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From: "James(jim) Hills" <>
Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN-L] Carrollton Cemetery Recordrs
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 22:25:38 -0600
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Dee,

Who are the owner/operators/controllers of these ceneteries?
Are they churches, city or private corporations?

Jim Hills

wrote:

> Carrollton Cemetery Office has the deed books only for the buriels.
> They are locked in a file cabinet and they can't figure out whose has
> the key or the person with the key is never in the office when I am
> there. I spent 6 months 5 days a week except for rainey days in the
> cemetery writing everything off the tombs. The person with the key
> never showed up. I ound a family plot, I know who is in it, but there
> is nothing but the last name on the coping, however when I asked for a
> lookup they would only give me the location.
>
> They tell everyone it burned. I have not found proof of this either. I
> just think they don't want to do any extra work.
>
> Just a note Valance Street Cemetery and St Mary's Cemetery of
> Carrollton deed books are kept also at Carrollton Cemetery's Office.
> The books are only removed for All Saints day and taken to their
> Cemetery for families coming to pay respect to their lost ones.
>
> This will not help find the info you want but I hope it clears the
> confession some.
>
> Darnell Marie Brunner Beck
> {Dee}
> http://members.cox.net/darnellmbrunner/home.htm
>
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> Subject: [LAORLEAN-L] Carrollton Cemetery Recordrs
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>> I recently requested from the City of New Orleans an interment record
>> for
>> Cassius "Cash" Thornton who was buried February 18, 1931 in
>> Carrollton Cemetery.
>> The City advised that their records began in 1950 and that prior
>> records,
>> retreived from a fire, were housed in the New Orleans Public Library
>> The NOPL
>> tells me that their records stop in 1925 and that they have never
>> seen any report
>> of a fire, and that anything not in the City Archives is still in the
>> cemetery office.
>>
>> I am confused! Can anyone help? --James Thornton in Palm Desert, CA
>>
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