Eugene Lacosst sarcophagus and monument Metairie Cemetery, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted:  Debbie-Lee Hadsall DeLerno
Photos at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/orleans/cemmetare.htm

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Source:  photographs taken and text copied from inscriptions 9/18/2001
made from cream colored Alabama marble built in 1918.  Sarcophagus is one
solid block of marble and was processed locally by the builder.  He was a
hairdresser with a salon on Bourbon Street, also a successful stock trader
and amateur musician specializing in whistling.  He left art legacies to
Delgado Museum and Charity Hospital.  There was space created for his and
his mother's caskets only.
LACOSST

Eugene Lacosst
Born in Commune De Marne Garonne France
May 20, 1854
Died in New Orleans March 28, 1915

Jeanne Lacosst
Born in France August 20, 1833
Died in New Orleans  LA  Nov. 24, 1916

(rear back corner stone)
Burton & Bendernagel Architects
Albert Weiblen Marble and Granite Co.
Contractors
Erected 1918