Find A Grave - Orleans Parish

Elliott, Robert Brown b. August 11, 1842 d. August 9, 1884
US Congressman. Elected to represent South Carolina's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1871 to 1875. Also served as an Alternate Delegate to the Republican National Convention from South Carolina in 1868, and Member of the South Carolina State Legislature.
Cause of death: Malaria
Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Estopinal, Albert b. January 30, 1845 d. April 28, 1919
US Congressman. Elected to represent Louisiana's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1908 until his death in 1919. Also served as a Member of the Louisiana State House of Representatives in 1879, Member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1880 to 1900, and Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 1900 to 1904. He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. (Bio by: K)
Saint Louis Cemetery Number 3, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Fazola, Irving b. December 12, 1912 d. March 20, 1949
Jazz Musician. A clarinetist and saxophonist, he became a New Orleans folk hero. Faz," as the Jazz World knew him, studied clarinet with Jean Paquay, a conservatory-trained musician from Brussels. Paquay had come to New Orleans in 1909 to play in the orchestra at the French Opera House. When he began to give music lessons, one of his students was Irving Prestopnik. Some believe that Paquay's famous student got his nickname from being constantly told to play "Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la ..." Others claim...[Read More] (Bio by: K. Jacob Ruppert)
Saint Vincent De Paul Cemetery #1 (Louisa), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: Private
Fernandez, Joachim Octave b. August 14, 1896 d. August 8, 1978
US Congressman. Served in the United States Navy during World War II. Elected to represent Louisiana's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1931 to 1941. Also served as a Delegate to the Louisiana State Constitutional Convention in 1921, Member of Louisiana State Senate from 1928 to 1930, and Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana in 1936. (Bio by: K)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Fertel, Ruth b. February 5, 1927 d. April 16, 2002
Founder of Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. (Bio by: Joel Berry)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: Avenue Bell at Avenue I, by the
Flanders, Benjamin Franklin b. January 16, 1816 d. March 13, 1896
US Congressman. Elected to represent Louisiana as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1862 to 1863. Also served as Military Governor of Louisiana from 1867 to 1868. (Bio by: K)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Garrison, Jim b. November 20, 1921 d. October 21, 1992
JFK Assassination Figure. He was the New Orleans District Attorney whose investigation into President John F. Kennedy's assassination led to the trial of businessman Clay Shaw, who was the only person ever brough to trial in connection with the assassination. Shaw was later aquitted. Much of motion picture director Oliver Stone's movie "JFK" was based on his book, "On The Trail of the Assassins." Jim Garrison had a cameo in the film as Chief Justice Earl Warren of the Warren Commission. (Bio by: Joel Manuel)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Gay, Edward James b. May 5, 1878 d. December 1, 1952
US Senator. Served as a United States Senator from 1918 to 1921. Also served as a Member of the Louisiana State Legislature. (Bio by: K)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Genois, Charles b. 1793 d. August 30, 1866
New Orleans Mayor. Genois served as the Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1838 to 1840. (Bio by: K)
Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Gilmore, Samuel Louis b. July 30, 1859 d. July 18, 1910
US Congressman. Elected as a Democrat to represent Louisiana's 2nd District in the Sixty-first Congress, he served from 1909 until his death in office. A native of New Orleans, Gilmore graduated from New Jersey's Seton Hall College in 1877 and from the law department of what is now Tulane University in 1879. The following year he was admitted to the bar and set up law practice in his hometown. He was Assistant City Attorney from 1888 to 1896 and City Attorney from 1896 to 1909, when he resigned...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Girod, Nicholas b. 1747 d. 1840
New Orleans Mayor. Girod served as the Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1812 to 1815. (Bio by: K)
Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Goodman-Pixley, Shirley Mae b. June 19, 1936 d. July 5, 2005
Singer. Born Shirley Mae Goodman, she was a singer best known for being a member of the pop duet "Shirley & Lee". In the early 1950s, together with singer Leonard Lee they formed the rhythm-and-blues duo "The Sweethearts Of The Blues" in New Orleans. They began to record for the Aladdin label as "Shirley & Lee", releasing singles to include "I'm Gone" (1952), "Feel So Good" (1955) and their biggest hit, "Let the Good Times Roll" (1956). They continued to record together until 1963, when Leonard...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mount Olivet Cemetery and Mausoleum, 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
Guesnon, George 'Creole' b. May 25, 1907 d. May 5, 1968
Jazz Musician. A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Guesnon is best known as being a superb master of the banjo and ukelele. He was taught to play the banjo by John Marrero, a member of the musical group, 'Celestin's Tuxedo Orchestra,' who Guesnon would later replace as a member of that group. He was also an accomplished composer and songwriter who worked with the likes of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Nelson, Kid Thomas, and George Lewis, among many others. Guesnon who recorded 3 albums, and...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Guion, Walter b. April 3, 1849 d. February 7, 1927
US Senator. Served as a United States Senator from Louisiana in 1918. Also served as a State Court Judge. (Bio by: K)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Hahn, Michael b. November 24, 1830 d. March 15, 1886
US Congressman. Elected to represent Louisiana's 2nd District ans as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives from 1862 to 1863, and 1885 to 1886. Also served as a Member of the Louisiana State House of Representatives from 1872 to 1876, Speaker of the Louisiana State House of Representatives in 1875, and District Judge for the 26th District from 1879 to 1885. (Bio by: K)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: Section 68 - Antz tomb
Harrington, Joseph V. 'Neversmile' d. July, 1924
Notorious gambler. (Bio by: Joel Manuel)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: Sec 85, along Ave E.
Hays, Harry Thompson b. April 14, 1820 d. August 21, 1876
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. In 1861, he entered the Confederate Army as Colonel of the 7th Louisiana Infantry. He led the 7th Louisiana in the Battle of Bull Run, the Shenandoah Campaign and was promoted Brigadier General in July 1862. Assigned command of the 1st Louisiana Brigade, he fought at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and at Gettysburg in July 1863. At the Battle of
Spotsylania, he was wounded by a shell fragment and after his recovery, was transferred to the...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Lafayette Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Heard, William Wright b. April 28, 1853 d. May 31, 1926
32nd Governor of Louisiana. Born near the rural north Louisiana community of Shiloh in Union Parrish, he was the son of Stephen Southard Heard and Mary Ann Wright. Heard was educated in a small local school near his family's homestead. In years to come, he remembered the challenges of educating children in rural areas. Education was one of the major concerns for the residents of the state; hence, as governor, he formed the first Board of Education for the State Louisiana. Heard married...[Read More] (Bio by: Linda Davis)
Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot: Sec. 77
Hebert, Felix Edward b. October 12, 1901 d. December 29, 1979
US Congressman. Elected to represent Louisiana's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1941 to 1977. (Bio by: K)
Lake Lawn Park Cemetery and Mausoleum, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA

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