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WWW.HOLLYWOODCEMETERY.ORG SPRING 2021 • VOLUME 12, NUMBER 1 Restoration Continues Friends Undertakes Three New Projects riends of Hollywood Cemetery has initiated a overlooking Westvale Avenue. “Within, and without, these fundraising campaign that will provide for restorations walls rest members of the family of Col. John Harvie, Finvolving the Harvie Plot, the Lawn, and iron fencing in 1742-1807,” reads a plaque. Section K.

“Each of these priority projects involve historically significant parts of the cemetery that have fallen into disrepair with the passage of time,” said Kelly Wilbanks, the nonprofit’s Executive Director. “We hope to bring them back to their full glory with the help of our supporters.”

Fundraising is already underway thanks to gifts totaling $42,500 from the Richard & Caroline T. Gwathmey Trust and the Windsor Foundation Trust to support the renovation of the Harvie Plot. Brick wall around Col. John Harvie family plot to be repointed The Harvie Plot ($150,000) The section is made up of 12 large family lots where nearly 100 Harvie family members are buried including The Harvie Plot pre-dates the creation of Hollywood Col. Harvie, a signer of the Articles of Confederation and and includes a brick walled-in area, visible on a hill the Bill of Rights and lifelong friend of Thomas Jefferson; his wife, Mary, the daughter of Chief Justice John Marshall; and their son, Jaquelin.

“Hollywood purchased 43 acres from the Harvie family to develop the cemetery. One contingency of the sale was that Hollywood would maintain the Harvie burial grounds that were part of the land purchase,” said David Gilliam, Hollywood’s General Manager.

Currently, the plot is hidden away, and visitors enter it by way of dilapidated steps. The $150,000 project will create a safer entry and help the plot stand out more. Current entrance to the Harvie plot area (continued on page 2)

New Van Yahres John Hollywood Friends Restoration Tree Moncure Cradle Contributors Projects Company Daniel Graves (as of April 8, 2021)

A new fountain comes to life in the restored Glade section Pages 1-3 Pages 4-5 Pages 6-7 Pages 8-9 Pages 10-11 Credit: Bill Draper Photography Gifts In Kind Ann and Barry Leonard Mary and George Gamble Corporations, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Harris Anonymous New Projects (continued) Bill Draper Photography Foundations and Ms. Connie Hilker, Hartwood Roses Timothy C. McCoy Joseph H. Hart Hollywood Cemetery Company Carrington Williams, Jr. Mrs. Virginia Hart Organizations Emily S. and Coleman A. Hunter Trust Plans include adding a cobblestone pavement on the road Nelson D. Lankford, Ph.D Emory G. William Gray Holdings, LLC to mark the entrance, resetting the stairs and adding a Sharon Pajka, Ph.D Mrs. Dabney Williams McCoy Gifts In Honor Hollywood Cemetery Company handrail, improving and extending a cobble retaining Mr. Donald Toney The Gray Family Wendy Gentz Chapin Anonymous Nelsen Funeral Home wall, repairing the brick walled enclosure, and installing a Mrs. Mabel Toney Mrs. Elizabeth G. Hull Roller-Bottimore Foundation new plaque. All Souls at rest at Hollywood Michael B. Huntley Woody Funeral Home Gifts In Memory Mr. William A. Harrison, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Brockenbrough Lamb, Jr. Mrs. Anna Konrad We have made every effort to “We feel it is time to call attention to this area of the Mr. and Mrs. William B. Adamson Joe and Peggy Benedetti Alwilda Valentine create an accurate list of our cemetery,” said Gilliam. Mr. Matt Benedetti Ms. Catherine Farmer supporters. Should there be an error, please let us know. The Lawn ($150,000)

Located near Davis Circle, and overlooking the river, the Just in time for spring and summer, a new exhibit – Breathing Places: Parks Lawn is a familiar site to visitors. The area is home to & Recreation in Richmond – opens at the Branch lot, with its dramatic sculpture of a mourning the Valentine on May 5! woman leaning against a cross; the grave of Japanese businessman Tokukichiro Abe; and numerous mausoleums In 1851, Richmond’s Committee on set into the hillside, including those of the Sauer, Robins, Public Squares recommended “securing and Gray families. In the middle, an elliptical area is Current concrete walkways breathing places in the midst of the divided by concrete sidewalks. “This was the first section in the cemetery in which city...” Since then, the region has developed “breathing places” for some this design was implemented. It was a step away from residents while limiting and denying having granite borders around lots and numerous upright access to others. Breathing Places monuments within the lot,” said Gilliam. This was explores the design, use and change meant to streamline the look of one’s family plot, so it of Richmond’s carefully crafted parks, was uncluttered and made perpetual care easier for the recreation areas and natural spaces and cemetery. their effect on the region’s residents today.

The $150,000 project will provide for the removal of the For more information, see https:// old sidewalks, the restoration of the walkway to a grass thevalentine.org/exhibition/breathing- path, and the addition of granite curbs and cobblestone places-parks-recreation-in-richmond/ paving to tie in the Lawn with more recently renovated sections of the cemetery. To meet the demand for more burial sites, 230 cremation niches will be installed in the Entrance to Hollywood Cemetery postcard, ca. 1905, V.2019.04.621, The Valentine area by Hollywood Cemetery Company.

2021 2021 Administrative Staff Officers and Directors Officers and Directors Hollywood Cemetery Company Friends of Hollywood Cemetery Hollywood Cemetery Company David L. Gilliam – General Manager Edward M. Farley, IV – Chair E. Bryson Powell – President Woodrow C. Harper – Assistant General David L. Gilliam – Secretary William R. Claiborne – Vice President Manager William R. Claiborne – Treasurer David L. Gilliam – Secretary and Mabel E. Toney – Administrative Assistant General Manager Kristina Coonley – Assistant View of the Lawn at Hollywood Mary Lynn Bayliss, PhD Woodrow C. Harper – Treasurer Cheryl Knaut – Assistant Elizabeth Rawles Cronly Mabel E. Toney – Assistant Secretary and “To me, it is ironic that a sidewalk was installed in a Joseph R. Herbert Assistant Treasurer section called the Lawn. It is the only section in the J. Mason New cemetery where the walkways were not left as grass,” said E. Bryson Powell Edward M. Farley, IV Gilliam. Elizabeth W. Talley Matthew D. Jenkins Rendering of new cobblestone apron and grass walkways Peter C. Toms Elizabeth Cabell Jennings The Lawn was created in 1893 with a stipulation common Nelson D. Lankford, PhD in modern cemeteries of the time: Each plot could have Finally, an existing water feature and planting will be Kelly Jones Wilbanks, Executive Director Evelina M. Scott only one upright monument with the family’s name; removed, allowing space for sculpture, new plantings, or Nancy B. Rowe, Development Associate Fred T. Tattersall the rest of the markers had to be flush to the ground to additional burial sites. E. Massie Valentine, Jr. designate individual burial spaces. (continued on page 3)

