Among the most important of these is the monument to the memory of Irad Ferry, located just beyond the entrance. Ferry, a leading businessman and a volunteer with Mississippi Co. No 2 as well as a treasurer of the Association, lost his life on New Year's Day, 1837, while fighting a fire on Camp Street. He was the first of many Association members and among the many brave volunteer and professional firemen to lose his life in the line of duty. His remains were moved to the new cemetery during its dedication ceremony in 1814.

The Irad Ferry monument symbolizes a life cut short ... a broken Doric column planted atop the classical sarcophagus. The stone coffin depicts a 19th Century fire engine in crisp relief. It was designed by the famed architect Jacques de Pouilly who modeled the Ferry monument after a monument in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.