Iberville in New Orleans in Orleans Parish, Louisiana — The American South (West South Central)
Barbarin Family Tomb
(formerly L'Union Sacre Society Tomb)
Photographed by Craig Doda, June 14, 2024
1. Barbarin Family Tomb Marker
Inscription.
Barbarin Family Tomb. (formerly L'Union Sacre Society Tomb). The Barbarins are a dynasty of New Orleans jazz. Several generations have carried the music from its first flowering to the present day. Interred here is musical patriarch Isidore Barbarin (1872-1960), a man who Louis Armstrong referred to as "Pops". Isidore played trumpet and mellophone in the Excelsior and later the Onward Brass Band, the most fabled brass band in New Orleans from 1900 until the end of World War I. He was also a driver of the horse-drawn buggies that undertakers used as hearses until automobiles arrived. He married Josephine Arthidore and three of their sons became jazz drummers: Paul, Louis, and Lucien. Lucien is buried in this tomb, as is his son, trumpet player Charles Barbarin. Also interred here is Isidore Barbarin's daughter, Rose Barbarin Barker Colombel, Mother of Jazz legend Danny Barker. Danny about his grandfather Isidore in his memoir, "A Life In Jazz".
The Barbarins are a dynasty of New Orleans jazz. Several generations have carried the music from its first flowering to the present day. Interred here is musical patriarch Isidore Barbarin (1872-1960), a man who Louis Armstrong referred to as "Pops". Isidore played trumpet and mellophone in the Excelsior and later the Onward Brass Band, the most fabled brass band in New Orleans from 1900 until the end of World War I. He was also a driver of the horse-drawn buggies that undertakers used as hearses until automobiles arrived. He married Josephine Arthidore and three of their sons became jazz drummers: Paul, Louis, and Lucien. Lucien is buried in this tomb, as is his son, trumpet player Charles Barbarin. Also interred here is Isidore Barbarin's daughter, Rose Barbarin Barker Colombel, Mother of Jazz legend Danny Barker. Danny about his grandfather Isidore in his memoir, "A Life In Jazz".
Erected 2002 by Friends of New Orleans Cemeteries.
90° 4.286′ W. Marker is in New Orleans, Louisiana, in Orleans Parish. It is in Iberville. It is on Saint Louis Street south of Treme Street, on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1402 St Louis St, New Orleans LA 70112, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Louisiana’s River Parishes. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Deep South, on the Gulf Coast, and in the Great River Road Region. Globally, it is in North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the Viceroyalty of New France, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, the Louisiana Purchase, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Credits. This page was last revised on June 27, 2024. It was originally submitted on June 26, 2024, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 280 times since then and 39 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on June 26, 2024, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • James Hulse was the editor who published this page.
