Secrets of the Old Biloxi Cemetery

Download or read book Secrets of the Old Biloxi Cemetery written by John Cuevas and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The countryside between Mobile and New Orleans teems with memorials, but few historic spots occasion pause for reflection like the Old Biloxi Cemetery. Burials go back to the eighteenth-century French settlement, when Biloxi was the planned capital of the Louisiana territory. Secrets abound in the old cemetery--not exactly buried, since many prominent inhabitants sealed unsolved mysteries with their final remains in the aboveground tombs developed here. Author John Cuevas explores the fascinating history of the cemetery, including the massive restoration of the iconic resting place of his ancestor Juan de Cuevas, great-grandfather to more than nine thousand Gulf Coast families.