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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 2012 • VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2 Hollywood’s 164th Year 2012 Sees Continued Restoration and Outreach estoration and repair of monuments and fences by turnout of 150 individuals was entertained with guided tours conservator Robert Mosko and his team of interns have aboard trolleys, Good Humor ice cream, and bluegrass music by Rcontinued at a steady pace during 2012. All Phase I work in the Oak Lane Band. and around Presidents Circle has been nearly completed with a total of 326 monuments and 47 historic iron fences addressed • Complementing Friends’ sponsored tours throughout the in this initial phase. The installation of a newly recast Palmer year, the Valentine Richmond History Center has conducted fence and the reassembly of the ornate Nase family monument four themed walking tours of the cemetery in addition to its are the only remaining incomplete Phase I tasks. These, too, increasingly popular cemetery overview tours. Interest in will soon be completed. Hollywood guided tours has spiked this year with thousands of visitors choosing this option. And school children visits At the present time, Phase II of Hollywood’s multi-phase continue at a steady pace. restoration project is well underway. This second phase will address damage and deterioration in the oldest and most historic • Once again this year, in the spring and early summer, the sections of the cemetery. A total of 1,402 monuments and 81 cemetery was the site of ceremonies honoring Hollywood’s fences are included in the scope of Phase II. To date, work has former U. S. Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler; former been completed on 312 monuments and 51 fences. President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis; General J. E. B. Stuart; and numerous others. In addition to extensive restoration projects, Friends have continued in 2012 to showcase Hollywood through numerous • In August, Hollywood initiatives such as special events, tours, and networking was honored to be selected opportunities with other organizations. For example: by the readers of Richmond Magazine as the “Best • John O. Peters paid another visit to Hollywood on a Historic Site” in the city. sweltering April Sunday to speak to a faithful audience about The cemetery finished in the cemetery. His most recent book – Richmond’s Hollywood second place for “Best Cemetery – has been enthusiastically received. Guided tours Scenic View” in Richmond. followed Peters’ talk and book signing. • In October, the Boxwood • Over one hundred strong, members of the Church of Jesus Garden Club held its fall Christ of the Latter-day Saints spent a volunteer day in the meeting in the Palmer Cemetery in April pulling ivy, picking up debris, and removing Chapel and was treated to a dead limbs. Many additional volunteer hours were provided by presentation by Dr. Hunter the Phi Kappa Sigma, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Triangle Fraternities McGuire, Jr., followed by a at Virginia Commonwealth University. tour of Presidents Circle.

• After a many decades’ absence from the Richmond scene, (continued on page 3) Friends sponsored a Hollywood family picnic on May 20. The

Page 2 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 10 Page 11 Wreath-Laying 2012 McGuire Hollywood 2012 Officers and Ceremonies Images DVD Cemetery Contributors Directors (Cothran and (As of November 15, Richmond from Hollywood. Engraving image courtesy of the Virginia Historical Society Danylchak) 2012) Dr. and Mrs. Frank L. Rawling Jr. Mr. F. Carlyle Tiller George Stuart Woodson Trust For Former U.S. Presidents Dr. Gaylord W. Ray Mrs. Tammy M. E. Tiltman Mrs. Michael B. Wray Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Reed Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Tompkins Dr. R. Lewis Wright 2012-2013 Dr. and Mrs. P. Larus Reed III Mrs. Mary L. Tompkins Mrs. Mildred Wysong Officers and Directors WREATH-LAYING CEREMONIES Mr. C. Edward Richardson III Mrs. Zach Toms Jr. Dr. Henry Yancey Jr. Friends of Hollywood Cemetery ach year, on the anniversary of their birth dates, Thirty days following the Tyler event, in a similar Mrs. Juliane M. Riley Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Toney Mr. and Mrs. David Lee Zorn the sitting President of the United States honors the ceremony held on April 28 and only a few steps away, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Riopelle Tredegar Corporation Matching Gifts Mary Hoge Anderson – Chair E Mr. Field I. Robertson Jr. Program * Deceased memory and legacy of our county’s former Presidents by Major General James L. Hodge, then Commanding David L. Gilliam – Secretary a formal military wreath-laying ceremony. General of CASCOM, Fort Lee, and Sergeant Major Mr. and Mrs. N. Pendleton Rogers Tuckahoe Garden Club of Mr. Edwin M. Rucker Jr. Westhampton Corporations, Peter C. Toms – Treasurer James E, Riddick, CASCOM’s top noncommissioned CDR. James C. Ruehrmund (Ret.) Judge John Randolph Tucker Jr. Foundations and In the spring of the year, two such ceremonies take place officer, placed a red, white and blue wreath at President Mr. Raymond A. Ruth Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Turnbull Organizations Mary Hoge Anderson at Hollywood Cemetery. They honor our fifth and tenth Monroe’s tomb in a similar ceremony. Mrs. Calvin Satterfield III Mr. Halcott Mebane Turner Mary Lynn Bayliss, PhD Presidents, James Monroe (born April 28, 1758) and John Mr. Lee Schulte Mr. Joseph V. Turner III Altria Matching Gifts Program Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Schutt Mrs. Marguerite B. Turner Bank of America Matching Gifts Program William R. Claiborne Tyler (born March 29. 