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Leon Leonard Bordes

Male 1889 - 1973  (83 years)


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  • Name Leon Leonard Bordes  [1, 2, 3
    Birth 9 Sep 1889  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death 8 Jun 1973  Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    Burial Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Bennie Zahn shows him as the son of Savain BORDES and Josephine LaBURRE, and instead has his date of birth as 12 Sept 1890. She shows he was a Dairyman.

      This is his listing on Ancestry.com - New Orleans, Louisiana Birth Records Index, 1790-1899.

      Given: Leon
      Surname: Bordes
      Father: Savin
      Mother: Josephine Labure
      Sex: M
      Color: W
      Birth Date: 09 Sep 1889
      Volume: 117
      Page: 1189

      And this is his listing on the SSDI:

      LEON BORDES 09 Sep 1889 Jun 1973 70001 (Metairie, Jefferson, LA) (none specified) 438-28-3834 Louisiana. Noted that the DOB is different than that reported by Bennie Zahn of 12 Sept 1890.


    Person ID I23284  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Family Clothilde Marie Morlas,   b. 27 Dec 1893, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Oct 1938, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years) 
    Marriage 18 Jun 1919  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4
    • New Orleans, Louisiana Marriage Records Index, 1831-1925

      Name: Marie Clotilda Morlas
      Spouse: Leon Bordes
      Age: 26
      Age: 31
      Gender: F
      Marriage Date: 18 Jun 1919
      Volume: 42
      Page: 595
    Children 
     1. Living
     2. Leon Sylvan "Brother" Bordes,   b. 20 Feb 1922, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Apr 1996, Metairie, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
     3. Rita Clothilde Bordes,   b. 28 Apr 1924, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Sep 2012, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
     4. Edward Morlas Bordes,   b. 29 May 1926, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jun 2008, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
     5. Living
    Family ID F714  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 25 Jul 2010 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 9 Sep 1889 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 18 Jun 1919 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 8 Jun 1973 - Louisiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Link to Google Earth
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  • Headstones
    Morlas Mausoleum, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans
    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 
    1. [S479] Zahn, Bennie Jay--The Families Pene Roquevert Morlas (Privately Published; New Orleans, LA 1992) , updates and corrections issued periodically.

    2. [S881] Ancestry.com - New Orleans, Louisiana Birth Records Index, 1790-1899.

    3. [S333] Ancestry.com - U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current [database online], (Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. Birth years for the individuals listed range from 1875 to last year. Information in these records includes name, birth date, death date, and last known residence.).

    4. [S879] Ancestry.com - New Orleans, Louisiana Marriage Records Index, 1831-1925.