Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)

Hollywood Cemetery

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Year established	1849
Location
Country	United States of America
Website	Hollywood Cemetery
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Hollywood Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Location:	412 S. Cherry St., Richmond, Virginia
Coordinates:	37°32′10″N 77°27′30″W
Area:	130 acres (526,000 m2)
Built:	1860
Architect:	Pratt, William H.
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	69000350
Added to NRHP:	November 12, 1969

Hollywood Cemetery is a large, sprawling cemetery located at 412 South Cherry Street in Richmond, Virginia. Characterized by rolling hills and winding paths overlooking the James River, it is the resting place of two United States Presidents, James Monroe and John Tyler, as well as the only Confederate States President, Jefferson Davis. It is also the resting place of 25 Confederate generals, more than any other cemetery in the country; these include George Pickett and J.E.B. Stuart.

History

Hollywood Cemetery was opened in 1849, constructed on land known as "Harvie's Woods" that was once owned by William Byrd II. It was designed in the rural garden style, with its name, "Hollywood," coming from the holly trees dotting the hills of the property.

In 1869, a 90-foot (27 m) high granite pyramid was built as a memorial to the more than 18,000 enlisted men of the Confederate Army buried in the cemetery.

Hollywood Cemetery is one of Richmond's major tourist attractions. There are many local legends surrounding certain tombs and grave sites in the cemetery, including one about a little girl and the black iron statue of a dog standing watch over her grave. Other notable legends rely on ghosts haunting the many mausoleums. One of the most well-known of these is the legend of the Richmond Vampire.

A place rich in history, legend, and gothic landscape, Hollywood Cemetery is also frequented by many of the local students attending Virginia Commonwealth University.

List of notable interments and their families

Pyramid, built as a memorial to Confederate enlisted men.

(Note: This is a partial list.)

Use the following alphabetical links to find someone.

A

• Alden Aaroe (1918–1993), broadcast journalist
• Joseph R. Anderson (1813–1892), American civil engineer, industrialist, soldier

B

• Frances Hayne Beall (ca. 1820-?), American wife of Lloyd J. Beall, daughter of South Carolina Senator Arthur P. Hayne
• Lloyd J. Beall (1808–1887), American military officer and paymaster of U.S. Army, Commandant of the Confederate States Marine Corps
• William Barret (1786–1871), American businessman, tobacco manufacturer considered wealthiest man in Richmond
• Benjamin Barrett, artist, poet, writer
• William W. Brock Jr. (1912–2003), Brigadier General: World War II, Principal of Richmond's famed Thomas Jefferson High School for 18 years.
• John M. Brockenbrough (1830–1892), Confederate Army colonel and brigade commander at Gettysburg

C

• James Branch Cabell (1879–1958), American fantasy fiction novelist.
• Ralph T. Catterall (1897-1978), judge, Virginia State Corporation Commission (1949-1973).
• Raleigh Edward Colston (1825–1896), Confederate Civil War general and VMI professor
• Asbury Christian Compton (1929-2006), Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia (1974-2000).
• Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825–1903), U.S. and Confederate Congressman, Civil War veteran, and President of Howard College in Alabama and Richmond College in Virginia. His statue is in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol.

D

• Virginius Dabney (1901–1995) Author, Journalist, Editor of The Richmond Times Dispatch from 1936 to 1969, Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Peter V. Daniel (1784–1860), U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice
• Robert Daniel (1936–2012), U.S. Representative from Virginia
• Jefferson Davis (1808–1889), President of the Confederate States of America
• Varina Howell Davis, (1826–1906), American author best known as First Lady of the CSA, wife of Jefferson Davis
• Stephen Potter De Mallie (1923–2008) Noted Researcher and American Textile Author.

E

• Tazewell Ellett (1856–1914), U.S. Representative from Virginia
• Joseph Black Elliott, Sr. (1904-1988), Executive Vice-President/Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in charge of Consumer Product Division

F

Jefferson Davis grave at the Hollywood Cemetery

• Douglas Southall Freeman (1886–1953), was an American journalist and historian. He was the author of definitive biographies of George Washington and Confederate General Robert E. Lee. There is also a local high school that bears his name.

G

• Richard B. Garnett (1817–1863), U.S. Army officer and Confederate general killed during Battle of Gettysburg
• Lewis Ginter (1824–1897), Dutch-American tobacco executive, philanthropist
• Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945), Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist
• James M. Glavé (1933–2005), Architect, Architectural Preservationist, Father of Architectural Adaptive-Reuse Movement.
• Peachy Ridgway Grattan (1801-1881), lawyer and law reporter.
• William Green (1806-1880), lawyer and legal scholar.

H

• James Dandridge Halyburton (1803-1879), U.S. and Confederate judge, Eastern District of Virginia (1843-1865).
• John Harvie, (1742–1807), American lawyer and builder, delegate to the Continental Congress.
• Louis Shepard Herrink (1892-1965), lawyer and law teacher.
• Henry Heth (1825–1899), U.S. Army officer and Confederate general, participated at the Battle of Gettysburg.
• Eppa Hunton (1822–1908), U.S. Representative and Senator, Confederate brigadier general.

