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FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY NEWS FROM FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY NONPROFIT ORG. 412 South Cherry Street U.S. POSTAGE Richmond, Virginia 23220 PAID PERMIT NO. 671 23232 A Gateway Into History

WWW.HOLLYWOODCEMETERY.ORG FALL 2013 • VOLUME 4, NUMBER 2 On Schedule and Under Budget Phase II Monument and Fence Repair Half Complete he most extensive project of repair and restoration Veronica Huynl, William (“Will”) Oakes, and Katherine Tin Hollywood’s history is entering its fourth year. Ragan. While Robert Mosko has been working offsite Based upon an in depth 2007 study of the condition to complete the restoration of the Palmer fence, the of cemetery monuments and fences conducted by “crew” completes assignments in Richmond based upon Robert Mosko (Mosko Cemetery Company), Friends of scheduling arranged by phone at the beginning of each Hollywood began raising funds in 2009 to address the week. challenge.

Because of its size, the project has been undertaken in phases. Phase I involving Presidents Circle and surrounding sections was begun in 2010 and completed in March, 2012. Five hundred two (502) monuments and forty-seven (47) fences were repaired/restored. One fence and one monument are still a work in progress.

Phase II involving the oldest sections of Hollywood and some of its greatest challenges was begun in April, 2012. Restoration interns kneel at the Norton plot restored tablets. The scope of work includes fourteen hundred two (1,402) From left: Katherine Ragan, William (“Will”) Oakes, and monuments and eighty-one (81) fences. Over half the Veronica Huynl monuments have been addressed as well as sixty-nine (69) fences. The work is ahead of schedule and well within Each monument to be repaired during the work week is budget. It is expected that Phase II will be completed in carefully examined before any repair/restoration begins. 2014. “Each monument presents its own set of challenges,” according to Will Oakes. “Despite a careful examination Most Phase II work has been completed by the “crew” beforehand, you have no real idea of the condition of a (as Mosko refers to them). In 2011, Mosko interviewed monument until work begins. At the end of the week, twenty individuals who expressed an interest in learning completed work is photographed, documented, and monument and statue repair working on the job as Mosko uploaded to a Mosko Cemetery Co. database. interns in Hollywood. Three applicants were selected: (continued on page 2)

Page 3 Page 4 Page 6 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Rose Fall Winnie Genealogy Shepherd 2013 Debut Images Davis Project & Lee Contributors The back sides of the Norton family plot tablets as they appear today. There is clear evidence of orange staining brought about from years of direct exposure to the ground. Section D, Plot 204. See page 1. The most challenging repair and restoration since “Working outdoors in Richmond’s relatively short winter Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sparrow Ms. Sharon Carter Mr. and Mrs. John Ramos, Jr. Varina High School Forbeginning Former Phase U.S. II has Presidents been the Norton plot (Section D, has not been a problem,” remarked Katherine. “Rain can Mrs. Mary R. Spencer Ms. Harriett W. Condrey Mr. and Mrs. Melvin L. Rawls Williamson, Rohr, Swartzwelder & Assoc. Plot 204). In September, 2003, Hurricane Isabel inflicted slow you down as can extremes of heat and cold. Weather Mrs. Ursula F. Stalker Mrs. Rosemary Cotton Dr. and Mrs. Gaylord W. Ray Mr. George A. Stuckey Mr. and Mrs. William R. Curdts Dr. and Mrs. P. Larus Reed, III Gifts In-Kind severe damage to Hollywood—nearly one hundred has everything to do with curing/drying. Each week, you WREATH-LAYING CEREMONIES Mrs. Richard E Talman, Sr. Mrs. Martha O. Davenport Mr. and Mrs. J. William Reid Boy Scout Troop 400 monarch trees (100 years of age or older) were destroyed. have to think ahead about the weather before starting in Mr. and Mrs. Walter TeStrake, Jr. Mrs. Glenda P. Dodrill Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Rettig Mr. E. L. Butterworth Countless monuments and fences were battered beyond on a particular kind of repair.” Mr. James Barry Thrift Mr. and Mrs. Elmer K. Dunn Mrs. Juliane M. Riley Peter Broadbent recognition. Section D was the epicenter of damage in Mrs. Kathryn G. Thurman Mrs. Martha A. Faulkner Mr. Field I. Robertson, Jr. Delta Upsilon Chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma Mr. F. Carlyle Tiller Dr. and Mrs. Adam J. Fiedler Mr. Raymond A. Ruth Fraternity at VCU Hollywood. In the center of Section D, the Norton plot Dr. and Mrs. C. Kent Titus Mrs. Fred C. Forberg, Jr. Mrs. Deborah D. Salinger Joseph R. Herbert was flattened beyond recognition. Mr. Peter Toepffer Mr. Merritt W. Foster, III Mrs. Calvin Satterfield, III Connie Hilker, Hartwood Roses Mrs. Zach Toms, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. F. Meriwether Fowlkes, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Savage Hollywood Cemetery Company “The Norton repairs—six tablet monuments in all— Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Toney Mr. Richard H. Fox Mr. Anthony P. Smith and Mrs. Barbara Myron E. Lyman, Sr. Mr. Joseph V. Turner, III Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Garian W. Smith Dr. Hunter H. McGuire, Jr. took forever,” according to Veronica Huynl. “The work Mr. B. Walton Turnbull Mr. Stretton L. Gramlich Dr. Rosemary T. Smith Mr. John O. Peters was complicated and very slow going. The monuments Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Vaden Ms. Valerie Hahn Mrs. Schuyler O. Sneed Segway of Richmond were fragile, flattened, broken, and buried. Seeing them Mr. and Mrs. Granville G. Valentine, III Mr. and Mrs. Les Harcum Mr. and Mrs. William H. Snider Star Brite Enterprises, Inc. standing straight and in a perfect row again is really Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Van Sickle Mrs. Rosemarie Harter Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Spain, Jr. Valentine Richmond History Center gratifying.” Mr. and Mrs. Hubert P. Van Horn Mrs. Shirley E. Hatcher Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Srpan Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Warthen, III Mr. and Mrs. Guy W. Horsley, Jr. Mrs. Mary N. Sutherland Gifts In Honor Mr. Lee Weidhaas Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Huberman Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Terry, Jr. In honor of Private George Fuller Grisham Mr. and Mrs. John T. West, IV Dr. and Mrs. J. Hubert Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McKee After nearly a month of work, the Norton plot appears as it did Mr. Ralph C. White, Jr. Mr. John W. Inman Mr. J. Langhorne Tompkins Mrs. Jacqueline C. Whitmore Mrs. Julia E. Kelly Mrs. Mary Stoddard Trigg In honor of Blanche and Peter Toms for generations Kathryn L. Whittington Mrs. Page M. Kjellstrom Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Turnbull Mrs. Lucy B. Negus Dr. and Mrs. Peter T. Wilbanks Dr. John T. Kneebone and Dr. Elizabeth Mr. Halcott Mebane Turner Robert Mosko and his “crew” have made a transformation Mr. Joshua Wilberger Roderick Mrs. Lynne C. Valentine In honor of Kelly Jones Wilbanks difference in the appearance of Hollywood’s monuments Mrs. Hilda L. Williams Mr. Garry W. Land Mr. Erskine B. van Houten, Jr. Mrs. Mary Stoddard Trigg and statues in recent years. We are grateful to them and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Craig M. Lawson Varina High School Mr. and Mrs. George T. Williamson Mr. R. Hart Lee and Mrs. Elizabeth Shuff Mrs. George R. Wagoner Gifts In Memory to the many Friends of Hollywood who have made that Williamson, Rohr, Swartzwelder & Assoc. Dr. Barbara T. Lester Ms. Elizabeth F. Wallace In memory of Barbara Grundy Barrett difference possible. Mrs. Virginia L. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Lowery Ms. Sandra E. Waller Mr. and Mrs. William R. Curdts Dr. and Mrs. Charles P. Winkler Ms. Teresa Luckert Mrs. Frances M. Waller Note: Shortly before publication, it was learned from Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Wong Mr. and Mrs. H. A. McDaniel Mrs. Mary P. Ware In memory of Sallie Morris Hopkins The condition of the Norton plot before repair and restoration Mrs. Michael B. Wray Mr. George G. McDearmon, Jr. Mr. B. Randolph Wellford Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Morris Shockoe Hill Cemetery Facebook page that the well Dr. and Mrs. R. Lewis Wright Dr. Anne H. McElroy and Mr. John Lee Dr. and Mrs. James R. Wickham earlier this year. Toppled and broken tablets, dislocated bases, known agronomist Dr. Daniel Norborne Norton, creator Mr. and Mrs. John J. Zeugner, IV McElroy, III Mr. Carrington C. Wilkerson In memory of John Barry Leonard a mess! of the famous Norton grape of Virginia and a “notable” Women of Meadowbrook Country Club Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Wilson, III Mrs. John B. Leonard of Shockoe Hill Cemetery, is the same Dr. Norton whose Patrons (Up to-$99) Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Molster, Jr. Mrs. Mildred Wysong Mr. Max R. Adam Mrs. Helen Turner Murphy In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Ravee Norris, Jr. With good weather and fairly straightforward repair wife, Lucy Marshall Fisher Norton and four children Dr. and Mrs. Steven E. Anders Mrs. Harriet P. Murphey Corporations, Mr. Charles Norris work, how many monuments can be restored in a week? are buried in the Norton plot in Hollywood, beneath Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Anderson Colonel Davis Eugene Norman Foundations and Veronica responded, “our best week was thirty (30) magnificently restored monuments. Mr. William B. Baker Mr. Charles Norris In memory of Seymour and John Rennolds Organizations monuments…the weather was perfect and the fixes easy.” Ms. Maria Benson Mr. Frank C. Norvell, Jr. Ms. Amelie Rives Rennolds Mr. and Mrs. John S. Bibb, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Pancoast Altria Matching Gifts Program Mr. Brad Bovenzi Ms. Ingrid Pantaenius The Colon Club of Richmond In memory of M. Seward Mr. and Mrs. George T. Bryson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Parbel, III Dominion and the Dominion Foundation Ms. Teresa Luckert Mrs. Archer C. Burke Mr. and Mrs. John B. Parrish, Jr. Dominion Foundation Matching Gifts Mr. J. Norton Cabell Mr. and Mrs. James D. Patton, IV Program In memory of Harriet C. van Houten Mr. and Mrs. Andrew V. Cable, Sr. Mrs. Joanna L. Pendleton Carneal Drew Foundation Mr. Erskine B. van Houten, Jr. Colonel and Mrs. J. A. Barton Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Hunter R. Pettus, Jr. Elmwood Fund Inc Mrs. Mary J. Campbell Mrs. Margaret R. Poole GE Foundation In memory of Mrs. Frances Mason Waller Mrs. Francis F. Carr, Jr. Mr. William Claiborne Powell The Herndon Foundation Dr. Lockert B. Mason and Molly Masich Hollywood Cemetery Company Emily S. and Coleman A. Hunter Charitable Matching Gifts The 1847 Society Trust Altria Matching Gifts Program Leaders for preservation of Hollywood Cemetery The Linhart Foundation Teri C. Miles Women of Meadowbrook Country Club Dominion Foundation Matching Gifts Annual Giving Levels Marietta McNeill Morgan and Samuael Tate Program Morgan Jr. Foundation John B. Parrish Presidents Circle for Gifts of $25,000+ Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program Joseph Bruce Vaden Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation Founders Circle for Gifts of $10,000 to $24,999 GE Foundation The Anne Carter Robins and Walter R. James Ferrell Heritage Circle for Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999 Robins, Jr. Foundation Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program St. Catherines Alumnae Hollywood Circle for Gifts of $2,500 to $4,999 S. Wyndham Anderson Segway of Richmond Tredegar Corporation Matching Gifts Ivy Circle for Gifts of $1,000 to $2,499 Suntrust Foundation Program In addition to two familiar books about Hollywood Cemetery (by authors Mary Mitchell and John Peters) and a DVD Tredegar Corporation Matching Gifts Mary Hoge Anderson (Dr. Hunter McGuire, Jr.), a recently published book by Joseph R. Herbert specifically highlights Hollywood’s notable We invite you to join the 1847 Society and continue the ongoing Program residents. Each is available in the cemetery office. restoration and preservation of Hollywood Cemetery. Valentine Richmond History Center

