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1. BONA_040508_012.JPG: Little Gracie
2. BONA_040508_044.JPG: Johnny Mercer
3. BONA_040508_046.JPG: Juliana Mercer Keith August 1, 1915 October 8, 2000 "Dream -- when the day is thru..."
4. BONA_040508_047.JPG: Lillian Ciucevieil (sp?) Mercer September 27, 1881 September 8, 1977 "My mama done tol' me"
5. BONA_040508_048.JPG: John Herndon Mercer (Johnny) Nov 18, 1909 June 25, 1976 "And the angels sing"
6. BONA_040508_050.JPG: Elizabeth Meltzer Mercer (Ginger) Beloved wife of John Herndon Mercer June 25, 1909 Oct 21, 1994 "You must have been a beautiful baby"
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Wikipedia Description: Bonaventure Cemetery
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Bonaventure Cemetery is a public 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.

The entrance to the cemetery is located at 330 Bonaventure Road.

History:

The cemetery is located on the site of a plantation originally owned by John Mullryne. On March 10, 1846, Commodore Josiah Tattnall III, sold the 600-acre 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. Evergreen Cemetery Company was purchased by the City of Savannah on July 7, 1907, 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, 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 ...More...
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