Atlanta's Hollywood Cemetery

Over the Christmas holidays I spent one day slogging through the woods, dead kudzu, and vine choked hills which constitute much of Atlanta's Hollywood Cemetery at this point.  I always thought that properly restored Hollywood would be one of the most beautiful cemeteries in Atlanta.  It's located on Hollywood Road on the west side of Atlanta, and the winter months are about the only time much of the cemetery is visible and traversable.  recently I've begun collecting contact information on people with family members and ancestors buried in Hollywood Cemetery, and hope to play matchmaker to set up a cemetery friends group and cleanup effort.

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Comments

[Richard (Rich) Archer Kuykendall]

YOur site "blogs" my mind! It's wonderful. So much material. I lived my first 5 years in downtown Atlanta, at 419 Ponce de Leon--I guess my little house is gone by now, but I saw it in 1979. Keep up your good work. The Archers and Kuykendalls were citizens of Atlanta and Cobb, Cherokee and Habersham counties. Cordially, Rich

[Jerry Cannon]

Hello,

I grew up in Gresham Park area and also East Atlanta, near Bouldercrest & Fayetteville Rd. I remember the Madison as a kid. Also, have a grandmother buried over in Hollywood Cem. I havent been over that way in years. More afraid than not to go in that area.

Thanks you for your website. What memories..

PS - I am in the Army National Guard so I still go over to Confederate Ave on military business. I still see lots of old East Atlanta.. Surpised you don't have the Old Starlight Drive-in.

JC

[Paul Clark]

Hey Larry,

I check your blog from time to time. I just love what you do! I'm an Atlanta native and there is still so much to discover about this town. I'll have to check out the Hollywood Cemetery. There's another one close by that I only drove past on Hwy. 78 just outside the perimeter. It looks really old too. Do you know that one?

[Chris Ratterree]

My great grandparents are buried in Hollywood Cemetary and I was shocked and disgusted by the condition of that place. Thanks for the photos. The city or whomever owns that land should be ashamed of the condition! Where can I go to find their graves and who should I complain to about the condition of the place? How sad!

[Annette Lashley]

I also have a grandfather in this cemetery. As my son and I have researched the family, we were told not to visit this cemetery because of possible theft, violence, etc. Should you be able to get a group up to work on this to make it so that we can access and improve it, please let me know. Thanks for sharing -

[Rosemary Cantrell]

I have been looking for my husband's uncle, Charles Cantrell, who was killed during WWII. I have been told he was buried at the Hollywood Cemetary, but the list of war dead buried there does not include his name. It would be interesting to visit and look. Is there a sexton office or other facility for locating graves? Is it a safe area to go to?

Your pictures are fascinating.

Thanks for taking the time,
Rosemary

[faye golden]

Great pictures,I lived on Hollywood rd until 1958 our address was 1037 hollywood rd.I went to Center hill school.I had alot of kin around there for a long time. I would love to go back with my mom to see some old stomping grounds,\. Thanks for bringing back memories

[Lynn Hanna]

I grew up in Atlanta, and many of my relatives are buried at Hollywood Cemetery. I haven't been to the cemetery since I was a small child, but I'm working on family history and would welcome the opportunity to visit there again. I'd like to know if/when you organize a cemetery friends group.

[Val Williams]

I was wondering if you had any information from your picture # 00086 - the monument says Landers. My great grandparents were Landers and buried in Hollywood Cemetery, we recently learned their names were John Crocket Landers and Mary Edna Landers. If you have any further info, please let me know! Thanks! Val

[Jenny Hudson]

I understand my grandfather and his parents are buried in Hollywood Cemetery. In trying to get information about them, I discovered that the Hollywood Cemetery records are now at Lincoln Cemetery. I was told that Hollywood is in disrepair and that it would be unsafe to go there. Thanks for your interest and photos.

[Judy K. Brantley/Wilson]

I have been working on Hollywood Cemetery for the past four years or so, trying to document every person who is buried there. Some of the people named in previous messages are listed there. If you go to www.findagrave.com, you will see 3,387 names listed there. I have also started a "Hollywood Tree" which will be available on Ancestry.com. By doing it, I am able to link many family members together, helping people to find more of their ancestors.

Please know that you can go to Hollywood Cemetery. It is in a declining area. You need to be aware, but I am an older woman and have never been bothered there and have been there many, many times. It is best not go to alone, if you go into the wooded areas, though. It is best to go during cooler/colder weather as the vines have died down and any varmits are hopefully asleep. It is easier walking then, too.

