About Hollywood Cemetery
Hollywood Cemetery is a cemetery near Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia. It lies about 1.2 mi north of Richmond. The grounds sit at about 118 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 311 notable people buried here, including James Monroe, John Tyler and Jefferson Davis. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 1478778. The nearest other listed cemetery is Riverview Cemetery, about 0.4 mi to the southwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Joseph Jenkins, Junior Funeral Home in Richmond, about 1.0 mi away. It is one of 18 cemeteries we list in Richmond City, and 59 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Richmond City dates to 1815. 1 of the 18 listings in Richmond City have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Richmond. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Hollywood Cemetery
Among them: 56 Civil War veterans, 32 writers, 27 US representatives, 12 artists, 12 Mexican-American War veterans, 11 business leaders, 10 physicians, 8 governors.
- James Monroe1758-1831President of the United States from 1817 to 1825
- John Tyler1790-1862President of the United States from 1841 to 1845
- Jefferson Davis1808-1889President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
- Tom Wolfe1930-2018American author and journalist
- Elizabeth Monroe1768-1830First Lady of the United States from 1817 to 1825
- Julia Gardiner Tyler1820-1889First Lady of the United States
- J. E. B. Stuart1833-1864Confederate cavalry general
- Matthew Fontaine Maury1806-1873United States Navy officer
- Ellen Glasgow1873-1945Novelist, short story writer
- James Branch Cabell1879-1958American author
- George Pickett1825-1875Confederate States Army general
- Varina Davis1826-1906Second wife of President Jefferson Davis and First Lady of the Confederate States
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- Fitzhugh Lee1835-1905American politician (1835-1905); 40th governor of Virginia
- James Seddon1815-1880American lawyer and politician
- John Randolph of Roanoke1773-1833American politician
- Henry A. Wise1806-1876United States Congressman and governor of Virginia
- Henry Heth1825-1899Confederate States Army general
- Claude A. Swanson1862-1939American lawyer and politician
- Lewis F. Powell Jr.1907-1998American jurist (1907-1998); US Supreme Court justice from 1972 to 1987
- John Garland Pollard1871-1937American politician
- John Y. Mason1799-1859American politician
- Edward Johnson1816-1873Confederate Army general
- Eppa Hunton1822-1908U.S. Representative and Senator from Virginia and a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War
- Richard B. Garnett1817-1863Confederate Army general
- Douglas Southall Freeman1886-1953American journalist
- James J. Archer1817-1864Confederate Army general
- William Smith1796-1887Lawyer, congressman, the 30th and 35th Governor of Virginia
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall1840-1905American politician
- Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry1825-1903American politician
- John D. Imboden1823-1895Confederate Brigadier General
- Serge Wolkonsky1860-1937Russian drama teacher
- John C. C. Sanders1840-1864Confederate States Army brigadier general
- John Harvie1742-1807United States Founding Father. He signed the Articles of Confederation, served as mayor of Richmond, Virginia, and cast an electoral vote for George Washington.