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 2 SPRING 2021 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 11 SPRING 2021 2021 Contributors to Friends of Hollywood Cemetery New Projects (continued) We are indeed grateful to the following donors for their generous support of Friends through April 8, 2021. You have enabled us to raise awareness of Restoration of Iron Fences in Section K ($275,000) Robert Chase, who is the principal of the Richmond-based Hollywood and to continue vital monument and fence restoration. Thank you for helping us to preserve Hollywood Cemetery for generations to come. firm Chase Architectural Metal. Approximately 10% of According to Gilliam, the cemetery began a project to the ironwork will be recast. preserve and restore iron fencing in the early 1990’s. Edward M. Farley, IV Funding in recent years has enabled the cemetery to Each fence section weighs about 250-300 pounds and had Chair, Friends of Hollywood Cemetery continue this restoration. to be brought to the studio and back on flat-bed trucks and trailers, then carted to the site on ATVs. The 1847 Society Mr. Robert Nelson, Jr. Mr. William A. Harrison, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Riopelle Mrs. Virginia Hart Mr. and Mrs. William B. Adamson The cemetery has recently turned its attention to Section K, the site of the first burial in Hollywood following its The funding will support the restoration of 655 feet of Presidents Circle Megan and Jimmy Rose Charitable Mr. Bernard L. Henderson, Jr. Ms. Micaella Brown iron fencing as well as stonework in sections 77-92 of Fund * Mr. and Mrs. John Cameron Hoggan, Jr. Mrs. Harold M. Burrows, Jr. establishment. Located near Presidents Circle, Section K Hollywood Cemetery Company the Womble plot. Some of that fencing has significant Mr. and Mrs. William R. Shands, Jr. Mrs. Elizabeth G. Hull Ms. Sarah Butler also stands out for its ornate cast iron fencing—part of a Roller-Bottimore Foundation deterioration and is missing four gates, nine finials, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Tattersall Ms. Elizabeth L. Keller Ms. Sharon Carter plan to boost sales in 1854. Founders Circle Mr. and Mrs. Zach Toms, III John T. Kneebone, PhD and Kc Cataldi numerous posts. Dr. Elizabeth Roderick Emily S. and Coleman A. Hunter Trust Ned and Laura Valentine Family Fund * Mr. Charles W. Craig, III According to John O. Peters in his book Richmond’s Mr. and Mrs. E. Massie Valentine, Jr. Ms. Anna Konrad Mrs. Donna M. Galloway Funds will also provide for the restoration of “the opulent Heritage Circle Dr. and Mrs. Peter T. Wilbanks Mr. Garry W. Land Ms. Michelle Gardiner Hollywood Cemetery, Hollywood’s board “was so fence surrounding the Mitchell lot, which features an Mr. and Mrs. S. Wyndham Anderson Woody Funeral Home Mrs. Ann Tanner Eads Leary Mr. Harrison Glotz convinced of the appeal of decorative ironwork that, in unusual double gate inverted torches and Gothic tracery,” Dr. and Mrs. Wyatt S. Beazley, III Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lehman Bradley H. and Meredith Strohm Gunter March 1854, it entered into an agreement with the firm of said Chase. The project will involve about 160 linear feet Mr. Timothy A. Kuhn Patrons ($250-$499) Mr. and Mrs. George W. Macon, III Ms. Denise Halderman Bowers, Snyder, & Carter to enclose eight unsold lots in of fencing in sections 93-96. Anonymous (2) Mrs. Dabney Williams McCoy Ms. Samantha Hanson section K with iron railing.” Hollywood Circle Mr. and Mrs. Dermot M. Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Robley Bates Mrs. Pamela Hawkins All restorations will be completed in accordance with the Mr. and Mrs. William R. Claiborne Mr. and Mrs. J. Read Branch, Jr. Charles Norris and Kathy Emerson Ms. Lynn Hofher Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Cronly, III Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Cain, Jr. Mr. Christopher M. O’Kelly Mrs. J. Kimpton Honey Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Farley, IV Mr. and Mrs. Steven R. Dickey Sharon Pajka, Ph.D Mrs. Elsie S. Dickinson Hovis Historic Properties. Gray Holdings, LLC Mr. Joe Frye Mr. and Mrs. C. Cotesworth Pinckney Ms. Theresa Kessery Mr. and Mrs. John C. Reed Mr. C. Hobson Goddin Zane Pion Ms. Kristina Larson How to help Mr. and Mrs. William St. C. Talley Mr. and Mrs. R. Garnett Hall, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. E. Bryson Powell Mr. Steven L. Layman Mrs. Ruth Pratt Ivy Circle Mrs. Penelope Billings Holladay Mr. and Mrs. James H. Lewis Wilbanks appreciates the generosity of the Gwathmey Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Elliott Howell Mr. Gale P. Schurman Mrs. Janet H. Mauck Anonymous (2) Trust and the Windsor Foundation. “These lead gifts Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lowsley-Williams Mrs. Conway Sheild Mr. and Mrs. George J. McVey Drs. J. T. and M. L. Bayliss from our longtime supporters have helped us launch the Mr. Andrew T. Moore, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Sowers, III Mr. Gordon Musch Mr. and Mrs. Orran L. Brown campaign and create excitement,” she said. “We now hope Mr. and Mrs. J. Mason New Mr. and Mrs. E. Hunter Thompson, Jr. Colonel Davis Eugene Norman Tom and Pat Chappell others who love Hollywood Cemetery will join us as we Mr. and Mrs. Russell L. Rabb, Jr. Ms. Frances Coleman Toms Ms. Jane Powell Dr. William Jackson Frable move forward in this important campaign.” Mr. Douglas P. Rucker, Jr. Mrs. Nancy Traylor Mr. Josh Rawson Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Herbert Mr. and Mrs. Randolph E. Trow, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Roger H. Tutton Dr. and Mrs. Gaylord W. Ray Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah J. Jewett, III Mr. and Mrs. Dana M. Wegner Mr. Joseph Umble Mrs. Deborah D. Salinger If you would like to learn more about making a tax- Mrs. Patsy K. Pettus Ms. Diane Whiting Mr. Ernest C. Vaughan, Jr. Mrs. Cynthia H. Sexton deductible donation to these projects, please contact Mrs. Suzanne C. Pollard Associates ($100-$249) Ms. Brenda Walls Jesse Sledge Wilbanks at (804) 648-8501 or by email at kwilbanks@ Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Roach Mr. Thomas Duval Watts, Jr. Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Srpan hollywoodcemetery.org. Mr. Thomas A. Silvestri and Dr. and Mrs. Charles Pinckney Winkler Colonel and Mrs. Scott D. Aiken Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Thomas Mrs. Susan Kurzman Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Wishnack Mr. Matt Benedetti Mr. and Mrs. William R. Trigg, II Lawrence W. and Susan I. Smith Mrs. Carol D. Woodward Mr. and Mrs. J. Joseph Boehling, III Ms. Jane Ward Mitchell Fence in Section K Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Toms Mrs. Mary Denny Wray Mr. Fielding L. Williams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Brinkley, Jr. Mrs. Mary P. Ware Dr. and Mrs. James R. Wickham Gilliam observed that “the fencing appealed to families Mr. Lawrence C. Caldwell, III Contributor (up to $99) Mrs. Anne Moncure Call Ms. Nichole Wood because it separated them from other family plots. It Sustainers ($500-$999) Anonymous (6) Colonel and Mrs. J. A. Barton Campbell Mrs. Sandra L. Woodall likely proved to be costly to the cemetery as this was not Mr. and Mrs. McGuire Boyd Mr. Max R. Adam Mrs. Barbara L’ O. Catlett Mrs. Dianne E. Conwell Ms. Amanda Yekel carried out for a long period of time.” Zayde and Edwin Child Mr. and Mrs. Frederic H. Cox, Jr. Mr. Marvin Coward Mrs. Ruth A. Cunningham The 1847 Society Sadly, as with other sections of the cemetery, time, Mrs. Tanya Parker Dolphin Mr. Carthon Davis, III weather, and the shifting tree roots of mature trees have Mr. David Dearinger Leaders for preservation of Hollywood Cemetery Mr. Bruce B. Gray taken a toll on the iron and stonework in Section K. Mr. R. Stephen Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. A. Hugh Ewing Annual Giving Levels Mr. and Mrs. F. Meriwether Fowlkes, Jr. Friends is raising $275,000 to restore the iron fences Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ashby Jennings, III Presidents Circle for Gifts of $25,000+ Does the name sound familiar? Robert and Mary Vaughan Gibson framing sections of the Womble and Mitchell Plots and Cox-Johnston Fund * Founders Circle for Gifts of $10,000 to $24,999 Mr. and Mrs. F. Claiborne Johnston, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David L. Gilliam repair the damaged stonework. Chase Architectural Metal’s many notable projects include Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Given Heritage Circle for Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999 those commissioned by the VMFA, the Federal Reserve Bank Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. W. Kirby Hollywood Circle for Gifts of $2,500 to $4,999 Mr. and Mrs. G. Gilmer Minor, III Jack and Ann Graham “In the Womble plot at the center of Section K was the in Richmond, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Ivy Circle for Gifts of $1,000 to $2,499 Nelsen Funeral Home Ms. Barbara L. Gregory biggest magnolia I’ve ever seen, about 5 feet in diameter. Arts, Thomas Jefferson’s cemetery —as well as the restoration Mr. Robert P. Grymes, Jr. We invite you to join the 1847 Society and continue the ongoing It pushed stones up, knocked the fence down. I had to of President James Monroe’s tomb (“the birdcage”) in • Deceased Mr. William A. Hall Hollywood Cemetery. restoration and preservation of Hollywood Cemetery. have patterns made to recast some of those pieces,” said * The Community Foundation Serving Ms. Austin Cary Hancock Richmond and Central Virginia Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Harris