1790). Hollywood is one of just “He was the last of the “Virginia Dynasty” and the last of Edward M. Farley, IV three cemeteries in the country in which two Presidents of the “Revolutionary Fathers” to occupy the White House,” Mrs. Elizabeth P. Scott Mrs. Lynne C. Valentine The Beirne Carter Foundation Segway of Richmond Mr. and Mrs. Granville G. Valentine III The Biscuit Factory Matthew D. Jenkins the United States are interred. General Hodge remarked. “In his lifetime, President Mr*. and Mrs. Rankjit Sen Mr. and Mrs. Hubert P. Van Horn Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Peter C. Toms Monroe contributed immeasurably to the building of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Shands Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Van Sickle Overton and Katharine Dennis Fielding L. Williams, Jr. John Tyler was nominated as the Whig Party’s vice this nation, and he established a remarkable record of Mr. Howard W. Shields Van Yahres Associates Foundation presidential candidate in 1840 and ran with William service to the citizens of America.” Monroe was born in Mr. Robert H. Shultz, Jr. Varina High School Dominion and the Dominion Foundation Henry Harrison, also of Charles City, Virginia, under the Westmoreland County, Virginia, and on Christmas Eve, Mr. Thomas A. Silvestri Vineyard Productions, LLC Friends at First Baptist Church 2012-2013 much trumpeted campaign slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler, 1776, at eighteen years of age, crossed the Delaware with Mrs. Sarah S. Sinsabaugh Mrs. George R. Wagoner GE Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Slagle Mr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Wallace Genworth Foundation Officers and Directors Too.” Tyler was thrust into the Presidency one month into General George Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony P. Smith Ms. Sandra E. Waller The Hermitage at Cedarfield Harrison’s term when the President died from pneumonia Hollywood Cemetery Company (continued on page 3) Mrs. Rosemary T. Smith Mrs. Frances M. Waller Historic Richmond Foundation on April 4, 1841. Mrs. Schuyler O. Sneed Mrs. Mary P. Ware Hollywood Cemetery Company Mr. and Mrs. William H. Snider Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Warthen III The Linhart Foundation Matthew D. Jenkins – President Mrs. Mary L. Soukup Mr. Ten Eyck T. Wellford Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Peter C. Toms – Vice President Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Spain Jr. Mr. Jay Laird Welliver Program David L. Gilliam – Secretary and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sparrow Mr. and Mrs. Jack West Richard S. Reynolds Foundation General Manager St. John’s Church Foundation Mr. Ralph C. White Jr. The William H., John G., and Woodrow C. Harper – Treasurer Mrs. Ursula F. Stalker Mrs. Raymond H. Whitney Emma Scott Foundation Star Brite Enterprises Inc Mrs. Kathy Whittington Segway of Richmond Mabel E. Toney – Assistant Mrs. Hazeltine P. Strother Dr. and Mrs. James R. Wickham Star Brite Enterprises,Inc Secretary and Assistant Treasurer Mr. and Mrs. James E. B. Stuart Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Peter T. Wilbanks The Triangle Fraternity Mrs. Mary N. Sutherland Mr. Carrington C. Wilkerson Tredegar Corporation Matching Gifts Mary Lynn Bayliss, Ph.D. Mrs. Ruth W. Taylor Mrs. Hilda L. Williams Program Edward M. Farley, IV Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Tentor Mr. and Mrs. Fielding L. Williams Jr. Tuckahoe Garden Club of Westhampton Mr. and Mrs. Walter TeStrake Jr. Mr. Robert G. Willis Jr. Valentine Richmond History Center Matthew D. Jenkins Dr. James A. Thompson III Mrs. Virginia L. Wilson Van Yahres Associates Elizabeth Cabell Jennings Mr. and Mrs. Matthew G. Thompson Dr. and Mrs. Charles P. Winkler Varina High School Nelson D. Lankford, Ph.D. George N. Thrift MD, Trust Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Witt III Vineyard Productions, LLC E. Bryson Powell Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation Evelina M. Scott Gifts In-Kind Fred T. Tattersall The 1847 Society Peter C. Toms Brig. Gen. Stephen E. Farmen, Chief of Transportation, and Command Sgt. Maj. Leaders for preservation of Hollywood Cemetery Allen B. Offord Jr., Transportation Corps regimental command sergeant major, Mr. E. L. Butterworth Fielding L. Williams, Jr. salute for the playing of taps at the Match 29th ceremony for former President Tyler The Church of Jesus Christ of Annual Giving Levels Latter-day Saints On March 29, Brigadier General Stephen E. Farmen, Delta Upsilon Chapter of Phi Kappa Presidents Circle for Gifts of $25,000+ Sigma Fraternity at VCU Administrative Staff Chief of Transportation and the Transportation School at Connie Hilker, Hartwood Roses Hollywood Cemetery Company Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM), Ft. Lee, Founders Circle for Gifts of $10,000 to $24,999 Hollywood Cemetery Company Virginia delivered remarks on behalf of President Barack Lambda Chi Chapter of Pi Kappa David L. Gilliam – General Obama to family members of President Tyler, friends and Heritage Circle for Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999 Alpha Fraternity at VCU Manager Dr. Hunter H. McGuire, Jr. assembled military personnel. Woodrow C. Harper – Assistant Mr. John O. Peters Hollywood Circle for Gifts of $2,500 to $4,999 Segway of Richmond General Manager “What is it that causes us to gather here each year in The Triangle Fraternity at VCU Mabel E. Toney – Administrative President Tyler’s honor? The mosaic of American history Ivy Circle for Gifts of $1,000 to $2,499 Valentine Richmond History Center Assistant comprises those who gave selflessly of themselves for Kelly Jones Wilbanks – Director of Gifts and Contributions received the benefit of the country,” Farmen said. “We can’t allow Development, Friends ourselves to forget their deeds, for our history provides a We invite you to join the 1847 Society and continue the ongoing after November 15, 2012, will be glimpse of what the future may hold.” An honor guard stands at attention prior to the placement of a wreath for restoration and preservation of Hollywood Cemetery. acknowledged in the next edition former President Tyler of the Newsletter

