Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans

Greenwood Cemetery
Front of Greenwood Cemetery with Fireman and Elks tomb monuments in sunset
Details
Established	1852
Location	New Orleans, Louisiana
Country	United States
Coordinates	29°59′03″N 90°06′46″W
Owned by	Firemen’s Charitable & Benevolent Association (FCBA)
No. of interments	>100,000
Website	Official website
Find a Grave	Greenwood Cemetery

Greenwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana. The cemetery was opened in 1852,[1] and is located on City Park Avenue (formerly Metairie Road) in the Navarre neighborhood. The cemetery has a number of impressive monuments and sculptures.[2] It is one of a group of historic cemeteries in New Orleans.

Notable burials

Civil War and other military figures

• Tomb of hundreds of unknown Confederate soldiers.[3]
• Confederate Generals Young Marshall Moody (1822–1866), who died of yellow fever, Thomas M. Scott (1828–1876)
• Confederate supporter and resister of Union occupation William Bruce Mumford (1819–1862), who was hanged on June 7 for tearing down a United States flag during Union Army occupation of New Orleans during the American Civil War
• Union Army Brigadier General and Brevet Major General William Plummer Benton (1828–1867), who was Collector of Internal Revenue in the City of New Orleans after the Civil War and died of yellow fever
• There are nine British Commonwealth service personnel, registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, who are buried or specially commemorated here – four from World War I and five from World War II.[4]

Civic figures

• Journalist and author of Louisiana topics Gwen Bristow (1903–1980)[5]
• Jazz musician Sam Butera (1927–2009)
• MLB pitcher Al Jurisich (1921–1981)
• MLB pitcher Jack Kramer (1918–1995)
• Politician Effingham Lawrence (1820–1878) who served a single day (March 3, 1875) as a US Congressman [6]
• Jazz musician Nick LaRocca (1889–1961)[7]
• MLB pitcher Joe Martina (1889–1962)[8]
• US District Court Judge A. J. McNamara (1936–2014) also served in the Louisiana House of Representatives
• Actor Emile Meyer (1910–1987)[9]
• Jazz musician Leon Roppolo (1902–1943)
• Governor Oramel H. Simpson (1870–1932)
• MLB player, coach, and manager George "Bo" Strickland (1926–2010)
• Novelist John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969), who wrote A Confederacy of Dunces, a Pulitzer Prize winner[10]
• Soprano Thaïs St. Julien (1945–2019)
• Michael Culligan, Assistant District Attorney for New Orleans (22 years)

Gallery

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  Confederate Tomb, Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans
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  Police Crypt at Greenwood Cemetery
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  Police Hat on the Police Crypt
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  Tomb of jazz musician Nunzio Scaglione
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  Fireman's Tomb at Greenwood Cemetery
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  Fireman's Statue at Greenwood Cemetery
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  Mason Tomb at Greenwood Cemetery
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  Greenwood Cemetery after Hurricane Katrina (photograph by Jocelyn Augustino)
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  Part of the front of Greenwood, with Fireman and Elks tomb monuments.

References

1. Linden, Blanche M.G. (2007). Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. Cambridge, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. p. 294. ISBN 978-1-55849-571-5. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
2. "Greenwood Cemetery". Firemen’s Charitable & Benevolent Association. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
3. "Dedication of the Confederate Monument, at Greenwood Cemetery, April 10th, 1874 by the Ladies Benevolent Association of Louisiana". Jas. A. Gresham. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
4. CWGC Cemetery Report, breakdown obtained from casualty record.
5. Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). "Bristol, Gwen #1507". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
6. "Greenwood Cemetery History". Firemen’s Charitable & Benevolent Association. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
7. Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). "LaRocca, Nick #7299". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
8. Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). "Martina, Joe #8250". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
9. Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). "Meyer, Emile #8746". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
10. Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). "Toole, John Kennedy #12687". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.

External links

• Official website
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Greenwood Cemetery