Built in 1900, Laurel Manor began as a Colonial Revival home. At some point, the porch was replaced with the ironwork seen here. It is a contributing property to the Clifton Heights Historic District.
Laurel Manor-Natchez, Mississippi
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Hyams Mausoleum at Metairie Cemetery-New Orleans, Louisiana
Chapman Henry Hyams was a millionaire stockbroker and art collector in New Orleans. Hyams built a mausoleum for his family that was designed by noted New Orleans architects, Favrot and Livaudais. The marble monument was dedicated to his sisters and is a copy of William Wetmore Story’s Angel of Grief. Blue stained glass windows bathe the angel in blue light.
I became curious about the sisters since they were not in the mausoleum. Jacabeth Caroline Hyams (1848-1859) is buried in the Dispersed of Judah Cemetery in New Orleans. Her father and other siblings are buried. I was unable to locate where the mother is buried.
Gertie Sarah Hyams moved to New York. She married Wayland Trask, a New York stockbroker, In the Louisiana census in 1872, she is listed as Sarah or S. G. By the time she moves to New York, she is identified as Gertie. She passed away in 1877 and, her final resting place is in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Lafayette Cemeteries No. 1 & 2-New Orleans, Louisiana
Lafayette Cemeteries No. 1 and No. 2 are located in the Garden District part of New Orleans. Number 1 was the first municipal cemetery, and it was laid out in 1832. There are over 7,000 burials in 1,100 different tombs in a one-city block. Lafayette No. 1 is currently closed to the public as the city continues to stabilize the tombs and roadways. (These photos were taken in 2017.)
Lafayette Cemetery No. 2 was opened in 1850. Like Lafayette No. 1, it is home to many family tombs and society tombs.
LeBlanc Cherubs at Magnolia Cemetery-Mobile, Alabama
Sisters Margaret and Jane LeBlanc are memorialized in a monument that was erected by the grandmother,Jane Stewart LeBlanc. Margaret died at the age of 18 months in 1919. Jane passed away at the age of four in 1918. Families often dealt with the loss of their children due to diseases that modern healthcare can now manage.
Cherubs represent innocence and are a common symbol seen on Victorian gravesites of children.
Dr. John Pemberton at Linwood Cemetery-Columbus, Georgia
Dr. John Stith Pemberton (1831-1888) was a pharmacist, inventor, and Confederate States Army veteran. In 1886, he created an early version of a drink that evolved into what we know as Coca-Cola. His version consisted of alcohol and cocaine and was called, “Pemberton’s French Wine Coca.” He made this drink to help manage his pain after receiving a saber wound during the Battle of Columbus of the Civil War.
While he died in Atlanta, he is buried in Linwood Cemetery in Columbus, Georgia. Whenever I visit, someone has left a memento on his marker. It’s usually a bottle of Coke.
New York Monument, Georgia
Andersonville, Sumter County
Andersonville National Cemetery is the only park in the National Park System to serve as a memorial to all American prisoners of war. Andersonville was the location of a Confederate Prisoner of
War Campsite. Over 45,000 Union soldiers were held captive here.
After the Civil War, Union states wanted to honor these POWs at Andersonville, so they commissioned monuments to be made.
The New York Monument was sculpted by Roland Perry and Louis Gudebrod. It was installed in 1911 and dedicated in 1914.
The front reads,
New York. This monument erected by the patriotism, sacrifices, and fortitude of about nine thousand New York soldier of the Union armies in the War of the Rebellion who were confined in the Confederate States Military Prison at Andersonville, Georgia, of whom twenty-two and sixty-one are known to have died in the prison and were buried in this cemetary [sic].
This monument is listed on the Smithsonian Save Outdoor Sculpture database.