51 Cemeteries Project: # 44 Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah GA

I wasn't alone in taking pictures at the Bonaventure Cemetery on the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia. The cemetery is not only popular among tourists for it's old headstones, but it is the cemetery in the book and movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." The cemetery is located on the Wilmington River and is the largest municipal cemetery in Savannah.

This was one of the most moving graves/statues I've come across so far in the cemetery project. Gracie Watson's father W.J. Watson, managed a hotel in downtown Savannah called the Pulaski House in the 1880s. Gracie lived at the hotel with her mother and father. Gracie became known as the "star of Pulaski house" as she charmed the guests (many of them returning guests) with her beauty and playfulness. At the age of six, Gracie contracted pneumonia and two days after Easter died. Her devastated father, before he left Savannah for good, commissioned Savannah artist John Waltz to design this sculpture, which more than 100 years after her death, still has a regular visitors paying their respects to little Gracie Watson.

For more info about Bonaventure Cemetery check out this web site: http://www.bonaventurehistorical.org/