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Rogers-Palfrey-Brewster-Stilwell Cross
The Eastern Face
This side faces towards Pontchartrain Blvd.
The first panel is a 7-armed Jewish menorah with the words “Love Joy Peace� inscribed below it.
The second panel is a celtic-knot cross.
The third panel depicts a Louisiana Pelican, upon which is superimposed a pair of crossed cannon and a pyramid of cannon balls. There are inscriptions in the four corners (clockwise from top left): FB, CSA, 1862, 1865.
This panel commerates Walter Henry Rogers’service in the Civil War. The FB stands for “Fenner’s Battery.� Fenner’s Battery was an artillery formation in the Army of Tennessee, which would explain the crossed cannon. Here is more detail on Fenner’s Battery. Records indicate a “W. Rogers� was a private in this unit. (Thanks to Lori Taylor for solving this one for me--I was stuck on what “FB� meant.)
The final panel on this side lists the first set of names commerated on the cross (the dates are inscribed on the side):
Walter Henry Rogers 1843-1906
Elizabeth J. L. Goelet Rogers 1843 - 1924
Jane Grey Rogers 1843 - 1924
Elizabeth Buncombe Palfrey 1869 - 1928
Elizabeth G. Rogers Palfrey 1871 - 1933
Arthur Griswold Palfrey 1858 - 1942
Jane Yates Smith Goelet 1811 - 1867
Francis Heath Goelet 1846 - 1885
