Reyes y Schneidau Rafael Eduardo de los b. 13 OCT 1865 Guanabacoa, La Habana, Cuba d. 21 JUN 1932 New Orleans, LA

1865 - 1932

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Birth 13 Oct 1865 Guanabacoa, La Habana, Cuba [3]

Christened 12 Nov 1865 Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Guanabacoa, La Habana, Cuba [3]

Gender Male

Died 21 Jun 1932 New Orleans, LA

Buried Metaire Cemetery, New Orleans, Sect. 111, Lot 40 [4]

Person ID I0318 Rojas Spencer Ancestors

Last Modified 09 Mar 2008

Father Reyes y Orozco Esteban de los, b. Abt 1832, Guanabacoa, Cuba , d. 1882, La Habana, Cuba

Mother Schneidau & Boxold Rosalie Elizabeth, b. 17 Oct 1837, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA , d. 8 Nov 1908, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Married 23 Feb 1856 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Family ID F0186 Group Sheet

Family Cazenavette y Pinac Marie Philomile Isabella, b. 9 Feb 1873, d. 17 Jan 1919, New Orleans, Louisiana

Married 8 Feb 1896 St. Augustine Church, New Orleans

Children

	1. Reyes y Cazenavette Hilda de los
	2. Reyes y Cazenavette Ella Marie Philomene delos, b. 31 Dec 1896, New Orleans, LA , d. 15 Mar 1998, New Orleans, LA
>	3. Reyes y Cazenavette Marie PhilomeneLydia delos, b. 29 Jul 1898, New Orleans, LA , d. Nov 1974
	4. Reyes y Cazenavette II Rafael de los, b. 14 Oct 1899, d. Feb 1973
>	5. Reyes y Cazenavette Isabelle de los, b. 27 Jun 1902, d. 17 Mar 1961, New Orleans, LA
	6. Reyes y Cazenavette Alma de los, b. 9 Jun 1906, d. Jun 1973
	7. Reyes y Cazenavette III Esteban José de los, b. 7 Mar 1908, New Orleans, LA , d. 23 Mar 1971, New Orleans, LA
>	8. Reyes y Cazenavette Marie Rosalie de los, b. 21 Oct 1909, d. 21 Jun 1985, New Orleans, LA

Family ID F0197 Group Sheet

Photos
Reyes (de los) y Schneidau, Rafel Eduardo

Documents
Reyes (de los) y Schneidau, Rafael Eduardo
Baptism - Bautismo
12 Nov 1865

Notes

In History of New Orleans, pg. 846:

RAFAEL EDWARD DE LOS REYES has been actively and prominently identified with business affairs in New Orleans for a third of a century, and is founder and active head of one of the leading insurance organiztions in the South.
Rafael E. de los Reyes is a Cuban by nativity and was born at Guanabacoa, Havana, October 13, 1865. For many generations the family lived in Spain, tracing its descent from Rodrigo Diaz del Vivar (Cid). Many years ago three brothers of one generation favored the republican cause in Spain and emigrated, while on remained. One of the emigrants moved to Havana, Cuba. He was José de los Reyes, grandfather of the New Orleans business man. From Freight agent he rose to a high and influential position in banking circles in Havana. He was always a staunch republican in his political ideas. His wife was Isabel Orosco, who came from Venezuela. The parents of R.E. de los Reyes were Esteban and Rosalie (Schneidau) de los Reyes. His father was a capitalist. His mother was a daughter of Capt. Gus Schneidau, at one time captain of the Port of New Orleans.
R.E. de los Reyes was very liberally educated, attending primary school at San Francisco College, Guanabacoa, Havana, Belen College of the Jesuit Fathers at Havana, and graduated as an agricultural engineer from the Moré School at Havana in June, 1886. Following his removal to New Orleans Mr. de los Reyes also pursued technical courses for several years in architecture, chemistry and commercial law at Tulane University.
From 1887 to 1894, for seven years, he was engaged in the coal business. In 1894 he organized the Acme Industrial Life Insurance and Sick Benefit Association, being founder and president of this institution, which has had a highly efficient record covering more than a quarter of a century. He is also president of the Delos Realty Company, Incorporated, is general manager of the Acme Association, Ltd., and chairman of the Advisory Board of the Globe Accident and Casualty Company.
Like his ancestors, Mr. de los Reyes is a firm believer in a republican form of government. As a New Orleans citizen he took an effective part in organizing clubs to help the Cuban cause of 1895. He is a Catholic and a member of the Knights of Columbus, Chess, Checkers and Whist and Press clubs of New Orleans.
February 8, 1896, in St. Augustine Church at New Orleans, he married Isabelle Cazenavette, a daughter of Gabriel and Leontine (Pinac) Cazenavette. Mrs. de los Reyes was the only daughter of her parents and died of influenza January 17, 1919. The children of Mr. de los Reyes are Ella, Lydia, Isabelle, Rafael, Alma, Esteban, Marie and Hilda.
-------------------------------------------------Famed cities of dead are muddied

