Confederate Rest
Alice Whiting Waterman Oct 18, 1820 – Sept. 13, 1897
Born Baton Rouge, La
"Erected in loving memory by United
Daughters of Confederacy to Mrs Alice
Whiting Waterman and her boys"
The patron saint of Confederate Rest.
Almost single-handedly restored the Confederate Cemetery at Forest Hill. A native of New
Orleans she found the tombstones in 1868 lying amid weeds and spent 30 years restoring
and maintaining the plot, planting trees and hedges, and marking the graves.
When she died in 1897, she was buried there with "Her Boys".
Confederate Rest
"Erected in loving memory by United