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 2 FALL 2012 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 11 FALL 2012 Regulations. The Code of Federal Regulations requires 2012 Contributors To that the President’s designated representative at each Friends of Hollywood Cemetery ceremony be approved by the President’s Military Assistant and be a dignitary of general or flag rank. We are indeed grateful to the following donors for their generous support of Friends in 2012. You have enabled us to continue vital monument The wreath of fresh flowers, arranged for by the and fence restoration. Thank you for helping us to preserve Hollywood Cemetery for generations to come. Military Assistant, is essentially identical in size and color for all ceremonies.

Mary Hoge Anderson Chair, Friends of Hollywood Cemetery While patriotic organizations, presidential societies, and groups such as the Boy and Girl Scouts of America are The 1847 Society Mrs. William W. Reams Mrs. William H. Clarke Dr. and Mrs. J. Shelton Horsley III often in attendance at wreath-laying ceremonies, some Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Toms Mrs. Suzanne P. Closs Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Huberman having a program role, the ultimate responsibility for Presidents Circle Mrs. Kathryn G. Thurman Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Covington Dr. J. Hubert executing the ceremonial events rests with the assigned Mr. and Mrs. James M. Wells III Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Craigie Mr. and Mrs. William C. Hungerford military service branch. The Kathryn Walker Revocable Trust Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Cross Mrs. Frances H. James The William H., John G., and Patrons (to $499) Mr. and Mrs. William R. Curdts Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Jennings III Dr. William L. Curry Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Johnson III Emma Scott Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John P. Ackerly IV Mrs. Martha O. Davenport Mr. Miles C. Johnston Jr. Maj. Gen. James L. Hodge, former Combined Arms Support Command Certain information and photographs appearing in this Founders Circle Mr. Max R. Adam Mr. and Mrs. Victor J. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Gregory E. Kane commanding general, and Command Sgt. Maj. James E. Riddick, article have been generously provided by the Office of Mr. and Mrs. William M. Adamson Mrs. Ingrid H. Davis Mrs. Robert J. Keller III CASCOM’s command sergeant major, render honors to former President CASCOM Public Affairs and Office of Public Affairs and S.W. Massie Charitable Trust Anonymous (3) Dr. Brigitte de la Burde Mr. and Mrs. James A. Kelly Monroe on April 28 Ms. Alice DeCamps Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Large Community Relations, Fort Lee, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Massie Jr. Mrs. Paul W. Allen Over the course of many years, the Office of the Richard S. Reynolds Foundation Altria Matching Gifts Program Mr. Samuel Derieux Dr. and Mrs. Walter Lawrence Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George Wayne Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Richard H Dilworth Mr. Craig Lawson Military Assistant to the President in the White House Mr. and Mrs. S. Wyndham Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Disharoon Mrs. John B. Leonard has coordinated the annual placement of wreaths. Heritage Circle Mr. and Mrs. J. Martin Anderson Mrs. Tanya Parker Dolphin Dr. Barbara T. Lester Responsibility of that Office is formalized in Title Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Lee P. Dudley Jr. The Linhart Foundation 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The Code Overton and Katharine Dennis Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Eberle Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gene K. Long Dominion and the Dominion Foundation Bank of America Matching Gifts Mrs. Fred R. Edney Miss Teresa Luckert also includes “the President’s Approved Wreath List” Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation Program Mr. George C. Ely II Mrs. Frank C. Maloney III containing the name, birth date, and burial place of each Anne W. Taylor Trust Mrs. Barbara H. Baldwin Mrs. Herbert E. Fitzgerald Jr. Mr. David H. Mason of our thirty-eight deceased Presidents, as well as the Mr. Robert B. Bass Mr. G. Slaughter Fitz-Hugh Jr. Dr. Lockert B. Mason branch of the military responsible for each ceremony. Dr. and Mrs. Edward B. Beirne Jr. Mr. Robert J. Flacke Mrs. H. Page Mauck Jr. Hollywood Circle Mrs. Jeri Bell Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Flinn Jr. Dr. William R. Mauck The Biscuit Factory Mrs. Fred C. Forberg Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil R. Maxson Jr. The Army is responsible for the execution of the annual Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Farley IV Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Blackwell Mrs. Dianne Forsythe Mr. George G. McDearmon Jr. Monroe and Tyler ceremonies at Hollywood, as well as Mr. Donald Bogen* Mrs. Marjorie N. Fowlkes Mrs. Susan A. McGrath ceremonies for all other deceased Presidents across the Ivy Circle Mrs. Margaret Dillon Bowles Mr. and Mrs. Francis Meriwether Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. McMullen country. The U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force Mr. Bowlman T. Bowles Jr. Fowlkes Jr. Mr. Thomas M. Miller have responsibility for the remaining ceremonies. The Mr. Richard H. Fox Mr. and Mrs. Wallace B. Millner III Drs. J.T. and M.L. Bayliss Mr. and Mrs. McGuire Boyd Dr. and Mrs. Ben P. Bradenham Mrs. Marcia C. Frazier Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Molster Jr. only President for whom two ceremonies are performed Mrs. Margaret P. Bemiss Friends at First Baptist Church Mr. and Mrs. George V. Moncure Jr. is Abraham Lincoln. One ceremony is held at the Mr. and Mrs. Austin Brockenbrough III Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Brancoli Mrs. Caroline Y. Brandt Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wilson Gaenzle Jr. Mrs. W. Cabell Moore Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. and the other in Mrs. Frank V. Fowlkes Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Brinkley Jr. Mrs. Lucille S. Gaines Mr. Andrew T. Moore Jr. Mrs. Jean Wiltshire Lane Springfield, Illinois. President Obama’s wreath honoring former President Monroe Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Mrs. William C. Garbee Jr. Mrs. Mary D. Morgan Dr. and Mrs.* Nelson D. Lankford Mrs. Alexander G. Brown III GE Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Morris Mr. and Mrs. E. Bryson Powell Mr. George W. Bryant Jr. Genworth Foundation Mrs. Frederica C. Mullen Little is left to chance regarding the ceremonies. The Mr. Joseph A. Ramage Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Brydon Mr. Stuart Gilchrist Mrs. Harriet J. Murphey participants, agenda, and military decorum for Army- Mr. and Mrs. John C. Reed Mr. and Mrs. George T. Bryson Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David L. Gilliam Mrs. Helen Turner Murphy conducted ceremonies are described in detail in Army Mr. James S. Watkinson Mr. W. Hamilton Bryson Major General L. H. Ginn III Mrs. Louise B. Nemecek Restoration and Outreach (continued from page 1) Mrs. Carol G. White Mr. and Mrs. William Michaux Buchanan Mrs. James M. Glave Mrs. Susan A. Newton Mr. and Mrs. Bryce A. Bugg Mr. and Mrs. Wellington Goddin Mrs. Jackie Noel Finally, Friends is very pleased that two new members Mrs. Archer C. Burke Mr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Gottwald Mr. Davis Eugene Norman have joined its board the during the year – Mary Lynn Sustainers ($500-$999) Mr. A. Christian Burke Mr. Stretton L. Gramlich Mr. Charles Norris Mr. and Mrs. Andrew V. Cable Sr. Mrs. Martha Anne Greggs Mr. Frank Norvell Bayliss and William R. Claiborne. Lynn Bayliss, Altria Matching Gifts Program Mr. Lawrence C. Caldwell, III Mr. Charles L. Hague Mrs. St. Julian Oppenhimer a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, earned her Mrs. Frederic S. Bocock Mrs. Dorothy G. Cardozo Dr. Dana B. Hamel Mrs. Henry W. Oppenhimer doctorate from the University of Tennessee. She writes Mr. and Mrs. Lewis T. Booker Mr. and Mrs. Randolph B. Cardozo Mr. and Mrs. Les and Kennah Harcum Mrs. Hugh W. Owens and lectures about historical Virginia figures. Lynn is Mr. Charles Bowman Mr. Wayne B. Cardwell Mrs. Rosemarie Harter Mr. and Mrs. John M. Pace Mrs. Shirley E. Hatcher Mrs. H. Merrill Pasco also a member of the Hollywood Cemetery Board. Mr.* and Mrs. R. Harvey Chappell Jr. The Beirne Carter Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Allan Hauer Mr. and Mrs. John M. Payne Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Gates Miss Emily E. Carter Mrs. Milton R. Haynes* Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Billy Claiborne, a native of Richmond, graduated Mr. and Mrs. Horace A. Gray III Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Catlett Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Heltzer Program Mrs. Aelise Britton Green Mr. Richard T. Cavedo from Woodberry Forest School and the University of Mr. Donald E. Centrone Dr. and Mrs. Walter P. Hempfling Ms. Donna Potter Phillips Virginia. He will soon be a twenty-year veteran of Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. W. Kirby The Hermitage at Cedarfield Mrs. Robert N. Pollard Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Hunter H. McGuire Jr. Mrs. Hilda W. Chafin Lowe Brockenbrough & Company where he holds the Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Chappell Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Hill Mrs. Jane D. Powell Mr. and Mrs. G. Gilmer Minor III Mrs. C.C. Chewning Jr. Mr. Frank D. Hill III Mrs. Gwynn C. Prideaux position of Managing Director and Portfolio Manager. Mr. and Mrs. Beverley B. Munford III Mr. and Mrs. Edwin D. Child Mrs. S. Winfield Hill Mrs. John B. Purcell Billy has served on the board of directors of the Stanley and Dorothy Pauley Charitable Mr. and Mrs. Carter C. Chinnis Historic Richmond Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Russell L. Rabb Jr. Maymont and Westminster Canterbury Foundations. Trust Mrs. Stuart G. Christian Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Cameron Hoggan Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Ramos The 392nd Army Band from Fort Lee, Va., provides musical Mrs. Suzanne C. Pollard Mr. and Mrs. William R. Claiborne Hollywood Cemetery Company Ms. Elizabeth D. Rawles accompaniment during the ceremony for former President Monroe

