Metairie Cemetery is a historic

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, Louisiana, United States, founded in 1872. The name has caused some people to mistakenly presume it is located in

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, but it is located within the New Orleans city limits on Metairie Road (and formerly on the banks of the since filled-in

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History

Metairie Course

1838

Before becoming a cemetery, the site, established on a high-and-dry ridge along Bayou Metairie (now Metairie Road), was a

horse racing Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its bas ...

track, founded in 1838 by Col. James Garrison and Richard Adams who acquired the land from the New Orleans Canal and Banking Company. Its first president was Alexander Barrow and board of governors included: George B. Mulligan,

Thomas W. Chinn Thomas Withers Chinn (November 20, 1791 – May 22, 1852) was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana, serving one term as a Whig from 1839 to 1841. He was also U.S. minister to the Two Sicilies. Bio ...

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, Thomas J. Wells, George B. Ogden (President of New Orleans Canal and Banking Company), and Miner Kenner. Metairie Course Board of Governors The Times Picayune Thu Mar 29 1838

Metairie Course Board of Governors The Times Picayune Thu Mar 29 1838

1839

The Spring Meeting of

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for 1839 over the Metairie Course commenced on Tuesday, March 26, and lasted for six days. The First Day of racing Sweepstakes for 3-year olds, 2 Mile Heats, Entrance Fee $1,000, Forfeit Fee $250, Nine Subscribers: Montfort Wells' ''Beeswing'', C.C.S. Farrar, D. Stephenson's ''Dublin'', H.A. Tayloe, Minor Kenner's ''Greydoc'', Ira Smith's ''Maria'', James S. Garrison's ''Altorf'', William R. Barrow's ''Picayune'', James Shy's ''Curculia''. Same Day, A match between the noted trotting horses ''Bird'' and ''Confidence'', 2-mile heats in harnesses for $6,000. Second Day, Wednesday, March 27, Jockey Club Purse $800, 2 Mile Heats. Same Day Sweepstakes for Gentlemen Riders, 2 Mile Heats, Entrance Fee $50, the proprietors to add a silver cup, value $300. Third Day, Jockey Club Purse $1,200, 3 Mile Heats. Fourth Day, Jockey Club Purse $2,000, 4 Mile Heats. Fifth Day, Jockey Club Purse $600, Mile Heats, best 3 in 5. Same Day, Sweepstakes for 2 Year Olds, Mile Heats, Entrance Fee $500, Forfeit Fee $150, seven subscribers:Montfort Wells, A.L. Bingaman, C.C.S. Farrar, W.J. Minor, Minor Kenner, W.R. Barrow, James Shy. Sixth Day, Proprietors Purse, $1,000, 3 Mile Heats. Same Day, Match between the celebrated trotting hosrse ''Pompeii'' and ''Rolla'', best 3 in 5, in harness for $1,000. P. CENAS Secretary.

1848

In 1848 Richard Ten Broeck, later part of the syndicate that purchased Lexington, bought the course and likewise established a joint-stock company, officially founding The Metairie Jockey Club. The race track was the site of the famous Lexington-Lecomte Race, April 1, 1854, billed as the "Great States" race. Former President

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attended. While racing was suspended because of the

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, it was used as a Confederate Camp (

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) until

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took New Orleans for the Union in April 1862. Metairie Cemetery was built upon the grounds of the old Metairie Race Course after it went bankrupt.

Conversion to a cemetery

The race track, which was owned by the Metairie Jockey Club, refused membership to Charles T. Howard, a local resident who had gained his wealth by starting the first Louisiana State Lottery. After being refused membership, Howard vowed that the race course would become a cemetery. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, the track went bankrupt and Howard was able to see his curse come true. Today, Howard is buried in his tomb located on Central Avenue in the cemetery, which was built following the original oval layout of the track itself. Mr. Howard died in 1885 in Dobbs Ferry, New York, when he fell from a newly purchased horse. Metairie Cemetery was previously owned and operated by

Stewart Enterprises Stewart Enterprises, Inc., a provider of funeral and cemetery services, was founded in 1910 and grew to be the second-largest company of its kind in the United States before it was acquired in 2013. As of 1991, the year it went public, the compa ...

, Inc., of Jefferson, Louisiana. However, in December 2013,

Service Corporation International Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisia ...

bought Metairie Cemetery and other Stewart locations.

Sights

Metairie Cemetery has the largest collection of elaborate

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s and funeral

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in the city. One of the most famous is the Army of Tennessee, Louisiana Division monument, a monumental tomb of

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soldiers of the

. The monument includes two notable works by sculptor

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(1857–1922): * Atop the tomb is an 1877 equestrian statue of General

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on his horse "Fire-eater", holding binoculars in his right hand. General Johnston was for a time entombed here, but the remains were later removed to Texas. * To the right of the entrance to the tomb is an 1885 life-size statue represents a Confederate officer about to read the roll of the dead during the American Civil War. The statue is said to be modeled after Sergeant William Brunet of the Louisiana Guard Battery, but is intended to represent all Confederate soldiers. Other notable monuments in Metairie Cemetery include: * the pseudo-Egyptian

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; * Laure Beauregard Larendon's tomb, which features Moorish details and beautiful stained glass; * the former tomb of Storyville

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; * the Moriarty tomb with a marble monument with a height of tall, which required the construction of a temporary special spur

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line to transport the monument's building materials to the cemetery; and * the memorial of 19th-century police chief

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, whose murder sparked a riot. The initial construction of at least one of these elaborate final resting places – restaurateur Ruth Fertel's mausoleum – is estimated to have cost between $125,000 to $500,000 (in late 20th century dollars).

Notable burials

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* Jay Batt, businessman and politician *

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coach and organizer of first football game in New Orleans *

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, a

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who started the

(1861-1865), Superintendent of

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(1861) *

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, owner of

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and

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, chief meteorologist at the Galveston, Texas, office of the US

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from 1889 to 1901. In that role, he became an integral figure in the devastating

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. *

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seat from 1889 to 1891. He was the last Republican member of the U.S. House from Louisiana until 1973. *

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, founder of

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, architect, founder of

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. *

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was buried at Metairie Cemetery, but his remains were later moved to Hollywood Cemetery in

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in 1893. *

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reformer * Charles E. Fenner, founder of brokerage house that became part of Merrill Lynch, Pearce, Fenner, & Smith * Joachim O. Fernández,

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from

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, inventor of the "Higgins Boat" *

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, jazz trumpeter * Ken Hollis, state senator from Jefferson Parish *

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, author * Richard W. Leche, governor of Louisiana * Harry Lee, sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana * Gia Maione, singer *

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from the late-1940s to the early-1980s. * Louis H. Marrero, Jefferson Parish Police juror & president, Jefferson Parish sheriff, senator, Lafourche Basin Levee Board *

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department store chain and the regarded

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, state senator from 1972 to 1988, grocery store owner *

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, first

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governor of Louisiana 1872–73 *

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, bandleader *

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, melter and refiner of Mint 1839–1848, Postmaster 1859–1862, inventor of the binocular microscope * John G. Schwegmann, supermarket pioneer and member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature *

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* Edith Rosenwald Stern, philanthropist *

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, opera star * Helen Turner, painter *

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, stage and screen character actress *

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and one-time President of

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References

External links

Lake Lawn Funeral home, Metairie Cemetery

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