Walk The Earth -J.K.Wilson
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Hollywood Cemetery has been thoroughly and systematically searched. If a memorial page does not have a marker picture, there isn't one and no way to take one due to approximately over 3000 unmarked graves here.
Hollywood Cemetery has been my main project in Atlanta. I have worked on it since I began on here more than 20 years ago. It covers 85 acres with very little being flat ground - very hilly It was sold to current owners about 1968 - Lincoln Properties are current owners and they are less than helpful. They will not give out any information without payment. Ground crews mow around the edges but the rest has re-forested itself over the last 50 plus years. There are over 3000 unmarked graves. Basically, it is in terrible condition, as you can imagine. Have endlessly searched any records I can find - everyone buried there should be remembered. I have sought out relatives and linked them if I could. Hollywood has been thoroughly and systematically searched and all marker pictures added to memorial pages. This took more than three years because of heavy growth of vines, briars, fallen trees and critters living in all this. Many markers had fallen and were covered over with vines, briars, etc. The cemetery was once a middle class white area, but the years have changed it to a less than nice area - it is advised to not go there without protection. Sad that it is in this condition - the state of Georgia will not step in to make them keep it up as it is privately owned. Hollywood the Beautiful is in pitiful shape.
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The Story Tellers...We are the Chosen.
My feelings are in each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes.
Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do.
In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors you have a wonderful family - you would be proud of us?
How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say.
It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who am I and why do I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family.
It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are them and they are us.
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All memorials are added one at the time, along with obituaries, death certificates and other supporting documents if available . If you wish to manage a page, go to Edit on their page - ask for transfer - be sure to send your ID number - cannot transfer without it.
Hollywood Cemetery has been thoroughly and systematically searched. If a memorial page does not have a marker picture, there isn't one and no way to take one due to approximately over 3000 unmarked graves here.
Hollywood Cemetery has been my main project in Atlanta. I have worked on it since I began on here more than 20 years ago. It covers 85 acres with very little being flat ground - very hilly It was sold to current owners about 1968 - Lincoln Properties are current owners and they are less than helpful. They will not give out any information without payment. Ground crews mow around the edges but the rest has re-forested itself over the last 50 plus years. There are over 3000 unmarked graves. Basically, it is in terrible condition, as you can imagine. Have endlessly searched any records I can find - everyone buried there should be remembered. I have sought out relatives and linked them if I could. Hollywood has been thoroughly and systematically searched and all marker pictures added to memorial pages. This took more than three years because of heavy growth of vines, briars, fallen trees and critters living in all this. Many markers had fallen and were covered over with vines, briars, etc. The cemetery was once a middle class white area, but the years have changed it to a less than nice area - it is advised to not go there without protection. Sad that it is in this condition - the state of Georgia will not step in to make them keep it up as it is privately owned. Hollywood the Beautiful is in pitiful shape.
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The Story Tellers...We are the Chosen.
My feelings are in each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes.
Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do.
In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors you have a wonderful family - you would be proud of us?
How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say.
It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who am I and why do I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family.
It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are them and they are us.
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All memorials are added one at the time, along with obituaries, death certificates and other supporting documents if available . If you wish to manage a page, go to Edit on their page - ask for transfer - be sure to send your ID number - cannot transfer without it.
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