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Subject: [VAROOTS-L] Re: Hollywood
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:32:05 -0400

Hollywood was a cemetery - not a hospital. There was no hospital named
"Hollywood" in Richmond. I can't come up with a match for "Conf. War
Hospital Home." If you order your ancestor's record from the National
Archives, or, better yet, come to the State Library in Richmond and look
him up in the microfilm of the National Archives records, that should
tell you the name of the hospital to which he was actually admitted, and
when.
The only wartime burial in Hollywood with a surname similar to
"Spradling" is "W. Spradlin, Co. A, 26th Alabama, buried June 6, 1863.
However, after the War, the Lee Camp, United Confederate Veterans, did
build and operate the "R. E. Lee Camp Soldiers Home" in Richmond, a
cottage facility for indigent, destitute and/or homeless Confederate
Veterans. One name that appears on the list of those who died at the
Confederate Soldiers Home, and was buried in the East Soldiers Home Lot
at Hollywood Cemetery is "S. S. Spradlin, Co. E, 46th Virginia Infantry,"
who listed his place of birth as Craig County and his residence as
Craigsville, VA. This man died at age 75 on May 31, 1918.
The above is all I could find. Annette Elam Wetzel

On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 21:00:57 EDT writes:
>Do you have any Spradlings listed as being in Hollywood Hospital after
the
>war? I am told that one of the Spradling soldiers from Albemarle Co.,
VA
>died in the Conf. War Hospital Home in Richmond, VA. but no one known
which
>hospital this was. I am assuming since this hospital was also a "Poor
>People's" hospital then he might have been in Hollywood.
>Thank you for the lookup.
>Becky

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