The Espada Cemetery in la Habana

Havana's largest Cemetery is the Necropolis of Cristobal Colón.  But before the Colón was built there was also the Espada Cemetery.  



About 1868, there were so many deaths in the city from Cholera that there was no more room in the cemetery for additional burials.  It was shortly after this that the Colón Cemetery was created.
The book groups surnames by the same letter, but the names are not arranged in alphabetical order within the letter.  Hence, the fourteen Arangos were interspersed within the list of other people whose surnames began with the letter A.

Volunteers from The Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami have indexed the book and it is available online at:  https://cubangenclub.org/cpage.php?pt=41.







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