Cleaning and Maintenance of Tomb 1-21-2021

January 21, 2021 – Dan Safford and Margaret Safford Canella, descendants of Helen Joy Landry Safford, visited the tomb with an extension ladder.  We removed the vines and trees at the top of the tomb and treated the cut ends with herbicide to kill the vines.  We owe a huge THANK YOU to Dan.  He has maintained the vine issues on the tomb for many years single handedly!  Thank You Dan! 

Cleaning & Maintenance of Tomb 12-28-2020

December 28th, 2020 – Jeff and Ryan Regan – descendants of Hattie Landry Whitson visited the tomb and removed a lot of the vines with a large ladder.  They were not able to get above the ledge to the top.  These are before and after shots of their work.  Thank you Jeff & Ryan!

November 5, 2020 Installation of New Tomb Gate

Rear view of the Landry Tomb

Grave marker for Elisca Braud who died 10/18/1882

Gary Hart working on Gate installation

Ben Deshotel working on gate installation

Ben Deshotel working on gate installation

Weeds and vines encroaching on top of the Landry Tomb

Vines encroaching on the rear of the Landry Tomb

Cracks, Damage & Deterioration on the Landry Tomb

Note the crack in the plate holding up the roof on the Landry Tomb

Gary Hart connects the welding machine to install gate

Graveyard caretaker talks with Gary Hart

This photo of the rear of the Landry Tomb shows the pillar in the right being pushed out by the vines inside.

Ben Deshotel in front of the newly installed Landry Tomb Gate

Left to right - Dan Safford and Ben Deshotel work on installing the pad lock on the Landry Tomb gate

Vines taking over the top of the Landry Tomb again.

Left to right: Dan Safford and Ben Deshotel discuss the Landry Tomb.

Dan Safford places pad lock on the newly installed gate.

This Desire Landry Family tomb illustrates what happens to aged cement/ grout stucco on a tomb.

This is an old tomb in the graveyard that has been banded and braced together to prevent further deterioration of the tomb. This would not be possible with our Landry Tomb because of the unique angles on it.

Another angle of the old tomb braced together.

This photo shows old Bringier tomb with deterioration.

Bringier tomb with disrepair near roof.

Bringier tomb showing tree growing out of roof crack.

Old tomb with severe root damage.

Here you can see a large root that was cut off coming from the old tomb and the severe crumbling damage it caused.

Crumbling bricks lying all around the crumbling tomb.

L. Dehon tomb. This illustrates crumbling stucco. It also might be an option for us to use some type of permanent plaque on the outside of the tomb to indicate the known graves inside our Landry Tomb.

Gisclard tomb showing damage from probable vandals.

Note the cracked lintel over the doorway to our Landry Tomb.

Gate blacksmiths - Left to right: Gary Hart & Ben Deshotel.

Installed gate on the Landry Tomb.

Landry Tomb secure again!

Landry Tomb gate padlock.

Landry Tomb gate latch.

Old Photos of the Missing Tomb Gate

2020 Photos of the Landry Tomb that has been Broken Into because of the Missing Tomb Gate  

Below are pictures of our visit to the tomb on 2-1-2020.  Hover over the photos with your mouse to see captions on some of the photos.

The rear of the Landry Tomb.

Karen Safford pulls weeds from the tomb. Notice how the stone work is missing on this corner.

Dan Safford has taken care of the tomb for many years! Here he is pulling vines off the tomb. The vines are a constant problem!

This is a grave site next to the Landry Lomb. Much research was done by the Whitsons to have the VA provide the bronze plaque. According to cemetery records Martin Hypolite Landry was buried in this plot.

Here you can see the crypt inside the tomb where grave robbers tried to break in. We think they were deterred somehow, perhaps because the casket is iron and they couldn't get it out. So sad.........

Dan Safford and Margie LeBlanc

Left to right: Dan Safford, Margie LeBlanc, Karen Safford. In the rear is Yvonne LeBlanc

Margie LeBlanc visits the tomb of her grandparents, Theodore Seghers Landry and Octavie Terrio. It is located 38 plots directly in front of the big Landry tomb on the left.

On Wednesday, September 19, 2018 Alice Whitson-Regan and her friend, Jamie visited the Landry Tomb.  Jamie climbed inside and removed a wad of weeds, some cans, bottles and trash.  They got what they could carry out to the trash can.  Next time they plan to bring a garbage bag with them!