List of burials at Hollywood Cemetery

Hollywood Cemetery is a historic garden or rural cemetery established in 1847 in the Oregon Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. The 135-acre cemetery[1] contains many notable burials including 2 U.S. Presidents, the President of the Confederate States of America[2] and 25 Confederate Army officers.[3]

A

Adeline Atkinson

B

Kate Langley Bosher
John Fulmer Bright

C

John Rogers Cooke
Edward Cooper

D

Jefferson Davis and Varina Davis

E

F

  • Minetree Folkes (died 1959), member of the Virginia House of Delegates and U.S. House of Representatives[39]
  • 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 school[40]

G

Lewis Ginter

H

John Harvie

I

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

J

Mary Johnston

K

L

M

Tomb of James Monroe. Photo by Mathew Brady.
Matthew Fontaine Maury

N

O

P

Rebekah Dulaney Peterkin
William Wortham Pool

R

S

J. E. B. Stuart

T

John Tyler

V

Lila Meade Valentine

W

Chatham Roberdeau Wheat

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