Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans

Military figures and civil war veterans • Tomb of hundreds of unknown Confederate soldiers. 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 • 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 ==Gallery==

File:Confederate Tomb New Orleans.JPG|Confederate Tomb, Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans File:GreenwoodCem12Nov07PoliceCrypt.jpg|Police Crypt at Greenwood Cemetery File:GreenwoodCem12Nov07PoliceHat.jpg|Police Hat on the Police Crypt File:GreenwoodCemNunzioScaglione.jpg|Tomb of jazz musician Nunzio Scaglione File:GreenwoodCem12Nov07ArchGateFireman.jpg|Fireman's Tomb at Greenwood Cemetery File:GreenwoodFiremanNov07StatureFrontRt.jpg|Fireman's Statue at Greenwood Cemetery File:GreenwoodCem12Nov07Mason.jpg|Mason Tomb at Greenwood Cemetery File:FEMA - 19194 - Photograph by Jocelyn Augustino taken on 09-04-2005 in Louisiana.jpg|Greenwood Cemetery after Hurricane Katrina (photograph by Jocelyn Augustino) File:GreenwoodFiremanStreerMound.jpg|Part of the front of Greenwood, with Fireman and Elks tomb monuments. ==References==