I'm having trouble understanding the location on a Death Certificate for 1892. According to the death certificate he died at Waters and Washingtion. The obit reads that the funeral will take place at his residence, corner of Washington and Waters. I've looked at a map for 1890 and Water and Washington are no where near each other. I've also looked to see if Water Street may have had a name change, but couldn't find any. I've check the city directory for him and it looks like he is missing 1892 and 1893. I'm hoping someone may have the answer I can't find. Bridgette

Hello Bridgette, Without a bit more information, it might be hard to firmly identify this location. If you look at the name changes page you will see that there were a number of streets that were named Washington Street prior to 1894. See: http://nutrias.org/~nopl/facts/streetnames/streetsw.htm You will also see that Water Street was previously Levee in some places. So there may have been several possibilities for this location. One possibility is the intersection of Washington Street (today's Washington Avenue) with Water Street, an intersection that existed in 1885 and shows up on the 1890 Cotton Centennial map. Water Street was between Tchoupitoulas Street and the river. Today what had been Water Street is the location of the Clarence Henry Truckway. On the 1885 Sanborn map there are a few buildings at that intersection, but it was not much of a residential area. Possibly he lived there. You can also see this intersection on Plate 11 of the 1883 Robinson map. See: http://www.notarialarchives.org/robinson/guide.htm This "intersection" (they don't really intersect) of today's Washington Avenue and the Clarence Henry Truckway MIGHT be the former location you are looking for, but again, it would be helpful to have more information about your person. Norm --- mrszipp <mrszipp@cox.net> wrote: > I'm having trouble understanding the location on a > Death Certificate for 1892. > According to the death certificate he died at Waters > and Washingtion. The obit reads > that the funeral will take place at his residence, > corner of Washington and Waters. > I've looked at a map for 1890 and Water and > Washington are no where near each other. > I've also looked to see if Water Street may have had > a name change, but couldn't find any. > I've check the city directory for him and it looks > like he is missing 1892 and 1893. . . . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