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 10 FALL 2012 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 3 FALL 2012 company, encouraged Richmond’s women to organize a movement, it has enticed visitors to find solace and enjoyment 2012 Images society to preserve the graves of the Confederate dead. On within its boundaries. Today, Hollywood remains an active 3 May 1865, 200 women convened at a local church and cemetery and continues to welcome visitors to enjoy its striking Numerous Events Draw Visitors to Hollywood formed the Hollywood Memorial Association of the Ladies scenery, its memorial monuments, and its rich history conveyed of Richmond to raise money to maintain the graves of the in stone. South’s fallen soldiers. In 1867, the Association decided to fund the construction of a fitting memorial in the Soldiers’ Section and chose a design by local architect/engineer Charles James R. Cothran, FASLA, was a landscape architect, urban planner, H. Dimmock—a dramatic, ninety-foot pyramid made of large and garden historian in Atlanta, Georgia. He authored Gardens of Historic Charleston, Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South, and granite blocks. Completed in 1869, the monument bears Latin Charleston Gardens and the Landscape Legacy of Loutrel Briggs. Cothran inscriptions that translate: “In eternal memory of those who passed away January 29, 2012. stood for God and Country.” In the early 1870s, the Association undertook another mission—to have the bodies of all of the Erica Danylchak serves as the Executive Director of the Buckhead Heritage Confederate dead that remained at the battlefields around Society in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned a B.A. in History from Boston Gettysburg brought to Hollywood for proper burial. Ultimately, University and a Master of Heritage Preservation degree from Georgia State University. 2,935 soldiers from Gettysburg were reinterred at Hollywood

Cemetery. Even as decades passed, the Civil War continued This article first appeared in the Winter 2012 issue of Magnolia, a publication to impact Hollywood Cemetery as Confederate veterans were of the Southern Garden History Society, and is reprinted with the Society’s buried in its grounds, well into the twentieth century. Visitors permission. The article is an excerpt from the unfinished manuscript of 2 came to find the graves of ancestors who died in the conflict Nineteenth Century Garden Cemeteries and the Rural Cemetery Movement. 1 and pay tribute to the dead. And to this day, “the sound of Danylchak plans to complete the book in Cothran’s memory. cannon and rifle salutes reverberate frequently throughout the grounds.”16 Endnotes Outdoor Museum 1 Mary H. Mitchell, Hollywood Cemetery: The History 3 of a Southern Shrine (Richmond: Library of Richmond, 1999), 7-10. 5 Over time, garden cemeteries became, in part, outdoor 2 Ibid., 7. museums that provided the general public access to sculpture 3 “Holly-Wood Cemetery,” Richmond Enquirer, June 12, 1849. and sometimes provided lessons on history and biography. 4 William Cullen Bryant and Oliver Bell Bunce, At Hollywood, two particularly noteworthy examples of Picturesque America or the Land We Live In (New monumental sculpture relate to the Civil War and stand over the York: D. Appleton & Co, 1872), 1: 73. 5 Constance M. Greiff, John Notman, Architect, 1810- graves of Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederacy, 1865 (Philadelphia: Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 4 and his daughter, Varina Anne. In 1893, Davis was buried in 1979), 16-18. Hollywood after briefly resting in Metairie Cemetery in New 6 Keith N. Morgan, “The emergence of the American Orleans after his death in 1889. Before the end of the century, landscape professional: John Notman and the design 6 of rural cemeteries,” Journal of Garden History 4, no. the Hollywood Cemetery company erected a bronze statue 3 (1984): 281. designed by sculptor George Julian Zolnay that depicted a 7 Greiff, 142. dignified Davis dressed as he was when captured by Union 8 Ibid., 143-45. 9 John F. Sears, Sacred Places: American Tourist troops at the end of the Civil War. Zolnay, a Hungarian native Attractions in the Nineteenth Century (Amherst: who had recently immigrated to the United States, quickly University of Massachusetts Press, 1989), 100-104. gained recognition as a superior sculptor and won commissions 10 Mitchell, 79. 11 Bryant, 73. to design busts of many famous Americans. For the cemetery 12 Mitchell, 4. 7 company, Zolnay also completed a seven-foot Carrara marble 13 John Francis Marion, “Hollywood Cemetery,” in statue of a seated angel of grief honoring Davis’s daughter who Famous and Curious Cemeteries: A Pictorial, was born in 1864 at the height of the Civil War and was known Historical, and Anecdotal View of American and European Cemeteries and the Famous and Infamous [1] John O. Peters, retired lawyer and author of Richmond’s Hollywood Cemetery, speaks about 17 as the “Daughter of the Confederacy.” People Who Are Buried There (New York: Crown the cemetery and his recent book at Presidents Circle. [2] Hundreds gather amidst wreaths and Since its founding, Hollywood Cemetery has served the Publishers, 1977), 167. flags to celebrate the 204th birthday anniversary of Former President of the Confederacy Jefferson 8 city of Richmond as a pastoral “sleeping place” for its dead 14 John O. Peters, Richmond’s Hollywood Cemetery F. Davis on June 2. [3, 4 & 5] Over a hundred adults and young people from the Church of Jesus (Richmond, VA: Valentine Richmond History Center, Christ of the Latter-day Saints gathered for a day of “clean-up, fix-up.” [6] Boxwood Garden Club and as an important cultural institution for its citizens. For over 2010), 46-55. President Cathy Lee greets club members in the Palmer Chapel at the club’s fall meeting. [7] Da- 160 years, Hollywood has offered a safe and dignified place 15 Ibid., 55-70. vid Gilliam, Hollywood Cemetery General Manager, explains recent restoration and development for burials removed from the noise and confines of the city. 16 Ibid., 64. work at Presidents Circle. [8] Boxwood members Jil Harris (left) and Ashley Farley. Featuring the picturesque elements typical of the rural cemetery 17 Mitchell, 120-121.

