Question about NOLA Masonic Cemeteries

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In 1926 she committed suicide by sticking her head in the gas oven.

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Find a Grave, NOMC 1

Masonic cemetery #2 is also on that link...just scroll down a bit.

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Have you tried FindaGrave.com?

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Yes. She isn't listed in either No 1 or No 2. I know FindAGrave isn't a complete listing of burials at large cemeteries but that's what got me to wondering if she is really there.

Her husband ended up going back to Indiana and they didn't have any surviving children. So we are talking about close to 100 years without anyone in the city to upkeep the grave. It may have fallen into disrepair or even been destroyed I guess.

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Check alternate spellings of her name too. Lots of errors back then.

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For FindAGrave I've even tried just searching based on 1926 as year of death and nothing comes up that would even be close.

Well, at least I have something fun to do offshore tomorrow. We gonna find great granny aunt.

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Well, at least I have something fun to do offshore tomorrow. We gonna find great granny aunt.

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It may be a few days before I can make some phone calls, but I do have another recently discovered family story that involves Louisiana.

The first relative was my maternal grandmother's maternal grandmother's sister. This next story is my maternal grandmother's father's father.

My great grandfather and great grandmother married in Virginia in 1879. By the late 1880s the family had moved to Atlanta. The paper trail goes cold for a couple of decades but by 1905 my great grandmother shows up in the city directory and 1910 census as a widow.

However, my great grandfather has a marriage record in Lamar County, Alabama in 1903. He and the new wife have two daughters and settle in Shreveport where he works for the railroad. He dies in 1910 in a railroad accident and the body is shipped to Atlanta for burial (in a different cemetery from where his first wife ends up being buried).

Fast forward to 1917, and his second wife, now with a different last name, shows up in an item in the Shreveport Journal that reads, in part:
"who some days ago was arrested under Act 226 after deputy sheriffs killed a negro discovered at her home in a suburban section, signed papers renouncing all claim to her two little daughters."

There is an earlier newspaper item that when law enforcement first went to arrest her, she was no longer at her house, and that there was a note suggesting that she leave town. The note was signed by "The Committee."

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Louisiana archives has death certificates by parish and it is searchable online. You should be able to find her death certificate with minimal effort.
Search newspapers.com for an obituary or death notice and it should include burial information. 100 years ago is child's play for digital detectoring. LOL

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I have a copy of the death certificate and read the obituary from the Times-Picayune in the microfilm section at the UGA library. They only mentioned Masonic Cemetery (not specific as to 1 or 2) and she doesn't show up in either in FindAGrave.