Exposed Side of Wood Coffin

ID: 4774 ~ Source: University of New Orleans Department of Anthropology ~ Date: 1985

This file appears in: Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2: Excavations from 1980s

The wood seen behind the "5" label is the exposed side of a wooden coffin in the South Bound lane excavation area.

This file appears in: Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2: Excavations from 1980s

Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2: Excavations from 1980s

By Ethan Ranck, D. Ryan Gray (editor) & Charlotte Willcox (editor)

The Charity Hospital’s Cemetery No 2. * was used actively between the 1850s and the 1920s to bury the poor and those who succumbed to illness and disease at the hospital. Included in these burials were enslaved people, immigrants, victims of a…