- Joseph Reid Anderson1813-1892American civil engineer, industrialist, and soldier
- Mary Johnston1870-1936American novelist and women's rights advocate
- Peter Vivian Daniel1784-1860United States federal judge
- George D. Wise1831-1906American politician 1831-1908
- John Rogers Cooke1833-1891Confederate Army general
- John Sergeant Wise1846-1913American politician
- Julian Vaughan Gary1892-1973American politician
- Lyon Gardiner Tyler1853-1935American educator, son of US President John Tyler
- Raleigh E. Colston1825-1896American general
- Reuben Lindsay Walker1827-1890Confederate Army general
- Robert H. Chilton1815-1879Confederate Army general
- Sam Jones1819-1887United States Army officer
- Varina Anne Davis1864-1898American writer
- William E. Starke1814-1862Confederate Army general
- Carl W. Ackerman1890-1970American journalist, first dean of the Columbia School of Journalism
- Dave E. Satterfield, Jr.1894-1946American politician
- David Gardiner Tyler1846-1927Confederate Army soldier
- Edward Cooper1873-1928American lawyer and Republican politician from West Virginia
- James A. Gallivan1866-1928American politician, Massachusetts
- John Allen Wilcox1819-1864Confederate Army officer and politician
- John Lamb1840-1924U.S. Representative from Virginia
- John Pegram1832-1865Confederate Army general
- John Powell1882-1963American pianist, ethnomusicologist and composer
- Kate Langley Bosher1865-1932American writer
- Robert Daniel1936-2012American politician from Virginia
- Tazewell Ellett1856-1914American politician
- William Pegram1841-1865Confederate Army officer
- William Wirt Henry1831-1900American politician
- David Rumph Jones1825-1863Confederate Army general
- Edyth Carter Beveridge1862-1927Journalist
- Henry Watkins Anderson1870-1954American attorney and leader of the Republican Party in Virginia
- James Taylor Ellyson1847-1919American politician
- Leroy Augustus Stafford1822-1864Confederate Army general
- Lloyd J. Beall1808-1887Confederate officer
- Philip St. George Cocke1809-1861Confederate Army general 1809-1861
- Richard Alsop Wise1843-1900American politician
- Richard Channing Moore1762-1841Protestant Episcopal clergyman in the United States
- Walter H. Stevens1827-1867Confederate States Army brigadier general
- William Francis Rhea1858-1931American politician
- William R. Terry1827-1897Confederate Army general
- Angus William McDonald1799-1864American Military officer, fur trader, lawyer, deputy sheriff
- Chatham Roberdeau Wheat1826-1862Captain in the United States Army Volunteers
- David Bullock Harris1814-1864Confederate States Army Colonel
- David Gregg McIntosh1836-1916Confederate Army officer
- David Seth Doggett1810-1880American bishop
- Edmund Waddill, Jr.1855-1931United States federal judge
- Emma Guffey Miller1874-1970American feminist and Democratic Party official
- George E. Allen, Jr.1914-1990Virginia lawyer
- George S. Cook1819-1902American photographer
- Hunter McGuire1832-1900American physician
- Isaac M. St. John1827-1880Confederate States Army brigadier general
- James Lyons1801-1882Confederate politician
- John Baker White1794-1862American Military officer, lawyer, court clerk, and civil servant
- John Caskie1821-1869American politician
- Karl Minnigerode1814-1894German university teacher
- Lewis Ginter1824-1897American businessman and philanthropist
- Mary-Cooke Branch Munford1865-1938American activist, suffragist
- Robert Ould1820-1882Chief of the Bureau of Exchange for Confederate States of America
- Robert R. Merhige, Jr.1919-2005United States federal judge
- Samuel P. Moore1813-1889United States Army officer
- T. Coleman Andrews1899-1983Accountant and independent candidate for President of the United States
- Virginius Dabney1901-1995American journalist
- Walter Gwynn1802-1882Confederate Army general
- A. Caperton Braxton1862-1914American lawyer
- Conway Robinson1805-1884American lawyer
- Dave Ames1937-2009American football player
- David P. Reynolds1915-2011American businessman
- Edward Claxton Edmonds1835-1863American military teacher, Confederate States Army colonel
- Edward Virginius Valentine1838-1930American sculptor
- Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay1786-1840American socialite who acted as unofficial First Lady during her father James Monroe's presidency
- James Cannon Jr.1864-1944American bishop
- John Fulmer Bright1877-1953American politician
- John M. Brockenbrough1830-1892Confederate Army officer
- John Randolph Tucker1879-1954American lawyer and law professor