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 2 FALL 2013 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 11 FALL 2013 2013 Contributors To Hollywood Roses Debut at Annual Rose Conference Friends of Hollywood Cemetery We are indeed grateful to the following donors for their generous support of Friends in 2013 through November 25. You have enabled us to raise awareness he fall conference of the Heritage Rose of Hollywood and to continue vital monument and fence restoration. Thank you for helping us to preserve Hollywood Cemetery for generations to come. Foundation—“Tracing our Rose Heritage: TDiscovering Our Roots”—was held November 14-17 on the grounds of Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Peter C. Toms FL. This annual event draws rose enthusiasts from Chair, Friends of Hollywood Cemetery throughout the United States and abroad, this year numbering over one hundred registrants. The 1847 Society Mr. Bowlman T. Bowles, Jr. Tredegar Corporation Matching Gifts Mr. and Mrs. R. Garnett Hall, Jr. Mr. Charles Bowman Program Dr. Dana B. Hamel Presidents Circle Ms. Joyce Kent Brown Mr. W. Guy Williams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hardy One of this year’s featured speakers was Connie Marietta McNeill Morgan and Mrs. William H. Clarke Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Heltzer Hilker; her topic, Documenting and Preserving the Samuel Tate Morgan Jr. Foundation Mr. Claude R. Davenport, Jr. Patrons ($100-$249) Mrs. William H. Higgins, Jr. Roses of Hollywood Cemetery. Hollywood contains one Carneal Drew Foundation Altria Matching Gifts Program Mr. Frank D. Hill, III of the finest collections of heritage roses in the country. Founders Circle Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Estes Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Angus Mrs. S. Winfield Hill Mr. and Mrs. James C. Hamilton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Harvie W. Fitzgerald Mrs. Virginia A. Arnold Mr. and Mrs. John Cameron Hoggan, Jr. Newsletter readers may recall Connie’s most current Emily S. and Coleman A. Hunter Mrs. Harry Frazier, III Dr. and Mrs. Wyatt S. Beazley, III Dr. and Mrs. J. Shelton Horsley, III connection with Hollywood. In the summer of 2012, Charitable Trust Mrs. Aelise Britton Green Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Bedell Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Innes Kelly Wilbanks, Friends Executive Director, met Connie Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Harvey Dr. and Mrs. Edward B. Beirne, Jr. Mrs. G. Watson James, III Sue W. Massie Charitable Trust at a Richmond Rose Society meeting. An immediate The Anne Carter Robins and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Herbert Mr. and Mrs. McGuire Boyd Mrs. Susan G. Jordan Walter R. Robins, Jr. Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Jennings, III Dr. and Mrs. Ben P. Bradenham Mrs. Bryan P. Kennedy connection was made. Initial slide of Connie Hilker’s presentation on the heritage Suntrust Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Allen B. King Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Brancoli Mrs. Robert D. Kilpatrick roses of Hollywood Cemetery Mr. Jerry Morton Layne Mrs. Caroline Y. Brandt Mrs. Tanya King Since that time, Connie has spearheaded an effort to Dr. and Mrs. Hunter H. McGuire, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Brockenbrough, IV Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Large Connie and her husband Steve live in Hartwood, VA Mr. and Mrs. Marshall N. Morton Mr. and Mrs. Orran L. Brown The Linhart Foundation locate, map, and identify over one hundred heritage Heritage Circle (near Fredericksburg), in a 1840s house surrounded by Dominion and the Dominion Foundation Mr. and Mrs. E. Bryson Powell Mr. and Mrs. W. Michaux Buchanan Mrs. Frank C. Maloney, III roses within the cemetery and to evaluate their Mrs. Linda B. Peterson Mr. Charles E. Tingley Mr. and Mrs. Bryce A. Bugg Dr. Lockert B. Mason and Molly Masich condition, chart a maintenance program for each, and nine acres of farm soil ideally suited for rose growing. Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Valentine Mr. A. Christian Burke Ms. E. Jean Matherne begin the painstaking task of conservation. Over forty It is the site of Connie’s former nursery, Hartwood Anne W. Taylor Trust Valentine Richmond History Center Mr. and Mrs. Larry Caldwell Mrs. H. Page Mauck, Jr. Roses. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Wells, III Mr. Wayne B. Cardwell Mr. and Mrs. Cecil R. Maxson, Jr. volunteers rallied around Connie Hilker on a March Mr. and Mrs. Fielding L. Williams, Jr. Mr. Richard T. Cavedo Mr. and Mrs. John L. McElroy, Jr. Saturday in 2013 to begin a task not undertaken before Hollywood Circle Mrs. Emily W. Chewning Dr. and Mrs. Henry A. McGee, Jr. Connie’s work at Hollywood is continuing. Plans are Elmwood Fund Inc Patrons ($250-$499) Mrs. Virginia D. Chewning Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McKee being made for another rose volunteer day to be held on The Herndon Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Edwin D. Child Mr. and Mrs. Rieman McNamara, Jr. Saturday, March 15, 2014 Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Baldwin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William T. Clarke, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George V. Moncure, Jr. (March 22 has been detected Mrs. Maria A. Pellew-Harvey as a bad weather back-up date). Notices will be mailed Mrs. Suzanne C. Pollard Mr. and Mrs. Lewis T. Booker Mrs. Dianne E. Conwell Mrs. Samuel S. Moody, Jr. Mr. James S. Watkinson Mrs. Ann-Lee Saunders Brown Mr. John E. Corey Mr. Andrew T. Moore, Jr. closer to the event. Meanwhile, if you are interested Mr. George W. Bryant, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Covington Mrs. W. Cabell Moore in having your name added to the event list, please Mrs. Randolph B. Cardozo Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Craigie Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Morris contact Kelly Wilbanks with Friends of Hollywood Ivy Circle Mrs. R. Harvey Chappell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Cross Mr. and Mrs. Lewis I. Myers, Jr. Drs. J. T and M. L. Bayliss Mrs. Stuart G. Christian, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Beverley L. Crump Mrs. Rebecca M. Neal ([email protected]). Mr. and Mrs. Austin Brockenbrough, III Dr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Claiborne, Jr. Dr. William L. Curry Mrs. Lucy B. Negus Mr. Frank S. Cox Mr. and Mrs. William R. Claiborne Mr. and Mrs. Victor J. Davis Ms. Susan A. Newton Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Farley, IV The Colon Club of Richmond Mr. and Mrs. Calvert G. deColigny, Jr. Mr. H. Coleman Nichols Mrs. Frank V. Fowlkes Mr. and Mrs. Richard H Dilworth Mr. Samuel A. Derieux Mrs. Emma Read Oppenhimer Hollywood Cemetery Company Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wilson Gaenzle, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Disharoon Mrs. Hugh W. Owens Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Gates Dominion Foundation Matching Gifts Mrs. H. Merrill Pasco Mrs. Jean Wiltshire Lane Rosarian and extraordinary volunteer Connie Hilker addresses Dr. Nelson D. Lankford Mr. and Mrs. Langhorne Gibson, Jr. Program Ms. Janice Walker Pogue Mrs. Ann K. Leake The Honorable and Mrs. John H. Mrs. D. G. Edel Mrs. Nancy C. Pollard audience at fall conference of the Heritage Rose Foundation Colonel and Mrs. Felix G. Millhouse Hager Mrs. Charlotte P. Edney Jane D. Powell Stanley and Dorothy Pauley Charitable Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Jerald A. Finch Ms. Leighton Powell in modern memory. Hollywood roses were thinned, Trust Mr. and Mrs. Fenton N. Hord, Sr. Mr. Thomas Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Peter W.W. Powell shaped, and put in good order for the 2013 growing/ Mr. Miles C. Johnston, Jr. Mrs. Herbert E. Fitzgerald, Jr. Mrs. Gwynn C. Prideaux Mr. Joseph A. Ramage blooming season. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Reed Mrs. John B. Leonard Mr. G. Slaughter Fitz-Hugh, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Russell L. Rabb, Jr. Segway of Richmond Mrs. Helen C. Mason Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Flinn, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm M. Randolph Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Tattersall Mr. and Mrs. Beverley B. Munford, III Mrs. Marjorie N. Fowlkes Dr. and Mrs. Frank L. Rawling, Jr. Connie’s participation in and presentation at the multi- Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Toms Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Norfleet, Jr. Mr. Paul Galea Mrs. Maria Teresa Regirer day Heritage Rose Foundation convention was a red Mrs. Betty B. Young Dr. John W. Overton, Jr. and Dr. Ann Mrs. Nancy H. Gatewood Ms. Amelie Rives Rennolds Lowry GE Foundation Mr. C. Edward Richardson, III letter day for Hollywood Cemetery and the extraordinary Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Mrs. Kenneth G. Gentil Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert M. Rosenthal collection of heritage roses that it boasts. “Heritage Sustainers ($500-$999) Program Mr. and Mrs. John George Mr. G. Neal Ryland roses are historic roses,” according to Hilker. “They Mr. and Mrs. John P. Ackerly, III Ms. Isabel K. Randolph Mr. and Mrs. David L. Gilliam St. Catherines Alumnae are closely aligned to families and family history down Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Riopelle Mrs. James M. Glave Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Schutt One of Hollywood’s treasured roses—Safrano—has been di- Mr. and Mrs. S. Wyndham Anderson through the years. Their individual stories can be traced Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Andersen Mr. and Mrs. Clarence B. Robertson, III Mr. C. Hobson Goddin Mrs. Elizabeth P. Scott agnosed with rose rosette disease and must be removed. Rose Mr. and Mrs. James G Rose, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Gottwald Mr. and Mrs. William R. Shands, Jr. back for generations.” For more information, please see Mrs. Margaret P. Bemiss rosette is an untreatable virus and can spread quickly from Mrs. Frederic S. Bocock Mr. and Mrs. John G. Slaughter Mr. and Mrs. William D. Gottwald, Jr. Mr. Thomas A. Silvestri and Mrs. Susan heritagerosefoundation.org. Mrs. Rosa Bosher Mr. and Mrs. E. Hunter Thompson, Jr. Mrs. Jane Johann Gresham Kurzman plant to plant Mr. Mitford Sims, III

