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Shreveport's historic Oakland Cemetery : spirits of pioneers and heroes
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Joiner, Gary D., Author.
- White, Cheryl H, Author.
- Series:
- Landmarks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oakland Cemetery (Shreveport, La.).
- Sepulchral monuments--Louisiana--Shreveport--Pictorial works.
- Sepulchral monuments.
- Shreveport (La.)--Biography.
- Shreveport (La.).
- Shreveport (La.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Shreveport (La.)--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (144 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] The History Press 2015
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nearly as old as the city itself, Oakland Cemetery is one of Shreveport's most significant historical landmarks. Notable residents were laid to rest here as early as 1842. In a mass grave lie nearly eight hundred victims of a virulent yellow fever epidemic that struck the city in 1873. Others interred include Annie McCune, the famous Shreveport madam who operated a brothel in the city's red-light district, as well as hundreds of Civil War soldiers, city founders and the first African American physician, Dr. Dickerson Alphonse Smith. Some souls are said to haunt the grounds still. Join authors Gary D. Joiner and Cheryl White and discover some of Shreveport's oldest stories.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Alexander John Boarman
- Jacob Bodenheimer
- Mary Bennett Cane
- Amanda Arnell Clark and Dr. Dickerson Alphonse Smith (Mother and Son)
- Lawrence Pike Crain
- Moses H. Crowell
- Adah Vinson DeLay
- Bartholomew Egan
- Claiborne Lee Foster
- Captain James Martin Foster
- John Gray Foster
- William Walton George
- Nathan Goldkind
- John Lee Gooch
- James Madison Hollingsworth
- Thomas P. Hotchkiss
- John N. Howell
- Benjamin Jacobs
- Edward Jacobs
- Roland Jones
- Isaac Kahn
- William Kinney
- Thomas Thompson Land
- John Morgan Landrum
- Albert Harris Leonard
- Captain Simon Levy Jr.
- Samuel Levy
- Lafayette Robert Logan
- Colonel Leon Dawson Marks
- Annie McCune
- Reuben Neil McKellar
- James V. Nolan
- Genevieve Penick
- Julia Sparke Rule
- Colonel William Rabun Shivers
- Richard and Zachary Taylor
- Reverend George Tucker
- Richard Tucker Vinson
- Colonel Samuel J. Ward
- Lieutenant Eugene Augustus Woodruff
- Yellow Fever Mound
- Appendix: Timeline of Significant Events in Historic Oakland Cemetery
- Notes
- About the Authors.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-62585-379-3
- OCLC:
- 947153368
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