{"product_id":"tales-and-tombstones-of-sunset-cemetery-9781476686387","title":"Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   This book relates the stories and describes the memorials of the people buried in Shelby, North Carolina''s historic Sunset Cemetery, a microcosm of the Southeastern United States. The authors, an academic and a journalist, detail the lives and memories of people who are buried here, from Civil War soldiers to those who created the Jim Crow South and promoted the narrative of the Lost Cause. Featured are authors W.J. Cash and Thomas Dixon, whose racist novel was the basis for \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Drawn from historical research and local memory, it includes the tales of musicians Don Gibson and Bobby Pepper Head London, as well as a paratrooper who died in the Battle of the Bulge and other ordinary folks who rest in the cemetery. A bigger responsibility is to give a voice to the silenced, enslaved people of color buried in unmarked graves. Cemeteries are sacred places where artistry and memory meet--to understand, we need both the tales and the tombstones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\tvi\u003cbr\u003ePreface by June Hadden Hobbs\t1\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to a Southern Cemetery\t5\u003cbr\u003eBallad of a Village Graveyard 5 \u003cbr\u003e The Poetry of Graveyards 6\u003cbr\u003e   I. A Glimpse of Life a Century and More Ago\t9\u003cbr\u003eJohn Randolph Logan (1811–1884) 9 \u003cbr\u003e Tombstones and Cemeteries 101 13 \u003cbr\u003e Jesse Jenkins (1832–1889), Hattie Jenkins Garloch (1835–1927), Charles Coleman Blanton (1858–1944), Ora Brewster Blanton (1858–1890) 23 \u003cbr\u003e Charles Fromm (1828–1891), Rosa Fromm (1830–1896), Belle Fromm (1861–1927) 28 \u003cbr\u003e Dr. Jonathan Chauncey Gidney (1835–1889) 31 \u003cbr\u003e Woodmen of the World and Trees in the Cemetery 33 \u003cbr\u003e Dr. William Perry Andrews (1823–1903), Susan Ann Love Andrews (1832–1874) 40 \u003cbr\u003e M.L. Heafner (1873–1918) 41 \u003cbr\u003e Dr. Thomas Williams (1806–1879), Permelia Williams (1821–1897), Mary C. Elliott (­Unknown–1858) 42 \u003cbr\u003e Hands 44 \u003cbr\u003e John Fay (c. 1891–1931) 48\u003cbr\u003e  II. Women You'd Want to Have Coffee With\t49\u003cbr\u003eKidder Cole Nichols \"Mama Nick\" (1878–1947) 49 \u003cbr\u003e Fraternal Symbols on Gravestones 50 \u003cbr\u003e Attie Bostic League (1875–1965) 52 \u003cbr\u003e Christianity in the Cemetery 55 \u003cbr\u003e Emma Virginia Frick (1871–1928), Ora Brewster Eskridge (1885–1928) 59 \u003cbr\u003e Mimi Elliott Hirsch and the Making of a Marker 63 \u003cbr\u003e Betty Singleton Holdridge, \"The Fat Lady\" (1910–1954) 67 \u003cbr\u003e Caring for the Dead 69\u003cbr\u003e  III. Guys Your Mother Wouldn't Let You Sit With in Church\t73\u003cbr\u003eRafe King (1891–1949) 73 \u003cbr\u003e Edwin Chambers Dodson, Jr. (1949–2003) 75 \u003cbr\u003e Tombstones and Virtual Memory 77 \u003cbr\u003e Robert E. Harrill (1893–1972) 79\u003cbr\u003e  IV. Gone Too Soon\t81\u003cbr\u003eLaurens McGowan (1853–1873) 81 \u003cbr\u003e \"Safe in the Arms of Jesus\" and Other Hymns on Tombstones 84 \u003cbr\u003e Wade Stough Lattimore (1877–1896) 89 \u003cbr\u003e Robert Olney Kerr (1895–1905) 92 \u003cbr\u003e Little Georgie Rebecca Clower (1873–1878) 93 \u003cbr\u003e Burying the Young 93 \u003cbr\u003e Emmett Nelson (1882–1902) 96 \u003cbr\u003e Annie Wray (1883–1902) 97 \u003cbr\u003e Robert Cone Elliott (1890–1921) 97\u003cbr\u003e   V. Rebels and Revisionists\t99\u003cbr\u003eHarvey Dekalb Cabaniss (1826–1904), Aurelia Ann Otterson Cabaniss (1822–1899) 99 \u003cbr\u003e Micajah Durham (1804–1864), Plato Durham (1840–1875), Robert Lee Durham (1870–1949) 101 \u003cbr\u003e The Lost Cause 105 \u003cbr\u003e Thomas Dixon, Jr. (1864–1946) 108 \u003cbr\u003e The Memory of Heroes 111 \u003cbr\u003e Wilbur Joseph \"W. J.\" Cash (1900–1941) 115 \u003cbr\u003e D.J. Hamrick, Local Stonecarver 119\u003cbr\u003e   VI. Law and Lynchings in the Jim Crow South\t123\u003cbr\u003ePolice Chiefs: Robert Shelton Jones (1860–1901), Edgar Hamrick (1868–1904) 123 \u003cbr\u003e The Jim Crow Monument 128\u003cbr\u003e  VII. Names You Might See in the Newspaper\t134\u003cbr\u003eOliver Max Gardner, Sr. (1882–1947), Clyde Roark Hoey (1877–1954), Lee Beam Weathers (1886–1958), Frank Gladden (1882–1956) 134 \u003cbr\u003e Gender Formation in the Cemetery 141 \u003cbr\u003e John P. McKnight (1908–1987) 144\u003cbr\u003e  VIII. Cultural Heroes\t146\u003cbr\u003eS\/Sgt. Bonnie G. Wright (1918–1945) 146 \u003cbr\u003e Hugh F. Hamrick (1914–1949) 150 \u003cbr\u003e Expatriation and Visualization 151 \u003cbr\u003e Ann Eliza Stough (1826–1888) 155 \u003cbr\u003e Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Cultural Hero 156 \u003cbr\u003e Don Gibson (1928–2003) 160 \u003cbr\u003e Art in the Cemetery 164 \u003cbr\u003e Bobby \"Pepperhead\" London (1945–2010) 168 \u003cbr\u003e Sports: The New American Religion 171\u003cbr\u003e   IX. Ministers to Body, Mind, and Soul\t177\u003cbr\u003eHenry Beckham \"Beck\" Quinn (1854–1924) 177 \u003cbr\u003e George Smyrnois (1888–1929) 179 \u003cbr\u003e The Rev. Hilary Thomas Hudson (1823–1892), Dr. Joseph \"Joe\" MacDonald Reeves (1929–2015) 180 \u003cbr\u003e Theodore William Ebeltoft (1849–1932) 185 \u003cbr\u003e Cemeteries as Museums 187\u003cbr\u003e    X. Garden of the Enslaved\t191\u003cbr\u003eThe \"Colored Cemetery\" 191 \u003cbr\u003e Damnatio Memoriae 193\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\t199\u003cbr\u003eIndex\t203","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040497500503,"sku":"9781476686387","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476686387.jpg?v=1750946935","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tales-and-tombstones-of-sunset-cemetery-9781476686387","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}