I

• John D. Imboden (1823–1895), lawyer, teacher, Virginia legislator, Confederate cavalry general and partisan fighter

J

• Edward Johnson (1816–1873), U.S. Army officer and Confederate general
• Mary Johnston (1870–1936), American novelist and women's rights advocate

K

• Andrea Kauder (1960–2004), American teacher, thinker, innovator, writer, and mother

L

• Fitzhugh Lee (1835–1905), Confederate cavalry general, Governor of Virginia, diplomat, U.S. Army general in Spanish-American War

M

Monroe's grave at Hollywood Cemetery. John Tyler's grave is visible in the background.

• Hunter McGuire (1835–1900), Confederate Army surgeon who amputated General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's arm after Jackson was mistakenly shot by Confederate soldiers at Chancellorsville . (Despite McGuire's efforts, Jackson later died of pneumonia.) After the war, McGuire founded the Virginia College of Medicine, and was president of the American Medical Association.
• Walter Scott McNeill (1875-1930), law teacher.
• John Marshall (1823–1862), editor of the Jackson Mississippian and Austin Star-Gazette. Appointed a Colonel in the Texas Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, he was killed in action at the Battle of Gaines Mill. (He is often confused with John Marshall (1755–1835), fourth Chief Justice of the United States, who is buried in nearby Shockoe Hill Cemetery.)
• John Young Mason (1799-1859), U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1844-1845, 1846-1849), U.S. Attorney General (1845-1846).
• Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806–1873), American oceanographer, scientist, and educator, who also served the Confederacy during the Civil War.
• William Mayo (ca. 1685-1744), Colonial civil engineer
• David J. Mays (1896-1971) author and lawyer
• Polk Miller (1844–1913), American pharmacist and musician.
• Willis Dance Miller (1893-1960), Justice, Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1947-1960).
• James Monroe (1758–1831), fifth President of the United States
• Elizabeth Kortright Monroe (1768–1830), U.S. First Lady, wife of James Monroe
• Richard Channing Moore (1762-1841), Right Reverend, Second Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia (1814-1841)
• Mary-Cooke Branch Munford (1865-1938), civic leader.

O

• Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (1840-1905), Governor of Virginia (1894-1898).

P

• Emma Gilham Page (1855–1933), American wife of William Nelson Page
• William Nelson Page (1854–1932), American civil engineer, railway industrialist, co-founder of the Virginian Railway
• John Pegram (1832–1865), U.S. Army officer, Confederate Army brigadier general
• William Ransom Johnson Pegram (1841–1865), U.S. Army officer, Confederate Army colonel
• George Pickett (1825–1875), U.S. Army officer, Confederate Army general, participated in Battle of Gettysburg
• John Garland Pollard (1871–1937), American politician, Governor of Virginia from 1930 to 1934
• William Wortham Poole (1842–1922), American bookkeeper. His burial tomb became associated with the Richmond Vampire
• Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (1907–1998), U.S. Supreme Court justice
• Parke D. Pendleton (1932–2010), Entertainer, Renowned expert on Richmond society, Accountant

R

• John Randolph (1773–1833), American politician, leader in Congress from Virginia
• William Francis Rhea (1858–1931), Virginia lawyer, judge, and U.S. Congressman
• Dr. William Rickman (1731–1783), Director of hospitals for the Continental Army of Virginia. Devoted husband to the daughter of President Benjamin Harrison, Miss Elizabeth Harrison.
• Conway Robinson (1805-1884), lawyer and legal scholar.

S

• William Alexander Smith (1828–1888), American politician, U.S. Representative from North Carolina
• William "Extra Billy" Smith (1797–1887), two-time governor of Virginia, Confederate general
• William E. Starke (1814–1862), Confederate general killed at the Battle of Antietam
• J.E.B. Stuart (1833–1864), American soldier, Confederate Army general
• Claude Augustus Swanson (1862-1939), Governor of Virginia (1906-1910), U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1933-1939)

T

Tyler's grave at Hollywood Cemetery

• John Randolph Tucker (1879-1954), lawyer and civic leader.
• Edna Henry Lee Turpin (1867-1952), author.
• David Gardiner Tyler (1846–1927), American Democratic politician, U.S. congressman.
• John Tyler (1790–1862), tenth President of the United States, a delegate to the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861, and elected to the House of Representatives of the Confederate Congress.
• Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820–1889), U.S. First Lady, wife of John Tyler.
• Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935), historian, president of William and Mary College.

V

• Edward Valentine (1838–1930), American sculptor

W

• Reuben Lindsay Walker (1827–1890), Confederate Army general.
• Alexander Wilbourne Weddell (1876-1948), U.S. Ambassador to Argentina (1933-1939) and Spain (1939-1942).
• Beverly R. Wellford (1797–1870), Sixth President of the American Medical Association.
• Henry A. Wise (1806–1876), Governor of Virginia, Confederate Army general.

Y

• Thomas Yates

See also

• List of cemeteries in the United States

External links

• Hollywood Cemetery Official Website
• Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, a National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary