Non-Municipal

Cypress Grove Cemetery No. 1 was founded in 1840 by the Firemen’s Charitable and Benevolent Association, initially as a burial place for firemen. A second section of Cypress Grove was later added but closed in 1920. This organization also founded Greenwood Cemetery in 1852.
The records include interments for both Cypress Grove and Greenwood cemeteries, acts of conveyance, lot cards, and a title book (Cypress Grove only). Also included in this series is a Widows and Orphanage Roll Book for the Firemen’s Charitable and Benevolent Association (1890-1960).

• Cypress Grove and Greenwood Cemeteries, 1849-1970
• Available on microfilm, call number: mf GS36-132 to 158.
• Additional information on these cemeteries, as well as a searchable index to burial records, 1910-present, can be found at http://www.greenwoodnola.com.

The Girod Street Cemetery was New Orleans’ earliest Protestant cemetery, opened in 1822 by Christ Church (Episcopal) Cathedral. The cemetery was deconsecrated in 1957. Remains of white persons were transferred to Hope Mausoleum; those of African Americans, to Providence Memorial Park. The records consist of a typescript transcription of a “master file” in the possession of the Louisiana State Museum; they may duplicate all or part of the WPA Tombstone Index described above. Included are name, date of death, age, and (sometimes) place of birth.

• Girod Street Cemetery, 1815-1939
• Available on microfilm, call number: mf DAR16

St. John, the city’s second Protestant cemetery, was founded in 1867 by the St. John Evengelical Lutheran congregation (the cemetery was also known as the First German Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery). The cemetery continued to be operated by the church until 1929, when it was sold to John Huber. Under the direction of Huber and, later, his heirs, the cemetery became non-sectarian. Huber also constructed Hope Mausoleum in 1931.

• Hope Mausoleum and St. John Cemetery, 1867-1974
• One roll of film covers early interments in St. John Cemetery (1867-1922); available on microfilm, call number: mf GS36-127
• The remaining records (crypt and ground interment cards and an alphabetical listing of deceased owners, keyed to the interment cards) are primarily for Hope Mausoleum, although some burials in St. John are included. Many of the interment cards include copies of the obituary, clipped from the newspaper. The index gives the owner and lists other interments in the crypt. Available on microfilm, call number: mf GS36-116 to 131

Odd Fellows Rest was founded by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and opened in 1849. The records include lot/tomb cards, indexed at the beginning of the roll.

• Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, 1849-1961
• Available on microfilm, call number: mf LN76

St. Joseph Cemetery No. 1 was founded in 1854 by the St. Joseph German Orphan Asylum Association in order to provide burial space for German immigrants who lived in the City of Lafayette and to provide income for the School Sisters of Notre Dame, who ran the orphanage. It was later taken over by the Archdiocese of New Orleans. St. Joseph No. 2 opened in 1873. The records include interments and ownership records.

• St. Joseph Cemeteries, 1855-1925
• Available on microfilm, call number: mf GS36-96 to 108
• Interments (1858-1860; 1865-1875) in St. Jospeh Cemetery have been transcribed at the Orleans Parish page of the U.S. GenWeb Project.

St. Louis No. 1 is New Orleans’ earliest existing cemetery, founded in 1789.The records include interments (with indexing).

• St. Louis Cemetery No.1, 1833-1919
• Available on microfilm, call number: mf GS36-78 to 82 and 91
• Information on St. Louis No. 1 (including a “tomb search”) can be found at Dead Space, a project of the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Fine Arts.

St. Louis No. 2 opened in 1823. The third of the cemetery’s three squares includes burials for many early New Orleans free people of color.
The records include interments (indexed) and lot ownership records.

• St. Louis Cemetery No.2, 1843-1882
• Available on microfilm, call number: mf GS36-83 to 91

St. Louis No. 3 opened in 1854. The records include interments (indexed) and lot ownership records.

• St. Louis Cemetery No.3, 1895-1917
• Available on microfilm, call number: mf GS36-92 to 95

St. Patrick was founded in 1841 by the Irish immigrants who built St. Patrick’s Church on Camp Street. (Many of the Irish victims of the 1853 Yellow Fever epidemic were buried here). The cemetery was taken over by the Archdiocese of New Orleans in 1966.
The records are interments.

• St. Patrick Cemeteries, 1844-1972
• Available on microfilm, call number: GS36-108 to 111
• Interments in St. Patrick Cemeteries 1, 2 & 3 have been partially transcribed at the Orleans Parish page of the U.S. GenWeb Project.

St. Roch Cemetery was founded in 1874 by Father Peter Leonard Thevis of Holy Trinity Church. A second section was added in 1895. The records include interments and an index of vaults.

• St. Roch Cemetery, 1881-1959
• Available on microfilm, call number: mf GS36-112 to 115
• Interment books for St. Roch Cemeteries 1 & 2, 1904-1998, as well as burial cards and tombstone photos for St. Roch 1 and 2 and for St. Roch 2 mausoleums have been transcribed at the Orleans Parish page of the U.S. GenWeb Project.

Beginning in 1841, with the establishment of the Board of Health, cemetery sextons required death certificates before an interment could take place. The sextons were to record all certificates in a book and, if so requested, to send that book at the end of each year to the Mayor’s Office for retention in the archives of the city. Five manuscript volumes of interment records for non-municipal cemeteries survive in the City Archives, apparently the copies provided to the Mayor’s Office by the sextons in compliance with the new regulations. Each volume has columns for the following data: name, “quality, calling or trade,” age, sex, bond or free (or color), disease, when born, where born, when died, where died, period of time in the city, married or single, and remarks. 

Catholic Cemeteries (St. Louis I and II). July, 1841-January, 1842;

• Available on microfilm, call number: mf LM433 1841-1842c

Cypress Grove Cemetery. July-December, 1841.

• Founded in 1840 by the Firemen’s Charitable and Benevolent Association. In 1841, remains of firemen buried elsewhere were removed to        Cypress Grove. Many Protestant families are also buried here.
• Available on microfilm, call number: LM433 1841cg

Protestant [Girod Street] Cemetery. July-December, 1841.

• Opened in 1822 by the wardens of Christ Church. The remains of Protestants in St. Louis No. 1 were removed here. The Girod Street Cemetery did not bar slaves from purchasing tombs, and the cemetery contained a number of tombs owned by slave benevolent societies. The cemetery was demolished in 1957; the remains of whites were reinterred in Hope Mausoleum; African-Americans were removed to Providence Memorial Park.
• Available on microfilm, call number: mf LMC430

St. Patrick’s Cemetery. May, 1841-January, 1842.

• Opened in 1841 by the vestry of St. Patrick’s Church.
• Available on microfilm, call number: mf LMC430

St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery. September, 1842-September, 1846.

• Available on microfilm, call number: mf II LM430