Find A Grave - Richmond

Ackerman, Carl William b. January 16, 1890 d. October 9, 1970
Educator, Journalist. The Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism from 1931 to 1956, he was a co-founder of the American Press Institute, administered Pulitzer Prizes, helped establish Maria Moors Awards, championed civil liberties and freedom of information and helped emphasize practical training in newspaper work.
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Ainslie, George b. October 10, 1868 d. July 18, 1931
Richmond Mayor. He served as Mayor of Richmond, Virginia from 1912 to 1924.
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Allan, Frances Keeling 'Fanny' b. February 14, 1784 d. February 28, 1829
Literary Folk Figure. She was the foster mother and first teacher of, and arguably the only positive influence on, Edgar Allan Poe. The child a noted Richmond family, Frances married Scottish immigrant merchant John Allan on Febuary 5, 1803. Much to Frances' sadness the marriage remained childless, with a large dose of resentment as well since Allan was supporting one or more illegitimate children in Richmond. During actress Eliza Poe's terminal illness in the fall of 1811 she arranged for the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Allen, Otway Slaughter b. April 8, 1851 d. February 17, 1911
Businessman. A Richmond real estate developer, he began the development of Monument Avenue in Richmond and donated the land at Allen and Monument Avenues on which the Robert E. Lee statue was placed. Served as a member of the Virginia Convention of 1901-1902.
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Ambler, Rebecca Lewis b. May 20, 1746 d. August 5, 1806
Folk figure. Though she came from a well-connected family, was married to a prominent man, and became the mother-in-law of Chief Justice John Marshall, Rebecca Burwell is chiefly known today as the object of Thomas Jefferson's first adolescent crush. Born to wealth and position, and orphaned at 10, she was raised in Yorktown at the home of her aunt and uncle, Elizabeth and William Nelson. Rebecca was the sister of one of Jefferson's classmates at the College of William and Mary...just when and...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Saint Johns Episcopal Churchyard, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Anderson, Archer b. October 15, 1838 d. January 4, 1918
Civil War Confederate Army Officer, Industrialist. Born at the home of his maternal grandfather Robert Archer at Old Point Comfort at Fortress Monroe, he was the eldest of the dozen children of future Confederate General Joseph Reid Anderson. After they moved to Richmond in 1841, hs father became an industrial leader and played an important role in the Confederate war effort. Archer Anderson attended Turner's Classical School and then entered the University of Virginia at age fifteen. He...[Read More] (Bio by: George Seitz)
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Anderson, Joseph Reid b. February 16, 1813 d. September 7, 1892
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. He attended West Point, graduating 4th in the class in 1836 and was assigned as an officer to the 3rd U.S. Artillery. Recognizing his engineering abilities he was assigned as an assistant engineer to the Engineer Bureau, Washington D.C. before being officially transferred to the Corps of Engineers in 1837. Deciding his engineering career would best be served outside the military he resigned his commission and accepted the position of assistant engineer...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Plot: Section MT, Lot 7
Andrews, Thomas Coleman b. February 19, 1899 d. October 15, 1983
US Government Official. Served as a Major in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, Served as the Director of the Internal Revenue Service under President Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1955. A leading isolationist, he was the presidential candidate of the Constitution Party in 1956. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Archer, Edmund b. September 28, 1904 d. July 13, 1986
Artist. American portrait and mural painter.
