Tomb of Captain LeVerrier Cooley Metairie Cemetery New Orleans Lousiana Submitted by Debbie-Lee Hadsall DeLerno Photos at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/orleans/cemmetare.htm ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Tomb of Captain LeVerrier Cooley Metairie Cemetery section 146, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Source: photograph taken 8-18-2001, text copied from inscriptions 8-27-2001 Captain LeVerrier Cooley November 16, 1855 - December 19, 1931 Sophie Bell June 23, 1861 - September 25, 1934 wife of LeVerrier Cooley Henry Bell Cooley April 30, 1899 - January 29, 1960 bell is inscribed- "Steamer of America" October 12, 1898 (this bell was cast for one ship but used on this steamboat captain's last boat the Ouachita)