On the last Monday of January, Ralph McHenry Boudreaux was buried in grave 499 at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery in Slidell, capping a service steeped in military precision and pomp.

The oldest cemetery in the U.S. is said to be the Myles Standish Burial Ground, which dates back to approximately 1638. This may be the oldest maintained cemetery, but there are burial mounds that ...

The Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation has built a database of roughly 8,500 historic cemeteries across the state and invites people to submit information about gravesites yet to be documented.

Spreading across a low hill a few miles west of Leesville is a small country graveyard next to a little red brick church. Nestled among the roughly 1,400 burial plots there, near the top of the hill, ...