If you have relatives at Hollywood that are not listed, please contact me so that I can add them and keep track of them. My email address is on findagrave.

[S.K. Watson]

Is Myrtle Street located toward the middle of the Cemetery and is it marked?
Trying to figure out where our family members might be buried as it is close to this area.
Thanks

[S D Holland]

I have a survey of Utoy Creek Primitive Church if anyone is interested.

[Paul Shell]

I have just discovered that I have relatives buried in Hollywood cemetery. I have found the people at the office of very little help. I do know the lot number where my family memebers are buried, but I do not know how to locate the actual site. Do you have a map of the cemetery or any idea of the order the lots are in?
Thanks for your time.

Paul

[Gayle]

my grandpartents and other relatives are buried at Hollywood cemetry .The whole cemetry needs cleaning up and some repairs.anyone willing to help? contact me at gppurvis@bellsouth.net

[Pat (Brooks) Galloway]

Hi,
I am glad you have photos of the cemetery. My grandparents are suppose to be buried in Hollywood cemetery. I went into the website www.findagrave.com but was unable to locate them. My maiden name is Brooks and my grandfather/grandmother were George and Jessie. My dads name is also George (GL) He is not buried there. Any help out there?!?

[Jack Bowen]

Hi,
My name is Jack Bowen and I am looking for any information on my gr-Grandfather,
Joseph Harris Kierbow.
He was related to the Plunketts who lived on Hollywood Rd.
If this name rings a bell with anyone out there please feel free to contact me with any info:
bktilleyarts@bellsouth.net

Thanks.

[Roy Hunter]

Anyone have information on
John W. Cross buried 11-10-94
Plat 3E lot 216.
Is there a headstone?
Any pictures ? I was told
there is no map or directions
to the grave..
Thank You
Roy RHUNTER63@TAMPABAY.RR.COM

[bob mckenzie]

i think it would help a lot of people to know that hollywood cemetery seems to be known as & by 3 different names (possibly) or that there are 2 cemeteries together, named hollywood, & maybe magnoliia ? i called a number (404)792 2220. they answer "lincoln & montevista cemetery"..the lady at that # said that lincoln & montevista owns the 2 cemeteries now. true or not, i don't know. i know my father, gr'mother, grandfather & my gr g'mother are all 4 buried at the magnolia, which i'm told is the south end of the hollywood cemetery. i guess i'll have to go over there & see.

[John]

Thanks for posting the pictures of Hollywood cemetery. Judy Brantley Wilson (who posted above) let me know about my great great grandparents and their families who are buried there. My sister now lives in Atlanta and is planning to visit soon. I passed this site on to her.

[Tracie]

Hi,
I have buried at Hollywood (as well as the almost as bad Magnolia). I'm very interested in some sort of Friends of Hollywood Cemetery group. Is there any updates, any nascent group to join?

[Gail Robinson]

Hi,

I have family (Bohler, Wall, Lammons) in Hollywood Cemetery and have been wanting to go to check the condition. My parents went until it was just too dangerous. I would like to be a part of the restoration committee. It looks like it would take a lot of heavy equipment to get it done. What city is it in? East Point? Thanks for all your work.
Gail Robinson.

[Gail Robinson]

My husband and I went to Hollywood Cemetery today and I found my family plots. Not is good shape but, not as bad as some. Needs a lot of cleanup. We met Tracie (above blog) there. She wasn't going to get out of her vehicle until she saw us. She did not find her family while we were there. She was going to the Lincoln office. Tracie, hope you got some good info on your family.

[Tracie]

Needing to get home before the school bus prevented me from stopping by the office Wednesday, but I plan on going back next week.

I've started a blog about Hollywood Cemetery so we can all communicate and get all of our information in one place:
http://hollywoodcemetery.blogspot.com

I think the time for action is now.

[Ginny Hendrix]

Magnolia Cemetery & Hollywood Cemetery are two different cemeteries. I have family buried at both.
Went there a few weeks ago with several others and we found the family at Magnolia, but no luck at Hollywood. I'm looking for John Gilbert Adams and Laura Dobbins Adams. Any help at all would be appreciated.
G. Hendrix

[Rick Duke]

I just visited Hollywood again this morning. It is in a very difficult neighborhood. I supposedly have an aunt who died in 1917 at age 3 buried there. Would like to have access to confirm if and where.

