The Dupont Family on Flickr.
The young Dupont family succumbed to accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in their home in 1972. The young mother, father, and their toddler daughter were found dead the next day.
Their story - and their graves - have remained in my mind since I first saw them back in 1995.
I edited this photograph to show their names so that you can tell where each member of the family is buried.
Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Dupont, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
IHoM Cross on Flickr.
My grandmother would tell me stories of how the teenagers in town would drive through the cemetery on Halloween night - squealing with delightful terror when the car’s headlights would illuminate this large cross…it would appear to be glowing.
She is now buried in this very cemetery.
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Cemetery, Maringouin, Iberville Parish, Louisiana
The Chenevert Babies on Flickr.
The grave of triplets Varonia, Alban, and Anthony who were born and died in March of 1930.
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Cemetery, Maringouin, Iberville Parish, Louisiana
Skull and Cross Bones, St Mary’s Churchyard, Wimbledon by Jessicamulley on Flickr.
Flickr OP: This unusual memorial stone, with its skull and cross bones, is embedded into the wall of St Mary’s church in Wimbledon. Sadly, the date can no longer be read.
Thomas Jones Foster by twm1340 on Flickr.
Flickr OP: Thomas Jones Foster was born 15 Jun 1826 in North Carolina, the son of Ambrose & Mary Miller Foster. He married his much younger wife, Frances, on 20 Dec 1860 and then served in the Civil War in Company E, 15th Texas Infantry. He was in Louisiana when the war ended so he walked home. He served as the Van Zandt County Judge from 1866 to 1867 and later as the County Clerk from 1879 to 1884. In 1880 he bought several hundred acres of land and built a large house on the corner of Buffalo and Goshen Streets in Canton, Texas. He died on 6 Aug 1906 after burying his son Thomas J. Foster Jr. in 1905. His wife Frances lived until 1926 and they are all together now at Hillcrest Cemetery in Canton, Van Zandt County, TX.
