Hollywood Cemetery is a historic garden or rural cemetery established in 1847 in the Oregon Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. The 135-acre cemetery contains many notable burials including 2 U.S. Presidents, the President of the Confederate States of America and 25 Confederate Army officers.
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Alden Aaroe (1918–1993), broadcast journalist Carl William Ackerman (1890–1970), journalist, author and educational administrator, the first dean of the Columbia School of Journalism George Ainslie (1868–1931), mayor of Richmond George E. Allen Jr. (1914–1990), lawyer A. Scott Anderson (1904–1971), mayor of Richmond George Wayne Anderson (1863–1922), Virginia state delegate and senator Henry W. Anderson (1870–1954), attorney and Republican party leader Joseph R. Anderson (1813–1892), civil engineer, industrialist, soldier T. Coleman Andrews (1899–1983), Commissioner of Internal Revenue, presidential candidate of the State's Rights Democratic Party in 1956 T. Coleman Andrews Jr. (1925–1989), businessman and politician Edmund Archer (1904–1986), painter James J. Archer (1817–1864), Confederate General, American Civil War Grace Evelyn Arents (1848–1926), philanthropist, niece of Lewis Ginter Adeline Detroit Wood Atkinson (1841–1916), hotelier and proprietor of Hotel Richmond
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Mary Baughman (1874–1956), physician and educator Lloyd James Beall (1808–1887), American military officer and paymaster of U.S. Army, Colonel Commandant of the Confederate States Marine Corps for the entire length of the War FitzGerald Bemiss (1922–2011), Virginia state senator and state delegate Turner Bethel (1895–1954), college football player Edyth Carter Beveridge (1862–1927), photojournalist Lloyd C. Bird (1894–1978), Virginia State Senator Robert P. Black (1927–2024), president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Lewis Harvie Blair (1834–1916), businessman and author Frederic W. Boatwright (1868–1951), President of the University of Richmond (1895–1946) Anna Whitehead Bodeker (1826–1904), suffragist Albert O. Boschen (1873–1957), state delegate Kate Langley Bosher (1865–1932), author, suffragette Allen Caperton Braxton (1862–1914), lawyer and member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention John Fulmer Bright (1877–1953), politician, physician, mayor of Richmond John M. Brockenbrough (1830–1892), Confederate Army colonel and brigade commander at Gettysburg Benjamin Thomas Brockman (1831–1864), merchant and Confederate officer Kathleen Bruce (1885–1950), historian Bland Cox Bruns (1901–1985), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives Virginia Keane Bryce (1861–1935), artist Algernon Sidney Buford (1826–1911), railroad executive and member of the Virginia House of Delegates David Judson Burr (1820–1876), state politician
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James Branch Cabell (1879–1958), fantasy fiction novelist James Cannon Jr. (1864–1944), Methodist bishop James E. Cannon (1873–1942), Virginia state senator (1914–23) Thomas Henry Carter (1831–1908), Confederate artillery officer John Samuels Caskie (1821–1869), U.S. Congressman (1851–59) Ralph T. Catterall (1897–1978), judge, Virginia State Corporation Commission (1949–73) Alvin Duke Chandler (1902–1987), naval officer and president of College of William & Mary Robert H. Chilton (1815–1879), US Army Officer, Confederate General, American Civil War George Llewellyn Christian (1841–1924), Confederate soldier and judge Emily Tapscott Clark (1892–1953), writer and editor Joseph Calvitt Clarke Jr. (1920–2004), judge of the U.S. District Court Philip St. George Cocke (1809–1861), Confederate General, American Civil War Raleigh Edward Colston (1825–1896), Confederate Civil War general and VMI professor Asbury Christian Compton (1929–2006), Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia (1974–2000) Huestis P. Cook (1868–1951), photographer John Rogers Cooke (1833–1891), Confederate General, American Civil War Edward Cooper (1873–1928), U.S. Congressman Edwin Cox (1902–1977), chemist and military officer 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 John A. Curtis (1834–1913), state delegate Wilfred Emory Cutshaw (1838–1907), Confederate Army colonel and city engineer for Richmond
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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 Raleigh Travers Daniel (1805–1877), Attorney General of Virginia, member of Virginia House of Delegates Robert Williams Daniel (1884–1940), Virginia State Senator and RMS Titanic survivor. Father of Robert Daniel Robert Daniel (1936–2012), U.S. Representative from Virginia. Son of Robert Williams Daniel Margaret May Dashiell (1867–1958), artist and writer Jefferson Davis (1808–1889), President of the Confederate States of America Varina Davis (1826–1906), second wife of Jefferson Davis Varina Anne Davis (1864–1898), author, daughter of Jefferson Davis Edmund DeJarnette (1897–1966), member of the Virginia House of Delegates Edmund DeJarnette (1938–2015), U.S. Ambassador to Central African Republic, Tanzania and Angola Collins Denny Jr. (1899–1964), lawyer David Seth Doggett (1810–1880), bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South James H. Dooley (1841–1922), Virginia state representative
E Edward Edmonds (1835–1863), Confederate Colonel of the 38th Virginia Infantry, killed-in-action during Pickett's Charge Horace Hall Edwards (1902–1987), member of Virginia House of Delegates, mayor of Richmond and candidate for governor of Virginia Tazewell Ellett (1856–1914), U.S. Representative from Virginia Henry K. Ellyson (1823–1890), Virginia state representative James Taylor Ellyson (1847–1919), Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (1906–18)
