10/08/2004 - Angels on the Bluff 2004
 
It’s less than 30 days until this year Angels on the Bluff tour, which will feature six new stories about the history of different people buried here.

During the tour, actors while dressed in period costumes give descendant commentaries. Several will be accompanied with musical tributes.

This Years Performances will include:

--Confederate Brigadier General Zeb York who was the last commander of the Louisiana Tigers whose reputation for fearless fighting on the battlefield were both deserved and well documented.

--J.N. Carpenter who served as a private in the Confederate Army and who after the War became a self made millionaire. He entered the cotton brokerage business, and along with some other men, established the Natchez Textile Mill.

--Gasimer demBouski who was in the Polish Court from the Vatican and who was traveling up the Mississippi River by steamboat and died in rout to be married. When the steamboat arrived in Natchez his body was taken and buried here.

--Fermin Cerveau, also known as “Savannas Artist”. His daughter married a Confederate soldier who served with Cerveau and the couple moved to Natchez. He had a exhibit in the 1894 Chicago Worlds Fair.

--Bishop John Edward Gunn who served as Catholic Bishop for the Natchez-Jackson Diocese and died in 1924. He was very personable and highly respected in the Natchez community.

--Ellen Shields who documented Yankee atrocities during a raid on her fathers home Montebello.

Music this year will feature “Son’s of the Pioneers” with Dr. Craig Bradford riding “Idilo”, the dancing horse, and Howard Roy, Natchez’s last black cowboy.