Dr. James B. Ritchie burial 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:  photograph taken and text copied from inscriptions 9/18/2001
the first interred in Metairie Cemetery in 1873, located on Central Avenue
Built by the executor of the estate in 1874
DR. JAMES B. RITCHIE

A native of Mason Co., Kentucky
And for upwards 30 years
A practicing physician in
New Orleans
Died Nov. 18, 1872
Aged 67 years

"More Bent To Raise The Wretched
Than To Rise"