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 4 FALL 2012 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 9 SPRINGFALL 20122011 In the mid-nineteenth century, garden cemeteries became a retreat for the living from increasingly dense, disorderly, and 10 dreary urban environments created by the Industrial Revolution. Cemeteries became natural sanctuaries that reminded city dwellers—albeit in an idealized way—of the rural environments they had once known and enjoyed. Although easily reached by carriage or streetcar, garden cemeteries were located far enough from cities to offer a quiet refuge from the incessant noise of the city’s bustling streets and commercial/ industrial establishments. Garden cemeteries offered urbanites a reprieve from the visual monotony and inhospitable landscape 9 of the city. Meanwhile, marble monuments and grave markers, a common feature in garden cemeteries, provided visitors with symbols of hope and immortality that helped lessen the fear of death by promoting the idea of a peaceful afterlife.9

Hollywood -- A Visitor Destination 12 By the mid-1850s, Hollywood Cemetery was becoming a popular attraction for the public and the city of Richmond began operating an omnibus line, a precursor of the American trolley, to the cemetery every afternoon to make the grounds accessible to visitors. By the late 1860s, access was made even 11 easier by the extension of a streetcar to the cemetery’s northern gate. In 1871, the Richmond Whig, a local newspaper, reported that Hollywood had “become of late the favorite and almost the [9] The Oak Lane Band entertains picnickers on May 20. Left to Right: Massie Valentine, Jr., Liz only resort of our people, as well as for the pleasures of pure Nance, Andy Smith, Russell Lawson, and Bill Hardy. [10 & 11] Open air trolley tours were enjoyed air and refreshing scenery, as for the love that is felt for the spot by all ages. For many young fry, this was their first picnic in a “graveyard.” [12] Even this four- where the lost ones of the family are laid.” The following year,

Cook Collection, Valentine Richmond History Center 13 legged picnicker found the weather and surroundings “awesome.” [13] Veteran tour guide E. L. Hollywood was featured in Picturesque America, a two volume Butterworth was on hand to narrate tours and answer questions. set of books edited by William Cullen Bryant, which described America’s scenery and propelled Americans to explore the Women and children by Confederate Pyramid, Memorial Day, early natural beauty the country offered. It provided romantic 1890s. descriptions of America’s most celebrated garden cemeteries view of Monroe’s plot. Hollywood has the unusual distinction including: Mount Auburn, Laurel Hill, Greenwood, Magnolia, of being the only cemetery, other than Arlington, that has two DVD Captures McGuire Stories of Hollywood and Hollywood. In regards to Hollywood Cemetery, it noted: 13 United States presidents buried there. uring the spring and summer of this year, Dr. Hunter about each of his subjects. He debunks the widely held belief McGuire, Jr., retired surgeon and former Hollywood that Hollywood is “an exclusive refuge.” Instead, he asserts Far away from the noises of city-life, curtained by From June 1861 to April 1865, Richmond served as the Capital D Nature with the luxuriant foliage of tree and flower, and board member, revisited some of his most favorite sights and then proves that it is the resting place of “a great variety of the Confederacy. Not only did this greatly expand the city’s within the cemetery. of characters – writers, teachers, philanthropists, heros and presenting at every turn of hill and dell patches of population, but also placed tremendous demands on the city’s beauty which art cannot improve, there is perhaps no heroines, some good, some scoundrels – who have made huge physical and economic resources as well. While Hollywood Over the years, McGuire has become one of Hollywood’s impacts on life in Virginia. It is Richmond’s largest and most spot in America more suggestive of the solemn Cemetery was originally conceived as a burial ground for associations that attach to the sacred circle of the dead most accomplished historians. He has an encyclopedic diverse cemetery.” residents of the city, with the advent of the Civil War, it soon knowledge of its residents, monuments, sculpture and wrought . . . and all around the spacious grounds shafts and had to accommodate Confederate casualties resulting from cenotaphs are reared to pay the tribute of the living to iron and has shared his repertoire of entertaining stories with Speaking of the project, Attaway recalls that as a life-long battles and skirmishes in the region. By 30 April 1862, 739 many groups, individuals, family and friends. His earliest Richmond resident, he had always regarded Hollywood as “an those who have ‘gone before.’ 11 Confederate soldiers had been buried in the Soldiers’ Section recollections date to strolls through Hollywood as a boy with important landmark.” But while working with Dr. McGuire, of Hollywood Cemetery, and by the end of the war more than his mother following church on Sundays. he has discovered that Hollywood “contains an enormous Monuments to the famous drew large crowds to Hollywood. 14 11,000 soldiers had been interred in the cemetery’s grounds. historical thread. There is a remarkable narrative there, In 1858, former President James Monroe was removed from What made McGuire’s most recent visits different from all the particularly when told by someone as knowledgeable as Dr. a cemetery in Manhattan and reinterred in Hollywood on the The Impact of others was his talented companion -- Richmond videographer, McGuire.” hundredth anniversary of his birth, after the Virginia General the Civil War Reid Attaway (VideoWorks of Virginia, Inc.). Attaway, who Assembly had convinced Monroe’s descendants that he should was engaged by Friends of Hollywood, and McGuire spent Copies of the McGuire DVD will be available for purchase in rest in his native state. According to Mary H. Mitchell’s Overwhelmed by the maintenance responsibility for so many endless hours driving from sight to sight -- Attaway filming the Cemetery Offices in early December. Proceeds from DVD definitive history of Hollywood Cemetery, Monroe’s interment graves, Hollywood’s cemetery company reached out to the and McGuire demonstrating his skills as a raconteur. sales will be used to support the continuing restoration and “gave the cemetery lasting prestige, not to mention a prime community for help. Within a month of the end of hostilities, conservation of Hollywood begun by Friends in 2008. tourist attraction, and ensured that the citizens of Richmond Thomas Harding Ellis, the President of the cemetery After the assembling of extensive supporting images as well would take greater pride in the budding necropolis.” In 1862, as considerable editing, a twenty-seven minute DVD has For more information, please e-mail Kelly Wilbanks at former President John Tyler was buried in Hollywood within (continued on page 9) been produced. McGuire provides an interesting vignette [email protected].

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 8 FALL 2012 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 5 FALL 2012 its perpetual requiem to the dead who lie around, catches Hollywood Cemetery: A Quintessential Garden from the sunshine playing on its ruffled breast kaleidoscopic hues . . . That, however, which attracts the th attention of the visitor above all other objects as he Cemetery of the 19 Century views the broad prospect, is the city itself, with its bold yet broken outline of roofs and spires. 4 By: James R. Cothran and Erica Danylchak

Atlanta, Georgia In 1848, Hollywood’s Board of Trustees chose well-known architect John Notman (1810-1865) to design the cemetery’s he rural cemetery movement in America began in 1831 layout. (It was Notman who suggested that the cemetery’s with the development of Mount Auburn Cemetery (located name be Holly-Wood because of the prevalence of holly trees a few miles outside of Boston in Cambridge, Massachusetts) T on the site.) A native of Scotland, Notman began his career as and continued until circa 1885. During this brief fifty year time an apprentice in the office of William Henry Playfair, a highly period, several hundred garden cemeteries were developed regarded Edinburgh architect. In 1831 Notman immigrated to across the country in response to a variety of sanitary, social, Philadelphia, where he later met John Jay Smith, a horticulturist and cultural conditions. While garden cemeteries were initially and the librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia. developed outside large northeastern metropolitan areas, such Smith5 became an influential supporter of Notman’s work as Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, by mid- and in 1835 hired him to design a building for the Library century notable examples could be found in cities and towns Company. The following year, Notman won the design across the United States—in the South, Midwest, and as far Valentine Richmond History Center competition for Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, a project away as California. Colorized postcard showing entrance to Hollywood Cemetery. spearheaded by Smith. As Laurel Hill Cemetery’s prestige and

