Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 9
Prologue 11
Chapter 1 Historic Oakland Cemetery 15
The Rise of Victorian Garden Cemeteries
A Victorian Obituary
Chapter 2 Founders, Early Pioneers, What's in a Name 19
The Naming of Atlanta
Who Was Atlanta?
Julia Carlisle Withers: Atlanta's First Baby?
The First Oakland Interment: Agnes Wooding or James Nissen?
Moses W Formwalt: Atlanta's First Mayor
Jonathan Norcross
Dr. Noel Pierre P. D'Alvigny: Atlanta's Doctor
The Five Lynch Brothers from County Meath
Chapter 3 From the African American Section 31
Introduction
Mary Combs: Free Black and Property Owner
Augustus Thompson: A Blacksmith
Ransom Montgomery: A Hero
Antoine Graves and Family
Two Blacks buried in the White Section
Chapter 4 Murders, Suicides, Scandals and Tragedies 39
August Denk: Lost at Sea
Captain Charles Wallace: Murdered at Warrenton
James R. Crew: Murdered, Buried at Oakland, Reburied at Westview
The Hill Brothers: Fratricide and Suicide
Lewis Redwine: Bank Scandal
Chapter 5 Politicians and Judges 46
Logan Edwin Blackley
The Browns: Joseph Emerson, Elizabeth Grisham and Joseph Mackey
Benjamin Harvey Hill
Chapter 6 The Confederate Section 57
Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association
Switzerland's Lion of Lucerne
Atlanta's Lion of the Confederacy
The Oakland Magnolia
Fuller/Caine/Murphy: The Great Locomotive Chase
Conductor James Bell: The Story of the General Continues
The Common Confederate Soldier
The Oakland and Generals: Featuring John Brown Gordon
The Diarists: Carrie Berry and Sarah Huff
Chapter 7 The Jewish Section 74
Introduction
The RichBrothers
Josephjacobs and the First Coca-Cola
Jacob Elsas and Cabbagetown
Lucille Selig Frank and the Leo Frank Murder Trial
Chapter 8 The Oakland Women 85
Sarah Frances Grant Jackson Slaton
Sarah Kugler Dye and John Morgan Dye
Carrie Steele Logan
Gussie Hill Thompson
Mary Glover Thurman: The Angel of Atlanta
Niobe
Julia Collier Harris: Newspaperwoman
Chapter 9 Owners and Pets 100
Molly Weimer and Tweet
Herman Benjamin and Jip
Reid Amos Benson and Adonis's Jodie
Chapter 10 The Famous, Infamous or Should-be Famous 104
The Irish Travelers Society
Governor John Marshall Slaton: His Take on the Leo Frank Trial
George Johnson: Atlanta's Showman
Robert Tyre Jones: The Golfer
Margaret Mitchell Marsh: The Author
Dr. Albert Hape: The Air Balloon Age Comes to Atlanta
Jasper Newton Smith: Oakland's Watchman
Chapter 11 Those Who Died Too Young 116
The Bloomfield Girls
Jennie and Rosa Roy
Charlie Sanders Hemphill
Conclusion. Three Special Tributes 119
Peter and Annette Mayfield
Franlkin and Frances Garrett
Betty Sherwood
Epilogue 123
Bibliography 125
About the Author 128
