d. February 1, 1820
  Plantation owner who, after a failed indigo crop, pioneered the growing of sugar cane and the processing of granulated sugar in the South in the 1790s. He was also appointed the first Mayor of New Orleans in 1803. (Bio by: Joel Manuel)
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Derbigny, Pierre Auguste Charles Bourguignon    b. June 30, 1769  d. October 6, 1829
  Louisiana Governor. Derbigny served as the Governor of Louisiana from 1828 until his death in 1829. Also served as a Secretary of State of Louisiana from 1820 to 1828. He died on October 6, 1829, in Gretna, Louisiana, after being thrown from a horse drawn carriage. (Bio by: K)
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Grayson, John Breckinridge    b. October 18, 1806  d. October 21, 1861
  Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. Educated at West Point, he was a Major in the Regular Army until resigning his commission to enter the Confederate service. Appointed quartermaster Colonel of the 8th Virginia Infantry, he was promoted Brigadier General in command of the Department of East and Middle Florida, in August 1861. Shortly after reporting to his post at Tallahassee Florida, he was relieved of duty due to poor health and died of tuberculosis in October 1861. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Latrobe, Benjamin Henry    b. May 1, 1764  d. September 3, 1820
  America's first professional architect and engineer - he immigrated to America in 1795. After designing Philadelphia's first water system, Latrobe went on to design or consult on more than 60 private homes in America, as well as dozens of public buildings.  Only three Latrobe designed, preserved,  residential homes remain in the entire country. He was the architect commissioned to repair the White House after the British burned it. Appointed architect of the Capitol building by Thomas...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul S.)
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Laveau, Marie    b. September 10, 1794  d. June 16, 1881
  Legendary Voodoo Priestess. The details of Marie Laveau's life are elusive and ambiguous. In the nineteenth century, she was the single most storied figure in the substantial New Orleans Voodoo mileux. Though her birthdate is unknown, there are reports of a young Laveau leading Voodoo ceremonies in Congo Square (now Louis Armstrong Park) as early as 1830, and it is generally thought that she was born in 1794. Her house on St. Ann Street where she worked as a hairdresser was a popular...[Read More] (Bio by: Stuthehistoryguy)
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Moreau-Lislet, Louis   b. October 7, 1767  d. December 3, 1832
  Louisiana Law Figure. In 1806 he published 'explication des lois criminelles du territoire d' orleans'. This led to his commission to co-write the civil code which was adopted by the territorial legislature in 1808. In 1817 he was appointed Attorney General but resigned to be a state senator. In 1819 he and Edward DeBirgny prepared a revised code which became law in 1825. (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
  Plot: tomb # 105
   
• Morial, Ernest N.    b. October 9, 1929  d. December 24, 1989
  Mayor of New Orleans, 1978-1986. Judge, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal. Judge, Juvenile Court, Orleans Parish. State Representative, Wards 1 and 2. His inscrption also reads "Keep the Drive Alive." He is the father of current New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial. (Bio by: Joel Manuel)
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
  Plot: Next to Marie Laveau.
   
• Morphy, Paul    b. June 22, 1837  d. July 10, 1884
  Chess master and prominent Louisiana lawyer. He is one of the two people who ever memorized the complete Louisiana book of codes and laws.
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Nicholas, Robert Carter    b. 1793  d. December 24, 1857
  US Senator. He served as a United States Senator from Louisiana from 1836 to 1841. (Bio by: K)
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Plessy, Homer   b. March 17, 1863  d. March 1, 1925
  Plessy was the plaintiff in the landmark Plessy vs. Ferguson decision that established the 'separate but equal' legal doctrine which codified segregation in the south.
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
   
• Trudeau, James Deberty   b. September 14, 1817  d. May 25, 1887
  Confederate Brigadier General. A physician, painter, and outdoorsman, in January of 1861, Trudeau was appointed as an artillery instructor for the Louisiana state militia. During the summer of 1861 he was appointed brigadier general of the "Louisiana Legion," a brigade-sized unit of the state militia. He assisted Major General Leonidas Polk in laying out the fortifications of Columbus, Kentucky and was appointed chief of artillery for its defense. In February of 1862, General P. G. T...[Read More] (Bio by: Thomas Fisher)
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
  Plot: Trudeau Family Vault
   
• Wiltz, Louis Alfred    b. January 21, 1843  d. October 16, 1881
  Louisiana Governor. He served during the Civil War in the Confederate Army as a Captain in the New Orleans Artillery, being captured by Union forces at Fort Jackson, New Orleans, Louisiana. He served as the Governor of Louisiana from 1880 until his death in 1881.
  Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
   

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