Nov 5, 2013 -
A group of 24 students and history department faculty members went to Jackson’s Hollywood Cemetery on November 5, 2013, to do a community service project as a part of Union University’s annual Campus and Community: A Day of Remembrance and Service. Union’s Delta-Psi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society and the history department co-sponsored the project, and members of the Rutledge Honorary History Club also participated. Hollywood Cemetery, founded in 1886, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Don Thomson, president of the Hollywood Cemetery Association, greeted the participants upon their arrival. Tammy Buchanan, representing the City of Jackson mayor’s office, also welcomed the group to the cemetery and thanked the volunteers for their commitment to help keep the cemetery beautiful.
Harold Scott, whose company maintains the cemetery grounds, and Thomson then took the participants on a tour of the cemetery. They visited the gravesites of such historical figures as I. B. Tigrett, who served as the president of the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Railroad, and Hu Anderson, who presided at the Krupp war crimes trial in Nuremberg in 1946. Anderson was also the president of the court of appeals in Tennessee. In addition, the group saw a rare marble doughboy statue that marks the grave of a World War I veteran. “Doughboy” is a term that was commonly used during World War I to designate members of the U. S. Army and Marine Corps who were a part of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe.
Following the cemetery tour, participants divided into three groups to carry out their work assignments. One group did filing in the cemetery office, while another cleaned tombstones. The largest group raked and bagged pine needles and leaves. Late in the morning, Jackson Mayor Jerry Gist visited the cemetery to thank Union’s volunteers for making the cemetery their service project this year.
The group left the cemetery at noon, having accomplished a great deal during their morning of community work.
Union history department participants in the community service project at Hollywood Cemetery in Jackson on November 5 stand together for a group photo. They are: (kneeling in front) Dr. Stephen Carls; (standing, front row) Caitlin Roach, Savannah German, Hannah Conway, Faith Bagley, Bree McCuin, Ginny Seger, Audrey Mitchell, Laura Kay Richardson, Jessica Hatfield, Katherine Cheshire, Heather Stricklin, and Hannah Jones; (standing, back row) Dr. Henry Allen, Dr. Terry Lindley, Stephen Lewoczko, Charles Snow, Kenan Keller, Kent Evans, Colton Gebben, Ashton Hostetler, Dr. Keith Bates, Gracie Wise, and Dr. David Thomas.
Don Thomson, president of the Hollywood Cemetery Association, welcomes the history community service volunteers from Union to the cemetery on November 5, 2013. Association Treasurer John Yarbrough stands behind him.
Tammy Buchanan of Jackson Mayor Gist's office thanks the Union history group on November 5, 2013, for their willingness to help out at Hollywood Cemetery.
Harold Scott, whose company maintains the grounds at Hollywood Cemetery, talks about the doughboy statue located in the cemetery during a tour on November 5, 2013.
The doughboy statue in Jackson's Hollywood Cemetery marks the grave site of a World War I veteran. Photo by Morris Abernathy
The Union history group listens intently during a tour of Jackson's Hollywood Cemetery on November 5, 2013, as Harold Scott talks about the grave site of Hu Anderson, a war crimes trial judge in Nuremberg in 1946.
The Union University history group and a mother-daughter team listen as Don Thomson (back to camera, wearing blue jacket) talks about one of the tombstones in Jackson's Hollywood Cemetery on November 5, 3013.
Caitlin Roach (left to right), Savannah German, Dr. David Thomas, and Stephen Lewoczko gather up pine needles and leaves at Hollywood Cemetery on November 5, 2013. Kent Evans (back, left) and Ashton Hostetler (wearing a red jacket) do the same behind them. Photo by Morris Abernathy
History major Faith Bagley fills up a plastic bag with pine needles and leaves during the Phi Alpha Theta/History Department-sponsored community service project at Hollywood Cemetery on November 5, 2013. Photo by Morris Abernathy
Hannah Conway (left to right), Hannah Jones, and Bree McCuin rake pine needles at Jackson's Hollywood Cemetery as a part of the history department's community service project on November 5, 2013. Dr. Stephen Carls is in the background. Photo by Morris Abernathy
Members of Union University's group of history department volunteers clean a tombstone at Jackson's Hollywood Cemetery on November 5, 2013, as a part of the school's Campus and Community Day. They are; (starting on the left, going clockwise) Heather Stricklin, Laura Kay Richardson, Ginny Seger, Gracie Wise, Jessica Hatfield, Dr. Keith Bates, and Katherine Cheshire. Photo by Jacob Moore
Gracie Wise (left) and Katherine Cheshire help clean the Tigrett family tombstone at Hollywood Cemetery on November 5, 2013, as a part of Union University's Campus and Community Day. Photo by Jacob Moore
Jackson Mayor Jerry Gist (left) thanks some of the Union University history volunteers for their work at Jackson's Hollywood Cemetery on November 5, 2013. Others in the photo are: (left to right) Savannah German, Caitlin Roach, Kent Evans, Harold Scott, Dr. David Thomas, Don Thomson, and Colton Gebben. Photo by Jacob Moore
Participants in the Phi Alpha Theta/History Department-sponsored community service project at Hollywood Cemetery on November 5, 2013, stand with City of Jackson Mayor Jerry Gist, who thanked them for their work. Those pictured are: (left to right) Savannah German, Dr. David Thomas, Ashton Hostetler, Caitlin Roach, Colton Gebben, Kent Evans, Kenan Keller, Stephen Lewoczko, Mayor Gist, Charles Snow, Hannah Jones, Faith Bagley, Hannah Conway, and Dr. Stephen Carls. Photo by Jacob Moore
Dr. Stephen Carls (front right) expresses appreciation to Jackson Mayor Jerry Gist (front left) on November 5, 2013, for coming to visit with the history department's group of volunteer workers at Hollywood Cemetery. Others visible in the photo are: (left to right) Stephen Lewoczko, Charles Snow, Hannah Jones, and Hannah Conway (face partially obscured). Photo by Jacob Moore
Union community service volunteers Charles Snow (left) and Dr. Keith Bates call it quits at Jackson's Hollywood Cemetery after working at the cemetery during the morning of November 5, 2013. In the foreground, bags filled with pine needles and leaves are ready to be carried away.