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Ayres, Tom V. b. December 25, 1933 d. May 31, 2000
Music Producer. He worked with, among others, RCA, Columbia, Capitol, Mercury, and Epic Records. He was also instrumental in signing David Bowie to RCA Records. (Bio by: Joel Manuel)
Centuries Memorial Park Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Blanchard, Newton Crain b. January 29, 1849 d. June 22, 1922
Governor of Louisiana, 1904-08. Also, U.S. Representative (1881-94) and Senator (1894-97). (Bio by: Joel Manuel)
Greenwood Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Boarman, Alexander 'Aleck' b. December 10, 1839 d. August 30, 1916
US Politician. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-1865), Mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana (1868-1872), United States Representative from Louisiana 4th District (1872-1873), State Court Judge (1877-1881) and Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in 1881. (Bio by: K)
Oakland Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Brooks, Thomas Overton b. December 21, 1897 d. September 16, 1961
US Congressman. Member of US House of Representatives from 1936 to 1961. Namesake of Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Connell, Clyde b. September 19, 1901 d. May 1, 1998
Sculptress, primitive artist and civil rights advocate. Featured in People magazine and on PBS and was the subject of at least two books. Her works were featured in the show "Different Drummers" at the Hirschhorn Museum of Art at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and in the "The Dream of Egypt" at the Centro Cutural/Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City. The state of Louisiana declared her a "state treasure" in 1998. She blended wood carving and mixed media, and over the course of...[Read More] (Bio by: John Andrew Prime)
Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: Section B, Lot 77
Corrington, John William b. October 28, 1932 d. November 24, 1988
Novelist, and screenwriter. Graduate of Jesuit High School and Centenary College of Louisiana, both in Shreveport, Louisiana, and of the graduate school of the University of Sussex in Great Britain. He also held a law degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Among his novels are "Decoration Day," "Omega Man," "Shad Sentell," "The Risi's Wife," and "All My Trials." Creator/screenwriter of several television programs including "Search for Tomorrow," "One Life to Live," and "...[Read More] (Bio by: Eric J. Brock)
Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: Catholic Section, east bank of creek on slope
Daniel, John Reeves Jones b. January 13, 1802 d. June 22, 1868
US Congressman. An 1821 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1823. After establishing a practice in Halifax, North Carolina, he was elected Attorney General of North Carolina in 1834. Elected to Congress as a Democrat from North Carolina, he was reelected five times, serving from 1841 to 1853. He moved to Louisiana in 1860 and settled in Shreveport, where he continued to practice law. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Oakland Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Despujols, Jean b. March 19, 1886 d. January 26, 1965
French Painter. His greatest body of work is held in toto at the Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana. These works depict French Indochina before the destruction of World War II and the wars that followed it. He fled to the United States to escape the Nazi occupation of France, and settled in Shreveport where he was sought after for his excellent portrait work. Winner of numerous awards for his artistic skill and personal bravery in World War I. (Bio by: John Andrew Prime)
Greenwood Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Disosway, Gen. Gabriel Poillon 'Gabe' b. June 11, 1910 d. February 23, 2001
Military Figure. United States Air Force general and air power pioneer and advocate. At the close of his four-decade career he was commander of the U.S. Air Force's Tactical Air Command, or TAC. A 1933 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he commanded the 37th Fighter Group in Panama and, in the closing months of World War II, led the 311th Fighter Group and then the 312th Fighter Wing in China. After the war he commanded Air Training Command's Flying Training Air Force and the...[Read More] (Bio by: John Andrew Prime)
Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: Section 9
Edenborn, William b. March 20, 1848 d. May 14, 1926
Businessman and industrialist. Founder of the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company and founder of the American Steel Wire Company; member of the board of United States Steel. In 1870 he patented a machine to produce barbed wire, previously made only by hand, and started a company at St. Louis, Missouri, to manufacture the product. In the late 1870s he contracted to make wire for telephones and telegraph systems, gaining a monopoly for doing so. In 1901 he sold the company to J. P. Morgan...[Read More] (Bio by: Eric J. Brock)
Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: 冶, NE quadrant
Garber, Jan (Jacob Charles) b. November 5, 1894 d. October 5, 1977
Musician. He was billed as the "Idol of the Air Lanes," and organized one of the first bands of the Big Band Era. In the 1930s, he took over the Freddie Large band. Jan composed the band's famous theme song "My Dear." He also composed the popular "We Don't Get Much Money (But We Have a Lot of Fun)." His band was featured in such films as "Here Comes Elmer," and "Make Believe Ballroom." (Bio by: Laurie)
Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Gray, Oscar Lee b. 1865 d. 1936
U.S. Representative from Alabama, 1915-19. (Bio by: Joel Manuel)
Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Hodge, Benjamin Lewis b. 1824 d. 1864
US Politician. Served as a Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-1865), Member of Louisiana State Legislature, Candidate for Senator from Louisiana in the Confederate Congress in 1861 and Representative from Louisiana in the Confederate Congress in 1864. (Bio by: K)
Oakland Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Jones, Roland b. November 18, 1813 d. February 5, 1869
US Congressman, State Court Judge. Elected to represent Louisiana's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1853 to 1855. Also served as a Member of Louisiana State House of Representatives in 1844. (Bio by: K)
Oakland Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
King, Claude b. February 5, 1923 d. March 7, 2013
Country Singer and Songwriter. King, who purchased his first guitar at age 12, is best known for recording "Wolverton Mountain" (co-written with Merle Kilgore) in 1962. He signed with Columbia Records in 1961 and scored immediately with a country top 10 hit with "Big River, Big Man" and followed that with another hit, "The Comancheros". In 1962, he recorded "Wolverton Mountain," which was based on his uncle, Clifton...[Read More] (Bio by: Louis Mata)
Centuries Memorial Park, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Landrum, John Morgan b. July 3, 1815 d. October 18, 1861
US Congressman. Elected to represent Louisiana's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1859 to 1861. Also served as Mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1848. (Bio by: K)
Oakland Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Long, Rose b. April 8, 1892 d. May 27, 1970
Wife of Louisiana Governor and U.S. Senator Huey P. Long. After Huey's assassination in 1935, she completed his term in the U.S. Senate. She was also the mother of long-time U.S. Senator Russell Long. (Bio by: Joel Manuel)
Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
May, Margery Land b. January 14, 1898 d. May 13, 1932
Author. She was a noted writer of short stories in the 1920s, and a film screenwriter of some note. She slipped into a depression not long after the death of her husband, Shreveport attorney James Martin Foster, and committed suicide at their home, "Currighmuir," which was located where the LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport School of Allied Health Professions is now located. Her film writing credits include "Those Who Judge" (1924), from her novel "Such As Sit in Judgment," "Destiny's...[Read More] (Bio by: John Andrew Prime)
Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Morgan, Arthur C. b. 1904 d. September 9, 1994
Sculptor. A graduate of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design in New York City, he was commissioned at age 16 to create a bust of Dr. Simon Baruch, medical pioneer and advocate of hydrotherapy. Studied under, and was a protege of, Gutzon Borglum, creator of Mount Rushmore. Known for his statues and busts of public figures, including Louisiana Gov. Earl Long, his best-known creation is the heroic figure of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward Douglas White in Statuary Hall of U.S. Capitol...[Read More] (Bio by: John Andrew Prime)
Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Patient, LTC. Edith Marie b. February 17, 1911 d. May 18, 1964
US Army Nurse. Leading figure among a handful of US Army nurses captured by the Japanese in early 1942 upon the surrender of Corregidor. She was evacuated to the prison camp at the University of Santo Tomas where she cared for fellow prisoners, including survivors of the death march and Japanese abuses, from mid 1942 until early 1945 when she was liberated. Less political than some of her fellow nurses, she led a quiet and successful life as a military nurse through her early death. Recipient...[Read More] (Bio by: John Andrew Prime)
Forest Park East Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA

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