[S D Holland]

Tis reply is for Mr. Clark

[S D Holland]

The problem that all old cemeteries have is that nobody owns them. The City of Atlanta does not own any cemetry except Oakland and they do not maintain it. This is done by volunteers. All who have relatives in this cemetery need to get together and form an association to care for it. East View in Kirkwood has done so, West View in East Point has done so and Hopewell has done so in Tyrone, GA I am part of all three.
sdholland@mindspring.com

[S D Holland]

Ginny: contact The Atlanta History Center and they will be glad to assist you with the survey by Mr. Franklin Garrett. You may reach them at
www,Atlantahistorycenter.com

[Mike]

My Great Grandfather is buried at Hollywood but I could not find a Head stone " Bernard Llorens "He is in F.O. Turner Plot
Mike

[daniel]

I was reading throgh for the first time and seen that Paul Clark was wondering about the cemetery on hwy 78. That is the Mason Turner Methodist Church Cemetery.I have several family members there including one in the civil war. It as well as hollywood needs some attention. I wish the city would get the prisoners to start cleaing these areas up.

[Marilyn Haynes Lunsford]

We have family buried at Hollywood. I have picures taken at a funeral but am not sure who it is. I am going to look at the findagrave website and see if I can find them. Most of my family is buried in Westview but it is very upsetting to know Hollywood is in such disrepair. I would also be interested in a group that would help to maintain the property. Marilyn Lunsford

[Barbara Richards]

my great uncle, Flavius Wellborn and wife Sarah Crawford are buried Hollywood. her grave unmarked Many other Wellborn kin buried there.
my uncle james howard Humphries buried in the Clark family lot. I was given the grave site locations several years ago by Linclon cemetery.I was told dont go there unescorted.

[Barbara Richards]

Hollywood cemetery once had a business office in the old Peachtree Arcade, now demolished, and I have the name of secretery, etc I need to find it. Hollywood was at the end of the old River car line when we still had the streetcars

[Marilyn Haynes Lunsford]

Does anyone know if the cleanup day planned in December is still on? Marilyn Lunsford

[Linda Hinkle]

I also have relatives buried at Hollywood and would appreciate it if anyone ever comes up with a map of the lot sites. My great-grandparents are buried there (1894-1925). A man at Lincoln photocopied the record he found of their lot, and I know it's Lot 50, Block C, Plat 1 where my great-grandfather, W. J. Callaway, and his daughter & granddaughter (the Hoyals) are buried.

[Jenny]

Hello! I enjoyed looking through your pics of the Hollywood Cemetery. My gr-grandparents are buried in Hollywood, and I'd be most grateful if you could find their graves and post a picture? Their names are James M. Mackey and Frances Jeanette Mackey. Thanks!

[JOYCE THOMASON SHANNON]

I WENT TO HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY YESTERDAY 10/31/10, SO SAD TO SEE MY FATHER AND GRANDFATHERS GRAVE SITE.I TO AM TRYING TO GET SOME INFO FROM CEMETERY BUT CAN!t FIND A NUMBER .WE HAVE NOT BEEN OUT THERE IN YEARS BECAUSE OF THE CRIME RATE,BUT BRAVED IT YESTERDAY.WILL TRY THE NUMBERS THAT I SEE POSTED HERE. JOYCE THOMASON SHANNON

[Robert Eckard]

I think I have a great grand father a nd mother at hollywood cem. Robert Ekard and Nora Ekard does anyone know of them

Robert Eckard 11/15/2010 5:30pm

[Richard Becherer]

Dear Larry,

I m doing some research on Chattahoochee Brick Company,now General Shale over off Parrott Avenue. I have documents indicating deaths while convicts were interred there. Management claims to have buried them at Westview Cemetery, but it would seem that Hollywood would have been closer, and more esily reachable via the Riverside trolley.

Do you know if there were any burials from CBC there, or if there were any collective burial sites- like a potter's field -- there? The relevant dates would have been 1878 to 1909.

Also, do you know anything about an amusement park/recreation area that was supposed to have existed out in Riverside? Is there any documentation of it? BTW what was the terminus of the Riverside line? Do you know?

Thanks for any help that you might give me re these questions.

Best,

Ricchard Becherer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Architecture
Southern Polytechnic State University
Marietta, GA

[Larry Felton Johnson]

You won't believe how timely your post is :-) I'm researching the stretch of the Chattahoochee from the Clayton Plant to Nickajack Creek. I live about half-time just over the Cobb County edge of the River, and intend to get active. I don't know the answers to your questions, but I'll make an effort to find out.

[pendy]

I, too, have family buried at Hollywood Cemetery...last name Cavaleri.

