This found primarily in Old Section, Areas A (eastern part) and C (western part), Section three (3) east and north and in Section four (4). Some of the sections contain lots that were used as single rows, these being for sale to persons that did not need or wish to purchase the required number of graves in other areas. Each gravesite should be checked for possible prior burial, before any grave space is sold or grave opening is attempted. Thus grave one (1) in the sales record may be grave eight (8) in the burial records, and so with graves two (2) and seven (7) and graves three (3) and six (6) and graves four (4) and five (5). Many corrections and revisions have been made over the years to these records.Īpparently the order in which the graves are numbered was not known by some of the grave diggers in the past, so the burials in some lots in sections one (1) through nine (9) are reversed from the order in which the graves are listed in the sales records.
This done by walking of the cemetery row for row taking a census of the names and dates on the monuments as well as many hundreds of hours of research of funeral home records and city mortuary records. All records that are currently in use have been created from years of research. Many of the records prior to 1983 are not always correct. No burial records were kept or none are known to exist prior to 1967. These spaces were given when a person could show a receipt of ownership from the seller of the grave.
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There have been many grave spaces given free of charge, due to multiple ownership claims. This is especially noted in sections three (3), four (4), six (6) and seven (7). For this reason no ownership records exist for burials in many plots. Thus the spaces remained open for sale in the Cemetery records after they had been used for burial. Many firms, community wide, responsible for selling the grave spaces to the families did not forward the money to the City Clerk's office, so no deed was issued and no record of sale made. Due to these many errors for almost thirty (30) years there were no new sales in most areas of the cemetery. Many sales were never recorded and due to this many mistakes were found to have been made, such as double sales of individual grave spaces and grave lots.
The sales records that were kept were very incomplete. Section eleven (11) directly adjoins the north edge of the New Lorimier Cemetery, section seven (7). Section eleven (11) was recognized as the New Colored Section for many years. These areas are sections Old (which is subdivided into areas A, B and C), sections one (1) through eleven (11). This has been separated into twelve (12) areas. There are approximately 9,508 grave spaces in the cemetery. It is often mistaken as a catholic cemetery due to its proximity to its location by the former Notre Dame High School.
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