Wednesday, December 29, 2010

How to submit a cemetery report

How to submit a cemetery report

If you have found a cemetery that is NOT listed with the Louisiana Cemetery Board as an ACTIVE cemetery and that contains graves 50 years of age or older, and is unkept, abandoned or neglected or otherwise UNKNOWN, a  report should be filed with the Regional Louisiana Dept. of Archaeology, the Louisiana Attorney General, and the local Sheriffs office. You may find a list of contacts here. Recent updates to Louisiana cemetery law require reporting within 72 hours.

If the cemetery is ACTIVE and is accepting burials, then it falls under the jurisdiction of the Louisiana Cemetery Board. The Louisiana Cemetery Board can be contacted online, in addition to the local police, Sheriff, and Louisiana Attorney Generals office.

The online form for submission through Louisiana Cemetery Preservation website can be found here or you may send an email to louisianacemeteries@yahoo.com
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Please answer as many of the following questions as possible when making a submission via email:
Cemetery Name    
Parish    
Driving directions    
Condition description    
Earliest record    
Your name, address, email    
Organization    
Todays date    
Alternate cemetery name    
GIS GPS Location    
Does the cemetery have a sign?    
Is the cemetery access road public or private?    
Are burial records available?    
Source of burial records:    
Source of photo:    
Approximate number of internments    
Overall condition of markers    
Most common surnames found
Other comments

See examples: Saving Graves Louisiana Archived Reports.

http://louisianacemeteries.x10hosting.com/index/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=35:cemetery-reports&Itemid=62&layout=default

*updated links to include current cemetery reports in Louisiana and archived Saving Graves Louisiana cemetery reports.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Cemetery Reports

Since 2008 over 40 reports concerning abandoned, neglected, endangered, or unknown cemeteries in Louisiana have been made from either the newspapers or online submissions at the website.  In some cases the dates of the report submission are incorrect (April 27th).  They will be corrected as time allows.


Cemetery reports filed with Louisiana Cemetery Preservation through the online submission form. 

Submit an abandoned, neglected, endangered, or unknown cemetery in Louisiana here.

Submit a comment about these reports or an update on a previously filed report here.

1 Youngblood Cemetery - St. Helena Parish


2 Facebook Badge


3 Old City Cemetery - Ouachita Parish


4 St. Michaels Cemetery - St. Martin Parish


5 First Cemetery Cameron Parish


6 Old Reagan Cemetery - Franklin Parish 26 August 2010


7 Holt Cemetery Orleans Parish August 23, 2010


8 Silvery and Westover Plantation - West Baton Rouge Parish


9 Durden Cemetery - Bossier Parish


10 UNKNOWN - Bossier Parish


11 Caddo Parish, Shreveport, Historical Jewish Cemetery Desecrated


12 Shell Mound Cemetery - St Charles Parish


13 Holt Cemetery Orleans Parish


14 St. Michael Cemetery St. Martin Parish


15 Colonial Cemetery Tangipahoa Parish


16 St. Bernard Memorial Gardens St. Bernard Parish


17 Various Cemeteries Morehouse Parish


18 Carter Cemetery - Claiborne Parish


19 Unknown Private Cemetery Catahoula Parish


20 Lopez Family Cemetery Jefferson Davis Parish


21 Alphenia Plantation - Bowman Family Cemetery Tensas Parish


22 Lopez Cemetery - Jefferson Davis Parish


23 Mcgaha Cemetery - West Carroll Parish


24 Frederick Cemetery Vermilion Parish


25 Blythe Cemetery - Catahoula Parish


26 Joseph Jenkins Cemetery Iberia Parish


27 Old Gwinn Cemetery Dehlco Richaland Parish


28 Sweet Olive Cemetery Baton Rouge


29 Pleasant Hill Baptist Church - Sabine Parish


30 Nash Cemetery Ouachita Parish


31 Murphey Cemetery Acadia Parish


32 St. Lukes - Little Zion - Cleona Plantation - Lafourche Parish


33 Nine Cemeteries Endangered Washington Parish


34 Jewish cemetery - Natchitoches Parish


35 Holt Cemetery - Orleans Parish


36 Rose Hill - Iberia Parish - Formerly St. Martin Parish


37 St Bernard Memorial Gardens - Thefts - St. Bernard Parish


38 Garden of the Pines, Covington Cemetery, or Wilson Cemetery east and west St. Tammany Parish


39 Carter Cemetery Beauregard Parish


40 Twin Cities Memorial Gardens Ouachita Parish Monroe 


Archived Cemetery Reports for Louisiana from Saving Graves

1 Vernon Cemetery Jackson Parish
2 Saint Louis #1 Orleans Parish
3 Starkey Cemetery Tangipahoa Parish
4 Shows Cemetery Caddo Parish
5 Nick Wax Cemetery East Baton Rouge Parish
6 New Testament Church Cemetery Livingston Parish
7 Mickens Road Cemetery East Baton Rouge Parish
8 Mezpah Baptist Church Cemetery Caldwell Parish
9 Madisonville St. Tammany Parish
10 Lea Cemetery Washington Parish
11 Holt Cemetery Orleans Parish
12 Fowler Cemetery Jackson Parish
13 Faust Cemetery Ouachita Parish
14 Chevy Chase Cemetery Concordia Parish
15 Charity Hospital Cemetery Orleans Parish
16 Birch Cemetery St. Helena Parish

What's New in Louisiana Cemetery Preservation?

Louisiana Historic Cemetery Preservation Act 2010
This act was signed by the Governor of Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal, on June 29, 2010.  This Act. 707 (HB 527) can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Louisiana Legislature Web Portal at the following URL:
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722528

The Act covers cemeteries that are unknown in Louisiana that are 50 years of age or older and includes isolated graves or grave sites in addition to cemeteries no longer in active use which are NOT governed under the Louisiana Cemetery Board and who are not currently under state jurisdiction.  The Act defines an "abandoned cemetery" and "historic cemetery" and law pertaining to the discovery of a grave.

You may read PDF files of the Act here. This Act mandates:
Any person who has reason to believe he has discovered a historic
cemetery or an isolated grave shall notify the department through the division within
seventy-two hours of the discovery.
A PDF contact list for Louisiana Cemetery Preservation can be found here.