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 10 SPRING 2021 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 3 SPRING 2021 The Fourth Generation Cradle Graves (continued) Meet the new Co-owners of Van Yahres Tree Company remain bare. The most famous cradle grave in Hollywood Family Legacy of Excellence: Meet the new co- we had to learn about developing protocols and additional is guarded by the iron dog and belongs to Florence A owners of the Van Yahres Tree Company. safety measures to keep the company safe,” said Shana. Bernardin Rees who was two-years-old when she died in “We’re proud to say that we managed to go through 2020 1862. While the Rees cradle grave does not include plant- Shana Clarke and Jake Van Yahres grew up in a tree- without one positive case of COVID.” life, it has become a tradition for visitors to leave trinkets, focused family. coins, and shells at the grave. The family’s first annual contract with Hollywood Cemetery began in 1994 and has been maintained ever since with the help of VYTC’s most experienced working arborist, Jeremy Thompson. The company provides tree maintenance and care for institutional clients including Monticello, Virginia Episcopal School, and The University of Virginia as well as private estates. The cast-iron Newfoundland stands over the cradle grave of a little girl who died in 1862 Jake first began working at the cemetery during the summers when he was a student at VCU. His The cradle grave of John B. Morton, who was 73-years- grandfather, Mitch Van Yahres, made the first inventory old when he passed away in 1881 demonstrates that the Advertisement from the Richmond Dispatch on Feb. 23, 1857. design was not specific to only women and children. of Hollywood’s 2,000 trees. “It’s this huge notebook, with A gardener with twenty-five years of experience advertises his tons and tons of pages,” said Jake. services for work in private gardens and in cemeteries Rural cemeteries in the U.S. differ from those in Europe in Shana Clarke (with a brand new vest) Cradle Graves can be found in a variety of sizes and they that the focus is more on nature than sculptural design. In were not only used for children’s graves. The grave of 2017, Hollywood was recognized as a level 1 accredited “When we would go on family vacations in New York, Mary Jane Wortham who was 38-years-old when she died arboretum, which continues the legacy of the Amerian we’d be walking to a museum or restaurant and Mom in 1859 is nearly ten feet tall. To understand the grandness rural cemetery. In recent years, rural cemeteries across would say, `We need to walk 15 blocks this way because of this particular cradle grave, I asked my friend Debby the country have established gardening programs and there’s some wonderful trees we need to see,’” said Jake Renna to take a picture. I am 5’5 and the height of the provided workshops to help resurrect cradle graves to with a laugh, remembering how he and his sister would grave-marker their intended purpose as container gardens. As more groan at the extra distance. towers above me. trees are planted throughout Hollywood, and the historic Wortham’s grave roses continue to thrive, one hopes to see in the coming Today the siblings are co-owners of the Charlottesville- includes engravings years the cradle graves filled with lavender, rosemary, based Van Yahres Tree Company, the arborists who of a floral wreath sage and flowering bulbs. tend Hollywood Cemetery’s trees. They are the fourth and a flowers on generation of their family to run the company, started in both the headstone 1919 by their great-grandfather, George Van Yahres. Jake Van Yahres in front of his mural “Together We Grow” in downtown Charlottesville. The mural is meant to show and footstone as how trees come in all shapes and sizes, but below the well as an urn “I have met them both and they are very impressive surface, they grow stronger together, much like people young people. They strike me as being very sincere in topped with stone their desire to carry on the family legacy of excellence Mike and his wife, Peggy, both landscape architects, florals. The side in tree care,” said David Gilliam, the cemetery’s General oversaw the digitization of the records. slabs are intricately Manager. “I have no doubt that they will continue to see carved. Her family that Hollywood Cemetery continues to receive excellent “The digital tree planner allows Hollywood to more would have tended service in the management of our trees for another precisely and efficiently develop a maintenance plan each the garden in the generation.” year,” said Shana. cradle grave as a way to process the The new owners purchased the company from their father, The digitized records were an important part of The grave of Mary Jane Wortham death of a loved Mike Van Yahres, in February 2020—about four weeks towers above the author one and to have Hollywood’s successful designation as an arboretum. The Photo credit: Debby Renna. before COVID-19 hit. cemetery received reaccreditation in March. something grow The grave of John B. Morton. from that loss. An already stunning work of art would be Contributed by Sharon Pajka, Ph.D. (continued on page 5) beautified with the inclusion of a flower bed. “We were considered an essential business, so overnight Professor, Gallaudet University

