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Bonaventure Cemetery is a semi-rural cemetery located on a scenic bluff of the Wilmington River, east of Savannah, Georgia.
The cemetery became famous when it was featured in the 1994 novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, and in the movie, directed by Clint Eastwood, based on the book. It is the largest of the city's municipal cemeteries, containing nearly 160 acres (0.65 km2).
The cemetery is located on the site of a plantation originally owned by John Mullryne. On March 10, 1846, Commodore Josiah Tattnall, Jr., sold the 600-acre (2.4 km2) Bonaventure Plantation and its private cemetery to Peter Wiltberger. Major William H. Wiltberger, the son of Peter, formed the Evergreen Cemetery Company on June 12, 1868. On July 7, 1907 the City of Savannah purchased the Evergreen Cemetery Company, making the cemetery public and changing the name to Bonaventure Cemetery.
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The cemetery is located on the former site of Bonaventure Plantation, originally owned by Colonel John Mullryne. On March 10, 1846, Commodore Josiah Tattnall III sold the 600-acre (2.4 km2) plantation and its private cemetery to Peter Wiltberger. The first burials took place in 1850, and three years later, Peter Wiltberger himself was entombed in a family vault.
Major William H. Wiltberger, the son of Peter, formed the Evergreen Cemetery Company on June 12, 1868. On July 7, 1907, the City of Savannah purchased the Evergreen Cemetery Company, making the cemetery public and changing the name to Bonaventure Cemetery.
In 1867 John Muir began his Thousand Mile Walk to Florida and the Gulf. In October he sojourned for six days and nights in the Bonaventure cemetery, sleeping upon graves overnight, this being the safest and cheapest accommodation that he could find while he waited for money to be expressed from home. He found the cemetery even then breathtakingly beautiful and inspiring and wrote a lengthy chapter upon it, "Camping in the Tombs."
"Part of the grounds was cultivated and planted with live-oak (Quercus virginiana), about a hundred years ago, by a wealthy gentleman who had his country residence here But much the greater part is undisturbed. Even those spots which are disordered by art, Nature is ever at work to reclaim, and to make them look as if the foot of man had never known them. Only a small plot of ground is occupied with graves and the old mansion is in ruins.
The most conspicuous glory of Bonaventure is its noble avenue of live-oaks. They are the most magnificent, planted trees I have ever seen, about fifty feet high and perhaps three or four feet in diameter, with broad spreading leafy heads. The main branches reach out horizontally until they come together over the driveway, embowering it throughout its entire length, while each branch is adorned like a garden with ferns, flowers, grasses, and dwarf palmettos.
But of all the plants of these curious tree-gardens the most striking and characteristic is the so-called Long Moss (Tillandsia usneoides). It drapes all the branches from top to bottom, hanging in long silvery-gray skeins, reaching a length of not less than eight or ten feet, and when slowly waving in the wind they produce a solemn funereal effect singularly impressive.
There are also thousands of smaller trees and clustered bushes, covered almost from sight in the glorious brightness of their own light. The place is half surrounded by the salt marshes and islands of the river, their reeds and sedges making a delightful fringe. Many bald eagles roost among the trees along the side of the marsh. Their screams are heard every morning, joined with the noise of crows and the songs of countless warblers, hidden deep in their dwellings of leafy bowers. Large flocks of butterflies, flies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. The whole place seems like a center of life. The dead do not reign there alone.
Bonaventure to me is one of the most impressive assemblages of animal and plant creatures I ever met. I was fresh from the Western prairies, the garden-like openings of Wisconsin, the beech and maple and oak woods of Indiana and Kentucky, the dark mysterious Savannah cypress forests; but never since I was allowed to walk the woods have I found so impressive a company of trees as the tillandsia-draped oaks of Bonaventure.
I gazed awe-stricken as one new-arrived from another world. Bonaventure is called a graveyard, a town of the dead, but the few graves are powerless in such a depth of life. The rippling of living waters, the song of birds, the joyous confidence of flowers, the calm, undisturbable grandeur of the oaks, mark this place of graves as one of the Lord’s most favored abodes of life and light."
- "Camping in the Tombs," from A Thousand Mile Walk
Greenwich Cemetery became an addition to Bonaventure in 1933.
This communal mausoleum was built in 1963. My only real guess at the architectural style of the building is a combination of art deco and artnouveau influences, a revival of both.
iLondon Sept 2nd Highgate Cemetery and Embankment, today we wandered up to Highgate Cemetery to visit death, and then down to Southwark along the embankment.
This site was first used as a cemetery in 1871 when the infant daughter of pioneer area settlers Thomas W. and Charlotte Rozell was buried here. The oldest marked grave is that of Sarah Kiker (1802-1877). In 1885 W.F. Umberson, who settled in the area before the Civil War, set aside two acres here as a public burial ground for the Gholson Community. Located on the property was a one-room building, the Kellum School, which was also used for local church services. A cemetery tabernacle was
built in 1925 and additional land was acquired in 1950.
Additional Plate: Further research has shown that the oldest marked grave in the cemetery is that of Ann Ophelia Umberson (May 12, 1843 - Dec. 14, 1875). (1981) (Marker No. 2179)
FALL FROM ÇLIFF.
