The listed coordinates are bogus. You will need to visit the grave locations to calculate the age of the individuals listed in the description. I recommend you visit these areas during daylight hours only. Pay close attention to each of the Outlaw's descriptons as there are special directions for obtaining the ages to use for the final calculation. The coordinates of each of the grave sites are listed below. Just use the birth and death years only and disregard the month and day of their birth or death. Be sure to use the below waypoints to find the graves
To find the final location's "resting place" you will need to calculate it using the formula below:
N32.33.ABC W 092 16.DEF
The total ages +347 will give you ABC. The total ages -62 will give you DEF.
Outlaw #1 Sidney W. Saunders, Old Monroe Cemetery
I am not sure that you would qualify Sidney W. Saunders as an “outlaw” however; his infamy comes from two events. Mr. Saunders owned and ran a saloon in downtown Monroe and was the subject of a significant amount of local gossip and rumor from his family and the community that the woman he lived with was not his wife and he even fathered a son out of wedlock.
The other major event occurred on December 30, 1871 when a tremendous fire swept through the city of Monroe that destroyed more than 60 buildings. The fire allegedly began on the second floor of Mr. Saunders saloon. Apparently the fire and the rumors surrounding his personal life was more than he could bear, and he committed suicide.
When you go to the listed coordinates you will see the life sized monument that his widow, Annie Livingston Saunders commissioned. The statue of Mr. Saunders is holding a scrolled document complete with text. It is a marriage certificate. Apparently the Widow Saunders wanted the entire city to know that they were legally married. I also would like to point out that “Louisiana Life” magazine ran an article in 2006 concerning cemeteries in the State and indicated that this monument of Saunders was one of the favorite monuments in the State. Use Mr. Saunder's age for the calculation.
Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer, 7th U. S. Cavalry (left) and Captain Frederic Benteen, 7th U.S. Cavalry (right)
Outlaw #2 John H. Day, Old Monroe Cemetery
Here is another unusual “outlaw”; Private John H. Day, Co. H, 7th Cavalry. You see on June 25 and 26, 1876, Private John H. Day was engaged in a well known battle in the Montana Territory, known as the “Battle of Little Bighorn” and also known as “Custer’s Last Stand”.
On the morning of June 25th, Custer divided his 12 companies into three battalions. Three companies were placed under the command of Major Marcus Reno (A, G. and M) and three were placed under the command of Capt. Frederic Benteen (H, D and K). Private John H. Day was a trooper in Co. H. Although the 7th Calvary suffered 52% casualties, Private John H. Day survived and was in the remaining cavalry members that held off the Sioux and Cheyenne for two days.
John H. Day came to his end a full 18 years after surviving one of the most famous Indian battles in all of history. John met and married a woman from Monroe and moved back to make his home in our community.
As noted in the first “outlaw”; fires were a common destructive force in Monroe. In early 1890's, Monroe suffered a series of mysterious fires, and one Wednesday in June, three were set in different locations. Newspaper accounts say a bundle of kindling fastened by wire was found at each of the fires.
A bloodhound brought to the scene led investigators to Day’s door and similar kindling bundles were found inside. Private John Day was arrested and charged with arson.
Back in the post Civil War South, Monroe was known as one of the most notorious havens for vigilantes and lynching was a common. The night after Day was arrested, a mob obtained the jail keys from a policeman and dragged Day to a tree and hung him not far from one of the houses he supposedly burned.
The coordinates listed below will take you to Private John H. Day’s official military marker. The other odd fact is that there is no body buried there as Private Day’s body was lost after the hanging. The marker is placed beside the grave of his wife. I would have selected the age calculation on Day's wife's grave which is to the immediate right of Day, however there is no birth date on it. Her grave stone is upright. The grave to the immediate right of her's is a person named Goss. That marker is a flat one and use the age of Goss for this part.
Outlaw #3 William Guy Banister, Riverside Cemetery
Guy Banister has probably the most interesting history of the three people noted on the page. He started his career in 1934 with the fledgling federal police bureau, known as the FBI. What most folks overlook is that Banister served with Melvin Purvis and was one of the FBI agents on stakeout outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago when John Dillinger exited the movie and was shot and killed by the FBI
Banister retired from the FBI in 1954 and moved to New Orleans and joined the New Orleans Police Department as Assistant Superintendent. He left the police force in 1957 and established his own private detective agency, “Guy Banister Associates, Inc.” in a building with the address of “531 Lafayette Street”. Around the corner but located in the same building with a different entrance was the office “544 Camp Street” where Lee Harvey Oswald reportedly had office for his pro-Castro work.
New Orleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison started his investigation of the New Orleans connections to the JFK Assassination. An investigator for Bannister, Jack Martin, told authorities that Bannister and a pilot, David Ferrie had been involved in the assassination. He claimed that Ferrie knew Oswald and may have taught him how to use a rifle with a telescopic sight. Martin also claimed that Banister drove Ferrie to Texas so Ferrie could fly the assassins of JFK out of the state.
As Garrison continued his investigation, he became convinced that a group of right wing activists, including Banister, Ferrie, and Clay Shaw were involved in a conspiracy with elements of the CIA to kill Kennedy. Garrison would later claim that the motive for the assassination was anger of Kennedy’s attempt to obtain a peace settlement with both Cuba and Vietnam. Garrison also believed that Bannister, Shaw, and Ferrie had conspired to set up Oswald as a patsy in the JFK assassination. The coordinates below will take you to Guy Banister’s grave in Riverside Cemetery. Do not use Guy Banister's age for the calculation. The marker to the immediate left of Guy is "Aline". Use Aline's age for the age calculation.