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 10 FALL 2013 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 3 FALL 2013 Nancy will assist Friends Executive Director, Kelly Nancy Shepherd Joins Wilbanks, with managing Friends overall development 1 program, community outreach efforts, and cemetery 2 events (tours, picnics, speakers). Friends, a 501(c)3 Friends of Hollywood Staff organization, was formed in 2007. At that time and ancy Shepherd has continuing to date, Friends’ primary goal has been joined the Friends of restoration and conservation of monuments, sculpture, Fall NHollywood organization and ironwork within the cemetery. as part-time Development Associate. This “second Nancy has two daughters, Kara Hall Bleecher and Images career” follows thirty years Courtney Hall Barrett, and four grandchildren— of service at St. Catherine’s all boys. “I am also lucky to have in my life two School as a volunteer stepdaughters, a stepson, and four step grandchildren— 2013 and part- and full-time also boys.” In her leisure time, she is interested in employee. From 1991 until decorating and loves reading, music, cooking, and her retirement in June, entertaining. Nancy was a member of the Admissions Office staff. “This has been a wonderful new learning experience,” Nancy remarked. “I had no idea what Hollywood was During her tenure at St. really all about. I have learned so much. Just call me a Catherine’s, Nancy and her family also became part sponge!” of the resident faculty when the school still operated a boarding department. She fondly remembers her work We welcome Nancy Shepherd with boarding students.

