Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans

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.

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

Notable burials

Military figures and civil war veterans

• 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]

Athletes

• Al Jurisich (1921–1981) MLB pitcher
• Jack Kramer (1918–1995) MLB pitcher
• Joe Martina (1889–1962) MLB pitcher^[5]
• George "Bo" Strickland (1926–2010) MLB player, coach, and manager

Musicians

• Sam Butera (1927–2009), jazz musician
• Nick LaRocca (1889–1961) Jazz musician^[6]
• Leon Roppolo (1902–1943) jazz musician
• Thaïs St. Julien (1945–2019) soprano

Others

• Gwen Bristow (1903–1980), journalist and author of Louisiana topics^[7]
• Effingham Lawrence (1820–1878) politician who served a single day (March 3, 1875) as a US Congressman^[8]
• Valena C. Jones (1872–1917) educator^[9][10]
• A. J. McNamara (1936–2014) US District Court Judge, also served in the Louisiana House of Representatives
• Emile Meyer (1910–1987) actor^[11]
• Oramel H. Simpson (1870–1932) governor
• John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969), novelist who wrote A Confederacy of Dunces, a Pulitzer Prize winner^[12]

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.