Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans

Greenwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 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. It is one of a group of historic cemeteries in New Orleans.

Notable burials

Military figures and civil war veterans

• Tomb of hundreds of unknown Confederate soldiers.
• 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.

Athletes

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

Musicians

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

Others

• Kate Walker Behan (1851–1918), club leader and Confederate memorial organizer
• Gwen Bristow (1903–1980), journalist and author of Louisiana topics
• Edgar Hull (1904–1984), physician
• Effingham Lawrence (1820–1878) politician who served a single day (March 3, 1875) as a US Congressman
• Valena C. Jones (1872–1917) educator
• A. J. McNamara (1936–2014) US District Court Judge, also served in the Louisiana House of Representatives
• Emile Meyer (1910–1987) actor
• Oramel H. Simpson (1870–1932) governor
• John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969), novelist who wrote A Confederacy of Dunces, a Pulitzer Prize winner

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