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The A.D. Price Funeral Home was located in Jackson Ward at 208 East Leigh Street in Richmond. [7] A historical marker outside the building now commemorates its history. [6] The funeral home was featured on a postcard, which is part of the Tichnor Brothers Postcard Collection at the Boston Public Library. [7] A mortician bought the building in ...
Richmond, VA (East End). March 2, 2007. Jones, Will (November 9, 2009). "Neglected cemetery being reclaimed". Richmond Times-Dispach. Archived from the original on November 11, 2009; Hipolit, Melissa (May 24, 2016). "Historic Richmond cemetery where Maggie Walker is buried in disrepair". WTVR 6News. Richmond, VA: Scripps Local Media.
Richmond: Virginia: 11 George M. Dallas [61] December 31, 1864: Churchyard of St. Peter's Episcopal Church: Philadelphia: Pennsylvania: 12 Millard Fillmore [62] March 8, 1874: Forest Lawn Cemetery: Buffalo: New York: 13 William R. King [63] April 18, 1853 [c] Live Oak Cemetery [e] Selma: Alabama: 14 John C. Breckinridge [65] May 17, 1875 ...
In 1933, local businessman Robert Marlowe purchased a Falls Church dairy farm. Over the years, the property and businesses expanded to include funeral, bereavement, cremation and burial services, as well as a pet cemetery. The funeral home, cemetery and related services are available to people of all faiths, cultures and backgrounds. [3]
Richmond Discovery tour guide Jim DuPriest said.” So, Mrs. Pickett was buried in Abbey Mausoleum [which was] nearby, besides, and adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery in Northern Virginia.” … “Near the end of the ceremony, the families sprinkled soil from Mrs. Pickett’s home in Chuckatuck, Nansemond County, Virginia.” [31]
The second largest African American cemetery in the area, Woodland is surpassed only by Evergreen Cemetery.The cemetery was founded and designed by Richmond Planet editor John Mitchell, Jr. [2] The cemetery is designed in the rural cemetery style and incorporates winding roads on terraced slopes and laid out with concrete roads and pathways.
James Monroe Tomb, prior to 2016. The James Monroe Tomb is the burial place of U.S. President James Monroe in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, United States.The principal feature of the tomb is an architecturally unusual cast iron cage, designed by Albert Lybrock and installed in 1859 after Monroe's body was moved from Marble Cemetery in New York City.
The City of Richmond purchased land in 1799 on the northern end of Shockoe Hill, for the main purpose of establishing a municipal burying ground. The Shockoe Hill Cemetery was established on those grounds in 1820. When space became scarce for new burials, the city responded by expanding the burying ground with the addition of 14 acres in 1850.