Hollywood Cemetery At 3506 North Main St.

[marmer]

Yes, on #2. Mollie Bailey, who was the owner of one of the smaller circuses that eventually became part of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey. She is buried in Hollywood Cemetery.

Edit: actually this is a common misconception. Barnum and Bailey's Circus, which merged with Ringling Brothers in 1919, was originally created by a cooperative venture between P.T. Barnum and the Cooper and Bailey Circus in 1881. It's just coincidence that Mollie Bailey had the same last name and owned a smaller regional circus.

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/...s/BB/fba12.html

No, on #1, it is not strip clubs. My source is the early-80s Marmac Guide to Houston.

Edited April 3, 2008 by marmer

[Porchman]

Yes, on #2. Mollie Bailey, who was the owner of one of the smaller circuses that eventually became part of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey. She is buried in Hollywood Cemetery.

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/...s/BB/fba12.html

No, on #1, it is not strip clubs. My source is the early-80s Marmac Guide to Houston.

Railroad cossings! Makes sense. It's why I always take Yale on my way to church.

Edited April 3, 2008 by Porchman

[hbg.50]

Historic Hollywood Cemetery is undergoing a 2-year restoration, including a new mosoleum.   New Floral and Park Regulations have been adopted and will be enforced, eliminating much of the existing clutter on existing gravesites (i.e., flags, balloons, pinwheels, fences, etc.)

This is a welcomed turn of events!

From TSHA...

HISTORIC HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY.

Historic Hollywood Cemetery in Houston was founded in 1895 when Confederate veterans and brothers Samuel B. Moore and William James Moore made a series of land purchases that totaled approximately fifty-five acres. Their enterprise first appeared under the name of Hollywood Cemetery Co. in the 1895–1896 Houston City Directory. The cemetery’s name came from the Hollywood family—the family was admired by the founders and was later buried there. The original entrance crossed a single-lane bridge over Little White Oak Bayou near the intersection of Cottage and Trimble streets, through the Strangers Rest section for burial of anonymous (and often indigent) deceased. Baby’s Rest sections accommodated victims of high infant mortality rates experienced before 1900. One original brick road remains, to avoid damaging the underlying roots of large old trees.

Some notable burials include Houston librarian Julia Ideson; Japanese naval officer Shinpei Mykawa, who helped introduce rice agriculture in the Houston area; Lawrence Shipley, Sr., founder of Shipley Donuts; suffragist and pioneering attorney Hortense Ward, the first woman to register to vote in Harris County; Andrew George Simmons, inventor of the ice cream cone; and Confederate spy Mollie Bailey, the “Circus Queen of the Southwest.” Other notable burials include Sarah Jane Gillis (1826–1938), who, before her death at age 111, recounted her story of the Texas Revolution and how she (at nine years old) hid in the woods and watched Gen. Santa Anna’s troops burn her home along with the rest of Harrisburg as he marched to fight Sam Houston at the battle of San Jacinto. With no money available for a headstone, she is buried in an unmarked grave between the Avey and Archer plots. Blacksmith Fritz Hahn (1875–1935), cofounder of Gulf Coast industrial equipment supplier Hahn and Clay, is also buried in Historic Hollywood Cemetery. His chromed anvil serves as his headstone and is topped with miniature tongs and a hammer.