Funeral services in Sacred Heart Chapel

ID: 2449 ~ Source: Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collection. Carville, LA. ~ Date: 1930s

This file appears in: Carville Patients' Cemetery, National Leprosarium.

This funeral is probably for Sr. Zoe Schieswohl, Chief Nurse, who is only one of three Daughters of Charity buried on site in the patients' cemetery.

This file appears in: Carville Patients' Cemetery, National Leprosarium.

Carville Patients' Cemetery, National Leprosarium.

By Elizabeth Schexnyder, Curator, National Hansen's Disease Museum, Carville, LA

The Carville cemetery is the only stop on the tour where you may exit your vehicle and take photographs. Just beyond the cemetery is a hospital incinerator with a driving ramp and tower built in…