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Author:   June Hadden Hobbs ,  Joe DePriest ,  Hal Bryant
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.399kg
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9781476686387

ISBN 10:   1476686386
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   02 December 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface by June Hadden Hobbs Introduction to a Southern Cemetery Ballad of a Village Graveyard 5 • The Poetry of Graveyards 6 delete I. A Glimpse of Life a Century and More Ago John Randolph Logan (1811–1884) 9 • Tombstones and Cemeteries 101 13 • Jesse Jenkins (1832–1889), Hattie Jenkins Garloch (1835–1927), Charles Coleman Blanton (1858–1944), Ora Brewster Blanton (1858–1890) 23 • Charles Fromm (1828–1891), Rosa Fromm (1830–1896), Belle Fromm (1861–1927) 28 • Dr. Jonathan Chauncey Gidney (1835–1889) 31 • Woodmen of the World and Trees in the Cemetery 33 • Dr. William Perry Andrews (1823–1903), Susan Ann Love Andrews (1832–1874) 40 • M.L. Heafner (1873–1918) 41 • Dr. Thomas Williams (1806–1879), Permelia Williams (1821–1897), Mary C. Elliott (­Unknown–1858) 42 • Hands 44 • John Fay (c. 1891–1931) 48 deleteII. Women You’d Want to Have Coffee With Kidder Cole Nichols “Mama Nick” (1878–1947) 49 • Fraternal Symbols on Gravestones 50 • Attie Bostic League (1875–1965) 52 • Christianity in the Cemetery 55 • Emma Virginia Frick (1871–1928), Ora Brewster Eskridge (1885–1928) 59 • Mimi Elliott Hirsch and the Making of a Marker 63 • Betty Singleton Holdridge, “The Fat Lady” (1910–1954) 67 • Caring for the Dead 69   III. Guys Your Mother Wouldn’t Let You Sit With in Church Rafe King (1891–1949) 73 • Edwin Chambers Dodson, Jr. (1949–2003) 75 • Tombstones and Virtual Memory 77 • Robert E. Harrill (1893–1972) 79 deleteIV. Gone Too Soon Laurens McGowan (1853–1873) 81 • “Safe in the Arms of Jesus” and Other Hymns on Tombstones 84 • Wade Stough Lattimore (1877–1896) 89 • Robert Olney Kerr (1895–1905) 92 • Little Georgie Rebecca Clower (1873–1878) 93 • Burying the Young 93 • Emmett Nelson (1882–1902) 96 • Annie Wray (1883–1902) 97 • Robert Cone Elliott (1890–1921) 97 delete V. Rebels and Revisionists Harvey Dekalb Cabaniss (1826–1904), Aurelia Ann Otterson Cabaniss (1822–1899) 99 • Micajah Durham (1804–1864), Plato Durham (1840–1875), Robert Lee Durham (1870–1949) 101 • The Lost Cause 105 • Thomas Dixon, Jr. (1864–1946) 108 • The Memory of Heroes 111 • Wilbur Joseph “W. J.” Cash (1900–1941) 115 • D.J. Hamrick, Local Stonecarver 119 delete VI. Law and Lynchings in the Jim Crow South Police Chiefs: Robert Shelton Jones (1860–1901), Edgar Hamrick (1868–1904) 123 • The Jim Crow Monument 128 deleteVII. Names You Might See in the Newspaper Oliver Max Gardner, Sr. (1882–1947), Clyde Roark Hoey (1877–1954), Lee Beam Weathers (1886–1958), Frank Gladden (1882–1956) 134 • Gender Formation in the Cemetery 141 • John P. McKnight (1908–1987) 144   VIII. Cultural Heroes S/Sgt. Bonnie G. Wright (1918–1945) 146 • Hugh F. Hamrick (1914–1949) 150 • Expatriation and Visualization 151 • Ann Eliza Stough (1826–1888) 155 • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Cultural Hero 156 • Don Gibson (1928–2003) 160 • Art in the Cemetery 164 • Bobby “Pepperhead” London (1945–2010) 168 • Sports: The New American Religion 171 delete IX. Ministers to Body, Mind, and Soul Henry Beckham “Beck” Quinn (1854–1924) 177 • George Smyrnois (1888–1929) 179 • The Rev. Hilary Thomas Hudson (1823–1892), Dr. Joseph “Joe” MacDonald Reeves (1929–2015) 180 • Theodore William Ebeltoft (1849–1932) 185 • Cemeteries as Museums 187 delete  X. Garden of the Enslaved The “Colored Cemetery” 191 • Damnatio Memoriae 193 Bibliography Index

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June Hadden Hobbs is a professor of English and director of Undergraduate Research at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. She is the author of many articles on tombstones and American women’s hymns and the former editor of Markers, the international journal of the Association for Gravestones Studies. In 2017 she received the Harriette Merrifield Forbes Award for outstanding contributions to the field of gravestone studies, the highest honor a gravestone scholar can receive. Joe DePriest, has had a 50-year newspaper career, including work as a reporter for the Shelby Star, the Charlotte Observer, and other local newspapers. His North Carolina Newspaper Association Awards include one for an account of his 1994 return to Vietnam, where he served a tour of duty as an Army journalist. He lives in Cramerton, North Carolina. Hal Bryant is a retired college art and photography instructor. He lives in Shelby, North Carolina.

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