Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery: Tracing Lives and Memorial Customs in a Southern Graveyard

by June Hadden Hobbs, Hal Bryant, Joe Depriest

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476686386
• ISBN13: 9781476686387
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up