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167 Bibliography and Sources Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To dig the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. Shakespeare s epitaph, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, England

168 Tomb It May Concern: Save Our Cemeteries Tour Guide Training Manual Bibliography and Selected Sources Bibliography and Selected Sources Cemeteries: General Jackson, Kenneth. Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American Cemetery. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1989. Available at: Delgado Community College Library, Tulane University Library, University of New Orleans Library, Louisiana State University Library, University of Louisiana Lafayette Library Ramsland, Katherine. Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death. Perennial Currents, 2001. Available at: New Orleans Public Library, Jefferson Parish Public Library, State Library of Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Public Library, Baton Rouge Community College Library, Lafayette Public Library Sloan, David Charles. The Last Great Necessity. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Available at: Delgado Community College Library, Tulane University Library, University of New Orleans Library, Loyola University Library, Louisiana State University Library, East Baton Rouge Public Library, University of Louisiana Lafayette Library Cemeteries: New Orleans Gandolfo, Henri. Metairie Cemetery: An Historical Memoir. New Orleans: Stewart Enterprises, Inc., 1981. Available at: New Orleans Public Library, Jefferson Parish Public Library, University of New Orleans Library, Tulane University Library, University of Louisiana Lafayette Library Ghost of Stone. VHS. Cave Creek Productions, Inc., 1993. Available at: University of New Orleans Library, Louisiana State University Library, Lafayette Public Library For sale at Save Our Cemeteries office Masson, Ann. Père La Chaise and New Orleans Cemeteries. Southern Quarterly 31.2 (1993): 82-97. Available at: The Historic New Orleans Collection, Tulane University Library, University of New Orleans Library, Xavier University of Louisiana Library, Loyola University Library, Louisiana State University Library, University of Louisiana - Lafayette New Orleans Architecture, Vol. 3: The Cemeteries. Ed. Mary Louise Christovich. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1974. Available at: The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans Public Library, Dillard University, Xavier University of Louisiana Library Wilson, Samuel and Leonard V. Huber. The St. Louis Cemeteries of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA: St. Louis Cathedral, 1963. Available at: The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans Public Library, Tulane University Library, Loyola University Library, Xavier University of Louisiana Library, Delgado Community College Library

Bibliography and Sources 169 Death Coffin, Margaret. Death in Early America. Nashville and New York: Thomas Nelson, 1976. Available at: Delgado Community College Library, Jefferson Parish Public Library, State Library of Louisiana, Louisiana State University Library, Lafayette Public Library Iserson, Kenneth. Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies? Galen Press, 2001 Available at: Delgado Community College Library, State Library of Louisiana, Tulane University Medical Center Library Funerals and Burials Berry, Jason. Good Grief: New Orleans Jazz Funerals. Louisiana Cultural Vistas. Winter 2001-2002. Available at: The Historic New Orleans Collection, Loyola University Library, Tulane University Library, University of New Orleans Library, Jefferson Parish Public Library, University of Louisiana Lafayette Library Morrison, B. L. Louisiana s Funeral Customs, Graves and Graveyards. Gulf South Press, 1983. Available at: The Historic New Orleans Collection, Tulane University Library, Lafayette Public Library, University of Louisiana Lafayette Library Stewart, Jack. Funerals with Music in New Orleans. New Orleans, LA: Save Our Cemeteries, Inc., 2004. For Sale at Save Our Cemeteries office. Photographic Collections Arrigo, Jan and Laura A. McElroy. Cemeteries of New Orleans, A Journey through the Cities of the Dead. Stilllwater, MN: Voyageur Press, Inc., 2005. Brock, Eric. Images of America: New Orleans Cemeteries. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999. Available at: The Historic New Orleans Collection, Jefferson Parish Public Library, New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana State University Library, Lafayette Public Library Clark, Sandra Russell. Elysium A Gathering of Souls. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. Available at: The Historic New Orleans Collection, Jefferson Parish Public Library, New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana State University Library, Lafayette Public Library, East Baton Rouge Public Library Florence, Robert and Mason. New Orleans Cemeteries. New Orleans: Batture Press, 1997. Jefferson Parish Public Library, New Orleans Public Library, Tulane University Library, University of Louisiana Lafayette Library Huston, Elizabeth. Sacred New Orleans Funerary Grounds. Los Angeles, CA: Photomonium Press, 2005.

