Stewart v. Metairie Cemetery Ass'n

Sámuel R. Stewart died prior to 1SS9, leaving a widow in community, and nine children, the issue of the marriage between himself and his surviving widow. At the date of his death he owned a tomb in the St. Louis Cemetery, which he inherited from his deceased grandfather, and in which the remains of himself and some of his ancestors were interred. After Mr. Stewart’s death, his widow purchased five burial lots in Metairie Cemetery. She had the Stewart tomb in St. Louis Cemetery removed from that cemetery and placed on the lots she had acquired in the Metairie, and she had the remains of the…