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Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans

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| established = 1852
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| location = New Orleans, Louisiana
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}}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.

Notable burials

Notables interred here include:

Tomb of hundreds of unknown Confederate soldiers.^[3]
Effingham Lawrence, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.^[4]
several mayors of New Orleans
Dr. Joseph J. Holt, head of the state board of health in the 1880s
Confederate Generals 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 and Republican former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
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.^[1]

Gallery

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References

1. ^CWGC Cemetery Report, breakdown obtained from casualty record.
2. ^¹{{cite web|title=Greenwood Cemetery History|url=http://www.greenwoodnola.com/history|publisher=Firemen’s Charitable & Benevolent Association|accessdate=11 August 2016}}
3. ^¹{{cite web|title=Dedication of the Confederate Monument, at Greenwood Cemetery, April 10th, 1874 by the Ladies Benevolent Association of Louisiana.|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100330298|publisher=Jas. A. Gresham|accessdate=11 August 2016}}
4. ^¹{{cite web|title=Greenwood Cemetery|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=67668|publisher=Find A Grave|accessdate=11 August 2016}}

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External links

Official website
Greenwood on graveaddiction.com
Greenwood on NOLAcemeteries.com

4 : Cemeteries in Louisiana|Geography of New Orleans|Protected areas of New Orleans|1852 establishments in Louisiana

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