Queer Places:
Hollywood Cemetery Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA

Rutherford Roland Hall was born in Tazewell, Tazewell County, Virginia, to Samuel Oscar Hall (1856–1932) and Elizabeth Steele Houston (1869–1939). While at Washington and Lee University, Isham W. Perkins aka Dash had a boyfriend, Harry Agneau (pseudonym of Rutherford Roland Hall), who committed suicide when he and Dash were expelled due to their relationship being unveiled.

Rutherford Roland Hall, eldest son of Rev. Samuel Oscar Hall, former pastor of the Presbyterian church in Lexington, VA, drowned in the North river near Lexington. The young man was a senior at Washington and Lee University and would have received his degrees the month of his death.

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• Jeb and Dash: A Diary of Gay Life, 1918-1945 Jeb Alexander Faber & Faber, 1993