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Archer, James Jay b. December 19, 1817 d. October 24, 1864
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. He was born in Bel Air, Maryland of a military family. A graduate from Princeton, he became a lawyer. He fought as a volunteer during the Mexican War, and was cited for gallantry at Chaoultepec afterwards returning to his law practice. Prior to the Civil War he joined the regular army with the rank of Captain. The outbreak of the war between the states, like many Southerners, he joined the ranks of the Confederates. He participated in many Southern...[Read More]
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
GPS coordinates: 37.5340881, -77.4556503 (hddd.dddd)
Archer, Robert b. August 28, 1794 d. May 19, 1877
Businessman. An Iron manufacturer, he served as an United States Army physician stationed at Fort Monroe, Virginia, and Fort King, Florida, from 1813 to 1839. He became superintendent of the Armory Iron Company in Richmond in 1848, and in 1859, with his son-in-law, Joseph Reid Anderson, merged that company with the Tredegar Iron Company to form Joseph R. Anderson and Company, which would produce most of the heavy ordnance for the Confederacy. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Arents, Grace Evelyn b. 1848 d. June 20, 1926
Philanthropist. She was the niece of wealthy tobacco manufacturer and developer Lewis Ginter and inherited much of his fortune. She personally financed construction of Richmond's Saint Andrew's Church in 1903 and the first free-circulating library in Richmond in 1899. She financed the tuition-free Saint Andrew's school in 1901 and built the first subsidized housing units in Richmond. Her obituary in the Richmond "News Leader" stated that it would be impossible to list all of the "libraries...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Ashe Jr., Arthur Robert b. July 10, 1943 d. February 6, 1993
American Tennis Player and Social Activist. Widely recognized as the first outstanding African-American men's tennis champion, Arthur Ashe was the first African-American to represent his country in Davis Cup play (1963), the first African-American man to win the U.S. Open singles title (1968), the first African-American man to win the Wimbledon singles title (1975), and the first African-American to captain the Davis Cup team (1981). He also won the NCAA team and indiviual titles at UCLA in...[Read More] (Bio by: Stuthehistoryguy)
Cause of death: AIDS
Woodland Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Atkinson, Addie Detroit b. July 30, 1841 d. December 11, 1916
Businesswoman. She owned and operated the Lexington Hotel in Richmond, which she purchased in 1889, and within ten years had saved enough money to build her own hotel. She built the Hotel Richmond, which became one of the most elegant and popular hotels in Richmond, on the western edge of Capitol Square in 1904, and by 1916 the property was estimated to be worth $1,000,000. She was one of Richmond's most prominent and visible businesswomen. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
August, Thomas Pearson b. October, 1821 d. July 31, 1869
Civil War Confederate Army Officer. After his family moved to Richmond in 1827. he worked as mechantile clerk for his father while being educated. He undertook the study of law and qualified for the bar in 1842, and served as a volunteer for the Richmond Grays in the Mexican War. In 1849 he resumed the practice of law, partnering with George Wythe Randolph and Isaac Watkins. Specializing in commercial law, he built an extensive and successful practice, and was active in the Virginia militia. He...[Read More] (Bio by: George Seitz)
Cause of death: Typhoid Fever
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Axtell, Decatur b. February 8, 1848 d. November 27, 1922
Businessman. Trained as a civil engineer, he worked on the construction of the first Union Pacific lines as a young man. In 1880, he became general manager of the Richmond and Allegheny Railroad, and, upon acquiring the James River and Kanawha Company, began constructing a rail line on the towpath of the old James River and Kanawha Canal, which opened in 1881. In 1890, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company purchased the Richmond and Allegheny, and Decatur Axtell would eventually head the...[Read More]
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Baine, David William b. August 29, 1829 d. June 30, 1862
Confederate States Army Officer. After graduating from Allegheny College, he was admitted to the Alabama bar in 1855 and established a legal practice in Haynesville, Alabama. A Brigadier General in the Alabama militia prior to the Civil War, he became a Lieutenant Colonel in the 14th Alabama when that company was organized in 1861. Having seen action in the Battles of Yorktown, Seven Pines, and Gaines' Mill with the 14th, he was leading a charge against a Union battery at at the Battle of...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Plot: Confederate Soldiers' Section
GPS coordinates: 37.5400391, -77.4557724 (hddd.dddd)
Bane, John Pierson b. 1834 d. 1887
Civil War Confederate Army Officer. Served as Colonel and commander of the 4th Texas Infantry, and was wounded in the Battles of Gaines Mill and Chickamauga. Died at the Richmond Soldiers' Home in 1887. (Bio by: George Seitz)
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Plot: Section X
Barret, William b. November 29, 1786 d. January 20, 1871
Businessman. A Tobacco manufacturer, he opened one of the first large tobacco factories in Richmond and quickly amassed a large fortune. One of his slaves, a tobacco worker namded Henry "Box" Brown, gained notoriety in 1849, when he escaped in a box shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia, where he became an abolitionist author and speaker. One of the wealthiest men in Richmond at the time of his death, he died when he set his dressing gown on fire while lighting his pipe. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Baskerville, Henry Coleman b. August 10, 1905 d. April 28, 1969
Architect. The son of architect Henry Eugene Baskervill, he added an "e" to the family named after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and joining his father's firm, which was reorganized as Baskervill and Son. His professional work was interrupted in World War II when he entered the United States Navy as a Lieutenant and served as a gunnery officer until his discharge as a Lieutenant Commander. He returned to his firm upon his father's death in 1946, and important projects under his...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA

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