Rosalind Hillhouse (right), Alice Jankowski, Rachel Clarkin and Penny Luck touch the gravestone of Abbie Howard after placing roses on it at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta on Sunday, November 3, 2013. Hillhouse and the other volunteers were key in raising 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”.
LEDE November 3, 2013 Atlanta – Rosalind Hillhouse (right), Alice Jankowski, Rachel Clarkin and Penny Luck touch the gravestone of Abbie Howard after placing roses on it at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta on Sunday, November 3, 2013. Hillhouse and the other volunteers were key in raising 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