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Clark, Marguerite b. February 22, 1883 d. September 25, 1940
Broadway and Silent Movie Actress. After a successful stage career, she starred in a number of Hollywood productions. Raised in Cincinnati, she graduated from a Catholic boarding school at 16, then left to persue her show business ambitions. After working in Baltimore as a chorus girl in 1899, Marguerite made her Broadway bow in 1900; she was to have roles at a number of theaters, often of the adventure type. She earned notice for her work in "Mr. Pickwick" (1903), "The Wishing Ring" and "Baby...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Coleman, Hamilton Dudley b. May 12, 1845 d. March 16, 1926
US Congressman. Elected to represent Louisiana's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1889 to 1891.
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Comer, Marty b. October 28, 1917 d. March 22, 1998
Professional football player. After graduating from Horace Mann High School in Gary, Indiana, Martin F. Comer played football at Tulane from 1938 to 1943. During World War II, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, managing a program at Tulane to train future military personnel. He played offensive and defensive end from 1946 thru 1948 with the Buffalo Bills in the All America Football Conference. In his three-year pro career, he made nine receptions for a total of 158 yards and three...[Read More] (Bio by: Mel Bashore)
Lake Lawn Park Cemetery and Mausoleum, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Conrad, Charles Magill b. December 24, 1804 d. February 11, 1878
US Congressman. Elected to represent Louisiana's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1849 to 1850. Also served as a Member of the Louisiana State House of Representatives, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1842 to 1843, United States Secretary of War from 1850 to 1853, Delegate from Louisiana to the Confederate Provisional Congress from 1861 to 1862, and Representative from Louisiana in the Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865.
Hope Mausoleum, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Copeland, Alvin C. b. February 2, 1944 d. March 23, 2008
Entrepreneur. At age 18, he sold his car to open a one-man doughnut shop and had ten successful years in the doughnut business. Inspired by Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants, he used his doughnut profits to open the restaurant, Chicken on the Run in New Orleans, in 1971. He founded Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits in 1976, began franchising his restaurant chain and by 1987, his company was the third largest fast food chicken chain in Amercia. In March 1989, he purchased Church's Chicken, combined...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: Copeland Family crypt
Curie, Eve b. December 6, 1904 d. October 22, 2007
Author. She was best known for "Madame Curie" (1937), a biography of her mother, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie. The book became a best seller and in 1943 was made into a Hollywood film. During World War II she supported the Free French cause and served in Europe with the women's division of General Charles de Gaulle's Fighting French. She later was a publisher of the French newspaper Paris-Press, and in the early 1950s was a special adviser to the secretary general of NATO...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Darden, Severn Teackle b. November 9, 1929 d. May 26, 1995
Comedian, Actor. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was a graduate of the New Orleans Academy and the University Of Chicago. He was a member of the "Second City Troupe" in Chicago and with the "Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences". He performed with the "Compass Improvisational Theatre" and at the "American Shakespeare Festival". After mastering his skills in an array of character parts, he advanced on Hollywood and landed more than 100 roles in television and movies. His film and TV...[Read More] (Bio by: RCB)
Lake Lawn Park Cemetery and Mausoleum, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Davey, Robert Charles b. October 22, 1853 d. December 26, 1908
US Congressman. He was elected as a Democrat to represent Louisiana's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1893 to 1895, and 1897 to 1908.
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: Davey Family Mausoleum (unmarked), Section 98, Lot 34
Davis, Jefferson Finis [original burial site] b. June 3, 1808 d. December 6, 1889
President Confederate States, Military Man, Author. Jefferson Davis was the unrepentant highest ranking confederate leader of the South. The only Southern leader shackled in a dungeon and sacrificed as atonement for the sins of many. He refused to apply for a pardon because, he said, "I have not repented." In 1978, the United States Congress posthumously restored Davis's citizenship. By the time his peaceful death occurred while visiting New Orleans, he was the symbol of the Lost Cause and...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Metairie Cemetery, 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
Delille, Mother Henriette b. 1813 d. 1862
Founder of the black religious community, Sisters of the Holy Family. A descendant of slaves, she was born to an ancestral quadroon family who trained and supplied women to be the mistresses of wealthy white men. Although raised in privilege and comfort, she rebelled and became a nun. When Henriette was declared to be of legal age, she sold all her property and on November 21, 1836, she and eight other black women became the Sisters of Presentation. They cared for the sick and poor and upon...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul S.)
Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: Nuns
Dell (Goff), Dorothy b. January 30, 1915 d. June 8, 1934
Actress who made three movies in 1934 ("Wharf Angel," "Little Miss Marker," and "Shoot the Works") before dying in an automobile accident that summer. (Bio by: Find A Grave)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: Section 148.
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
Desdunes, Rodolphe Lucien b. 1849 d. 1928
Author of "Nos Hommes et Noire Histoire" (Our People and Our HIstory: Fifty Creole Portraits), published in French in 1911, which chronicled the lives of 50 prominent black residents of New Orleans during the late 19th century. He was also a columnist for a black-owned New Orleans newspaper, "The Crusader," who wrote several influential articles during the "Plessy vs. Ferguson" case. (Bio by: Joel Manuel (inactive))
Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Dix (Gilmer), Dorothy (Elizabeth) b. November 18, 1861 d. December 16, 1951
As "Dorothy Dix," Meriwether was a forerunner of today's advice columnists. Her columns on life, love, and marriage were carried by newspapers everywhere. One of her most famous columns covered her ten "Dictates for a Happy Life." She was also the author of "How to Win and Hold a Husband," "Hearts A La Mode," and "Fables of the Elite." (Bio by: Joel Manuel (inactive))
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: Section 167.
Dreux, Charles Didier b. 1832 d. July 5, 1861
Civil War Officer. Confederate Lt. Colonel. The first Confederate field officer to be killed in battle. Commanded Dreux's (1st) Batallion, composed of the first five companies that volunteered from Louisiana. Died at Young's Mill (Warwick, Virginia, now Newport News, Virigina) while on a failed mission to capture Union officers who often ate breakfast at Smith's Farm. Over 30,000 mourners attended Dreux's funeral in New Orleans. (Bio by: Shiver)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: Army of Tennessee Tumulus
Dunkley, Ferdinand Luis b. July 16, 1869 d. January 5, 1956
Composer. He is best know for the works of 'Rustic Suite for Orchestra: Cradle Song', 'The Wreck of the Hesperus', 'Leif Erikson' and 'The Buoyant Voice.' (Bio by: Laurie)
Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Dunn, Oscar James b. 1820 d. November 20, 1871
US Politician. He was the first African American Lieutenant Governor in United States history, serving in Louisiana from 1868 to 1872. He was the son of an emancipated slave. (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: near entrance
Durant, James 'Phat Nasty' b. 1972 d. September 17, 2003
Jazz Musician. Durant was a member of the musical group, 'Rebirth Brass Band,' which was formed in the 1980s in New Orleans, Louisiana, when the group's members were still in school. Durant played the saxophone in the group which also included members, John Gilbert, Kermit Ruffins, Stafford Agee, Keith Anderson, Kenneth Austin, Tyrus Chapman, Keith 'Bass Drum Shorty' Frazier, Philip Frazier, Ajay Mallery, Solomon Shabazz, Derrick Shezbie, Derek 'Dirt' Wiley, and Glen Andrews James. The groups...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Resthaven Memorial Park, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Edwards, Eddie (Edwin) b. May 22, 1891 d. April 9, 1963
Jazz Musician. A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, he was a talented violinist and trombonist, who was a founder and a member of the, 'Original Dixieland Jazz Band,' from 1917 until the group disbanded in 1923. The group was one of the first bands to popularize jazz music. Known as a superb rhythmic player and force in the group, other members included Emile Christian, Nick LaRocca, J. Russell Robinson, Larry Shields, Tony Sbarbaro, and Henry Ragas. He stayed with the band until they disbanded...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA

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