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Anna Shelby Cagnolatti

Birth: 26 Jul 1876
Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death: 2 Jun 1949 (aged 72)
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial: Saint Louis Cemetery Number 2

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Plot: Sq 3 Tomb 278 - Cagnolatti Tomb
Memorial ID: 104747314 View Source

In the Cagnolatti Family Tomb are the graves of:
01. Rev. B. Keller (1900-1972),
02. Anna Cagnolatti (1876-1949),
03. Leon Cagnolatti (1876-1958),
04. Inez Louise Cagnolatti Scorza (1897-1982),
05. Robert Bernard Holmes (1926-1997),
06. Catherine Scorza Maker (1923-1973),
07. Ernie Cagnolatti (1911-1983),
08. Claudia C. Keller (1909-1997),
09. Juanita Cagnolatti Maheia (1905-1989),
10. Ruth Johnson Cagnolatti (1906-2003),
11. Wilma Scorza Reimonenq (1920-2012),
12. Elihu Maheia (1897-1959),
13. Robert B. Shelby (1898-1966)
14. Lester F. Cagnolatti (1908-1962),
15. Derell M. Brooks (1996-2022), and,
16. Warren Archille DeJean Jr (1949-2023).

Anna was the daughter of Jonathan Shelby (ca. 1841-1928) and Louise Decaudreaux (ca. 1851-1917.) She married Leon Cagnolatti (1876-1958) 15 April 1895; the couple's children were (or included):
Claberre, b. ca. 1895 & d. 1940;
Inez b. 1897 d. 1982;
Arnold b. 1903 & d. 1970;
Juanita b. 1905 d. 1989);
Lester b. 1908 d. 1962);
Claudia, b. 1909 d. 1997;
Ernest, b. 1911 & d. 1983; and
Wilbur, b. 1913 & d. 1982.

Anna Cagnolatti is described as being "mulatto" in the 1910 U. S. Census and as "Black" in the 1920, 1930, and 1940 U. S. Census enumerations.

Information not found on grave (see "Inscription") comes from U. S. Census enumerations for 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940; New Orleans Marriage Index; and New Orleans Death Records Index, 1804-1949 (Certificate 3213).