- LaSalle Corbell Pickett1843-1931American author
- Lewis Harvie Blair1834-1916American writer
- Lila Meade Valentine1865-1921American suffragist
- Lloyd C. Bird1894-1978American politician
- Mary Ellen Pollard Clarke1862-1939American suffragist
- Mary Newton Stanard1865-1929American historian
- Mary Wells Ashworth1903-1992American historian
- Thomas Henry Carter1831-1908Confederate Army officer
- Tommy Thompson1927-1990American football linebacker, born 1927
- Walker Fearn1832-1899American diplomat
- William Alexander Smith1828-1888American politician
- Alden Aaroe1918-1993Popular longtime broadcast journalist and announcer for WRVA, a radio station in Richmond, Virginia
- Alvin Duke Chandler1902-1987U.S. Naval officer, university president
- Anna Whitehead Bodeker1826-1904American suffragist
- Annabella Ravenscroft Gibson Jenkins1827-1901American nurse
- C. M. Hazen1866-1952American football coach
- Chiswell Langhorne1843-1919American businessman
- Cornelia Peake McDonald1822-1909American writer
- Edna Henry Lee Turpin1867-1952U.S. author associated with Charles E. Merrill co
- Emily Tapscott Clark1892-1953American editor and writer
- Eppa Hunton IV1904-1976American lawyer
- Francis McNeece Whittle1823-1902American bishop
- Garnett Nelson1872-1930American football coach
- George Wythe Munford1803-1882Author of The jewels of Virginia, The two parsons
- Grace Arents1848-1926American philanthropist
- Huestis P. Cook1868-1951American photographer
- James Bowen Funsten1856-1918American bishop
- James H. Dooley1841-1922American businessman and politician
- James K. Marshall1839-1863Confederate Army officer
- John B. Newton1839-1897Bishop coadjutor of Virginia
- John Skelton Williams1865-1926(1865-1926) Comptroller of the Currency
- Katharine Elizabeth Howard1858-1951American poet
- Lawrence Taliaferro Dade1785-1842American politician
- Malcolm Pitt1897-1985American football player and coach, basketball coach, baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator
- Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur1802-1850Daughter of U.S. president James Monroe
- Richard S. Reynolds, Sr.1881-1955American businessman
- Thomas M. Logan1840-1914Confederate Army general
- Tom Miller1897-1980American baseball player, born 1897
- William Henry Palmer1835-1926Confederate Army officer
- William Mayo1684-1744English civil engineer
- Albert O. Boschen1873-1957American politician
- Annie Steger Winston1862-1927American writer
- Benjamin Batchelder Valentine1862-1919American writer and businessman
- Benjamin T. Brockman1831-1864Confederate Army officer
- Beverly Randolph Wellford1797-1870American physician
- Bolling Walker Haxall1814-1885American business person
- Charles H. Wynne1821-1870American printer
- Charles L. Brown1921-2003American businessman
- Chuck Noe1924-2003American basketball player-coach
- Conrad Frederick Sauer1866-1927German American pharmacist
- Dabney S. Lancaster1889-1975American educator and public official
- David H. Leake1875-1955American lawyer and politician
- Edmund Archer1904-1986American painter
- Edmund DeJarnette1897-1966American political figure
- Edward Meeks "Pope" Gregory1922-1995American priest
- Edward S. Lumpkin1840-1912American photographer
- Elben C. Folkes1873-1950American lawyer and politician
- Emma Gilham Page1855-1933American aristocrat
- Eugene C. Massie1861-1924American politician
- George Ainslie1868-1931American politician
- George Alvin Smith1844-1908Virginia businessman
- Georgia May Jobson1860-1924American temperance reformer
- Haskins Hobson1877-1954American politician
- Herbert McIntyre1875-1948American football coach
- J. Randolph Tucker Jr.1914-2015American politician
- James B. Taylor1804-1871American Baptist minister
- James Benjamin Sclater Jr.1847-1882Founder of Pi Kappa Alpha
- James D. Patton1850-1925American politician
- James Douglas Bruce1862-1923American professor of literature
- James E. Cannon1873-1942American Democratic politician
- John A. Curtis1834-1913American politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates
- John Adams1773-1825American politician, Virginia
- John G. Luce1862-1935American banker and politician
- John J. Wicker, Jr.1893-1985American lawyer and politician
- John Jacksondied 1910American politician, Virginia
- John Lucas Miller1829-1864American lawyer
- John Maxwell1884-1953American college football player
- Jonathan Creech Day1877-1931Commissioner of Public Markets and superintendent of the Labor Temple, Second Avenue and Fourteenth Street.
