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Re: N. Wayne Cosby re Cypress Grove Cemetery

Travis,
I wish I knew the answer to that question. The list that I got of Confederate burials was only that. It came from a friend, now deceased, Mr. Tom Williams, that worked at the New Orleans Public Library and he came across the original record books for the cemetery. Now, perhaps someone at the library can direct you to the original books. What bothers me is that your ancestor died in 1880 and evidently was popular enough to have articles written about him and such. That Cypress Grove was always a potters field and also where epidemic vicitms were taken. That is presumably why the Federals had the CS soldiers buried there. It seems unlikely that "friends" would have allowed that to happen to a friend. I have never seen a thing about any headstone from that place. Dying at Charity Hospital is one thing, being buried in a potter's field is something else. Is it possible he was in the Girod St. Cemetery? That is a whole different story. All of the N.O. cemetery listings are not online yet and Captain Dale might show up. I'm afraid that the only alternatives are to check with the N.O. Public Library but also ask them to check their card files for burial. They have a very extensive list of burials in all cemeteries in New Orleans and the last time I tried to use it was many years ago and it was all on index cards filed alphabetically. Sorry I could not be of more help.

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