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Happy 2ooth Anniversary!
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1. Twelve-year-old Elwood Taylor Henderson stands at the grave of his father William Taylor Henderson in 1920. The McQuary–Henderson family plot was adjacent to the Confederate Section, seen here before the familiar boxwood hedge was planted.
2. The draped urn that crowns the Confederate Monument was probably destroyed by lightning in the mid twentieth century. Adam H. Plecker made a postcard from this photograph around 1900.
3. Phyllis Osborne, Eva Moore, Stanford Schewel, and Jeannette Hughes led the dedication ceremony for the monument to Bransford Vawter. The ceremony was part of Lynchburg’s sesquicentennial celebration in 1936.
4. Anne Norvell Otey Scott (standing) and Elizabeth Dabney Langhorne Lewis, pictured under the domed Speakers Belvedere around 1925, spent most of their adult lives preserving the Confederate Section.
5. Sylvia Phillips, Ronald Woodall, and Richard Woodall stand in front of the Cemetery caretaker’s home in circa 1954. The house—located on the site of the present-day Shrub Garden—was demolished in 1985.
6. Myrtle Patterson, then assistant director of the City Recreation Department, stands beside the remnants of the old brick boundary wall, originally built in the late 1860s. It was leveled in 1955 to make way for a new “woven wire fence.
7. Between about 1955 and 1975 this forlorn entrance greeted visitors to the Cemetery. The graceful brick entry we know today was built by the Colonial Dames in 1975.
8. E.C. Glass High School students Martha Ellett and Sally Leys plant
one of 10 new dogwood trees in 1973. Looking on are City foreman W. B. Stump and Mrs. W. C. Whitten of the Keep Lynchburg Beautiful Commission.
9. A devastating summer storm in 1993, which toppled the Speakers Belvedere, brought new attention to the largely abandoned Cemetery and sparked its recent rehabilitation.
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