Virtual Cemeteries by John Andrew Prime
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1954 Wallace Lake crash victims

A Virtual Cemetery created by John Andrew Prime

12 memorials

This crash in early 1954 killed many of Shreveport's top business and civic leaders. The Shreveport Times reported extensively on the loss of these men. To view these articles, reprinted with ther permission of the paper, visit the website www.japrime.com/wallacecrash.html, which has links to the pieces.

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Thomas Elmer Braniff

6 Dec 1883 – 10 Jan 1954

Businessman. One of the nation's leading insurance...

Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA

Plot info: Section H Lot 2 Grave 5

James Parham Evans

14 Feb 1884 – 10 Jan 1954

Killed in the crash of a Grumman Mallard into...

Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA

Plot info: Section 11, lots 9&10, grave 1

Reginald Henry Hargrove

6 Oct 1897 – 10 Jan 1954

Forest Park burial No. 7759. One of the victims of...

Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA

Plot info: Section 6, lot 44, grave 3

Justin Ricou Querbes

13 Apr 1892 – 10 Jan 1954

Capitalist and financier. Killed in the crash of...

Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA

Plot info: Section 11, lot 4, grave 1

Randolph Antoine Querbes

4 Aug 1894 – 10 Jan 1954

Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA

Lieut Louis Rock Schexnaydre

17 Oct 1921 – 10 Jan 1954

Paulina, St. James Parish, Louisiana, USA

Edgar Gardner Tobin

7 Sep 1896 – 10 Jan 1954

Parents: William G. Tobin and Ethel Murphy....

San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA

Plot info: Texas Liberty Section: Tobin Family Plot

Elias Bernard Weiss

28 Feb 1898 – 10 Jan 1954

Vice president and founding member of regional...

Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA

Plot info: Section 8, lots 179&266, grave 1

Milton Elie Weiss

30 Jul 1903 – 10 Jan 1954

Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA

Plot info: Hillcrest Mausoleum, Northwest Skyway, NW-CH-5-C