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Joseph H. Dale

I have looked at the microfilm from the New Orleans Public Library for both Cypress Grove Cemetery and Cypress Grove Cemetery No. 2 (I made copies of each page from both rolls). Neither lists burials past 1875. He is not listed in the Greenwood Cemetery burial log either. Here is a list of cemeteries in New Orleans when Dale died. There is also a little bit of information on Charity and Cypress Grove cemeteries.

Kathy

Fireman’s-Cypress Grove #1
Girod
Greenwood
Cypress Grove #2
Hebrew Cemetery at Canal and N. Anthony (Dispersed of Judah)
Hebrew Cemetery at Canal and S. Anthony (Gates of Prayer #2)
Hebrew Cemetery at Frenchman and Gentilly (Hebrew Rest #2)
Hebrew Cemetery at Joseph and Garfield (Gates of Prayer #1)
Hebrew Cemetery at Gentilly and Elysian Fields (Hebrew Rest #1)
Hebrew Cemetery at Jackson and Saratoga (Gates of Mercy)
Holt
Lafayette
Masonic Lodge
Odd Fellows Rest
Protestant (Girod St.)
St. John's
St. Joseph
St. Louis #1
St. Louis #2
St. Louis #3
Charity Hospital
St. Patrick
St. Roch #2
St. Vincent de Paul
St. Bernard Cemetery (St. Bernard Parish)

CHARITY HOSPITAL & KATRINA MEMORIAL CEMETERY

The location of this cemetery, on Canal Street spanning to Banks Street, is in close proximity to Cypress Grove and St. Patrick Cemeteries. It is no longer easy to view from Canal, however, due to the addition of an oil station and large flower shop that have been built in front of it. This graveyard houses thousands of the indigent dead who died in Charity Hospital. In the span of four days in September of 1847, Charity Hospital Cemetery obtained the corpses of 87 persons, the main cause of death being yellow fever. When the new Charity Hospital was constructed in 1937, earth from the digging for foundations was transported to the hospital cemetery, allowing the level of the land to be raised several feet. This allowed to graves to be safe from flooding.
The Katrina Memorial was built on the site of this hospital in

Cypress Grove Cemetery was established in 1840 by the Fireman’s Charitable and Benevolent Association. The Association was able to establish the cemetery by converting a plot of donated property into the funds necessary to purchase the land at the end of Canal Street. It was decided that the remains of firemen who had been buried in other cemeteries in New Orleans would be moved to the new Cypress Grove Cemetery and reinterred. In addition to firemen being buried here, many prominent Protestant New Orleanians were also buried here after Girod Street Cemetery began to deteriorate. The entrance to the cemetery is flanked by pylons designed by Frederick Wilkinson in the Egyptian Revival Style.

Cemetery notes and/or description:
AKA Potters Field
Cemetery Destroyed

"It is possible that all sickness type deaths in New Orleans were buried in Cypress Grove Cemetery No. 2. Unfortunately, there is much more to this story.

This is not the Cypress Grove Cemetery that is now located on City Park Ave. in New Orleans.

(Cypress Grove #2) is presently located beneath Canal Blvd. adjacent to Greenwood Cemetery. It is believed that ...Confederate soldiers were buried in mass type graves, and that this cemetery also held a number of civilians that were buried pre-war.

There were also a number of Federal soldiers buried here but they were dug up in the 1920's and reburied in Chalmette National Cemetery. Records show the U.S. soldiers that were moved to Chalmette National Cemetery.

The U.S. Government did not relocate the Confederate soldier's graves. The Confederate soldier's graves were not marked and with the growth of New Orleans, Canal Blvd. was paved directly over the cemetery.