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 4 SPRING 2021 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 9 SPRING 20212011 Over Two Hundred Van Yahres Tree Company (continued) Hollywood’s Unique Cradle Graves “There are a number of trees that predate Jake Van Yahres Tree Fact: confirmed with A.P. Grappone and Sons, Inc., a local the cemetery. company that has been designing monuments for over 100 A teaspoon of soil has more organisms in it than The vision of the there are people on the entire planet. years that these grave-markers are more frequently known landscape architect https://vytc.com/ as cradle graves. that created it [John Notman] was to leave Philadelphia As It Is in 1852 the digital tree planner by adding a feature that grades the In the guidebook, , R.A. the trees there and Smith references a grave in a rural cemetery, “Among trees by importance. They will also focus on preventative create the cemetery the many elegant monuments around, few surpass those plant health care, including treating the ash trees for within the forest,” ‘Tombs in the French style,’ i.e. with head and foot emerald ash borers. said Jake. stones, and beautifully carved side slabs, presenting the appearance of a couch. They are further enhanced by the “Once the emerald ash borers infect an ash tree, it will Van Yahres will also profusion of roses and other choice flowers which cover inevitably die unless treated,” said Shana. the mound” (363). plant about 120 new trees this year in They will continue their family’s environmentally friendly Photo of cradle grave in “Philadelphia As It Is” in 1852 by During the 19th and early 20th century, cradle graves were the cemetery, said approaches to plant health care and tree care. For instance, R.A. Smith. This is the first known photo and reference to Shana. “It’s really this style of grave in the United States quite popular. A United States patent from 1914 includes they apply custom-blended nutrient treatments instead of an invention by Herbert E. Kimball of Dallas, Texas important to plan for fertilizer to the soil under the trees. n The Victorian Celebration of Death, James Curl which attempted to perfect the cradle grave. The invention Jeremy Thompson, lead VYTC replenishment and argues that cemeteries were held to be good not only crew chief, on a limb continue with the forI “morals and public health” but also for “virtue, of a “new and useful grave-marker…which shall surround “We’re seeing so many environmental stressors on these the grave, and which shall provide a flower bed over the new tree plantings so that there are these gorgeous and trees, particularly in the last few years,” said Shana. education, the development of artistic taste, sentiment, legendary trees for generations to come to enjoy them.” kindness, appreciation of sculpture and architecture, grave…in a device of the character described, a grave “Eighty percent of the health of a tree comes from soil. cradle….” You can’t just treat the tree from the trunk up.” instruction in botany and landscape-gardening, and much In Spring 2020, the company planted tulip poplars, else.” Cradle graves fit the iconography of rural cemeteries which grow fast and provide a lot of shade, on the sunny The company’s custom-blended nutrient treatments are that emphasizes resurrection with imagery of loved ones overlook near Davis Circle. Fall 2020 saw plantings near ictorian rural cemeteries, such as Hollywood made from locally-sourced rainwater, micronutrients, sleeping. Having a grave-marker resemble the very object the front of the cemetery, including Southern magnolias, Cemetery, were designed for the living and in a way enzymes and other natural conditioners, she said. arborvitae, oaks, and hollies, for which the cemetery is Vto attract visitors; before public parks, people flocked to of a bed was comforting to Victorians. The cradle grave named. rural cemeteries to take a break from frenzied city life, also fit in the design of rural cemeteries as the interior “Essentially, our nutrients are recreating the forest floor… enjoy some recreation, and to have some quiet reflection. was intended to be filled with flowers and plants. This falling exactly in line with what Hollywood was at the February’s back-to-back ice storms caused significant Among the obelisks, columns, and mausoleums, visitors paralleled the popularity of parlor plants and Victorian start.” will discover another prominent style of grave-marker. container planting that included both indoor and outdoor damage to the evergreen trees in the cemetery, especially While they can be called bedstead monuments, I flora, and the design occurred at the same time home those with heavy leaves. Fortunately, gardening began focusing on ornamental gardens over the arborists had pruned the edible ones. Cradle graves were also popular at the time magnolias at Presidents Circle a few when people were caring for their family plots. Weekly, weeks before the first storm. While family members would come to the cemetery to tend to many magnolias in other parts of the the grave and the flowers. Gardeners even marketed their cemetery lost big branches, “there services in local newspapers offering their expertise to was hardly a leaf on the ground” at those with private gardens or with gardens in cemeteries Presidents Circle, said Jake. that needed tending, such as this advertisement from the Richmond Dispatch on Feb. 23, 1857. “That is why preventative pruning and preventative care with these Hollywood has over 200 cradle graves throughout the mature trees is so critical, because cemetery. Although there are families who still care for it can help them withstand ice and their families’ plots, many families have moved away and windstorms,” added Shana. Diagram from the 1914 U.S. patent by Herbert E. Kimball in the cradle graves that were once filled with flowers now his attempt to perfect the cradle grave (continued on page 9) The new owners’ plan to improve VYTC crew in the trees

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 8 SPRING 2021 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 5 SPRING 2021 John Moncure Daniel Editor of the South (continued) reinforced his belief that a unified, independent South was took along his Firebrand Editor of the 19th-Century South the only answer to the sectional crisis back home. enslaved cook he most widely read—and hated--radical southern affair reeked of “essential stupidity” to Daniel’s jaundiced and valet to ease newspaperman, John Moncure Daniel (1825-1865) eye. Daniel never married and earned the reputation as a the discomfort of ridiculedT opponents throughout his brief incendiary Dueling Editors woman hater in some quarters. But this was mistaken. life on campaign. career and spewed vitriol across the political spectrum He consciously cultivated a Byronic air, and during his But he knew the without regard to consequences. Violence followed him: Two years later he and Edward Johnston, editor of the Italian years rumors repeatedly linked him romantically benefit of army by some accounts he faced opponents in nine duels. Only competing Richmond Whig, hotly disputed the merits with Marie, the princess de Solms, a much-married great service and was when friends buried him at Hollywood the week that of one of the most famous and controversial statues of niece of Napoleon. Her salon in the capital attracted rewarded with a Confederate Richmond expired in flames were his voice the century, Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave. As the first Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas, and lesser literati. She slight wound at and his pen silenced. sculpture of a fully nude female figure to be publicly once famously scandalized Turin high society when she Mechanicsville displayed in this country, the life-sized marble figure arrived at a soiree on the arm of the American diplomat. in 1862. Born in Stafford attracted wide attention when it went on tour. The two In later years Daniel kept on his mantle in Richmond County in 1825, editors agreed to resolve their differences about Powers’s the self-portrait painted on ivory that she gave him as a He surrounded Daniel drifted to work on the field of honor. In what was probably Daniel’s remembrance. himself with Richmond, studied first duel, both fired and missed. other fierce and abandoned The War Years young writers, law for journalism, When Edgar Allan Poe angrily disputed terms for including the and by the age contributing to the Examiner, the volatile poet issued a Daniel survived these contretemps for eight years, but on Irish nationalist of twenty-three challenge to Daniel. When he arrived at the newspaper learning of South Carolina’s secession in December 1860, John Mitchel, became editor office, not quite sober, Daniel coolly asked him to sit he hastened back to Virginia and reasserted control of the who had escaped Gravestone of John Moncure Daniel and owner of the down and gestured to a brace of dueling pistols. No Examiner. He took the most extreme proslavery position, from British Credit: Bill Draper Photography new Richmond less temperamental than Poe, on this occasion Daniel urged immediate disunion, denounced northerners as a exile in Tasmania Examiner. His uncharacteristically declined to fight. Later, in a review he separate race of “incarnate demons,” and sneered that and quixotically brilliant, slashing called Poe’s words “the only records of a wild, hard life,” the “baboon” Lincoln reached the White House by a path supported slavery, and Edward Pollard, whose turbulent style, full of which shone “with the diamond hues of eternity.” But he “strewn with condensed lumps of imbecility, buffoonery persona was “marred by episodes of sex and violence.” In invective and couldn’t let the matter rest there and undercut his praise and vulgar malignity.” He scorned Jefferson Davis in the luxuriously decorated apartment that Daniel outfitted sarcasm, quickly by dismissing most of Poe’s writings as mediocre. As the equally offensive terms. above the Examiner’s offices, he enjoyed declaiming to gained him notice poet was safely dead by the time the review appeared, his cronies about his favorite passions: secession and and enemies. John Moncure Daniel (1825–1865). there was no threat of another duel. Twice he served briefly as a Confederate staff officer. southern superiority. Within a year he Credit: Virginia Museum of History & He loathed hardship (“I hate pain, I cannot bear it”) and was described Culture (1990.50.21) Diplomatic Service Always of slight build and beset all his life by pulmonary as “an electric complaints, Daniel died of tuberculosis on March 30, battery, full charged, whose touches shocked the staid and In 1853 President Franklin Pierce appointed Daniel chargé 1865, not yet forty. After a service at Second Presbyterian lofty leaders in Virginia politics.” His long, raven hair, d’affaires at Turin, capital of the kingdom of Sardinia Church, his friends buried him near Presidents Circle gleaming brown eyes, aquiline nose, and pugnacious, and the center of the Risorgimento, the drive for an overlooking the rapids of the James River. Four days later thrusting chin gave him a look befitting his irascible independent Italy. Although critics said he shirked his temperament. He was an ambitious young man “of warm the great Evacuation Fire incinerated the business district, duties, that may have been on account of leaving a vast smoking ruin of ash heaps punctuated attachments and bitter hatreds; above all things Southern, a controversy he sparked soon after arriving when a almost fanatically Virginian,” recalled an associate. by tottering brick chimneys from Capitol Square down private letter home became public. In Turin, he sniffed, to the river. The Burned District encompassed nearly the women were ugly, the men empty-headed, and the In 1850 an elaborate ceremony surrounded laying the all the newspapers, including the Examiner. It, like the whole country stank of garlic. When an enemy had the cornerstone of Thomas Crawford’s grandiose equestrian Confederacy, was utterly consumed, in the words of letter translated into Italian and reprinted, it did nothing statue of Washington that would dominate the upper Daniel’s angry, unrepentant colleague, Edward Pollard, to advance his diplomatic reputation. At least he had precinct of Richmond’s Capitol Square. The editorial “as a scroll in the fire!” sense to decline when the nationalist general Giuseppe barbs that Daniel shot at the proceedings offended Garibaldi urged him to make the city of Nice an American French foreign legionnaires at the battle of Solferino, 1859. participating dignitaries, as he intended. He mocked the Contributed by Nelson D. Lankford, Ph.D., protectorate. More significantly, his years in Turin Daniel’s residence in Turin during the wars for Italian unification Sons of Temperance, “remarkable for their red noses and helped persuade him that southern independence back home was Board of Directors, Hollywood Cemetery coincided with the wars for Italian unification, which faces,” who turned out for the parade, and savaged the the solution to the sectional crisis. (continued on page 7) Masons for their deplorable “mummeries.” The whole Credit: Wikimedia Commons

