St. Joseph's Cemetery

Five Breton missionary priests died in Shreveport in the yellow fever epidemic of 1873: Isidore Quémerais on September 15, Jean Pierre on the 16th, Jean-Marie Biler on September 26, Louis Gergaud on October 1 and François Le Vézouët on October 8. Burial records placed them in the city cemetery, now Oakland. Quémerais was later moved to Holy Trinity and then to St. Joseph's, while Gergaud went home to Monroe. In December 2020 Bishop Francis Malone recognized the five as Servants of God, opening the diocesan cause for sainthood.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 1.3 mi
  A circular Art Deco museum of 1939 on the Shreveport fairgrounds, with a 1,000-year-old Caddo log boat, rotunda murals and dioramas of early Caddo Parish.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 1.5 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.
• Spring Street Museum — 1.9 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 2.0 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.

More markers nearby

• Star Cemetery — steps away
• Central School — 0.8 mi
• World's First Shriners Hospital — 0.8 mi
• St. Paul's Methodist Church — 0.9 mi