"Chapel and Yard, St. Roch Cemetery"

ID: 5133 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the New Orleans Public Library, George Francois Mugnier Photography Collection. http://cdm16880.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16880coll2/id/831 ~ Creator: George Francois Mugnier, 1855-1936

This file appears in: St. Roch Cemetery, Plagues, and Germans in New Orleans

This file appears in: St. Roch Cemetery, Plagues, and Germans in New Orleans

St. Roch Cemetery, Plagues, and Germans in New Orleans

By Madison Roxanne White, Kelsey Lacourrege, Robert Daemmrich, Karen Snyder, Filmmaker & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

Established in 1875, St. Roch Cemetery lies just north of the Faubourg Marigny in the St. Roch neighborhood. The founder of St. Roch Cemetery was Father Peter Leonhard Thevis, pastor at Holy…