FATE OF LITTLE GIRL.
FOUND DROWNED IN SEA.
ACCIDENT AT SHELLY BEACH.
LOOKING FOR PLACE TO SIT.
Wandering away from her companions at Shelly Beach, Ponsonby, shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Gladys May Crowley, aged 10, fell from a cliff and was drowned. The child resided with her parents in Virginia Avenue, Eden Terrace.
The girl went to the beach with a brother and a girl friend. In searching for a place where the three could sit down, she disappeared from sight. Her companions became curious regarding her absence, and the body was then seen in the water near the foot of the cliff. The child had apparently fallen a distance of about 20ft.
Artificial respiration, applied by members of the Ponsonby Life-Saving Club, and the assistance of a doctor proved fruitless. An injury on the girl's head was evidently sustained in the fall, and this may have accounted for the fact that no call of distress was heard. The fatality occurred at the corner, of Point Erin Park which faces the upper harbour, and the shore at this point hidden from the baths.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19290304.2.43
YOUNG GIRL'S DEATH.
FALL FROM CLIFF INTO SEA.
The circumstances of the death of Gladys May Crowley, aged 10, of 70, Virginia Avenue, Newton, who fell from a cliff at Point Erin Park on March 3 and was found lying face downwards in the tide, were inquired into at an inquest yesterday, before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., coroner.
Companions of the girl gave evidence that she sat on a cliff at the Point and suddenly slipped out of sight. She was found lying in the water, and efforts to revive her proved fruitless. Bruce Crowley, brother of the girl, said that on two previous occasions his sister had fallen in the water. She had very bad eyesight.
A verdict of death by drowning following an accidental fall was returned.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19290316.2.124
Plot 93: Gladys May Crowley (10) 3/3/1929 – Scholar
Gertrude Woodman Hamer (87) 18/4/1956 – Widow
Jemima Crowley (84) 29/8/1981 – Widow
unmarked grave
DEATHS.
CROWLEY.—On March 3, 1929, accidentally killed at Shelly Beach, Gladys May, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Crowley, of 70, Virginia Avenue, Eden Terrace. Aged 10 years. The funeral will leave the above address at 3.30 p.m. to-morrow, Tuesday for Waikumete Cemetery. Dunedin papers please copy.
graves of over 100 unknown Confederate soldiers are located here
--- a Mississippi Landmark
--- U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Jackson, MS
070312
Description: Comb grave of Lilla Crabtree in Carr Cemetery in Overton Co., Tenn.
Date: November 25, 201
Creator: Dr. Richard Finch
Collection name: Richard C. Finch Folk Graves Digital Photograph Collection
Historical note: Comb graves are a type of covered grave that are often called "tent graves." The length of the grave was covered by rocks or other materials that look like the gabled roof or comb of a building. They were popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is conjectured that these graves were covered to protect them from either weather or animals, or perhaps both. While comb graves can be found in other southern states, the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee has the highest concentration of these types of graves.
Accession number: 2013-022
Owning Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
ID#: Okalona Q - Carr Cem 9
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Description: Comb grave in Honey Springs Cemetery in Overton Co., Tenn.
Date: February 11, 2013
Creator: Dr. Richard Finch
Collection name: Richard C. Finch Folk Graves Digital Photograph Collection
Historical note: Comb graves are a type of covered grave that are often called "tent graves." The length of the grave was covered by rocks or other materials that look like the gabled roof or comb of a building. They were popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is conjectured that these graves were covered to protect them from either weather or animals, or perhaps both. While comb graves can be found in other southern states, the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee has the highest concentration of these types of graves.
Accession number: 2013-022
Owning Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
ID#: Crawford Q - Honey Springs Cem 6
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Ohlsdorf Cemetery (German: Friedhof Ohlsdorf or (former) Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf) in the quarter Ohlsdorf of the city of Hamburg, Germany, is the biggest rural cemetery in the world and the second-largest cemetery in the world after Wadi-us-Salaam in Najaf, Iraq.[citation needed] Most of the people buried at the cemetery are civilians, but there are also a large number of victims of war from various nations. [Wikipedia]
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Originally constructed as "Green Hill Cemetery," this 32-acre expanse of hilly terrain and ancient cedar trees has many stories to reveal. Cedar Hill Cemetery (1802) is an official site of the Virginia Civil War Trails prorgram as it is the final resting place for many Confederate Generals and soldiers
Plot 61: Mavis Thelma Irene Le Sueur (32) 1941
wooden cross
MAVIS Le SUER
1 Jan 1908 – 30 May 1941
DEATHS.
LE SUEUR.—On May 30, 1941, at the Auckland Hospital, Mavis Thelma Irene, dearly beloved daughter of Constance and William Le Sueur, 138, Victoria Road, Devonport, and fiancee of Arthur Lovett; aged 32 years. Passed peacefully. The funeral will leave Watney Sibun and Sons Chapel, Khyber Pass, Newmarket, at 2 p.m. on Monday, June 2, for Waikumete Cemetery.