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 6 SPRING 2021 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 7 SPRING 2021 John Moncure Daniel Editor of the South (continued) reinforced his belief that a unified, independent South was took along his Firebrand Editor of the 19th-Century South the only answer to the sectional crisis back home. enslaved cook he most widely read—and hated--radical southern affair reeked of “essential stupidity” to Daniel’s jaundiced and valet to ease newspaperman, John Moncure Daniel (1825-1865) eye. Daniel never married and earned the reputation as a the discomfort of ridiculedT opponents throughout his brief incendiary Dueling Editors woman hater in some quarters. But this was mistaken. life on campaign. career and spewed vitriol across the political spectrum He consciously cultivated a Byronic air, and during his But he knew the without regard to consequences. Violence followed him: Two years later he and Edward Johnston, editor of the Italian years rumors repeatedly linked him romantically benefit of army by some accounts he faced opponents in nine duels. Only competing Richmond Whig, hotly disputed the merits with Marie, the princess de Solms, a much-married great service and was when friends buried him at Hollywood the week that of one of the most famous and controversial statues of niece of Napoleon. Her salon in the capital attracted rewarded with a Confederate Richmond expired in flames were his voice the century, Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave. As the first Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas, and lesser literati. She slight wound at and his pen silenced. sculpture of a fully nude female figure to be publicly once famously scandalized Turin high society when she Mechanicsville displayed in this country, the life-sized marble figure arrived at a soiree on the arm of the American diplomat. in 1862. Born in Stafford attracted wide attention when it went on tour. The two In later years Daniel kept on his mantle in Richmond County in 1825, editors agreed to resolve their differences about Powers’s the self-portrait painted on ivory that she gave him as a He surrounded Daniel drifted to work on the field of honor. In what was probably Daniel’s remembrance. himself with Richmond, studied first duel, both fired and missed. other fierce and abandoned The War Years young writers, law for journalism, When Edgar Allan Poe angrily disputed terms for including the and by the age contributing to the Examiner, the volatile poet issued a Daniel survived these contretemps for eight years, but on Irish nationalist of twenty-three challenge to Daniel. When he arrived at the newspaper learning of South Carolina’s secession in December 1860, John Mitchel, became editor office, not quite sober, Daniel coolly asked him to sit he hastened back to Virginia and reasserted control of the who had escaped Gravestone of John Moncure Daniel and owner of the down and gestured to a brace of dueling pistols. No Examiner. He took the most extreme proslavery position, from British Credit: Bill Draper Photography new Richmond less temperamental than Poe, on this occasion Daniel urged immediate disunion, denounced northerners as a exile in Tasmania Examiner. His uncharacteristically declined to fight. Later, in a review he separate race of “incarnate demons,” and sneered that and quixotically brilliant, slashing called Poe’s words “the only records of a wild, hard life,” the “baboon” Lincoln reached the White House by a path supported slavery, and Edward Pollard, whose turbulent style, full of which shone “with the diamond hues of eternity.” But he “strewn with condensed lumps of imbecility, buffoonery persona was “marred by episodes of sex and violence.” In invective and couldn’t let the matter rest there and undercut his praise and vulgar malignity.” He scorned Jefferson Davis in the luxuriously decorated apartment that Daniel outfitted sarcasm, quickly by dismissing most of Poe’s writings as mediocre. As the equally offensive terms. above the Examiner’s offices, he enjoyed declaiming to gained him notice poet was safely dead by the time the review appeared, his cronies about his favorite passions: secession and and enemies. John Moncure Daniel (1825–1865). there was no threat of another duel. Twice he served briefly as a Confederate staff officer. southern superiority. Within a year he Credit: Virginia Museum of History & He loathed hardship (“I hate pain, I cannot bear it”) and was described Culture (1990.50.21) Diplomatic Service Always of slight build and beset all his life by pulmonary as “an electric complaints, Daniel died of tuberculosis on March 30, battery, full charged, whose touches shocked the staid and In 1853 President Franklin Pierce appointed Daniel chargé 1865, not yet forty. After a service at Second Presbyterian lofty leaders in Virginia politics.” His long, raven hair, d’affaires at Turin, capital of the kingdom of Sardinia Church, his friends buried him near Presidents Circle gleaming brown eyes, aquiline nose, and pugnacious, and the center of the Risorgimento, the drive for an overlooking the rapids of the James River. Four days later thrusting chin gave him a look befitting his irascible independent Italy. Although critics said he shirked his temperament. He was an ambitious young man “of warm the great Evacuation Fire incinerated the business district, duties, that may have been on account of leaving a vast smoking ruin of ash heaps punctuated attachments and bitter hatreds; above all things Southern, a controversy he sparked soon after arriving when a almost fanatically Virginian,” recalled an associate. by tottering brick chimneys from Capitol Square down private letter home became public. In Turin, he sniffed, to the river. The Burned District encompassed nearly the women were ugly, the men empty-headed, and the In 1850 an elaborate ceremony surrounded laying the all the newspapers, including the Examiner. It, like the whole country stank of garlic. When an enemy had the cornerstone of Thomas Crawford’s grandiose equestrian Confederacy, was utterly consumed, in the words of letter translated into Italian and reprinted, it did nothing statue of Washington that would dominate the upper Daniel’s angry, unrepentant colleague, Edward Pollard, to advance his diplomatic reputation. At least he had precinct of Richmond’s Capitol Square. The editorial “as a scroll in the fire!” sense to decline when the nationalist general Giuseppe barbs that Daniel shot at the proceedings offended Garibaldi urged him to make the city of Nice an American French foreign legionnaires at the battle of Solferino, 1859. participating dignitaries, as he intended. He mocked the Contributed by Nelson D. Lankford, Ph.D., protectorate. More significantly, his years in Turin Daniel’s residence in Turin during the wars for Italian unification Sons of Temperance, “remarkable for their red noses and helped persuade him that southern independence back home was Board of Directors, Hollywood Cemetery coincided with the wars for Italian unification, which faces,” who turned out for the parade, and savaged the the solution to the sectional crisis. (continued on page 7) Masons for their deplorable “mummeries.” The whole Credit: Wikimedia Commons