- Julien Gunn1877-1948Politician
- Malcolm W. Perkins1888-1965American lawyer and politician
- Mann Satterwhite Valentine1824-1892American merchant, writer and philanthropist
- Margaret Dashiell1867-1958Illustrator and businessperson
- Margaret Howell Davis Hayes1855-1909Child of President of the Confederate States & Mrs. Jefferson Davis
- Mary Baughman1874-1956American physician
- Mary Walker Fearn Wolkonsky1866-1964American wife of Russian nobility
- Mary Wingfield Scott1895-1983American historic preservationist
- Richard L. Maury1840-1907American lawyer and confederate soldier
- Roger T. Gregory1866-1937American politician
- Sam Mason1899-1971American football player
- Sylvanus Stokes, Jr.1897-1949American yachtsman and socialite
- T. Nelson Parker1898-1973American politician
- Thelma Young Gordon1898-1974American public official
- W. Asbury Christian1866-1936Born 1866; died 1936
- William A. Reynolds1872-1928American football player and sports coach
- William Elam Tanner1836-1898Virginia State Senator and Lieutenant Colonel
- William J. Hoge1825-1864Presbyterian minister
- William Wortham Pool1842-1922American bookkeeper
- Woodard Johnson1831-1862Confederate soldier
- Alexander McRae1768-1840American lawyer, politician, merchant
- Volunteer weather observer for meteorological project (1848-1873) of the Smithsonian Institution
- Anna Maria Mason Ambler1825-1863
- Anne Harris Cabell1859-1915
- Annie Clay Crenshaw1859-1932American suffragist
- Augustus Burfoot Clarke1818-1898Shop owner in Richmond, Virginia
- Benjamin Holtzclaw1894-1986American genealogist and classics educator
- Beverley R. Tucker1874-1945American physician
- Charles Bruce1826-1896(17 Aug 1826 - certain 6 Oct 1896)
- Christopher Q. Tompkins1813-1877U.S. Military Academy graduate
- Clara Barclay1888-1959Socialite
- Clarence Archibald Bryceborn 1849Physician 1849-1928
- David Hunter Tucker1815-1871American physician
- Edith Tunis Sale1875-1932American writer on the history of Virginia and its architecture
- Edna Leroy Crenshaw Rex1893-1972American artist
- Edward Scott Gay1795-1874
- Eleanor Sampson Brockenbrough1910-1985
- Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne1867-1914Peerage person ID=659349
- Elizabeth Lewis Selden1842-1930
- Elizabeth Palmer Gray1844-1912
- Emily Cary Fairfax1824-1894
- Ennion Gifford Williams1874-1931American physician
- Fendall Gregory1797-1867Virginia doctor
- Flora Cooke Stuart1836-1923Widow of Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart
- George A. Ainslie1827-1889Father of Richmond, Virginia mayor George Ainslie
- George Ball Hutchings1871-1949
- George Gordon Battle1868-1949American lawyer
- George Pickett1752-1821Richmond, Virginia merchant
- George Plumer Bryan1900-1985Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1936
- George W. Davis1824-1892American photographer (ca.1824-1892)
- George Wayne Anderson1896-1918American soldier
- Gustavus Adolphus Myers1801-1869Lawyer and author 1801-1869
- Helena Lefroy Caperton1878-1962American author
- Henry Coalter Cabell1820-1889Confederate Army officer
- Henry St. George Tucker Jr.1913-1996American physician
- Hiram Oliver1813-1891Tobacco machinist and builder in Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Howard G. Davids1877-1969American Army officer
- Isabella Harmanson Foushee1789-1865
- J. Ambler Johnston1885-1974Virginia-based architect
- James B. Pace1837-1920Tobacco dealer and treasurer of Richmond, VA, USA
- James Caskie1852-1928
- James Julius Winn1907-1990American military officer (1907-1990); father of Kitty Winn
- James Thomas1806-1882Millionaire
- James Thomas Gray1843-1923
