Following are the graves in the Home for the Homeless Rest plot in Greenwood Cemetery. The lot is in section 2, two lots east of Eastern Avenue. There are only eleven graves marked with headstones but there are probably more that are unmarked. The stones are very nearly identical, either cut from marble or molded from concrete and averaging 18 to 24 inches in height. At the center of the plot is a large square stone about 18 inches high and about 2 and 1/2 feet square, the top surface of which reads "Home for the Homeless Rest."  It is highly likely that more graves, originally marked with wooden or other temporary markers now vanished exist here in addition to those that are marked with stones.

The Home for the Homeless was founded in 1892 to provide housing and care for elderly women with no means to take care of themselves. In 1916 the mission was extended to assist elderly men in like circumstances. The plot at Greenwood was begun, presumably at the time of the Home's founding (and Greenwood's) in 1892, making it possibly the first (certainly one of the first) organization to establish its own burial section at the new city cemetery. Although many residing at the Home for the Homeless were ultimately laid to rest in family plots at Greenwood, Oakland, or other cemeteries in Shreveport and elsewhere, many had no families -- living or dead -- with whom to be buried. Rather than be laid to rest among strangers in the Potter's Field, they were buried here; the plot was used until at least the early 1930s.

In 1917 the name of the organization was changed to "The Home for the Aged." First located at 227 Logan Street, from 1905 until 1955 the facility was located at 228 Jordan Street (corner with Division Avenue, approximately where the I-49 overpass now crosses I-20; the buildings were demolished in 1971). In 1971 the name of the facility, which had been operating at 1524 Glen Oaks Drive, was changed to "The Glen Oaks Home." Gradually its mission was changing also, shifting from an asylum for the indigent elderly into a retirement home in the modern sense. Since the 1986 the name has been "The Glen retirement System," operating a modern facility including retirement apartments and nursing facilities for elderly Shreveporters of all faiths and income levels.

Burials at the Home for the Homeless Rest, Greenwood Cemetery:

Jones, Nancy

Young, Nancy

Grant, James A 1842 - 1923

Howard, Ira Judson d. June 29, 1931 aged 74 years

Cooper, Robert M. 1843 - 1919

Turner, "Grandma Turner", age 89

Harrison, "Grandma Harrison", age 88

Woodard, Mrs. Minnie

Whatley, William W.

Stampley, Ellen Elizabeth d. Nov. 4, 1918 aged 78 years

Heard, Mamie Phelps  wife of Willie Heard Dec. 28, 1875 - May 7, 1904 (this date of birth may be incorrect as she was only 28; perhaps she worked at the Home?)

Recorded March, 1993 by Eric Brock