Vital Records

Cypress Grove Cemetery became the first cemetery built to honor New Orleans volunteer firemen and their families. The Firemen’s Charitable & Benevolent Association established Cypress Grove Cemetery in 1840. Volunteer fire companies built elaborate multi-vault tombs to enshrine their fallen members.

Cypress Grove Cemetery

Burial

Cypress Grove Cemetery

Index

Notes:

1. Telephone conversation on 30 December 2008 with Janice Cannon, Firemen’s Charitable & Benevolent Association, Cypress Grove and Greenwood cemeteries, New Orleans, Louisiana. Phone: 504-482-8983.