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 6 SPRING 2021 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 7 SPRING 2021 Over Two Hundred Van Yahres Tree Company (continued) Hollywood’s Unique Cradle Graves “There are a number of trees that predate Jake Van Yahres Tree Fact: confirmed with A.P. Grappone and Sons, Inc., a local the cemetery. company that has been designing monuments for over 100 A teaspoon of soil has more organisms in it than The vision of the there are people on the entire planet. years that these grave-markers are more frequently known landscape architect https://vytc.com/ as cradle graves. that created it [John Notman] was to leave Philadelphia As It Is in 1852 the digital tree planner by adding a feature that grades the In the guidebook, , R.A. the trees there and Smith references a grave in a rural cemetery, “Among trees by importance. They will also focus on preventative create the cemetery the many elegant monuments around, few surpass those plant health care, including treating the ash trees for within the forest,” ‘Tombs in the French style,’ i.e. with head and foot emerald ash borers. said Jake. stones, and beautifully carved side slabs, presenting the appearance of a couch. They are further enhanced by the “Once the emerald ash borers infect an ash tree, it will Van Yahres will also profusion of roses and other choice flowers which cover inevitably die unless treated,” said Shana. the mound” (363). plant about 120 new trees this year in They will continue their family’s environmentally friendly Photo of cradle grave in “Philadelphia As It Is” in 1852 by During the 19th and early 20th century, cradle graves were the cemetery, said approaches to plant health care and tree care. For instance, R.A. Smith. This is the first known photo and reference to Shana. “It’s really this style of grave in the United States quite popular. A United States patent from 1914 includes they apply custom-blended nutrient treatments instead of an invention by Herbert E. Kimball of Dallas, Texas important to plan for fertilizer to the soil under the trees. n The Victorian Celebration of Death, James Curl which attempted to perfect the cradle grave. The invention Jeremy Thompson, lead VYTC replenishment and argues that cemeteries were held to be good not only crew chief, on a limb continue with the forI “morals and public health” but also for “virtue, of a “new and useful grave-marker…which shall surround “We’re seeing so many environmental stressors on these the grave, and which shall provide a flower bed over the new tree plantings so that there are these gorgeous and trees, particularly in the last few years,” said Shana. education, the development of artistic taste, sentiment, legendary trees for generations to come to enjoy them.” kindness, appreciation of sculpture and architecture, grave…in a device of the character described, a grave “Eighty percent of the health of a tree comes from soil. cradle….” You can’t just treat the tree from the trunk up.” instruction in botany and landscape-gardening, and much In Spring 2020, the company planted tulip poplars, else.” Cradle graves fit the iconography of rural cemeteries which grow fast and provide a lot of shade, on the sunny The company’s custom-blended nutrient treatments are that emphasizes resurrection with imagery of loved ones overlook near Davis Circle. Fall 2020 saw plantings near ictorian rural cemeteries, such as Hollywood made from locally-sourced rainwater, micronutrients, sleeping. Having a grave-marker resemble the very object the front of the cemetery, including Southern magnolias, Cemetery, were designed for the living and in a way enzymes and other natural conditioners, she said. arborvitae, oaks, and hollies, for which the cemetery is Vto attract visitors; before public parks, people flocked to of a bed was comforting to Victorians. The cradle grave named. rural cemeteries to take a break from frenzied city life, also fit in the design of rural cemeteries as the interior “Essentially, our nutrients are recreating the forest floor… enjoy some recreation, and to have some quiet reflection. was intended to be filled with flowers and plants. This falling exactly in line with what Hollywood was at the February’s back-to-back ice storms caused significant Among the obelisks, columns, and mausoleums, visitors paralleled the popularity of parlor plants and Victorian start.” will discover another prominent style of grave-marker. container planting that included both indoor and outdoor damage to the evergreen trees in the cemetery, especially While they can be called bedstead monuments, I flora, and the design occurred at the same time home those with heavy leaves. Fortunately, gardening began focusing on ornamental gardens over the arborists had pruned the edible ones. Cradle graves were also popular at the time magnolias at Presidents Circle a few when people were caring for their family plots. Weekly, weeks before the first storm. While family members would come to the cemetery to tend to many magnolias in other parts of the the grave and the flowers. Gardeners even marketed their cemetery lost big branches, “there services in local newspapers offering their expertise to was hardly a leaf on the ground” at those with private gardens or with gardens in cemeteries Presidents Circle, said Jake. that needed tending, such as this advertisement from the Richmond Dispatch on Feb. 23, 1857. “That is why preventative pruning and preventative care with these Hollywood has over 200 cradle graves throughout the mature trees is so critical, because cemetery. Although there are families who still care for it can help them withstand ice and their families’ plots, many families have moved away and windstorms,” added Shana. Diagram from the 1914 U.S. patent by Herbert E. Kimball in the cradle graves that were once filled with flowers now his attempt to perfect the cradle grave (continued on page 9) The new owners’ plan to improve VYTC crew in the trees