170 Tomb It May Concern: Save Our Cemeteries Tour Guide Training Manual Laughlin, Clarence John. Haunter of Ruins. Boston: Little, Brown, 1997. Jefferson Parish Public Library, New Orleans Public Library, Tulane University Library, Louisiana State University Library, University of Louisiana Lafayette Library Preservation Chaux Vive. Musson Tomb Preservation Completion Report. New Orleans, LA: n.p., 2003. Dead Space: Defining the New Orleans Creole Cemetery. New Orleans, LA: Save Our Cemeteries, Inc., 2001. Krotzer, Dorothy and Frank Matero. St. Louis Cemetery No. I New Orleans, LA: Conservation Program 2001 Documentation and Treatment Report Bergamini Tomb, Esteve Tomb, Perrault Tomb. New Orleans, LA. Save Our Cemeteries, Inc., 2002. Matero, Frank and Stephen Curtis, John Hinchman, and Judy Peters. St. Louis Cemetery No. I Guidelines for Preservation and Restoration. Philadelphia, PA: The Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 2002. Sass, Shelley and Sharyn Thompson. Preservation Plan for Lafayette Cemetery No. 1. New Orleans, LA: Save Our Cemeteries, Inc., 1997. Strangstad, Lynette. A Graveyard Preservation Primer. Rowman & Littlefield, 1995. Available at: Jefferson Parish Public Library, East Baton Rouge Parish Public Library, Louisiana State University Library, State Library of Louisiana, University of Louisiana Lafayette Library Symbolism Huber, Leonard V. Clasped Hands: Symbolism in New Orleans Cemeteries. Lafayette: The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwest Louisiana, 1982. New Orleans Public Library, University of New Orleans Libarary, Loyola University Library, Lafayette Public Library Keister, Douglas. Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2004. Tomb Architecture and Construction Brady, Patricia. Florville Foy, F.M.C: Master Marble Cutter and Tomb Builder. Southern Quarterly 31.2 (1993): 8-20. Available at: The Historic New Orleans Collection, Tulane University Library, University of New Orleans Library, Xavier University of Louisiana Library, Loyola University Library, Louisiana State University Library, University of Louisiana - Lafayette

Bibliography and Sources 171 Colvin, Howard. Architecture and the After Life. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. Available at: Delgado Community College Library, Tulane University Library, Loyola University Library, Louisiana State University Library McNulty, Ian. K-Doe Yellow: Restorations Add Color to Tombs. New Orleans Magazine 37:1 (October 2002): 31. Jefferson Parish Public Library, Louisiana State University Library, Xavier University Library, University of New Orleans Library, University of Louisiana Lafayette Library Tours Alderson, William T. and Shirley Payne Low. Interpretation of Historic Sites. Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1976. Available at: East Baton Rouge Parish Library, Louisiana State University Library, State Library of Louisiana, University of Louisiana Lafayette Library Yellow Fever Carrigan, Jo Ann. The Saffron Scourge: A History of the Yellow Fever in Louisiana, 1796-1905. Lafayette, LA: University of Southwest Louisiana Press, 1994. Jefferson Parish Public Library, New Orleans Public Library, Tulane University Library, Loyola University Library, University of New Orleans, University of Louisiana - Lafayette Duffy, John. Sword of Pestilence: The New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1962. Available at: The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans Public Library, Tulane University Library, University of New Orleans Library, Loyola University Library, University of Louisiana Lafayette Library Reinders, Robert C. End of an Era: New Orleans 1850-1862. New Orleans, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1964. Available at: The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans Public Library, Tulane University Library, University of New Orleans Library, Louisiana State University Library, Lafayette Public Library

