About the Author

Author Tevi Taliaferro serves as the preservation coordinator for the Historic Oakland Foundation, the non-profit friends' group that works to preserve, restore, and beautify the cemetery and to promote it as an important historic resource. In Historic Oakland Cemetery, she has combined an extensive collection of beautiful, vintage photographs with unforgettable stories about the cemetery. This volume is a unique tribute to the city of Atlanta and to some of its most memorable residents.