Archive for “Oakwood Cemetery”
City cemetery spring cleaning set for March 5
Owners of lots and gravesites in City-owned and operated cemeteries are reminded that according to City Code all flowers, decorations and vases that are on the ground must be removed by March 1. This is to allow the Cemeteries Division of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities to conduct its annual spring cleanup. [...]
Black Confederates in Oakwood?
The Lost Soldiers in this week’s Style Weekly looks into the possibility of black Confederates buried in Oakwood: It was late May 2002, says Davis, a Hampton-based independent historian, when she showed up at the administrative offices for Richmond’s cemeteries, then managed by a woman named Patricia Taylor. Davis, who is black, was researching the [...]
Bus tour of historic Richmond cemeteries
A bus tour of historic Richmond cemeteries on Monday from the folks at the Valentine Richmond History Center: Historic Cemeteries Tour Commemorate Memorial Day with a tour of Richmond’s historic cemeteries, including St. John’s Church, Shockoe Cemetery, the Hebrew Cemetery and Hollywood Cemetery. Learn about their layout, evolution as parks, artwork and notable tenants.
Homicide investigation at Oakwood Cemetery
NBC12 is reporting that “Richmond Police are investigating a homicide in Oakwood Cemetery in Richmond’s East End.”
Sons of Confederate Veterans provide new fence for Soldiers’ Monument
The Sons of Confederate Veterans yesterday installed an iron fence at Oakwood Cemetery: A $35,000 iron fence was installed yesterday around the Soldiers’ Monument by Colonial Iron Works of Petersburg, with meticulous oversight by F. Lee Hart III of Suffolk, chairman of the SCV Oakwood Restoration Committee. The fence reproduces a feature that disappeared about [...]
Missing lab near Oakwood Cemetery
Craigslist has word of a missing black lab mix on 31st Street near Oakwood Cemetery: $50 Reward for the return of Lady. She slipped her collar and got out of our yard in the 1600 blk. of North 31st St. today. She is black with some gray on her muzzle. She is a chunky medium [...]
Imagine the East End Greenway
A conversation with Fulton’s Carl Otto left me reeling from his idea of what could be something very cool in the East End.
Husband petitions to have casket opened
wric8 follows up on the ongoing confusion surrounding a lost casket at Oakwood Cemetery (first reported back in November).
Sons of Confederate Veterans still pushing to help maintain Oakwood Cemetery
The RTD is reporting that the Sons of Confederate Veterans continue to offer to maintain part of Oakwood Cemetery, and would like to install better headstones: The Sons of Confederate Veterans is proposing an agreement that would allow its members to maintain the graves in the Confederate section and gradually to install upright headstones. The [...]
City’s cemeteries schedule spring cleanup
Owners of lots and gravesites in City-owned and operated cemeteries are reminded that according to City Code all flowers, decorations and non-approved vases must be removed from lots and gravesites by March.1. This is to allow for the Cemeteries Division of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities to conduct its annual spring cleanup. [...]
Oakwood loses buried woman
wric has details on a recent confusion at Oakwood Cemetery: He says that Oakwood staff told him that she was buried in a different part of the cemetery than from where he remembers her funeral service was held. City officials said Patricia was buried towards the back, but the family argued that her funeral service [...]