172 Tomb It May Concern: Save Our Cemeteries Tour Guide Training Manual Useful Websites Death www.deathonline.net This online exhibit from the Australian Museum in Sydney covers death, coffins, what happens to the body after death, mourning, and associated topics, as well as an extensive number of links. dying.about.com This website contains a number of brief articles and links on topics such as funerals, strange deaths, and the like. Includes poetry, how to write a eulogy, dealing with death, and estate planning. Education The following websites contain information on using historic cemeteries as a teaching tool, as well as presenting techniques on maintaining the involvement of students of all ages. www.angelfire.com/ky2/cemetery www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/outreach/edcemetr.html Preservation: Cemeteries www.cr.nps.gov/nr/publications/bulletins/nrb41 An online publication from the National Register of Historic Places that details guidelines for evaluating and registering historic cemeteries. Also on www.cr.nps.gov find burial customs, burial places and a list of sources. www.noladeadspace.org The website detailing research, documentation, preservation, conservation and restoration at St. Louis Cemetery No. I by the University of Pennsylvania. www.saveourcemeteries.org The Save Our Cemeteries website features information on our current activities, as well as past projects, cemetery locations, and other significant information. Research www.archdiocese-no.org/archives/index.htm For information on the archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, which owns and operates several New Orleans cemeteries such as the St. Louis, St. Roch, and St. Patrick Cemeteries. Note: Cemetery records are not available to the public, and all requests to view these records must be made in writing. Non-current interment records are available at the New Orleans Public Library and the Historic New Orleans Collection. www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/monitor/1248/ Fred Hatfield s Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 Survey website. www.nutrias.org The website of the New Orleans Public Library. The City Archives and Special Collections page contain several different databases and links for research related to cemeteries, such as the Louisiana Photograph Collection, the Obituary Index, an index of successions, first judicial court records, civil court records, and emancipation records.

Bibliography and Sources 173 obits.gno.lib.la.us/nopl/obitindex.htm Direct link to the Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index from the New Orleans Public Library. The Index features obituaries and death notices published in New Orleans newspapers from 1804-1972. www.hnoc.org The Historic New Orleans Collection houses several different collections useful for conducting historical research on cemeteries and related subjects, as well as information related to conducting research at the Collection. www.interment.net An online cemetery transcription library with a surname search that can be narrowed by region. Also has suggestions for finding a lost grave. www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery Website of the Tombstone Transcription Project, with links to several sources and cemeteries throughout Louisiana and the United States. www.idreamof.com/cemetery.html This website features cemetery records from across the United States. The Louisiana section contains links to records sorted by parish. Site includes Cypress Grove, Greenwood, Metairie, St. Louis No. I, St. Joseph, and St. Vincent DePaul. www.cem.va.gov The website of the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration. Includes a nationwide gravesite locator. www.deathindexes.com/louisiana/index.html An online genealogy guide featuring death records and indices, along with a few additional links. www.municode.com An online library of municipal laws and ordinances, broken down by state and counties/ parishes. Other Useful Sites www.alsirat.com/epitaphs Browse interesting and entertaining epitaphs on this site. www.cajunculture.com/other/names.htm Cajun surnames. www.cindyvaller.com History of pirates and privateers, including Jean Lafitte.

174 Tomb It May Concern: Save Our Cemeteries Tour Guide Training Manual en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dominique_you History of pirate Dominique You, buried in St. Louis No. 2. www.findagrave.com For finding out where that Civil War general, New Orleans jazz musician, or other notable personage is buried. www.lcb.state.la.us Website of the Louisiana Cemetery Board www.politicalgraveyard.com The web site that tells where various politicians are buried, complete with biographies.