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]

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  • Minetree Folkes (died 1959), member of the Virginia House of Delegates and U.S. House of Representatives[42]
  • 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[43]

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  • Richard B. Garnett (1817–1863), U.S. Army officer and Confederate general killed during Battle of Gettysburg

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  • 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[49]
  • William Wirt Henry (1831–1900), lawyer, member of the General Assembly of Va., president of the Am. Historical Association (1890–91)[50]
  • 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[51]
  • Alexis Hobson (1880–1960), college football player[52]
  • 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

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

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