page_title: Westview Cemetery
section_title: Notable interments
hierarchical_section_title: Westview Cemetery / Notable interments
caption_attribution_description: English: For the owner of King Hardware Stores in Atlanta
context_page_description: Westview Cemetery, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is the largest civilian cemetery in the Southeastern United States, comprising more than 582 acres, 50% of which is undeveloped. Westview includes the graves of more than 100,000 people.
context_section_description: The entire Adair Clan
  Jim Bagby, Sr., the first pitcher to hit a home run in a modern World Series
  Bob Barrett, Major League Baseball player in the 1920s and 1930s.
  Russell L. Beutell, architect of the Buckhead Theatre, among other buildings
  John S. Bigby, U.S. Representative from Georgia
  Marion L. Brittain, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1922 to 1944
  Charles M. Brown, politician and namesake of Charlie Brown Field
  William Butt, eighth mayor of Atlanta (1854 - 1855)
  Asa Candler, businessman, owner of Coca-Cola
  Asa G. Candler, Jr., son of Asa Candler, Sr., former owner of the cemetery and builder of the Westview Cemetery Abbey and Chapel.
  John S. Cohen, U.S. Senator from Georgia
  Laurent DeGive, Belgian diplomat and entrepreneur who built Loew's Grand Theatre
  Willis F. Denny, architect of Rhodes Hall and St. Mark United Methodist Church
  Dolla, rapper who charted with "Who the Fuck Is That?"
  John Owen Donaldson, World War I flying ace, for whom Donaldson Air Force Base was named.
  Hugh M. Dorsey, Governor of Georgia from 1917 to 1921.
  Edward Emmett Dougherty, architect of Druid Hills Baptist Church and the Imperial Hotel
  Walter T. Downing, architect of Healey Building and Westview's 1890 gatehouse
  John J. Eagan (ACIPCO), industrialist
  James Douglas Edgar, golfer, winner of the Canadian Open
  Vernon Forrest, professional boxer who was a four-time, two-weight world champion
  Y. Frank Freeman, executive for Paramount Pictures, winner of two Oscars
  Frank Gordy, founder of The Varsity
  Henry W. Grady, journalist and orator, namesake of Grady Memorial Hospital and Henry W. Grady High School
  L.P. Grant, for whom Grant Park is named, was on the original board of Westview
  Samuel Green, a Grand Wizard  of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1940s
  John R. Gunn, minister, columnist and author
  Lyman Hall, president of Georgia School of Technology from 1896 to 1905
  Gladys Hanson, stage and screen actress
  Joel Chandler Harris, newspaperman and author of "Uncle Remus"
  William Berry Hartsfield, Mayor of Atlanta (1937-1941 and 1942-1962) and namesake of the Atlanta Airport
  Ernest Hartsock, poet associated with Oglethorpe University
  J. J. Haverty, of furniture retailer Haverty's and the Rhodes-Haverty Building
  Alice Hawthorne, victim of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing
  Daniel Whitehead Hicky, poet and columnist
  Donald L. Hollowell, civil rights attorney
  Evan Howell, politician, early telegraph operator, Confederate Army officer
  Vivian Malone Jones, civil rights activist
  James C. "Chris" Kelly, half of the rap duo Kris Kross
  James L. Key, mayor of Atlanta 1919–1923 and 1931–1937
  George Edward King, hardware store founder
  Enrico Leide, cellist, first conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (1920-1930)
  Helen Dortch Longstreet, journalist, first woman to run for office in Georgia
  Evelyn G. Lowery, civil rights activist
  Joseph Lowery, 3rd president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  Ralph Emerson McGill, journalist and civil rights leader
  Livingston Mims, mayor of Atlanta from 1901 to 1903
  Jim Mitchell, football tight end for the Atlanta Falcons, coach for Morehouse College and Morris Brown College
  Arthur James Moore, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
  Cleland Kinloch Nelson, Episcopal bishop
  Frances Newman, novelist
  Bill Paschal, football running back for Georgia Tech and the New York Giants
  William H. Peck, poet and author
  Edward C. Peters, real estate developer, owner of Edward C. Peters House
  G. Lloyd Preacher, architect of Atlanta City Hall, Briarcliff Hotel and Medical Arts Building
  Isaac Newton Ragsdale, mayor of Atlanta from 1927 to 1931
  Amos G. Rhodes, of Rhodes Furniture, the Rhodes-Haverty Building and Rhodes Hall
  Walter H. Rich and Richard H. "Dick" Rich, two presidents of the Rich's department store chain
  Harry Van Buren Richardson, theologian, writer, and the first president of the Interdenominational Theological Center
  Frank Mason Robinson, creator of the name and logo of Coca-Cola
  Nick Rogers, football linebacker who played for Georgia Tech and in the NFL
  William Lindsay Scr
caption: Memorial Monument for George King of King Hardware Stores in Atlanta
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