3 Heath Lee to Publish “Winnie” Davis Biography eath Hardage Lee Richmond in 2008 with her husband Chris Lee. Heath will soon add another and Chris have two children—Anne Alston and James. Haccomplishment to an ever growing list. In April, 2014, Heath will appear at the invitation of Friends of her first book entitled Winnie Hollywood at St. Catherine’s School in the Middle Davis: Daughter of the Lost School auditorium on October 8, 2014 to discuss her Cause will be published by new book and the lengthy journey she has taken to know Potomac Books, a division of and embrace its central character. Heath’s presentation 5 the University of Nebraska will be free and open to the public. A reminder card will Press. It chronicles the life of be mailed during the coming summer. 6 one of the saddest figures of the Civil War, the youngest child of President of the 2013 David L. Gilliam – Secretary and Confederacy Jefferson F. Davis and his wife, Varina Officers and Directors General Manager Friends of Hollywood Cemetery Woodrow C. Harper – Treasurer Howell Davis. Mabel E. Toney – Assistant Secretary and Peter C. Toms – Chair Assistant Treasurer David L. Gilliam – Secretary Heath Lee has been intrigued by Winnie Davis and Edward M. Farley, IV – Treasurer Mary Lynn Bayliss, Ph.D. her tragic life story for over twenty years. She began Edward M. Farley, IV Mary Hoge Anderson Matthew D. Jenkins her research of Davis—personal letters, diaries, Mary Lynn Bayliss, PhD Elizabeth Cabell Jennings newspaper accounts, and references in Southern history William R. Claiborne Nelson D. Lankford, Ph.D. Edward M. Farley, IV E. Bryson Powell books—before graduating from college. It has been a Matthew D. Jenkins Evelina M. Scott continuing and expanding labor of love ever since. Peter C. Toms Fred T. Tattersall Peter C. Toms Kelly Jones Wilbanks, Executive Director Fielding L. Williams, Jr. Heath is a Richmond native and graduate of St. Nancy Shepherd, Development Associate [1] The Judson Boardman Wood Celtic cross featuring intricate carvings of Christ and the twelve apostles. [2] Bronze doors (the Lewis Administrative Staff Catherine’s School. She holds a B.A. in History 2013 Hollywood Cemetery Company Ginter Mausoleum). [3] The Caldwell Fence, featuring twisted grape vines (life), inverted torches and wreaths (life extinguished); and below with Honors from Davidson College and an M.A. in Officers and Directors the bottom rail, heads of Jesus Christ (eternal life). [4] A fireman’s helmet (with miniature Dalmatian dog) caps the obelisk of Richmond French Language and Literature from the University of Hollywood Cemetery Company David L. Gilliam – General Manager Woodrow C. Harper – Assistant General Fire Chief William Charters who at age thirty-six died with over sixty others in the disastrous balcony collapse—Virginia Supreme Court Virginia. Her background includes museum education, Matthew D. Jenkins – President Manager Chambers. [5] The grave of James Valentine, a railroad engineer, who died in a train crash at age thirty-two. [6] the Grounds Crew (from house museum consultation, historic preservation, Peter C. Toms – Vice President Mabel E. Toney – Administrative Assistant left): William Nunallie, Jr.; Hershul “Frankie” England; Corey Lawson; Andy Harper; Jonathan Hansen; William McCormick, III; Kenny and writing. Heath moved to Des Moines, Iowa, from Jarrell, Jr.; Tommy Karnes; James Barnes; and Donald Toney—Foreman. Not pictured: Steven Gilliam and Donald Grove.

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 4 FALL 2013 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 9 SPRINGFALL 20132011 Genealogy Project Planning Gains Momentum 7 8 fter nearly a year, significant strides have been with handwritten cemetery records to ensure that made to better understand gaps in the genealogical individual data is complete and correct. On July 27 Arecords of individuals interred in Hollywood and and September 28, the project team photographed how to address them. There are 62,000 individuals approximately half of the 1,800 monuments in Section (including 18,000 Confederate dead) buried in 26. Also, on September 28, the team photographed Hollywood and approximately 120,000 missing pieces of all gravesites in Idlewood, the newest section of data (e.g., date of birth or death, complete name, etc.). Hollywood.

Joseph R. (Joe) Herbert, with assistance from Friends Executive Director, Kelly Wilbanks, has recruited a group of project volunteers and conducted a number of project planning meetings. Topics included scope of work, manpower required, and technology needed. From these meetings, project goals and objectives for 2013 were established. A steering committee has also been formed. 9 One goal was to expand upon and enliven information contained on the cemetery’s web site about the “Forty- Nine Notables” buried-in Hollywood. That work has 10 been completed. A by-product of enriching web site content has been a new book written and published Genealogy project team leader Joe Herbert and team by Herbert about these unusual men and women— member Anna Moulis photographing gravestones during a Hollywood Cemetery’s Notable Residents. team workday at Hollywood

A second goal was to field test a device capable Several meetings have also been held with representatives of photographing each monument and uploading of the VCU Department of History to discuss whether that data to a data base in the Hollywood office. student volunteer support for the project may be Actual monument information can then be compared available. A start has been made with the designation of a student for a special “for academic credit” project. Her work at the cemetery will begin in 2014 and last three A Letter from a New months. We salute the conscientious work of Kristina Coonley, a Friend of Hollywood 4th year student at John Tyler Community College who will enroll as a zoology major at North Carolina State in Dear Friends: the fall. Kristina has spent countless hours reviewing the 12 photographs and information produced by the volunteers As a retired history teacher, I travel around the country and photograph before uploading it to the cemetery’s web site. 11 the graves of “Notables” in American history. I have been to Hollywood Cemetery several times and enjoy the beauty and historical significance of the The scope of the genealogy project is immense. A cemetery. Every time I travel near Richmond, I like to stop into Hollywood successful conclusion will mean a state-of-the-art data Cemetery. base for Hollywood Cemetery researchers, historians, I noticed of the web site of the cemetery that there is an organization families and visitors for generations to come. For known as Friends of Hollywood Cemetery. I have joined several “Friends” more information, please contact Kelly Wilbanks at organizations including Friends of Laurel Hill [Philadelphia], Friends of [email protected]. Mt. Auburn [Boston], the Green-Wood Foundation [Brooklyn], Friends of Spring Grove [Cincinnati], Friends of Homewood [Pittsburg], Bonaventure We are extremely grateful to the following individuals Historical Society [Savannah], and Friends of Bellefontaine [St. Louis]. I who have volunteered their time and support in have established a fund with the Philadelphia Foundation that will, upon my 2013 on this project: death, give grants to cemeteries for educational and preservation purposes. Judith Bernicchi Elaine Kozlowski Until that time, I am trying to spread some small donations around to my [7] The T. S. Lloyd family plot. Each monument and piece of curbing is carved to resemble a log or tree stump. The motif has been favorite cemeteries. Hollywood Cemetery certainly qualifies. Peter Broadbent Kevin Lett Hamilton Bryson Mac McGuire generally associated with Woodman of the World, an Omaha, Nebraska insurance company dating to the late 19th century that provided Please accept the enclosed donation for the Friends of Hollywood Cemetery. Kathy Candler Tom Miller burial monuments for its associates. [8] “Black Dog” (a cast iron Newfoundland) keeps vigil over the cradle grave of Florence Rees who Also, I would appreciate it if you would send me yearly reminders to renew Jo Clark Anna Moulis died in 1862 (age two) from scarlet fever. [9] The monument of Herbert B. Quarles who died in 1895 at age twelve from appendicitis. my pledge to help Hollywood. Brad Davenport Chrystal Raikes Dana Finn Sarah Sinsabaugh Note the open school book, cap, and book bag. [10] Hollywood’s office staff. From left: Woodrow Harper, Mabel Toney, Kristina Thank you for preserving a beautiful piece of American history. Barabara Fore Toni Storey Coonley, and David Gilliam, Cemetery General Manger. [11] Maples in fall splendor. [12] Friends of Hollywood speaker Caroline Marjorie Grier Josh Wilberger (“Carrie”) Janney with Museum of the Confederacy President and CEO Waite Rawles following her presentation on the Gettysburg dead November 16, 2013 Alfred Hahn Patricia Wood Joe Herbert and Hollywood at the Virginia Historical Society on September 25.

