"Mais, Come in."
This picture is of a woodcut entitled"The Dance of Death", made in 1493 in Europe during the pandemic known as The Black Death.
Passin' a good time!------->
Cities of the Dead
(your home of tomorrow)
Some of my earliest (and, yes, even most pleasant) memories were the trips my uncle and I would take to the Grand Isle Cemetery. We would drive down Cemetery Lane,get out the car, and walk through the gate. I can still remember my favorite grave to sit on. It had two levels or steps to walk or sit upon. It was the grave of my uncle's sister in law. I used to love to look at all the different grave styles and materials they were made of, the names, the flowers, the statues. It didn't bother me to spend time there in that gloomy place down that gloomy street. The reality of that place never hit me-- until my uncle died. That's when I grew up at the age of 10. Going to a cemetery wasn't fun anymore. But they are still interesting places to visit,especially if you are not familiar with South Louisiana and how we bury the dead. Here are some cemeteries in the Lafourche area and Grand Isle.
The Cheniere Cemetery
The area known as Cheniere is across the Caminada Bay from Grand Isle and is considered part of Grand Isle. In 1893,a hurricane hit Cheniere Caminada, as it was called, and killed about 2000 residents. Some of them are buried in this old cemetary. Those graves are made of brick. People were buried in other places, also. I can remember seeing three gravesites with at least one grave at each as a child. Those have since disappeared. One was near a house, one by the roadside, and another in a clump of oak trees near the water tank in Cheniere.
Grand Isle Cemetery
Interesting shapes,styles,images-lots to see and do for the morbidly curious. This is where Phil Beverly, my brother in law, proposed to my sister. Weird, huh? I thought it was a "fun" place; they think it's romantic. Some people are just strange.
These gravesites are located in the marshes on both sides of the Leeville Bridge.
Chighizola tomb inscribed in French and dates back to the 1800's--Grand Isle Cemetery
Old tomb partially made of bricks--Grand Isle Cemetery
Grand Isle Cemetary
I'm glad that's not my house in the background.
A tidal wave hit Grand Isle during Hurricane Betsy in September,1965. Many of the coffins in this cemetery broke out of the ground. They were found in the marshes in Caminada Bay and returned to the cemetery.
This is the Indian cemetery located in the unincorporated southern part of Golden Meadow. Next door to it is the old Houma Indian settlement school.
This little cemetery is one of two cemeteries located right off Louisiana Highway 1 near Leeville on the bayouside. I don't know why there would be a cemetery located so close to the road and to the bayou. I can only guess that one day "Uncle Ned" had a heart attack while fishing, and the family said "Well, what the heck, let's just bury him right here about eight feet from the traffic. It's as good a place as any." And then after one was buried there, it was easy to bury the others.
Another Roadside Cemetery in Leeville
C'est tout, mes amis!
"Revenez!"
More cemetery music to dance to
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