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Leon Sylvan "Brother" Bordes

Leon Sylvan "Brother" Bordes

Male 1922 - 1996  (74 years)

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  • Name Leon Sylvan "Brother" Bordes  [1
    Nickname Brother 
    Birth 20 Feb 1922  New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 29 Apr 1996  Metairie, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Burial Metairie Cemetery (Lake Lawn Metairie), New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I23286  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Leon Leonard Bordes,   b. 9 Sep 1889, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jun 1973, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Mother 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, 3
    • 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
    Family ID F714  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 20 Feb 1922 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 29 Apr 1996 - Metairie, Jefferson Parish, 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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  • Photos
    Morlas Cousins at the St. Alphonsus Convent in 1927
    This picture was taken on the grounds of the St. Alphonsus Convent in 1927 when the nieces and nephews of Juliet Theresa Morlas (Sister Mary Cyril, R.S.M.) joined her to celebrate her third year in the order of the Sisters of Mercy.


    Pictured are (Top) Johnny Trapani, Sylvan "Brother" Bordes, Paul Trapani, August Trapani(Middle) Leona Bordes holding Edward Bordes, Nettie Zahn holding Patricia Trapani, Juliette Trapani holding Bennie Zahn, Amanda Zahn(Bottom) Rita Bordes, John Morlas, Carl Bishop, Lucine Zahn
    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.

    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. [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.).

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