Dear Diane, I am very proud of you and your efforts to locate your ancestor's grave in Hollywood Cemetery and have it marked. I am the commander of the General Robert E. Lee Camp # 1589 Sons of Confederate Veterans, and one of the members of my camp is Bill Ward. Bill is the director of the Southern Soldiers Remembrance Fund and what we do is to obtain markers for our Confederate Dead at Hollywood who have no markers. The markers are free of charge from the government, but in that Hollywood is a private cemetery, we have to pay $100.00 for Hollywood personnel to install them. We have been doing this for some years now, and it is a project of our camp. We periodically have a dedication each year on the markers that have been installed, along with color guard, firing squad, chaplain, and speakers. If you would like I could give you Bill Ward's E-Mail and you could ask him to include David Aldrin McDonald in the next dedication and I will personally attend his dedication in uniform. He could notify you when the dedication ceremony would be held so that you could attend. Oakwood Cemetery is a whole different problem. The Confederate Section at Oakwood is presently under the control of the City of Richmond and the Oakwood Trust. Thousands of the graves are unmarked, and quite a few of the marked graves have been vandalized or damaged by cemetery workers. We (Sons of Confederate Veterans) have been trying very hard to take over the responsibility of the Confederate Section and get the graves marked appropriately and as quickly as possible. The International Sons of Confederate Veterans donated $55,000.00 to be used toward that project and we have increased the annual dues to our members by $6.00 each for Virginia members to help maintain the Confederate Section of Oakwood. Unfortunately we have been running into problems with the Oakwood Trust and we may have to go to court to get the job done. It appears to be a pride or power thing. Sooner or later we will get it done. There were of course thousands who died at Chimborazo and were just buried around the area of Oakwood. Many of these mass graves are paved over by East Richmond Road outside of the cemetery boundaries. I have the honour to remain Madam, Your most humble and obedient servant John Henry Taylor johnhenrytaylor@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane S" <dsanfilippo303@adelphia.net> To: <VAHANOVE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:20 PM Subject: Re: [VAHANOVE] N. Jones > John, there is a database of Georgia soldiers buried in Hollywood in the > ga archives of GenWeb and/or RootsWeb. I found my 3x great grandfather, > David Aldrin McDonald buried in Oakwood, and have since had his grave > marked - he was from Athens, Ga. and died in Chimborazo #8, I think > without looking... and another tip - soldiers who died at Chimborazo were > buried at Oakwood. I have tried and tried to find a Sons group to have a > small dedication service for David's marker, to no avail. Its sad to live > in the Capitol of the Confederacy and not be able to find anyone to honor > an ancestor - whether he was from any of the Confederate states! > Oh, Ricky, at Oakwood is most helpful in locating the soldiers and we > followed him out to the 1862 cemetery and he found the grave for us - > much, much better marked than Hollywood - although not as lovely or > prestigious. Ricky has a list in his office with names and grave sites, > however I found the information on the unit's website. > I also have a great-great-uncle buried among the unknown at Oakwood - I > think my husband breathed a sigh of relief... > The sad thing is that at Hollywood, the soldiers were buried three to a > grave, coffins laid out like cord wood in trenches, some not as deep as > usual, and often, when 'business' was heavy, days went by before burial, > rendering the entire site a horrific scene. > Its quiet and peaceful now - the neighborhood is not the best and visitors > should be well advised to leave way before dusk, but the old cemetery, > unlike the new, exudes a feeling of sadness, but dignity. If you visit go > by and visit David's grave - the 1862 graves are on the right side of the > road and the 1864 on the left. Look for the gazebo on the left - take a > straight line from the left corner marker, across the street and in three > markers - and you will find David's grave. > What a wonderful service you are offering for those who do not live in the > area! > Diane S > ----- Original Message ----- > From: JOHN TAYLOR > To: VAHANOVE-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 8:32 PM > Subject: Re: [VAHANOVE] N. Jones > > > Karen, > > Your best bet would be to contact the Mississippi State Archives - > Mississippi Confederate Soldiers records should be on file by unit, and > you > already know that he was in Co. A 11th Mississippi Infantry. The records > will be on microfilm and also any widow's pension applications. Do you > know > if he was buried in Ashland? We have a mass grave in the Woodland > Cemetery > in Ashland in which approximately four hundred Confederate Soldiers are > buried. There is only one marker stating that they are Confederate > Unknowns, but the marker is incorrect. approximately 200 of them are > known > and there is a record of them at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. We > had so many soldiers from our sister states die in Virginia and for many > reasons they could not be sent home for burial. Many of them lie in > unmarked graves in Hollywood Cemetery, Oakwood Cemetery, and Woodland > Cemetery in Ashland. Many of them are known and usually their graves are > marked only by a number that corresponds to their name information. If > you > can determine that N. Jones was buried in Virginia please let me know and > I > will try to locate his grave for you. > > Your obedient servant, > > John Henry Taylor > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <pooka@arn.net> > To: <VAHANOVE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:20 PM > Subject: [VAHANOVE] N. 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