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 8 FALL 2013 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 5 FALL 2013 Profile There were no tombstones for brother Jefferson Davis, Jr. An members of the Davis family enormous crowd led by former Varina “Winnie” Anne Davis — “Daughter of the Confederacy” at that time, but as Mary H. Governor Fitzhugh Lee gathered Mitchell reported in her history in Davis circle for the unveiling mong the many angels in traveling companion for many of Hollywood, “No sooner had on November 9, 1899 to hear Hollywood Cemetery is a of those appearances and in the Winnie been buried …than speeches by Governor J. Hoge Amarble one which sits in Davis process, thanks to her loveliness donations began to pour in for a Tyler and Beverly B. Munford, circle above the grave of Varina and graciousness, became famous monument in her honor.” (pp. 120- the orator for the occasion. Anne Davis, better known as in her own right. At one of her 121). “Winnie,” the youngest child of appearances, Georgia Governor Readers interested in a more detailed President of the Confederacy John B. Gordon introduced her to Mrs. Davis chose sculptor treatment of Winnie’s life will be Jefferson Davis and his wife the crowd as the “Daughter of the George Julian Zolnay, a native of happy to know that Heath Hardage Varina Howell Davis. Often called Confederacy,” and the label stuck. Hungary who had been educated Lee, a Richmond native and well the “angel of grief,” the statue is at Vienna’s Imperial Academy of known scholar in the field of the work of the renowned sculptor But Winnie was much more Fine Arts, to design the monument women’s history, has written a new George Julian Zolnay and is one than a figurehead, or a model of for Winnie and also one for her biography—Winnie Davis: Daughter of two works he was chosen by Southern womanhood. She was father. Zolnay chose Carrara of the Lost Cause. See page 9. Mrs. Davis to do for the family bright, well-educated and willing marble for the angel he designed plot. The other is the large bronze to work. After her father’s death, Davis family from left: Jeff, Jr.; Maggie; Winnie Davis (age 26). Courtesy of the for Winnie and sent his model Contributed by: of President Davis which stands that is exactly what she did. Billy; and Winnie. Courtesy of the Museum of the Confederacy. of it to Italy to be carved. He Mary Lynn Bayliss, Ph. D. over his grave. Museum of the Confederacy. Economic necessity demanded chose bronze for a statue of a tall, Member, Friends of Hollywood it. The Davises had never been Chesapeake Bay where he was to Winnie continued to write and by dignified man standing with his Board of Directors The solemn looking angel wealthy, and her mother’s and live in isolation for over two years 1893 she had received sufficient hat in one hand at Winnie’s grave is looking father’s attempts to make money before being released on bond. recognition as a professional and his other downward and holding a wreath with, in his case, a history of When the other children were sent literary figure to be included on his hip for of flowers in her right hand the Confederacy and, in hers, a to live in Canada, Winnie stayed with over 1,200 other women Jefferson Davis. which she seems about to place biography of her husband, were with their mother who worked from various professions in a Of it Zolnay at Winnie’s feet. The wreath both financial failures. Winnie relentlessly to free her husband. biographical dictionary devoted declared, “No and the gesture are symbolic of wrote articles and essays for solely to women. Winnie also one would ever Winnie whose life was buffeted by which she was paid by magazines When Jefferson Davis was continued to appear at special say that was the tragic winds of history from and newspapers, and eventually finally freed, Winnie and her events including one when the statue of a the moment of her birth at the she published a memoir of famed parents lived first in Canada and she rode in a parade in an open Yankee.” (Peters, White House of the Confederacy Irish political figure Robert eventually in England. Winnie carriage during a drenching p. 116) The seven on June 27, 1864, less than a Emmet and two novels, The Veiled was sent to boarding school downpour. By the time she foot tall bronze year before the end of the Civil Doctor and A Romance of Summer in Germany where she studied returned to the summer resort on Jefferson War. Before she could walk Seas in both of which the central for five years and acquired an where she and her mother were Davis’s grave she was carried in her mother’s theme was thwarted love. excellent education, despite being staying, she was very sick. She and the marble arms as they fled southward with terribly homesick. By the time lingered, ever weakening, for angel which her brothers and sister when the Winnie never married, but not she was seventeen she was back several months before dying at still hovers over Confederacy crumbled and the because she didn’t have suitors. in the United States. Within age thirty-four on September 18, Winnie’s grave government abandoned Richmond. One of them, a Harvard educated a few years of her return, her 1898. Her body was brought were unveiled When her father was captured in young lawyer, proposed and father had become the hero of to Richmond by train for her on the same Georgia, Winnie and her mother was accepted, but when their the Lost Cause, and he was often funeral at St.Paul’s Episcopal day as a broken traveled back to Virginia with engagement was announced, the asked to take part in benefits Church and burial near her father marble column him by steamboat from which enraged outcry from her Southern and ceremonies for Confederate and brothers in Hollywood. The by Andrew J. they watched as he was taken into devotees was deafening and their Often called the “angel of grief,” the George Julian Zolnay veterans throughout the country. church was filled to overflowing, Wray in memory statue carved from Carrara marble watches over Winnie the prison at Fort Monroe in the marriage plans were cancelled. Winnie became her father’s and thousands came to her burial. of Winnie’s Davis’ grave

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 6 FALL 2013 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 7 FALL 2013 Profile There were no tombstones for brother Jefferson Davis, Jr. An members of the Davis family enormous crowd led by former Varina “Winnie” Anne Davis — “Daughter of the Confederacy” at that time, but as Mary H. Governor Fitzhugh Lee gathered Mitchell reported in her history in Davis circle for the unveiling mong the many angels in traveling companion for many of Hollywood, “No sooner had on November 9, 1899 to hear Hollywood Cemetery is a of those appearances and in the Winnie been buried …than speeches by Governor J. Hoge Amarble one which sits in Davis process, thanks to her loveliness donations began to pour in for a Tyler and Beverly B. Munford, circle above the grave of Varina and graciousness, became famous monument in her honor.” (pp. 120- the orator for the occasion. Anne Davis, better known as in her own right. At one of her 121). “Winnie,” the youngest child of appearances, Georgia Governor Readers interested in a more detailed President of the Confederacy John B. Gordon introduced her to Mrs. Davis chose sculptor treatment of Winnie’s life will be Jefferson Davis and his wife the crowd as the “Daughter of the George Julian Zolnay, a native of happy to know that Heath Hardage Varina Howell Davis. Often called Confederacy,” and the label stuck. Hungary who had been educated Lee, a Richmond native and well the “angel of grief,” the statue is at Vienna’s Imperial Academy of known scholar in the field of the work of the renowned sculptor But Winnie was much more Fine Arts, to design the monument women’s history, has written a new George Julian Zolnay and is one than a figurehead, or a model of for Winnie and also one for her biography—Winnie Davis: Daughter of two works he was chosen by Southern womanhood. She was father. Zolnay chose Carrara of the Lost Cause. See page 9. Mrs. Davis to do for the family bright, well-educated and willing marble for the angel he designed plot. The other is the large bronze to work. After her father’s death, Davis family from left: Jeff, Jr.; Maggie; Winnie Davis (age 26). Courtesy of the for Winnie and sent his model Contributed by: of President Davis which stands that is exactly what she did. Billy; and Winnie. Courtesy of the Museum of the Confederacy. of it to Italy to be carved. He Mary Lynn Bayliss, Ph. D. over his grave. Museum of the Confederacy. Economic necessity demanded chose bronze for a statue of a tall, Member, Friends of Hollywood it. The Davises had never been Chesapeake Bay where he was to Winnie continued to write and by dignified man standing with his Board of Directors The solemn looking angel wealthy, and her mother’s and live in isolation for over two years 1893 she had received sufficient hat in one hand at Winnie’s grave is looking father’s attempts to make money before being released on bond. recognition as a professional and his other downward and holding a wreath with, in his case, a history of When the other children were sent literary figure to be included on his hip for of flowers in her right hand the Confederacy and, in hers, a to live in Canada, Winnie stayed with over 1,200 other women Jefferson Davis. which she seems about to place biography of her husband, were with their mother who worked from various professions in a Of it Zolnay at Winnie’s feet. The wreath both financial failures. Winnie relentlessly to free her husband. biographical dictionary devoted declared, “No and the gesture are symbolic of wrote articles and essays for solely to women. Winnie also one would ever Winnie whose life was buffeted by which she was paid by magazines When Jefferson Davis was continued to appear at special say that was the tragic winds of history from and newspapers, and eventually finally freed, Winnie and her events including one when the statue of a the moment of her birth at the she published a memoir of famed parents lived first in Canada and she rode in a parade in an open Yankee.” (Peters, White House of the Confederacy Irish political figure Robert eventually in England. Winnie carriage during a drenching p. 116) The seven on June 27, 1864, less than a Emmet and two novels, The Veiled was sent to boarding school downpour. By the time she foot tall bronze year before the end of the Civil Doctor and A Romance of Summer in Germany where she studied returned to the summer resort on Jefferson War. Before she could walk Seas in both of which the central for five years and acquired an where she and her mother were Davis’s grave she was carried in her mother’s theme was thwarted love. excellent education, despite being staying, she was very sick. She and the marble arms as they fled southward with terribly homesick. By the time lingered, ever weakening, for angel which her brothers and sister when the Winnie never married, but not she was seventeen she was back several months before dying at still hovers over Confederacy crumbled and the because she didn’t have suitors. in the United States. Within age thirty-four on September 18, Winnie’s grave government abandoned Richmond. One of them, a Harvard educated a few years of her return, her 1898. Her body was brought were unveiled When her father was captured in young lawyer, proposed and father had become the hero of to Richmond by train for her on the same Georgia, Winnie and her mother was accepted, but when their the Lost Cause, and he was often funeral at St.Paul’s Episcopal day as a broken traveled back to Virginia with engagement was announced, the asked to take part in benefits Church and burial near her father marble column him by steamboat from which enraged outcry from her Southern and ceremonies for Confederate and brothers in Hollywood. The by Andrew J. they watched as he was taken into devotees was deafening and their Often called the “angel of grief,” the George Julian Zolnay veterans throughout the country. church was filled to overflowing, Wray in memory statue carved from Carrara marble watches over Winnie the prison at Fort Monroe in the marriage plans were cancelled. Winnie became her father’s and thousands came to her burial. of Winnie’s Davis’ grave