graveyards could simply not accommodate the growing number notoriety grew as the second largest garden cemetery in the

proclaimed: “Few Cemeteries possess so charming a variety of the existing topography and eluded the Of all the garden cemeteries developed in the southeast, as Holly-Wood—noble trees, bold rocks, dashing streams, site’s steepest terrain. The numerous lots Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, is perhaps the dark and wild glens, deep vistas—such are some of the natural fronting roadways provided opportunities most significant, both in terms of size and history. Originally characteristics, which point it out as a hallowed ground for the to maximize profits from the sale of named Mount Vernon Cemetery, Hollywood was first dead.”3 A later account heralded the striking views and vistas choice burial lots and allowed carriages conceived after two of Richmond’s most prominent business the site offered of the city and river below and painted the easy access to most lots during funerals, leaders, Joshua Jefferson Fry and William Henry Haxall, visited following poetic picture: which Notman felt was imperative. Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Meanwhile, the position of the roads men returned home determined to develop a similar landscaped The scene from President’s Hill, in Hollywood, is one greatly eliminated the cost of grading cemetery outside of Richmond. Richmond had seen rapid that never tires the eye, because it embraces a picture and cutting of the road beds. Notman’s population growth in the early nineteenth century and had which somewhere among its lights and shadows presents curvilinear circulation system also experienced crowded and unsanitary burial grounds within features that constantly appeal to imagination and refined revealed “charming views” at choice turns the confines of the city. Richmond’s first burial ground, the taste. In the great perspective which bounds the horizon in the roadways. In addition, Notman churchyard of Saint John’s Episcopal Church, had reached its the distant hills and forests take new color from the proposed that the site’s main valley, which capacity by 1821. To alleviate these conditions, the city had changing clouds; while nearer— almost at your feet— was traversed by a wide stream and two established Shockoe Hill Cemetery in 1820 in the northwestern the James River, brawling over the rocks, and chanting creeks, be the chief ornamental feature

section of the city. Within thirty years it too became Hibbs Collection, Valentine Richmond History Center of the cemetery since burials were not overcrowded with approximately 4,500 graves surrounded by (continuted on page 7) possible there. A report that accompanied Plan of Hollywood Cemetery, from 1852 Elliot & Nye’s Virginia Directory. increased urban development. A patchwork of other private

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 6 FALL 2012 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 7 FALL 2012 its perpetual requiem to the dead who lie around, catches Hollywood Cemetery: A Quintessential Garden from the sunshine playing on its ruffled breast kaleidoscopic hues . . . That, however, which attracts the th attention of the visitor above all other objects as he Cemetery of the 19 Century views the broad prospect, is the city itself, with its bold yet broken outline of roofs and spires. 4 By: James R. Cothran and Erica Danylchak

Greatly influenced by English landscape design principles of Cook Collection, Valentine Richmond History Center of dead in this prosperous city. The relatively new concept of a United States, Notman was sought after to design other garden the eighteenth century, and modeled after the newly developed large, public cemetery outside the boundaries of the city was a cemeteries, which “came to comprise nearly half of his work as Women and boys in Hollywood cemetery, early 1870s. picturesque cemetery, Père Lachaise (1804) in Paris, garden timely solution for Richmond’s dilemma.1 a landscape gardener.”6 cemeteries were characterized by a variety of distinctive his plan for the cemetery called for the creation of an island, in landscape features including: winding carriageways and A Site Selected A Plan With the midst of the stream, judiciously planted with magnolias and footpaths, sinuous lakes, meandering streams, and stately -- Harvie’s Woods “Charming Views” other flowering shrubs and for the embellishment of the valley trees. Often built along rivers or streams on hilly sites with with indigenous trees secured from the surrounding woods. spectacular views and vistas, garden cemeteries were in sharp In 1847, Fry and Haxall, along with other investors, purchased For Hollywood Cemetery, Notman created a plan that enhanced While neither planting plans nor plant lists have survived, contrast to the crowded churchyards and barren burial grounds about forty-two acres of land known as Harvie’s Woods, the inherent picturesque qualities of the site and simultaneously Notman observed that in some parts, the cemetery “is well of earlier times. Not only did the development of garden located about a quarter mile from the western edge of the city. provided practical solutions for issues of access, cost, and grown in poplars, elms, &c., but is wanting in trees and bushes cemeteries influence the taste of the American public in the The selected tract possessed all of the prerequisite features functionality. For example, Notman sited the entrance to the of lower growth. In order to form groups of these, I have nineteenth century, but it also created a heightened awareness necessary to create a picturesque garden cemetery. Positioned cemetery at the northeast corner of the property because it desired the gardener employed to procure all he could from the of scenic beauty and the consoling benefits of nature. In on a steep bluff overlooking the falls of the James River, the provided an easy access point from the city and, according to natural woods, the trees that are indigenous, being invariably addition to serving as picturesque burial grounds, garden site featured gently rolling hills, a main valley running north Notman, was “the most desirable point to get the first glance the best to thrive, and be ornamental in the places desired.” cemeteries also benefited the general public as open space for and south along the property’s eastern edge, and stands of of the beautiful variety of hill and valley.”7 Notman also laid For Notman, the valley had the potential to be “of the most passive recreation and, over time, influenced the development 8 holly, poplar, elm and other hardwood trees.2 Just prior to out countless winding roads that created numerous burial lots beautiful description, varied and pleasing.” of the American park movement. the cemetery’s dedication in 1848, the Richmond Enquirer fronting the thoroughfares. The design followed the contours (continued on page 8) proclaimed: “Few Cemeteries possess so charming a variety of the existing topography and eluded the Of all the garden cemeteries developed in the southeast, as Holly-Wood—noble trees, bold rocks, dashing streams, site’s steepest terrain. The numerous lots Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, is perhaps the dark and wild glens, deep vistas—such are some of the natural fronting roadways provided opportunities most significant, both in terms of size and history. Originally characteristics, which point it out as a hallowed ground for the to maximize profits from the sale of named Mount Vernon Cemetery, Hollywood was first dead.”3 A later account heralded the striking views and vistas choice burial lots and allowed carriages conceived after two of Richmond’s most prominent business the site offered of the city and river below and painted the easy access to most lots during funerals, leaders, Joshua Jefferson Fry and William Henry Haxall, visited following poetic picture: which Notman felt was imperative. Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Meanwhile, the position of the roads men returned home determined to develop a similar landscaped The scene from President’s Hill, in Hollywood, is one greatly eliminated the cost of grading cemetery outside of Richmond. Richmond had seen rapid that never tires the eye, because it embraces a picture and cutting of the road beds. Notman’s population growth in the early nineteenth century and had which somewhere among its lights and shadows presents curvilinear circulation system also experienced crowded and unsanitary burial grounds within features that constantly appeal to imagination and refined revealed “charming views” at choice turns the confines of the city. Richmond’s first burial ground, the taste. In the great perspective which bounds the horizon in the roadways. In addition, Notman churchyard of Saint John’s Episcopal Church, had reached its the distant hills and forests take new color from the proposed that the site’s main valley, which capacity by 1821. To alleviate these conditions, the city had changing clouds; while nearer— almost at your feet— was traversed by a wide stream and two established Shockoe Hill Cemetery in 1820 in the northwestern the James River, brawling over the rocks, and chanting creeks, be the chief ornamental feature

