Genealogy Event - Winston Ho Discusses the Five Asian American Society Tombs in New Orleans

Winston Ho, an independent historian and published writer specializing in modern China and Chinese American history in New Orleans, will discuss “the Five Asian American Society Tombs in New Orleans, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 21, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.

The presentation is open to the public and is free-of-charge. Registration is not necessary.

There are five historic Asian American society tombs in New Orleans.

• the Chinese Society Tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 (c. 1850s)
• the Hispano Filipino Tomb in St. Vincent De Paul Cemetery No. 2 (1872)
• the Chinese Society Tomb in Cypress Grove Cemetery (1904)
• the Arabian Cemetery in Mount Olivet Cemetery (c. 1930s), and
• the On Leong Merchant's Association Tomb in Cypress Grove Cemetery (1960)

These tombs and the inscriptions they bear were created by the Asian Americans themselves and provide a glimpse into these forgotten communities.

Winston Ho is an independent historian and published writer, specializing in modern China and Chinese American history in New Orleans. He was a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of New Orleans and he holds an undergraduate degree in history and Chinese language from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, under the Department of History and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. He has previously studied at the Mandarin Training Center at National Taiwan Normal University, Beijing Language and Culture University, the University of Mississippi, and Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans.

Winston Ho is employed as a public historian at The Historic New Orleans Collection. He has taught Chinese at the Academy of Chinese Studies in New Orleans and at St. Mary's Dominican High School in New Orleans. He is the son of Taiwanese parents and is a native of New Orleans.