Charles W. Hubner: Poet Laureate of the South by Larry Upthegrove Charles Hubner was born on January 16, 1835 in Baltimore, to Bavarian parents. His mother was a teacher and his father a merchant tailor. They lived comfortably, with Charles…
By Marcy Breffle, Education Coordinator Beginning in April 2017 and through Nov. 11, 2018 – the centennial of the WWI armistice – HOF will recognize the Oakland residents who served in World War I in a new blog series, “Oakland Remembers…
by Valerie Richardson Jackson On Friday, June 23, the 14th anniversary of his death, former Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson's permanent memorial was unveiled at Oakland Cemetery. Mayor Jackson’s widow Valerie Jackson unveiled the monument during a private family dedication. The…
by Larry Upthegrove Historic Oakland Cemetery resident Oswald Houston and his wife Anna Shaw came to Atlanta in 1847 from South Carolina’s Abbeville district. The couple previously lived in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Savannah. At age 49 Oswald, being of good…
By Ashley Shares and Dr. DL Henderson The new headstone on the Thompson/Henderson lot pays tribute to Dr. Beatrice Blanche Saunders Thompson (d. 1964), a physician and surgeon, and her husband Sidney James Thompson (d. 1945), a Fulton County juvenile…
by Marcy Breffle Education Coordinator Beginning in April and through Nov. 11, 2018 – the centennial of the WWI armistice – HOF will recognize the Oakland residents who served in World War I in a new blog series, “Oakland Remembers…
One hundred years ago on April 6, Congress declared war on Germany and the United States officially entered World War I. Over four years, the total number of military and civilian casualties in the Great War climbed to over 38…
by Marcy Breffle, Education Coordinator Rhoda Kaufman was born in Columbus, Ga., on Oct. 26, 1888. Her parents, Leo Kaufman and Bettie Friedlaender, were middle-class Jewish immigrants from Germany. Kaufman attended public school in Columbus and graduated as valedictorian of…
by Dr. DL Henderson and Ashley Shares Oakland Cemetery’s Dr. Martin Luther King National Day of Service was beautiful. The sunny skies and unseasonably warm temperatures made Oakland Cemetery’s first volunteer monument cleaning event very enjoyable. Over the course of…
by Andrew Fowler, Education Program Intern Georgia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries saw an explosion in the population and economic growth. In Atlanta, civic and business leaders strived to transform the city into the industrious and progressive…
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