F Minetree Folkes (died 1959), member of the Virginia House of Delegates and U.S. House of Representatives Douglas Southall Freeman (1886–1953), journalist and historian; author of definitive biographies of George Washington and Confederate General Robert E. Lee; namesake of a local high schoolFreeman High School
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Richard B. Garnett (1817–1863), U.S. Army officer and Confederate general killed during Battle of Gettysburg J. Vaughan Gary (1892–1973), U.S. Congressman (1945–65) Thomas B. Gay (1885–1983), lawyer Robert Atkinson Gibson (d. 1919), Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia (1902–19) Lewis Ginter (1824–1897), tobacco executive, philanthropist Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945), Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Thomas Christian Gordon Jr. (1915–2003), Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia (1965–1972) W. Douglas Gordon (1876–1944), newspaper editor Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur (1802–1850), Daughter of fifth U.S. President James Monroe Peachy R. Grattan (1801–1881), lawyer and law reporter Edward Meeks Gregory (1922–1995), Episcopal priest who performed the first gay marriage in Richmond George C. Gregory (1878–1956), attorney, businessman, historian and author Walter Gwynn (1802–1882), Confederate Brigadier General
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John Henry Hager (1936–2020), Lt. Governor of Virginia from 1998 to 2002 John Lesslie Hall (1856–1928), literary scholar and poet James Dandridge Halyburton (1803–1879), U.S. and Confederate judge, Eastern District of Virginia (1843–65) David Bullock Harris (1814–1864), Confederate Colonel John Harvie (1742–1807), lawyer and builder, delegate to the Continental Congress, Signer of The Articles of Confederation Orie Latham Hatcher (1868–1946), education reformer Eliza Monroe Hay (1786–1840), daughter of U.S. President James Monroe. Formerly buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery from 1840 to 2025. William Wirt Henry (1831–1900), lawyer, member of the General Assembly of Va., president of the Am. Historical Association (1890–91) Henry Heth (1825–1899), U.S. Army officer and Confederate general, participated at the Battle of Gettysburg Julien Hill (1877–1943), football coach of Richmond College and banker Alexis Hobson (1880–1960), college football player Eppa Hunton (1822–1908), U.S. Representative and Senator, Confederate brigadier general Eppa Hunton Jr. (1855–1932), lawyer, member of the House of Delegates, president of the Virginia Bar Association Eppa Hunton IV (1904–1976), lawyer, rector of Virginia Commonwealth University
I John D. Imboden (1823–1895), lawyer, teacher, Virginia legislator, Confederate cavalry general and partisan fighter
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Georgia May Jobson (1860–1924), temperance reformer Edward Johnson (1816–1873), U.S. Army officer and Confederate general, American Civil War Mary Johnston (1870–1936), novelist and women's rights advocate David Rumph Jones (1825–1863), U.S. Army officer and Confederate General, American Civil War Mildred Callahan Jones (1943–2008), decorative flag businesswoman Samuel Jones (1819–1887), U.S. Army, Confederate General, American Civil War
K James Keith (1839–1918), member of House of Delegates, chief judge of Supreme Court of Virginia Wythe Leigh Kinsolving (1878–1964), Episcopal priest, writer, poet, political advocate Charlotte Kohler (1908–2008), magazine editor and educator
L John Lamb (1840–1924), U.S. Congressman (1897–1913) Dabney S. Lancaster (1889–1975), educator and state government official Edward E. Lane (1924–2009), member of the Virginia House of Delegates W. Duncan Lee (1884–1952), architect Fitzhugh Lee (1835–1905), Confederate cavalry general, Governor of Virginia, diplomat, U.S. Army general in Spanish–American War and the nephew of General Robert E. Lee Thomas M. Logan (1840–1914), Confederate General Marion K. Lowry (1854–1939), member of the Virginia House of Delegates Albert Lybrock (1827–1886), architect James Lyons (1801–1882), politician, Confederate Congressman
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John Y. Mason (1799–1859), U.S. Congressman, Secretary of the Navy, 18th Attorney General of the United States, Minister to France, judge Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806–1873), oceanographer and Confederate Navy officer William Mayo (1685–1744), civil engineer David J. Mays (1896–1971) author and lawyer Angus William McDonald (1799–1864), lawyer, military officer and colonel in the Confederate States Army Cornelia Peake McDonald (1822–1909), diarist 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 David Gregg McIntosh (1836–1916), lawyer, Confederate officer Robert Merhige (1919–2005), Federal judge Carroll Miller (1875–1949), chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission Emma Guffey Miller (1874–1970), feminist activist and Democratic leader John Lucas Miller (1831–1864), attorney, Confederate colonel Polk Miller (1844–1913), pharmacist and musician Willis Dance Miller (1893–1960), Justice, Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (1947–60) Charles Minnigerode (1814–1894), educator and clerrgyman Elizabeth Monroe (1768–1830), U.S. First Lady, wife of James Monroe James Monroe (1758–1831), fifth President of the United States Richard Channing Moore (1762–1841), Second Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia (1814–41) Samuel P. Moore (1813–1889), Confederate Surgeon General Beverley B. Munford (1856–1910), Virginia state delegate and state senator Mary-Cooke Branch Munford (1865–1938), civic leader; education, women's suffrage, and civil rights activist
N Garnett Nelson (1873–1930), college football coach and physician
O Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (1840–1905), Governor of Virginia (1894–98) Robert Ould (1820–1882), Attorney, Confederate official George W. Owings Jr. (1907–1984), member of the Maryland House of Delegates
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