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 8 SPRING 2021 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 5 SPRING 2021 The Fourth Generation Cradle Graves (continued) Meet the new Co-owners of Van Yahres Tree Company remain bare. The most famous cradle grave in Hollywood Family Legacy of Excellence: Meet the new co- we had to learn about developing protocols and additional is guarded by the iron dog and belongs to Florence A owners of the Van Yahres Tree Company. safety measures to keep the company safe,” said Shana. Bernardin Rees who was two-years-old when she died in “We’re proud to say that we managed to go through 2020 1862. While the Rees cradle grave does not include plant- Shana Clarke and Jake Van Yahres grew up in a tree- without one positive case of COVID.” life, it has become a tradition for visitors to leave trinkets, focused family. coins, and shells at the grave. The family’s first annual contract with Hollywood Cemetery began in 1994 and has been maintained ever since with the help of VYTC’s most experienced working arborist, Jeremy Thompson. The company provides tree maintenance and care for institutional clients including Monticello, Virginia Episcopal School, and The University of Virginia as well as private estates. The cast-iron Newfoundland stands over the cradle grave of a little girl who died in 1862 Jake first began working at the cemetery during the summers when he was a student at VCU. His The cradle grave of John B. Morton, who was 73-years- grandfather, Mitch Van Yahres, made the first inventory old when he passed away in 1881 demonstrates that the Advertisement from the Richmond Dispatch on Feb. 23, 1857. design was not specific to only women and children. of Hollywood’s 2,000 trees. “It’s this huge notebook, with A gardener with twenty-five years of experience advertises his tons and tons of pages,” said Jake. services for work in private gardens and in cemeteries Rural cemeteries in the U.S. differ from those in Europe in Shana Clarke (with a brand new vest) Cradle Graves can be found in a variety of sizes and they that the focus is more on nature than sculptural design. In were not only used for children’s graves. The grave of 2017, Hollywood was recognized as a level 1 accredited “When we would go on family vacations in New York, Mary Jane Wortham who was 38-years-old when she died arboretum, which continues the legacy of the Amerian we’d be walking to a museum or restaurant and Mom in 1859 is nearly ten feet tall. To understand the grandness rural cemetery. In recent years, rural cemeteries across would say, `We need to walk 15 blocks this way because of this particular cradle grave, I asked my friend Debby the country have established gardening programs and there’s some wonderful trees we need to see,’” said Jake Renna to take a picture. I am 5’5 and the height of the provided workshops to help resurrect cradle graves to with a laugh, remembering how he and his sister would grave-marker their intended purpose as container gardens. As more groan at the extra distance. towers above me. trees are planted throughout Hollywood, and the historic Wortham’s grave roses continue to thrive, one hopes to see in the coming Today the siblings are co-owners of the Charlottesville- includes engravings years the cradle graves filled with lavender, rosemary, based Van Yahres Tree Company, the arborists who of a floral wreath sage and flowering bulbs. tend Hollywood Cemetery’s trees. They are the fourth and a flowers on generation of their family to run the company, started in both the headstone 1919 by their great-grandfather, George Van Yahres. Jake Van Yahres in front of his mural “Together We Grow” in downtown Charlottesville. The mural is meant to show and footstone as how trees come in all shapes and sizes, but below the well as an urn “I have met them both and they are very impressive surface, they grow stronger together, much like people young people. They strike me as being very sincere in topped with stone their desire to carry on the family legacy of excellence Mike and his wife, Peggy, both landscape architects, florals. The side in tree care,” said David Gilliam, the cemetery’s General oversaw the digitization of the records. slabs are intricately Manager. “I have no doubt that they will continue to see carved. Her family that Hollywood Cemetery continues to receive excellent “The digital tree planner allows Hollywood to more would have tended service in the management of our trees for another precisely and efficiently develop a maintenance plan each the garden in the generation.” year,” said Shana. cradle grave as a way to process the The new owners purchased the company from their father, The digitized records were an important part of The grave of Mary Jane Wortham death of a loved Mike Van Yahres, in February 2020—about four weeks towers above the author one and to have Hollywood’s successful designation as an arboretum. The Photo credit: Debby Renna. before COVID-19 hit. cemetery received reaccreditation in March. something grow The grave of John B. Morton. from that loss. An already stunning work of art would be Contributed by Sharon Pajka, Ph.D. (continued on page 5) beautified with the inclusion of a flower bed. “We were considered an essential business, so overnight Professor, Gallaudet University

