Louis August Morlas

1899 - 1964  (65 years)

• Name	Louis August Morlas  [1]
  Born	17 Apr 1899	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	27 May 1964	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana   [1]
  Buried	Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
  Notes	He was married two times prior to his marriage to Lenora CHRISTOFFER.
  Person ID	I978	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	John Dominic Morlas,   b. 25 Aug 1865, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. 14 Feb 1923, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana  (Age 57 years)
  Mother	Lucine Roquevert,   b. 28 Jan 1869, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. 16 Feb 1946, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana  (Age 77 years)
  Married	28 May 1888	St. Stephen's Church, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana   [1]
  Photos		Morlas Family Reunion, New Orleans, 1987 Over 120 family members were present for this reunion, most of them descended from John Dominic Morlas and Lucine Roquevert of New Orleans
  Albums		Morlas Siblings & Cousins Reunions (9) Held in New Orleans starting in 1927
  Family ID	F176	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lenora Mathilda Christoffer,   b. 26 May 1906, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. 17 Jun 1984, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana  (Age 78 years)
  Married	Jan 1929	Saint Bernard, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana   [1]
  Children	1. Louis August Morlas, Jr.,   b. 27 Aug 1930, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. 11 Dec 2010, Harahan, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana  (Age 80 years)   2. Charles Ferdinand Morlas,   b. 10 Sep 1933, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. 1 Aug 2005, Harahan, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana  (Age 71 years)   3. Bertrand Christoffer Morlas,   b. 30 Jun 1935, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana ,   d. Aug 1977, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana  (Age 42 years)   4. Living
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006
  Family ID	F717	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 17 Apr 1899 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Married - Jan 1929 - Saint Bernard, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana Died - 27 May 1964 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Buried - - Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos » Slide Show		Morlas Siblings Children of John Morlas and Lucine Roquevert Back Row: Leon Morlas, Juliet Morlas, Paul Morlas, Jennie (Morlas) Bishop, John Morlas, Leontine (Morlas) Zahn, Eleanor (Morlas) Rohli, Louis Morlas. Front Stella (Morlas) Trapani, Vivian (Morlas) Schoenfeld, Josephine (Morlas) McGuire, and Lucille (Morlas) Quinn. Only their sister Clothilde (Morlas) Bordes was missing. Since Clothilde had died in 1938, the photo was presumably taken after this date. It could very well have been taken at their 1951 reunion.
  		Morlas Men, ca 1951 This photo was probably taken in the early 1950's apparently at a reunion. Back (left to right): Buddy Maumus? (ASSUMED), Carl Bishop, Grady Quinn, James ?Red? Johnson, John Morlas, Louis Morlas, Paul Morlas, Alvin "Abby" Rohli. Front (left to right): Johnny Trapani, Charles Myers holding daughter Margo, Claude Bishop, Emile ?Mitz? Martin, Leon Morlas, Edward Bordes, Leon Bordes PLEASE HELP US IDENTIFY THE UNKNOWN or UNCERTAIN PEOPLE.
  		At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.

  
  

  Headstones

  Morlas Mausoleum, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans This mausoleum was erected in the Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans at the death of John Dominic Morlas in 1923. It also became the final resting place of his wife, Lucine Roquevert, and their children: John Louis & wife Antoinette (Trapani) Morlas, Clothilde & husband Leon Bordes, Estelle & husband August Trapani, Louis & wife Lenora (Christoffer) Morlas, Leopold "Paul" & wife Olie (Roberts) Morlas, Vivian & husband Eugene Schoenfeld; as well as the resting place of several of John Dominic's grandsons; John Louis (I) Morlas Jr., Bertrand C. Morlas, John Louis (II) Morlas Jr., Sylvan "Brother" Bordes and Eugene "Jim" Schoenfeld, Jr. More so than any city this side of Paris, New Orleans is renowned for its historically significant and ornate necropolises. One of the parish's most unique "Cities of the Dead" is the eerily beautiful and diverse Metairie Cemetery. Built over the old Metairie Race Course, the cemetery was founded by Charles T. Howard. According to legend, when Howard was not allowed to join the country club that owned the track, he vowed it would become a cemetery. Many other famous Louisianans are interred here, in structures ranging from Gothic crypts to Romanesque mausoleums to Egyptian pyramids

  
  

• Sources

  [S479] Zahn, Bennie Jay--The Families Pene Roquevert Morlas (Privately Published; New Orleans, LA 1992) , updates and corrections issued periodically.