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Ren Davis takes a photo of Abbie Howard’s tombstone before a small dedication ceremony for her at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta on Sunday, November 3, 2013. Donations were gathered from patrons during the cemetery’s 2012 Halloween tours to raise funds for a gravestone for Howard, who according to some historians was the inspiration for the character Belle Watling in Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind”.

November 3, 2013 Atlanta – Ren Davis takes a photo of Abbie Howard’s tombstone before a small dedication ceremony for her at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta on Sunday, November 3, 2013. Donations were gathered from patrons during the cemetery’s 2012 Halloween tours to raise funds for a gravestone for Howard, who according to some historians was the inspiration for the character Belle Watling in Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind”. JONATHAN PHILLIPS / SPECIAL

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