Queer Places:
Friendship Cemetery
Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi, USA
J.L. “Peter” Lindamood (June 25, 1914 - February 16, 1972) was an aspiring writer who later returned to Columbus to care for his ailing mother. They were the last Lindamoods to live in the antebellum home built by the prominent merchant family.
Peter Lindamood was the son of William Stuart Lindamood and Emmie Smiley Power. Lindamood was friendly with the poet Charles Henri Ford, who had lived in Columbus, and who is cited in present correspondence by an arrow pointing to the Gilmer imprint and the penned notation, "hotel Ch. H. Ford was thrown out of for having dark trade!"
Lindamood is cited in a letter by Tennessee Williams: Peter Lindamood is an elegant Auntie type. The Lindamood mansion is one of the show-places of town. But it is not real antibellum and it looks like the administration building of a girl's college. They don't think much of Peter here, as they say he writes his widowed mother about once a year and has run through his inheritance. I am told that he invested the last of it in this property on 58th street and if that doesn't pay off he'll be broke.
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