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 6 FALL 2013 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 7 FALL 2013 Genealogy Project Planning Gains Momentum 7 8 fter nearly a year, significant strides have been with handwritten cemetery records to ensure that made to better understand gaps in the genealogical individual data is complete and correct. On July 27 Arecords of individuals interred in Hollywood and and September 28, the project team photographed how to address them. There are 62,000 individuals approximately half of the 1,800 monuments in Section (including 18,000 Confederate dead) buried in 26. Also, on September 28, the team photographed Hollywood and approximately 120,000 missing pieces of all gravesites in Idlewood, the newest section of data (e.g., date of birth or death, complete name, etc.). Hollywood.

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 8 FALL 2013 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 5 FALL 2013 Nancy will assist Friends Executive Director, Kelly Nancy Shepherd Joins Wilbanks, with managing Friends overall development 1 program, community outreach efforts, and cemetery 2 events (tours, picnics, speakers). Friends, a 501(c)3 Friends of Hollywood Staff organization, was formed in 2007. At that time and ancy Shepherd has continuing to date, Friends’ primary goal has been joined the Friends of restoration and conservation of monuments, sculpture, Fall NHollywood organization and ironwork within the cemetery. as part-time Development Associate. This “second Nancy has two daughters, Kara Hall Bleecher and Images career” follows thirty years Courtney Hall Barrett, and four grandchildren— of service at St. Catherine’s all boys. “I am also lucky to have in my life two School as a volunteer stepdaughters, a stepson, and four step grandchildren— 2013 and part- and full-time also boys.” In her leisure time, she is interested in employee. From 1991 until decorating and loves reading, music, cooking, and her retirement in June, entertaining. Nancy was a member of the Admissions Office staff. “This has been a wonderful new learning experience,” Nancy remarked. “I had no idea what Hollywood was During her tenure at St. really all about. I have learned so much. Just call me a Catherine’s, Nancy and her family also became part sponge!” of the resident faculty when the school still operated a boarding department. She fondly remembers her work We welcome Nancy Shepherd with boarding students.