[pendy]

Just noticed your photos of Capitol View Manor...my Cavaleri grandparents lived at 516 Manford Road and I actually was married at the Capitol View Baptist Church.

[Allen Garner]

My Grand Mother Jessie Brock Gwinn,Her Farther & Mother William Joseph Brock, Leila Jane Brock are buried in Magnolia Cemetery. I would like to know if there is a list of graves or any other information about Magnolia. And were to get it. Thanks Allen

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[Winston Cagle]

So what if anything is going on with the clean-up of Hollywood Cemetery and/or the formation of an association of families to care for it? I recently learned that I have some family there. The pictures and description of the cemetery "management" I've seen make finding the grave sites sound doubtful at best.

[James]

A note for Pendy (above):

I've recently found and photographed several Cavaleri graves at Hollywood Cemetery. They can be viewed at the Findagrave.com Website.

I think I recorded five graves. Most of the grave markers were buried under a few inches of dirt and leaves.

James

[pendy]

For James...thank you for the markers pictures of my Cavaleri relatives. One of them, Rev. Ernesto Emilio Cavaleri, penned his life story, which you may find of interest. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxnZW5lYWxvZ3lkb2NzfGd4OjY4OTViMDM3ZjY2MzdmM2M

[James]

Hi Pendy:

Thanks for the link. I read and enjoyed the memoir from Ernesto Emilio Cavaleri. He was a deacon at St Paul Methodist Church in Grant Park about 100 years ago. I'm now a member of that church.

I just happened to be at his grave a few days ago while mapping some of Hollywood Cemetery. Turns out that the N-S line from the top of the cemetery hill goes through the middle of the Cavaleri plot.

See a two-minute movie about Hollywood at:

http://www.stephensroots.com/Stories.htm

James

[Veronica A. Davis]

My name is Veronica A. Davis, I am an Author/Historian, and one could say Cemetery Preservationist.

I would like to know if the Atlanta Hollywood Cemetery is still neglected or if it has been restored?

Can you send me an email and let me know the address is varoots2002@yahoo.com

[beverly r. juhlin-pineau]

i have several relatives in Hollywood cemetery. Aunt- ethal plunkett crozier. grandmother-joseph bertha clyde keirbow plunkett. grandfather- solomon smith plunkett. joseph harris kierbow was my grandmother's father. he was married to mary ann patterson.

[ruth haywood]

this cemetary is horrible,someone should be ashamed,the state of georgia should step in and do something,these graves has people in them,they are not empty,loved ones are there.they could turn the cemetary over to the state and get it cleaned up, or something,to help loved ones there,where is the respect for them.

[T . Shores]

Looking for Mills Family at Hollywood Cemetery : Mrs S.A. Mills 1904 died.
Is there an Obt Or location of plot to be found?
I would like to say thanks to all who are making Hollywood come back to life. I had almost given up hope. T Shores

[Carolyn Godfrey]

We are trying to find the burial lot of Barbara Richardson. Died 12/08/1963. Is there anyway we could find out where it is. Thank you

[Carolyn Godfrey]

Is there an office or phone number we could have to call of gravesites at hollywood cemetery.

[Stephen Wesley Bastedo]

Thank you so much Larry for posting your many projects !! I too am a native Atlantan. Thanks especially for posting the photo's of Eula Belle Vaughn Humphries Kantor, and her second husband Mitchell. Her first husband, Dr. Homer Hudson Humphries, is my great grandfather. His father was George Phares Humphries, an Atlanta architect and builder. His firm was Humphries & Norman and after his death became Reid (Neel) & Norman. George designed and built the main gate to Westview Cemetery in return for the Humphries family plt there. It's great to find another native, best regards, SWB

[GINGER SANFORD]

I WAS BORN ON HIGHTOWER RD.I LIVED ON JOLLY FARM RIGHT NEXT TO THE CEMETARY WHERE THE CEMETARY STOPS ON THE RIGHT SIDE GOING UP HIGHTOWER FROM HOLLYWOOD RD.KNOW LOTS OF PEOPLE BURIED THERE.

[Valerie Maddox Williams]

My father has grandparents buried in Hollywood Cemetery and I am in the process of trying to find more information. They are John Crocket Landers 1881-1926 and Mary Edna Davis Landers 1881-1922. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Valerie Maddox Williams

[Helengrace]

Just found your blog today - love it! I like wlkaing through cemeteries - especially in the Fall. Most people I know think that's a little odd. : ) Now I can say there are others who do the same thing.