Evergreen’s Historic Walking Tour Is 107 Years in The Making – October 8th
War heroes, writers, TV personalities, mayors, governors, industry magnates and Civil War Soldiers—North and South—their stories come alive with living history presentations at Roanoke’s Evergreen Burial Park free walking tour Sunday, October 8, 2023. These stories, which tell the history of Virginia, Roanoke and America, unfold in the 18th annual guided walking tour of Roanoke’s oldest cemetery. The tour begins at 2 p.m.
Among the other notables whose lives and contributions will be recalled include: Virginia Governor J. Lindsay Almond (1958–1962); World War II flying ace, Bill Overstreet; Martha Anne Woodrum Zillhardt, Virginia’s first instrument rated female aviator, founder of Woodrum Flying Service and the first woman president of the Virginia Aviation Trade Council; Carter Burgess, one of many distinguished veterans interred at Evergreen, served as Secretary of the General Staff to European Commander Dwight Eisenhower, and was selected to hand deliver the D-Day plans to France’s Charles DeGaulle and, after the War, served in a leading staff position at the conference in San Francisco that established the United Nations; and Sallie Weaver Robertson, who died at the age of 95 in 1937, was one of the last members of the Real Daughters of 1812, a group dedicated to promoting patriotism. Other monuments and memorials recognize significant events in national history.
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Story credit: The Roanoke Star