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 4 FALL 2013 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 9 SPRINGFALL 20132011 2013 Contributors To Hollywood Roses Debut at Annual Rose Conference Friends of Hollywood Cemetery We are indeed grateful to the following donors for their generous support of Friends in 2013 through November 25. You have enabled us to raise awareness he fall conference of the Heritage Rose of Hollywood and to continue vital monument and fence restoration. Thank you for helping us to preserve Hollywood Cemetery for generations to come. Foundation—“Tracing our Rose Heritage: TDiscovering Our Roots”—was held November 14-17 on the grounds of Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Peter C. Toms FL. This annual event draws rose enthusiasts from Chair, Friends of Hollywood Cemetery throughout the United States and abroad, this year numbering over one hundred registrants. The 1847 Society Mr. Bowlman T. Bowles, Jr. Tredegar Corporation Matching Gifts Mr. and Mrs. R. Garnett Hall, Jr. Mr. Charles Bowman Program Dr. Dana B. Hamel Presidents Circle Ms. Joyce Kent Brown Mr. W. Guy Williams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hardy One of this year’s featured speakers was Connie Marietta McNeill Morgan and Mrs. William H. Clarke Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Heltzer Hilker; her topic, Documenting and Preserving the Samuel Tate Morgan Jr. Foundation Mr. Claude R. Davenport, Jr. Patrons ($100-$249) Mrs. William H. Higgins, Jr. Roses of Hollywood Cemetery. Hollywood contains one Carneal Drew Foundation Altria Matching Gifts Program Mr. Frank D. Hill, III of the finest collections of heritage roses in the country. Founders Circle Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Estes Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Angus Mrs. S. Winfield Hill Mr. and Mrs. James C. Hamilton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Harvie W. Fitzgerald Mrs. Virginia A. Arnold Mr. and Mrs. John Cameron Hoggan, Jr. Newsletter readers may recall Connie’s most current Emily S. and Coleman A. Hunter Mrs. Harry Frazier, III Dr. and Mrs. Wyatt S. Beazley, III Dr. and Mrs. J. Shelton Horsley, III connection with Hollywood. In the summer of 2012, Charitable Trust Mrs. Aelise Britton Green Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Bedell Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Innes Kelly Wilbanks, Friends Executive Director, met Connie Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Harvey Dr. and Mrs. Edward B. Beirne, Jr. Mrs. G. Watson James, III Sue W. Massie Charitable Trust at a Richmond Rose Society meeting. An immediate The Anne Carter Robins and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Herbert Mr. and Mrs. McGuire Boyd Mrs. Susan G. Jordan Walter R. Robins, Jr. Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Jennings, III Dr. and Mrs. Ben P. Bradenham Mrs. Bryan P. Kennedy connection was made. Initial slide of Connie Hilker’s presentation on the heritage Suntrust Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Allen B. King Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Brancoli Mrs. Robert D. Kilpatrick roses of Hollywood Cemetery Mr. Jerry Morton Layne Mrs. Caroline Y. Brandt Mrs. Tanya King Since that time, Connie has spearheaded an effort to Dr. and Mrs. Hunter H. McGuire, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Brockenbrough, IV Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Large Connie and her husband Steve live in Hartwood, VA Mr. and Mrs. Marshall N. Morton Mr. and Mrs. Orran L. Brown The Linhart Foundation locate, map, and identify over one hundred heritage Heritage Circle (near Fredericksburg), in a 1840s house surrounded by Dominion and the Dominion Foundation Mr. and Mrs. E. Bryson Powell Mr. and Mrs. W. Michaux Buchanan Mrs. Frank C. Maloney, III roses within the cemetery and to evaluate their Mrs. Linda B. Peterson Mr. Charles E. Tingley Mr. and Mrs. Bryce A. Bugg Dr. Lockert B. Mason and Molly Masich condition, chart a maintenance program for each, and nine acres of farm soil ideally suited for rose growing. Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Valentine Mr. A. Christian Burke Ms. E. Jean Matherne begin the painstaking task of conservation. Over forty It is the site of Connie’s former nursery, Hartwood Anne W. Taylor Trust Valentine Richmond History Center Mr. and Mrs. Larry Caldwell Mrs. H. Page Mauck, Jr. Roses. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Wells, III Mr. Wayne B. Cardwell Mr. and Mrs. Cecil R. Maxson, Jr. volunteers rallied around Connie Hilker on a March Mr. and Mrs. Fielding L. Williams, Jr. Mr. Richard T. Cavedo Mr. and Mrs. John L. McElroy, Jr. Saturday in 2013 to begin a task not undertaken before Hollywood Circle Mrs. Emily W. Chewning Dr. and Mrs. Henry A. McGee, Jr. Connie’s work at Hollywood is continuing. Plans are Elmwood Fund Inc Patrons ($250-$499) Mrs. Virginia D. Chewning Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McKee being made for another rose volunteer day to be held on The Herndon Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Edwin D. Child Mr. and Mrs. Rieman McNamara, Jr. Saturday, March 15, 2014 Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Baldwin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William T. Clarke, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George V. Moncure, Jr. (March 22 has been detected Mrs. Maria A. Pellew-Harvey as a bad weather back-up date). Notices will be mailed Mrs. Suzanne C. Pollard Mr. and Mrs. Lewis T. Booker Mrs. Dianne E. Conwell Mrs. Samuel S. Moody, Jr. Mr. James S. Watkinson Mrs. Ann-Lee Saunders Brown Mr. John E. Corey Mr. Andrew T. Moore, Jr. closer to the event. Meanwhile, if you are interested Mr. George W. Bryant, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Covington Mrs. W. Cabell Moore in having your name added to the event list, please Mrs. Randolph B. Cardozo Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Craigie Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Morris contact Kelly Wilbanks with Friends of Hollywood Ivy Circle Mrs. R. Harvey Chappell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Cross Mr. and Mrs. Lewis I. Myers, Jr. Drs. J. T and M. L. Bayliss Mrs. Stuart G. Christian, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Beverley L. Crump Mrs. Rebecca M. Neal ([email protected]). Mr. and Mrs. Austin Brockenbrough, III Dr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Claiborne, Jr. Dr. William L. Curry Mrs. Lucy B. Negus Mr. Frank S. Cox Mr. and Mrs. William R. Claiborne Mr. and Mrs. Victor J. Davis Ms. Susan A. Newton Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Farley, IV The Colon Club of Richmond Mr. and Mrs. Calvert G. deColigny, Jr. Mr. H. Coleman Nichols Mrs. Frank V. Fowlkes Mr. and Mrs. Richard H Dilworth Mr. Samuel A. Derieux Mrs. Emma Read Oppenhimer Hollywood Cemetery Company Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wilson Gaenzle, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Disharoon Mrs. Hugh W. Owens Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Gates Dominion Foundation Matching Gifts Mrs. H. Merrill Pasco Mrs. Jean Wiltshire Lane Rosarian and extraordinary volunteer Connie Hilker addresses Dr. Nelson D. Lankford Mr. and Mrs. Langhorne Gibson, Jr. Program Ms. Janice Walker Pogue Mrs. Ann K. Leake The Honorable and Mrs. John H. Mrs. D. G. Edel Mrs. Nancy C. Pollard audience at fall conference of the Heritage Rose Foundation Colonel and Mrs. Felix G. Millhouse Hager Mrs. Charlotte P. Edney Jane D. Powell Stanley and Dorothy Pauley Charitable Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Jerald A. Finch Ms. Leighton Powell in modern memory. Hollywood roses were thinned, Trust Mr. and Mrs. Fenton N. Hord, Sr. Mr. Thomas Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Peter W.W. Powell shaped, and put in good order for the 2013 growing/ Mr. Miles C. Johnston, Jr. Mrs. Herbert E. Fitzgerald, Jr. Mrs. Gwynn C. Prideaux Mr. Joseph A. Ramage blooming season. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Reed Mrs. John B. Leonard Mr. G. Slaughter Fitz-Hugh, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Russell L. Rabb, Jr. Segway of Richmond Mrs. Helen C. Mason Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Flinn, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm M. Randolph Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Tattersall Mr. and Mrs. Beverley B. Munford, III Mrs. Marjorie N. Fowlkes Dr. and Mrs. Frank L. Rawling, Jr. Connie’s participation in and presentation at the multi- Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Toms Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Norfleet, Jr. Mr. Paul Galea Mrs. Maria Teresa Regirer day Heritage Rose Foundation convention was a red Mrs. Betty B. Young Dr. John W. Overton, Jr. and Dr. Ann Mrs. Nancy H. Gatewood Ms. Amelie Rives Rennolds Lowry GE Foundation Mr. C. Edward Richardson, III letter day for Hollywood Cemetery and the extraordinary Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Mrs. Kenneth G. Gentil Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert M. Rosenthal collection of heritage roses that it boasts. “Heritage Sustainers ($500-$999) Program Mr. and Mrs. John George Mr. G. Neal Ryland roses are historic roses,” according to Hilker. “They Mr. and Mrs. John P. Ackerly, III Ms. Isabel K. Randolph Mr. and Mrs. David L. Gilliam St. Catherines Alumnae are closely aligned to families and family history down Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Riopelle Mrs. James M. Glave Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Schutt One of Hollywood’s treasured roses—Safrano—has been di- Mr. and Mrs. S. Wyndham Anderson through the years. Their individual stories can be traced Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Andersen Mr. and Mrs. Clarence B. Robertson, III Mr. C. Hobson Goddin Mrs. Elizabeth P. Scott agnosed with rose rosette disease and must be removed. Rose Mr. and Mrs. James G Rose, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Gottwald Mr. and Mrs. William R. Shands, Jr. back for generations.” For more information, please see Mrs. Margaret P. Bemiss rosette is an untreatable virus and can spread quickly from Mrs. Frederic S. Bocock Mr. and Mrs. John G. Slaughter Mr. and Mrs. William D. Gottwald, Jr. Mr. Thomas A. Silvestri and Mrs. Susan heritagerosefoundation.org. Mrs. Rosa Bosher Mr. and Mrs. E. Hunter Thompson, Jr. Mrs. Jane Johann Gresham Kurzman plant to plant Mr. Mitford Sims, III