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 4 SPRING 2021 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 9 SPRING 20212011 2021 Contributors to Friends of Hollywood Cemetery New Projects (continued) We are indeed grateful to the following donors for their generous support of Friends through April 8, 2021. You have enabled us to raise awareness of Restoration of Iron Fences in Section K ($275,000) Robert Chase, who is the principal of the Richmond-based Hollywood and to continue vital monument and fence restoration. Thank you for helping us to preserve Hollywood Cemetery for generations to come. firm Chase Architectural Metal. Approximately 10% of According to Gilliam, the cemetery began a project to the ironwork will be recast. preserve and restore iron fencing in the early 1990’s. Edward M. Farley, IV Funding in recent years has enabled the cemetery to Each fence section weighs about 250-300 pounds and had Chair, Friends of Hollywood Cemetery continue this restoration. to be brought to the studio and back on flat-bed trucks and trailers, then carted to the site on ATVs. The 1847 Society Mr. Robert Nelson, Jr. Mr. William A. Harrison, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Riopelle Mrs. Virginia Hart Mr. and Mrs. William B. Adamson The cemetery has recently turned its attention to Section K, the site of the first burial in Hollywood following its The funding will support the restoration of 655 feet of Presidents Circle Megan and Jimmy Rose Charitable Mr. Bernard L. Henderson, Jr. Ms. Micaella Brown iron fencing as well as stonework in sections 77-92 of Fund * Mr. and Mrs. John Cameron Hoggan, Jr. Mrs. Harold M. Burrows, Jr. establishment. Located near Presidents Circle, Section K Hollywood Cemetery Company the Womble plot. Some of that fencing has significant Mr. and Mrs. William R. Shands, Jr. Mrs. Elizabeth G. Hull Ms. Sarah Butler also stands out for its ornate cast iron fencing—part of a Roller-Bottimore Foundation deterioration and is missing four gates, nine finials, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Tattersall Ms. Elizabeth L. Keller Ms. Sharon Carter plan to boost sales in 1854. Founders Circle Mr. and Mrs. Zach Toms, III John T. Kneebone, PhD and Kc Cataldi numerous posts. Dr. Elizabeth Roderick Emily S. and Coleman A. Hunter Trust Ned and Laura Valentine Family Fund * Mr. Charles W. Craig, III According to John O. Peters in his book Richmond’s Mr. and Mrs. E. Massie Valentine, Jr. Ms. Anna Konrad Mrs. Donna M. Galloway Funds will also provide for the restoration of “the opulent Heritage Circle Dr. and Mrs. Peter T. Wilbanks Mr. Garry W. Land Ms. Michelle Gardiner Hollywood Cemetery, Hollywood’s board “was so fence surrounding the Mitchell lot, which features an Mr. and Mrs. S. Wyndham Anderson Woody Funeral Home Mrs. Ann Tanner Eads Leary Mr. Harrison Glotz convinced of the appeal of decorative ironwork that, in unusual double gate inverted torches and Gothic tracery,” Dr. and Mrs. Wyatt S. Beazley, III Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lehman Bradley H. and Meredith Strohm Gunter March 1854, it entered into an agreement with the firm of said Chase. The project will involve about 160 linear feet Mr. Timothy A. Kuhn Patrons ($250-$499) Mr. and Mrs. George W. Macon, III Ms. Denise Halderman Bowers, Snyder, & Carter to enclose eight unsold lots in of fencing in sections 93-96. Anonymous (2) Mrs. Dabney Williams McCoy Ms. Samantha Hanson section K with iron railing.” Hollywood Circle Mr. and Mrs. Dermot M. Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Robley Bates Mrs. Pamela Hawkins All restorations will be completed in accordance with the Mr. and Mrs. William R. Claiborne Mr. and Mrs. J. Read Branch, Jr. Charles Norris and Kathy Emerson Ms. Lynn Hofher Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Cronly, III Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Cain, Jr. Mr. Christopher M. O’Kelly Mrs. J. Kimpton Honey Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Farley, IV Mr. and Mrs. Steven R. Dickey Sharon Pajka, Ph.D Mrs. Elsie S. Dickinson Hovis Historic Properties. Gray Holdings, LLC Mr. Joe Frye Mr. and Mrs. C. Cotesworth Pinckney Ms. Theresa Kessery Mr. and Mrs. John C. Reed Mr. C. Hobson Goddin Zane Pion Ms. Kristina Larson How to help Mr. and Mrs. William St. C. Talley Mr. and Mrs. R. Garnett Hall, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. E. Bryson Powell Mr. Steven L. Layman Mrs. Ruth Pratt Ivy Circle Mrs. Penelope Billings Holladay Mr. and Mrs. James H. Lewis Wilbanks appreciates the generosity of the Gwathmey Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Elliott Howell Mr. Gale P. Schurman Mrs. Janet H. Mauck Anonymous (2) Trust and the Windsor Foundation. “These lead gifts Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lowsley-Williams Mrs. Conway Sheild Mr. and Mrs. George J. McVey Drs. J. T. and M. L. Bayliss from our longtime supporters have helped us launch the Mr. Andrew T. Moore, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Sowers, III Mr. Gordon Musch Mr. and Mrs. Orran L. Brown campaign and create excitement,” she said. “We now hope Mr. and Mrs. J. Mason New Mr. and Mrs. E. Hunter Thompson, Jr. Colonel Davis Eugene Norman Tom and Pat Chappell others who love Hollywood Cemetery will join us as we Mr. and Mrs. Russell L. Rabb, Jr. Ms. Frances Coleman Toms Ms. Jane Powell Dr. William Jackson Frable move forward in this important campaign.” Mr. Douglas P. Rucker, Jr. Mrs. Nancy Traylor Mr. Josh Rawson Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Herbert Mr. and Mrs. Randolph E. Trow, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Roger H. Tutton Dr. and Mrs. Gaylord W. Ray Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah J. Jewett, III Mr. and Mrs. Dana M. Wegner Mr. Joseph Umble Mrs. Deborah D. Salinger If you would like to learn more about making a tax- Mrs. Patsy K. Pettus Ms. Diane Whiting Mr. Ernest C. Vaughan, Jr. Mrs. Cynthia H. Sexton deductible donation to these projects, please contact Mrs. Suzanne C. Pollard Associates ($100-$249) Ms. Brenda Walls Jesse Sledge Wilbanks at (804) 648-8501 or by email at kwilbanks@ Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Roach Mr. Thomas Duval Watts, Jr. Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Srpan hollywoodcemetery.org. Mr. Thomas A. Silvestri and Dr. and Mrs. Charles Pinckney Winkler Colonel and Mrs. Scott D. Aiken Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Thomas Mrs. Susan Kurzman Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Wishnack Mr. Matt Benedetti Mr. and Mrs. William R. Trigg, II Lawrence W. and Susan I. Smith Mrs. Carol D. Woodward Mr. and Mrs. J. Joseph Boehling, III Ms. Jane Ward Mitchell Fence in Section K Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Toms Mrs. Mary Denny Wray Mr. Fielding L. Williams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Brinkley, Jr. Mrs. Mary P. Ware Dr. and Mrs. James R. Wickham Gilliam observed that “the fencing appealed to families Mr. Lawrence C. Caldwell, III Contributor (up to $99) Mrs. Anne Moncure Call Ms. Nichole Wood because it separated them from other family plots. It Sustainers ($500-$999) Anonymous (6) Colonel and Mrs. J. A. Barton Campbell Mrs. Sandra L. Woodall likely proved to be costly to the cemetery as this was not Mr. and Mrs. McGuire Boyd Mr. Max R. Adam Mrs. Barbara L’ O. Catlett Mrs. Dianne E. Conwell Ms. Amanda Yekel carried out for a long period of time.” Zayde and Edwin Child Mr. and Mrs. Frederic H. Cox, Jr. Mr. Marvin Coward Mrs. Ruth A. Cunningham The 1847 Society Sadly, as with other sections of the cemetery, time, Mrs. Tanya Parker Dolphin Mr. Carthon Davis, III weather, and the shifting tree roots of mature trees have Mr. David Dearinger Leaders for preservation of Hollywood Cemetery Mr. Bruce B. Gray taken a toll on the iron and stonework in Section K. Mr. R. Stephen Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. A. Hugh Ewing Annual Giving Levels Mr. and Mrs. F. Meriwether Fowlkes, Jr. Friends is raising $275,000 to restore the iron fences Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ashby Jennings, III Presidents Circle for Gifts of $25,000+ Does the name sound familiar? Robert and Mary Vaughan Gibson framing sections of the Womble and Mitchell Plots and Cox-Johnston Fund * Founders Circle for Gifts of $10,000 to $24,999 Mr. and Mrs. F. Claiborne Johnston, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David L. Gilliam repair the damaged stonework. Chase Architectural Metal’s many notable projects include Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Given Heritage Circle for Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999 those commissioned by the VMFA, the Federal Reserve Bank Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. W. Kirby Hollywood Circle for Gifts of $2,500 to $4,999 Mr. and Mrs. G. Gilmer Minor, III Jack and Ann Graham “In the Womble plot at the center of Section K was the in Richmond, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Ivy Circle for Gifts of $1,000 to $2,499 Nelsen Funeral Home Ms. Barbara L. Gregory biggest magnolia I’ve ever seen, about 5 feet in diameter. Arts, Thomas Jefferson’s cemetery —as well as the restoration Mr. Robert P. Grymes, Jr. We invite you to join the 1847 Society and continue the ongoing It pushed stones up, knocked the fence down. I had to of President James Monroe’s tomb (“the birdcage”) in • Deceased Mr. William A. Hall Hollywood Cemetery. restoration and preservation of Hollywood Cemetery. have patterns made to recast some of those pieces,” said * The Community Foundation Serving Ms. Austin Cary Hancock Richmond and Central Virginia Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Harris

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 10 SPRING 2021 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 3 SPRING 2021 Gifts In Kind Ann and Barry Leonard Mary and George Gamble Corporations, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Harris Anonymous New Projects (continued) Bill Draper Photography Foundations and Ms. Connie Hilker, Hartwood Roses Timothy C. McCoy Joseph H. Hart Hollywood Cemetery Company Carrington Williams, Jr. Mrs. Virginia Hart Organizations Emily S. and Coleman A. Hunter Trust Plans include adding a cobblestone pavement on the road Nelson D. Lankford, Ph.D Emory G. William Gray Holdings, LLC to mark the entrance, resetting the stairs and adding a Sharon Pajka, Ph.D Mrs. Dabney Williams McCoy Gifts In Honor Hollywood Cemetery Company handrail, improving and extending a cobble retaining Mr. Donald Toney The Gray Family Wendy Gentz Chapin Anonymous Nelsen Funeral Home wall, repairing the brick walled enclosure, and installing a Mrs. Mabel Toney Mrs. Elizabeth G. Hull Roller-Bottimore Foundation new plaque. All Souls at rest at Hollywood Michael B. Huntley Woody Funeral Home Gifts In Memory Mr. William A. Harrison, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Brockenbrough Lamb, Jr. Mrs. Anna Konrad We have made every effort to “We feel it is time to call attention to this area of the Mr. and Mrs. William B. Adamson Joe and Peggy Benedetti Alwilda Valentine create an accurate list of our cemetery,” said Gilliam. Mr. Matt Benedetti Ms. Catherine Farmer supporters. Should there be an error, please let us know. The Lawn ($150,000)

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