Saturday, September 17, 2005; Posted: 6:03 p.m. EDT (22:03 GMT)

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Hurricane Katrina has transformed the legendary New Orleans cemeteries, known as "cities of the dead," into a brown landscape of muck and stench. But fears that floodwaters would send large numbers of coffins and corpses floating away from their crypts were largely unfounded.

One coffin apparently displaced by the flood was found on railroad tracks near the Greenwood Cemetery, but the low-lying city's policy of interring their dead in above-ground tombs appears to have paid off.

"Our cemeteries are very unique and I know when people come to New Orleans, tourists and all, they love our cemeteries," said Lucy McCann, director of the Louisiana Cemetery Board. She cautioned that the full extent of damage is still unknown.

The city's position at or below sea level makes digging graves all but impossible. Many of the cemeteries are in a cluster of private and public grounds near where a flood wall on the 17th Street Canal was breached by the storm surge.

At Metairie Cemetery, the water line was several feet high on some of the mausoleums and tombs. Usually resplendent with flowering magnolias and pancake-smooth lawns, the grounds were caked in mud and a carpet of dead leaves.

Metairie Cemetery is the burial spot for many of the city's most famous sons and daughters, including William C.C. Claiborne, the first U.S. governor of Louisiana, the Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard, jazz musicians Louis Prima and Al Hirt, and baseball Hall of Famer Mel Ott.

The tombs and funeral statuary fared well there. The elaborate red, blue and yellow stained glass adorning the Landry family tomb was intact -- a pool of light in the middle of the brown and black landscape.

The scene was desolate at the nearby Holt Cemetery, which was established in the 1800s as a potter's field for people who died with no money to pay for a burial. Holt, which is still in use, is unique among the city's cemeteries because the graves are underground and because many are decorated with folk art.

Even before Katrina, Holt was a chaotic place where strangers shared caskets and headstones leaned to and fro. The cemetery's records are so spotty that historians don't even know where Buddy Bolden, the jazz pioneer, is buried.

But Katrina was unable to disassemble the chaotic charm of a folksy grave made up of wire fencing, Mardi Gras beads and puppets.

Reverent New Orleanians vow to make cleanup a high priority.

Bob Harvey, a lawyer whose parents are buried in Metairie Cemetery, said he plans to do much of the job himself.

"It's sort of a family tradition in my family that one member takes care of the family tomb until he passes on, and then someone else takes over," he said.

Christened:

Padrinos de Bautismo: Don Rafael de los Reyes y Morejón, Comandante de Caballería, y su hija Doña María de los Reyes Montenegro.

Sources

[S04829] José Manuel de los Reyes, 2001.
[S04875] Wallace B. Schneidau, June 23, 2001.
[S04766] Certificacion Literal de Partida, Libro 30-E, Folio 126, No. 524, Parroquia de Nstra. Sra. de la Asunción, Guanabacoa, La Habana, Cuba.
[S04764] Cemetery Records/Interment Dept., Georgette Harvey, General File Clerk, 08/13/2003, Metairie Cemetery.


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