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 6 FALL 2012 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 7 FALL 2012 In the mid-nineteenth century, garden cemeteries became a retreat for the living from increasingly dense, disorderly, and 10 dreary urban environments created by the Industrial Revolution. Cemeteries became natural sanctuaries that reminded city dwellers—albeit in an idealized way—of the rural environments they had once known and enjoyed. Although easily reached by carriage or streetcar, garden cemeteries were located far enough from cities to offer a quiet refuge from the incessant noise of the city’s bustling streets and commercial/ industrial establishments. Garden cemeteries offered urbanites a reprieve from the visual monotony and inhospitable landscape 9 of the city. Meanwhile, marble monuments and grave markers, a common feature in garden cemeteries, provided visitors with symbols of hope and immortality that helped lessen the fear of death by promoting the idea of a peaceful afterlife.9

of Hollywood Cemetery, and by the end of the war more than his mother following church on Sundays. he has discovered that Hollywood “contains an enormous Monuments to the famous drew large crowds to Hollywood. 14 11,000 soldiers had been interred in the cemetery’s grounds. historical thread. There is a remarkable narrative there, In 1858, former President James Monroe was removed from What made McGuire’s most recent visits different from all the particularly when told by someone as knowledgeable as Dr. a cemetery in Manhattan and reinterred in Hollywood on the The Impact of others was his talented companion -- Richmond videographer, McGuire.” hundredth anniversary of his birth, after the Virginia General the Civil War Reid Attaway (VideoWorks of Virginia, Inc.). Attaway, who Assembly had convinced Monroe’s descendants that he should was engaged by Friends of Hollywood, and McGuire spent Copies of the McGuire DVD will be available for purchase in rest in his native state. According to Mary H. Mitchell’s Overwhelmed by the maintenance responsibility for so many endless hours driving from sight to sight -- Attaway filming the Cemetery Offices in early December. Proceeds from DVD definitive history of Hollywood Cemetery, Monroe’s interment graves, Hollywood’s cemetery company reached out to the and McGuire demonstrating his skills as a raconteur. sales will be used to support the continuing restoration and “gave the cemetery lasting prestige, not to mention a prime community for help. Within a month of the end of hostilities, conservation of Hollywood begun by Friends in 2008. tourist attraction, and ensured that the citizens of Richmond Thomas Harding Ellis, the President of the cemetery After the assembling of extensive supporting images as well would take greater pride in the budding necropolis.” In 1862, as considerable editing, a twenty-seven minute DVD has For more information, please e-mail Kelly Wilbanks at former President John Tyler was buried in Hollywood within (continued on page 9) been produced. McGuire provides an interesting vignette [email protected].

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 8 FALL 2012 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 5 FALL 2012 company, encouraged Richmond’s women to organize a movement, it has enticed visitors to find solace and enjoyment 2012 Images society to preserve the graves of the Confederate dead. On within its boundaries. Today, Hollywood remains an active 3 May 1865, 200 women convened at a local church and cemetery and continues to welcome visitors to enjoy its striking Numerous Events Draw Visitors to Hollywood formed the Hollywood Memorial Association of the Ladies scenery, its memorial monuments, and its rich history conveyed of Richmond to raise money to maintain the graves of the in stone. South’s fallen soldiers. In 1867, the Association decided to fund the construction of a fitting memorial in the Soldiers’ Section and chose a design by local architect/engineer Charles James R. Cothran, FASLA, was a landscape architect, urban planner, H. Dimmock—a dramatic, ninety-foot pyramid made of large and garden historian in Atlanta, Georgia. He authored Gardens of Historic Charleston, Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South, and granite blocks. Completed in 1869, the monument bears Latin Charleston Gardens and the Landscape Legacy of Loutrel Briggs. Cothran inscriptions that translate: “In eternal memory of those who passed away January 29, 2012. stood for God and Country.” In the early 1870s, the Association undertook another mission—to have the bodies of all of the Erica Danylchak serves as the Executive Director of the Buckhead Heritage Confederate dead that remained at the battlefields around Society in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned a B.A. in History from Boston Gettysburg brought to Hollywood for proper burial. Ultimately, University and a Master of Heritage Preservation degree from Georgia State University. 2,935 soldiers from Gettysburg were reinterred at Hollywood

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 4 FALL 2012 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 9 SPRINGFALL 20122011 Regulations. The Code of Federal Regulations requires 2012 Contributors To that the President’s designated representative at each Friends of Hollywood Cemetery ceremony be approved by the President’s Military Assistant and be a dignitary of general or flag rank. We are indeed grateful to the following donors for their generous support of Friends in 2012. You have enabled us to continue vital monument The wreath of fresh flowers, arranged for by the and fence restoration. Thank you for helping us to preserve Hollywood Cemetery for generations to come. Military Assistant, is essentially identical in size and color for all ceremonies.

FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 10 FALL 2012 FRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD Page 3 FALL 2012 Dr. and Mrs. Frank L. Rawling Jr. Mr. F. Carlyle Tiller George Stuart Woodson Trust For Former U.S. Presidents Dr. Gaylord W. Ray Mrs. Tammy M. E. Tiltman Mrs. Michael B. Wray Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Reed Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James L. Tompkins Dr. R. Lewis Wright 2012-2013 Dr. and Mrs. P. Larus Reed III Mrs. Mary L. Tompkins Mrs. Mildred Wysong Officers and Directors WREATH-LAYING CEREMONIES Mr. C. Edward Richardson III Mrs. Zach Toms Jr. Dr. Henry Yancey Jr. Friends of Hollywood Cemetery ach year, on the anniversary of their birth dates, Thirty days following the Tyler event, in a similar Mrs. Juliane M. Riley Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Toney Mr. and Mrs. David Lee Zorn the sitting President of the United States honors the ceremony held on April 28 and only a few steps away, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Riopelle Tredegar Corporation Matching Gifts Mary Hoge Anderson – Chair E Mr. Field I. Robertson Jr. Program * Deceased memory and legacy of our county’s former Presidents by Major General James L. Hodge, then Commanding David L. Gilliam – Secretary a formal military wreath-laying ceremony. General of CASCOM, Fort Lee, and Sergeant Major Mr. and Mrs. N. Pendleton Rogers Tuckahoe Garden Club of Mr. Edwin M. Rucker Jr. Westhampton Corporations, Peter C. Toms – Treasurer James E, Riddick, CASCOM’s top noncommissioned CDR. James C. Ruehrmund (Ret.) Judge John Randolph Tucker Jr. Foundations and In the spring of the year, two such ceremonies take place officer, placed a red, white and blue wreath at President Mr. Raymond A. Ruth Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Turnbull Organizations Mary Hoge Anderson at Hollywood Cemetery. They honor our fifth and tenth Monroe’s tomb in a similar ceremony. Mrs. Calvin Satterfield III Mr. Halcott Mebane Turner Mary Lynn Bayliss, PhD Presidents, James Monroe (born April 28, 1758) and John Mr. Lee Schulte Mr. Joseph V. Turner III Altria Matching Gifts Program Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Schutt Mrs. Marguerite B. Turner Bank of America Matching Gifts Program William R. Claiborne Tyler (born March 29. 1790). Hollywood is one of just “He was the last of the “Virginia Dynasty” and the last of Edward M. Farley, IV three cemeteries in the country in which two Presidents of the “Revolutionary Fathers” to occupy the White House,” Mrs. Elizabeth P. Scott Mrs. Lynne C. Valentine The Beirne Carter Foundation Segway of Richmond Mr. and Mrs. Granville G. Valentine III The Biscuit Factory Matthew D. Jenkins the United States are interred. General Hodge remarked. “In his lifetime, President Mr*. and Mrs. Rankjit Sen Mr. and Mrs. Hubert P. Van Horn Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Peter C. Toms Monroe contributed immeasurably to the building of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Shands Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Van Sickle Overton and Katharine Dennis Fielding L. Williams, Jr. John Tyler was nominated as the Whig Party’s vice this nation, and he established a remarkable record of Mr. Howard W. Shields Van Yahres Associates Foundation presidential candidate in 1840 and ran with William service to the citizens of America.” Monroe was born in Mr. Robert H. Shultz, Jr. Varina High School Dominion and the Dominion Foundation Henry Harrison, also of Charles City, Virginia, under the Westmoreland County, Virginia, and on Christmas Eve, Mr. Thomas A. Silvestri Vineyard Productions, LLC Friends at First Baptist Church 2012-2013 much trumpeted campaign slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler, 1776, at eighteen years of age, crossed the Delaware with Mrs. Sarah S. Sinsabaugh Mrs. George R. Wagoner GE Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Slagle Mr. and Mrs. Gordon W. Wallace Genworth Foundation Officers and Directors Too.” Tyler was thrust into the Presidency one month into General George Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony P. Smith Ms. Sandra E. Waller The Hermitage at Cedarfield Harrison’s term when the President died from pneumonia Hollywood Cemetery Company (continued on page 3) Mrs. Rosemary T. Smith Mrs. Frances M. Waller Historic Richmond Foundation on April 4, 1841. Mrs. Schuyler O. Sneed Mrs. Mary P. Ware Hollywood Cemetery Company Mr. and Mrs. William H. Snider Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Warthen III The Linhart Foundation Matthew D. Jenkins – President Mrs. Mary L. Soukup Mr. Ten Eyck T. Wellford Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Peter C. Toms – Vice President Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Spain Jr. Mr. Jay Laird Welliver Program David L. Gilliam – Secretary and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sparrow Mr. and Mrs. Jack West Richard S. Reynolds Foundation General Manager St. John’s Church Foundation Mr. Ralph C. White Jr. The William H., John G., and Woodrow C. Harper – Treasurer Mrs. Ursula F. Stalker Mrs. Raymond H. Whitney Emma Scott Foundation Star Brite Enterprises Inc Mrs. Kathy Whittington Segway of Richmond Mabel E. Toney – Assistant Mrs. Hazeltine P. Strother Dr. and Mrs. James R. Wickham Star Brite Enterprises,Inc Secretary and Assistant Treasurer Mr. and Mrs. James E. B. Stuart Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Peter T. Wilbanks The Triangle Fraternity Mrs. Mary N. Sutherland Mr. Carrington C. Wilkerson Tredegar Corporation Matching Gifts Mary Lynn Bayliss, Ph.D. Mrs. Ruth W. Taylor Mrs. Hilda L. Williams Program Edward M. Farley, IV Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Tentor Mr. and Mrs. Fielding L. Williams Jr. Tuckahoe Garden Club of Westhampton Mr. and Mrs. Walter TeStrake Jr. Mr. Robert G. Willis Jr. Valentine Richmond History Center Matthew D. Jenkins Dr. James A. Thompson III Mrs. Virginia L. Wilson Van Yahres Associates Elizabeth Cabell Jennings Mr. and Mrs. Matthew G. Thompson Dr. and Mrs. Charles P. Winkler Varina High School Nelson D. Lankford, Ph.D. George N. Thrift MD, Trust Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Witt III Vineyard Productions, LLC E. Bryson Powell Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation Evelina M. Scott Gifts In-Kind Fred T. Tattersall The 1847 Society Peter C. Toms Brig. Gen. Stephen E. Farmen, Chief of Transportation, and Command Sgt. Maj. Leaders for preservation of Hollywood Cemetery Allen B. Offord Jr., Transportation Corps regimental command sergeant major, Mr. E. L. Butterworth Fielding L. Williams, Jr. salute for the playing of taps at the Match 29th ceremony for former President Tyler The Church of Jesus Christ of Annual Giving Levels Latter-day Saints On March 29, Brigadier General Stephen E. Farmen, Delta Upsilon Chapter of Phi Kappa Presidents Circle for Gifts of $25,000+ Sigma Fraternity at VCU Administrative Staff Chief of Transportation and the Transportation School at Connie Hilker, Hartwood Roses Hollywood Cemetery Company Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM), Ft. Lee, Founders Circle for Gifts of $10,000 to $24,999 Hollywood Cemetery Company Virginia delivered remarks on behalf of President Barack Lambda Chi Chapter of Pi Kappa David L. Gilliam – General Obama to family members of President Tyler, friends and Heritage Circle for Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999 Alpha Fraternity at VCU Manager Dr. Hunter H. McGuire, Jr. assembled military personnel. Woodrow C. Harper – Assistant Mr. John O. Peters Hollywood Circle for Gifts of $2,500 to $4,999 Segway of Richmond General Manager “What is it that causes us to gather here each year in The Triangle Fraternity at VCU Mabel E. Toney – Administrative President Tyler’s honor? The mosaic of American history Ivy Circle for Gifts of $1,000 to $2,499 Valentine Richmond History Center Assistant comprises those who gave selflessly of themselves for Kelly Jones Wilbanks – Director of Gifts and Contributions received the benefit of the country,” Farmen said. “We can’t allow Development, Friends ourselves to forget their deeds, for our history provides a We invite you to join the 1847 Society and continue the ongoing after November 15, 2012, will be glimpse of what the future may hold.” An honor guard stands at attention prior to the placement of a wreath for restoration and preservation of Hollywood Cemetery. acknowledged in the next edition former President Tyler of the Newsletter

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• After a many decades’ absence from the Richmond scene, (continued on page 3) Friends sponsored a Hollywood family picnic on May 20. The