Westview Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia, was founded in 1884. Like many cemeteries in the South, the cemetery was segregated. The Black section of Westview was called Rest Haven and was named after the Methodist Episcopal bishop, Bishop Gilbert Haven (1821-1880). Bishop Haven was an early supporter of Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University) and president of the Freedman’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Westview Cemetery was founded in 1884 after it was determined that the city’s Oakland Cemetery could not accommodate many more burials. The Rest Haven section is behind where the current office is through a dense thicket of trees and overgrowth. The state of the cemetery section has been problematic since the beginning. One of the founders of South-View Cemetery, Albert Watts Sr., could not find his father Sterling Watts’s grave. Tired of the lack of care in the segregated sections of cemeteries, Watts and others chose to open their own cemetery. With South-View Cemetery’s opening in April 1886, burials slowed significantly in Rest Haven. Many Black Atlantans opted to be buried in South-View.

The most significant marker belongs to the Hill, Leigh, and Trimble families. Captain Andrew Hill lead the colored volunteer infantry (similar to the National Guard) and worked for the Peters Company. Lula Hill was one of the founders of Central Church and President of the Foreign Missionary Society.

Reverend Nicholas Jones was a grocer.

Sterling Kent was the son of Reverend Evarts and Helen Kent. He died of bronchitis at the age of 7 in 1886. Even though the Kent family is white, they chose to have their son buried here. Reverend Kent was a member of the American Missionary Association. He moved to Atlanta with his family. He and several others helped raise funds to start the Storrs School, one of the first schools for Black schoolchildren in Atlanta.