Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans

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Established 1852 Country United States Website greenwoodnola.com Date formed 1852		Location New Orleans, Louisiana No. of interments 103,042 Phone +1 504-482-9079

Address 120 City Park Ave, New Orleans, LA 70119, USA Hours Closed now Thursday8AM–4:30PMFriday8AM–4:30PMSaturday8AM–4:30PMSunday8AM–4:30PMMonday8AM–4:30PMTuesday8AM–4:30PMWednesday8AM–4:30PM Burials A. J. McNamara, F. Jay Taylor, Farrand Stewart Stranahan, William Plummer Benton Similar Metairie Cemetery, Saint Louis Cemetery, Lafayette Cemetery No 1, City Park, New Orleans Museum

Greenwood cemetery new orleans la

Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana. The cemetery was opened in 1852, and is located on City Park Avenue (formerly Metairie Road) in the Navarre neighborhood. The cemetery has a number of impressive monuments and sculptures.

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Notable burials

Notables interred here include:

Tomb of hundreds of unknown Confederate soldiers.

Effingham Lawrence, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

several mayors of New Orleans

Confederate General Young Marshall Moody, who died of yellow fever in 1866, Thomas M. Scott and James Argyle Smith

Confederate supporter and resister of Union occupation William Bruce Mumford, who was hanged 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, who was Collector of Internal Revenue in the City of New Orleans after the Civil War and died of yellow fever in 1867

jazz legend Leon Roppolo

novelist John Kennedy Toole.

Judge A. J. McNamara of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1982 to 2001

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.

References

Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans Wikipedia

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