- James West Pegram1804-1844
- Jane Catherine Fontaine1836-1909
- Jane McGowan King1830-1905Ice businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Joel Addison Hayes1848-1919American banker
- John A. Coke1798-1865
- John Mayo1737-1786Represented Chesterfield from 1768 to 1781
- John Mayo II1760-1818
- John Patteson Branch1830-1915Millionaire
- John Randolph Bryan1841-1917Confederate staff officer on Magruder's staff, did balloon reconnaissance
- Julia Gardiner Tyler1849-1871Daughter of U.S. president John Tyler
- Julia Rush Read Jones1827-1908
- Julian Louis Reynolds1910-1983American business executive
- Katharine Killinger Scherer Cronk1877-1927Lutheran lay leader
- 3rd president of National Society of The Colonial Dames of America
- Lachlan Tyler1851-1902American physician
- Lelia Bridges1878-1962
- Leslie Cheek1908-1992American museum director, art historian; director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
- Lillian Winston1888-1951
- Lora Effie Hotchkiss Ellyson1848-1935Virginia historic preservationist, president of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
- Madge Dorsey Handy Ould1835-1888D. 1888
- Mann Satterwhite Valentine1786-18653 Jul 1786 - certain 20 Mar 1865
- Mann Satterwhite Valentine III1859-1929American businessman
- Margaret Elizabeth Branch1876-1952
- Margaret Sanderson Flint Pickettdied 1838Virginian woman, wife of George Pickett, mother of Robert Pickett, grandmother to General George Edward Pickett, CSA
- Margaret Sophia Caskie1823-1867
- Margaretta Ellen Wise Mayo1844-1909
- Maria Louise Whitlock1882-1978
- Martha Bickerton Greenhow Maury1820-1909
- Mary Caperton1838-1904
- Mary Ella Thomas1836-1865
- Mary Evans Pegram1832-1911
- Mary McDermott Beirne1884-1974American horticulturalist, gardener and entrepreneur
- Mary Randolph Cary1811-1887Peerage person ID=436285
- Mary Woolfolk Wortham1823-1897
- Mary Wortham Thomas1843-1903
- Marylou Rhodes Massie1891-1944American author
- May Handy Potter1865-1952
- Molly Pender Brown Winn1912-1997Mother of Kitty Winn
- Nancy Witcher Keen1848-1903Peerage person ID=41943
- Natalie Friend McFaden Blanton1895-1987Writer and civic leader
- Parke Chamberlayne Bagby Bolling1874-1947Leader of the United Daughters of the Confederacy;
- Pearl Tyler1860-1947
- R. Finley Gayle, Jr.1891-1957American psychiatrist
- Richard Wortham Maury1843-1916
- Robert Gamble Cabell II1847-1922
- Robert Gamble Cabell III1881-1968
- Robert Gamble Cabell, Sr.1809-1889American physician
- Sarah Enders Palmer1834-1894
- Thomas Cary Johnson1859-1936American Presbyterian author and professor
- Tomlin Braxton1832-1892
- Virginia Ann Johnson1810-1888
People whose Wikidata entry gives Hollywood Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
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What Hollywood Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
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- Franklin Street Burial GroundsRichmond, VAJewish cemetery1.7 mi
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Funeral homes near Hollywood Cemetery
- Joseph Jenkins, Junior Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Richmond
- Joseph Jenkins Jr. Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Richmond · (804) 358-9177
- Mimms Funeral Service1.4 miFuneral home · Richmond · (804) 232-3874
- Carlton T Brooks Funeral Home1.5 miFuneral home · Richmond · (804) 233-8027
- Walter J Manning Funeral Home2.2 miFuneral home · Richmond · (804) 643-8738
- Bennett Funeral Home2.3 miFuneral home · Richmond · (804) 359-4481
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