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 10 FALL 2013 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 3 FALL 2013 The most challenging repair and restoration since “Working outdoors in Richmond’s relatively short winter Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sparrow Ms. Sharon Carter Mr. and Mrs. John Ramos, Jr. Varina High School Forbeginning Former Phase U.S. II has Presidents been the Norton plot (Section D, has not been a problem,” remarked Katherine. “Rain can Mrs. Mary R. Spencer Ms. Harriett W. Condrey Mr. and Mrs. Melvin L. Rawls Williamson, Rohr, Swartzwelder & Assoc. Plot 204). In September, 2003, Hurricane Isabel inflicted slow you down as can extremes of heat and cold. Weather Mrs. Ursula F. Stalker Mrs. Rosemary Cotton Dr. and Mrs. Gaylord W. Ray Mr. George A. Stuckey Mr. and Mrs. William R. Curdts Dr. and Mrs. P. Larus Reed, III Gifts In-Kind severe damage to Hollywood—nearly one hundred has everything to do with curing/drying. Each week, you WREATH-LAYING CEREMONIES Mrs. Richard E Talman, Sr. Mrs. Martha O. Davenport Mr. and Mrs. J. William Reid Boy Scout Troop 400 monarch trees (100 years of age or older) were destroyed. have to think ahead about the weather before starting in Mr. and Mrs. Walter TeStrake, Jr. Mrs. Glenda P. Dodrill Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Rettig Mr. E. L. Butterworth Countless monuments and fences were battered beyond on a particular kind of repair.” Mr. James Barry Thrift Mr. and Mrs. Elmer K. Dunn Mrs. Juliane M. Riley Peter Broadbent recognition. Section D was the epicenter of damage in Mrs. Kathryn G. Thurman Mrs. Martha A. Faulkner Mr. Field I. Robertson, Jr. Delta Upsilon Chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma Mr. F. Carlyle Tiller Dr. and Mrs. Adam J. Fiedler Mr. Raymond A. Ruth Fraternity at VCU Hollywood. In the center of Section D, the Norton plot Dr. and Mrs. C. Kent Titus Mrs. Fred C. Forberg, Jr. Mrs. Deborah D. Salinger Joseph R. Herbert was flattened beyond recognition. Mr. Peter Toepffer Mr. Merritt W. Foster, III Mrs. Calvin Satterfield, III Connie Hilker, Hartwood Roses Mrs. Zach Toms, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. F. Meriwether Fowlkes, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Savage Hollywood Cemetery Company “The Norton repairs—six tablet monuments in all— Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Toney Mr. Richard H. Fox Mr. Anthony P. Smith and Mrs. Barbara Myron E. Lyman, Sr. Mr. Joseph V. Turner, III Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Garian W. Smith Dr. Hunter H. McGuire, Jr. took forever,” according to Veronica Huynl. “The work Mr. B. Walton Turnbull Mr. Stretton L. Gramlich Dr. Rosemary T. Smith Mr. John O. Peters was complicated and very slow going. The monuments Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Vaden Ms. Valerie Hahn Mrs. Schuyler O. Sneed Segway of Richmond were fragile, flattened, broken, and buried. Seeing them Mr. and Mrs. Granville G. Valentine, III Mr. and Mrs. Les Harcum Mr. and Mrs. William H. Snider Star Brite Enterprises, Inc. standing straight and in a perfect row again is really Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Van Sickle Mrs. Rosemarie Harter Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Spain, Jr. Valentine Richmond History Center gratifying.” Mr. and Mrs. Hubert P. Van Horn Mrs. Shirley E. Hatcher Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Srpan Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Warthen, III Mr. and Mrs. Guy W. Horsley, Jr. Mrs. Mary N. Sutherland Gifts In Honor Mr. Lee Weidhaas Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Huberman Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Terry, Jr. In honor of Private George Fuller Grisham Mr. and Mrs. John T. West, IV Dr. and Mrs. J. Hubert Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McKee After nearly a month of work, the Norton plot appears as it did Mr. Ralph C. White, Jr. Mr. John W. Inman Mr. J. Langhorne Tompkins Mrs. Jacqueline C. Whitmore Mrs. Julia E. Kelly Mrs. Mary Stoddard Trigg In honor of Blanche and Peter Toms for generations Kathryn L. Whittington Mrs. Page M. Kjellstrom Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Turnbull Mrs. Lucy B. Negus Dr. and Mrs. Peter T. Wilbanks Dr. John T. Kneebone and Dr. Elizabeth Mr. Halcott Mebane Turner Robert Mosko and his “crew” have made a transformation Mr. Joshua Wilberger Roderick Mrs. Lynne C. Valentine In honor of Kelly Jones Wilbanks difference in the appearance of Hollywood’s monuments Mrs. Hilda L. Williams Mr. Garry W. Land Mr. Erskine B. van Houten, Jr. Mrs. Mary Stoddard Trigg and statues in recent years. We are grateful to them and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Craig M. Lawson Varina High School Mr. and Mrs. George T. Williamson Mr. R. Hart Lee and Mrs. Elizabeth Shuff Mrs. George R. Wagoner Gifts In Memory to the many Friends of Hollywood who have made that Williamson, Rohr, Swartzwelder & Assoc. Dr. Barbara T. Lester Ms. Elizabeth F. Wallace In memory of Barbara Grundy Barrett difference possible. Mrs. Virginia L. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Lowery Ms. Sandra E. Waller Mr. and Mrs. William R. Curdts Dr. and Mrs. Charles P. Winkler Ms. Teresa Luckert Mrs. Frances M. Waller Note: Shortly before publication, it was learned from Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Wong Mr. and Mrs. H. A. McDaniel Mrs. Mary P. Ware In memory of Sallie Morris Hopkins The condition of the Norton plot before repair and restoration Mrs. Michael B. Wray Mr. George G. McDearmon, Jr. Mr. B. Randolph Wellford Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Morris Shockoe Hill Cemetery Facebook page that the well Dr. and Mrs. R. Lewis Wright Dr. Anne H. McElroy and Mr. John Lee Dr. and Mrs. James R. Wickham earlier this year. Toppled and broken tablets, dislocated bases, known agronomist Dr. Daniel Norborne Norton, creator Mr. and Mrs. John J. Zeugner, IV McElroy, III Mr. Carrington C. Wilkerson In memory of John Barry Leonard a mess! of the famous Norton grape of Virginia and a “notable” Women of Meadowbrook Country Club Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Wilson, III Mrs. John B. Leonard of Shockoe Hill Cemetery, is the same Dr. Norton whose Patrons (Up to-$99) Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Molster, Jr. Mrs. Mildred Wysong Mr. Max R. Adam Mrs. Helen Turner Murphy In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Ravee Norris, Jr. With good weather and fairly straightforward repair wife, Lucy Marshall Fisher Norton and four children Dr. and Mrs. Steven E. Anders Mrs. Harriet P. Murphey Corporations, Mr. Charles Norris work, how many monuments can be restored in a week? are buried in the Norton plot in Hollywood, beneath Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Anderson Colonel Davis Eugene Norman Foundations and Veronica responded, “our best week was thirty (30) magnificently restored monuments. Mr. William B. Baker Mr. Charles Norris In memory of Seymour and John Rennolds Organizations monuments…the weather was perfect and the fixes easy.” Ms. Maria Benson Mr. Frank C. Norvell, Jr. Ms. Amelie Rives Rennolds Mr. and Mrs. John S. Bibb, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Pancoast Altria Matching Gifts Program Mr. Brad Bovenzi Ms. Ingrid Pantaenius The Colon Club of Richmond In memory of M. Seward Mr. and Mrs. George T. Bryson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Parbel, III Dominion and the Dominion Foundation Ms. Teresa Luckert Mrs. Archer C. Burke Mr. and Mrs. John B. Parrish, Jr. Dominion Foundation Matching Gifts Mr. J. Norton Cabell Mr. and Mrs. James D. Patton, IV Program In memory of Harriet C. van Houten Mr. and Mrs. Andrew V. Cable, Sr. Mrs. Joanna L. Pendleton Carneal Drew Foundation Mr. Erskine B. van Houten, Jr. Colonel and Mrs. J. A. Barton Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Hunter R. Pettus, Jr. Elmwood Fund Inc Mrs. Mary J. Campbell Mrs. Margaret R. Poole GE Foundation In memory of Mrs. Frances Mason Waller Mrs. Francis F. Carr, Jr. Mr. William Claiborne Powell The Herndon Foundation Dr. Lockert B. Mason and Molly Masich Hollywood Cemetery Company Emily S. and Coleman A. Hunter Charitable Matching Gifts The 1847 Society Trust Altria Matching Gifts Program Leaders for preservation of Hollywood Cemetery The Linhart Foundation Teri C. Miles Women of Meadowbrook Country Club Dominion Foundation Matching Gifts Annual Giving Levels Marietta McNeill Morgan and Samuael Tate Program Morgan Jr. Foundation John B. Parrish Presidents Circle for Gifts of $25,000+ Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program Joseph Bruce Vaden Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation Founders Circle for Gifts of $10,000 to $24,999 GE Foundation The Anne Carter Robins and Walter R. James Ferrell Heritage Circle for Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999 Robins, Jr. Foundation Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program St. Catherines Alumnae Hollywood Circle for Gifts of $2,500 to $4,999 S. Wyndham Anderson Segway of Richmond Tredegar Corporation Matching Gifts Ivy Circle for Gifts of $1,000 to $2,499 Suntrust Foundation Program In addition to two familiar books about Hollywood Cemetery (by authors Mary Mitchell and John Peters) and a DVD Tredegar Corporation Matching Gifts Mary Hoge Anderson (Dr. Hunter McGuire, Jr.), a recently published book by Joseph R. Herbert specifically highlights Hollywood’s notable We invite you to join the 1847 Society and continue the ongoing Program residents. Each is available in the cemetery office. restoration and preservation of Hollywood Cemetery. Valentine Richmond History Center

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