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Legends 15: Bonaventure Cemetery (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2023-11-27 05:01:01 +0000 UTCLegends 15: Bonaventure Cemetery
Like all cemeteries, Savannah’s Bonaventure is the resting place to many people. But as time has proven, it’s also home to some dark legends.
Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Harry Marks and research by Cassandra de Alba.
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Further Reading
- Allen, Chris. “Bonaventure Cemetery And It’s [sic] Amazing Stories.” Haunted Savannah. June 8, 2016. https://hauntedsavannahtours.com/amazing-stories-bonaventure-cemetery
- Beine, Joe. “PX Monogram.” Cemeteries and Cemetery Symbols. September 5, 2006. https://cemeteries.wordpress.com/2006/09/05/px-monogram
- Berendt, John. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story (Random House, 1994).
- “Bonaventure Cemetery.” Gallivanter Tours. Accessed February 2, 2023. https://gallivantertours.com/savannah/historic-cemeteries/bonaventure-cemetery
- Brittan, Belle. “Letter from Belle Brittan.” Daily Picayune. March 17, 1858. https://www.newspapers.com/image/25801432
- Cheales, Alan Benjamin. Epigrams & Epigraphs, by the Author of Proverbial Folk-lore (Simkin, Marshall & Co., 1877).
- “Colonial Park Cemetery.” City of Savannah. Accessed February 4, 2023. https://www.savannahga.gov/879/Colonial-Park-Cemetery
- “Corinne Elliott Lawton.” Find a Grave. Accessed February 2, 2023. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5740305/corinne-elliott-lawton
- Cothran, James R. & Erica Danylchak. Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement (University of South Carolina Press, 2018).
- “Dueling in Savannah.” Cobblestone Tours. June 6, 2016. https://www.ghostsavannah.com/2016/06/dueling-in-savannah
- “Easter Dates from 1600 to 2099.” United States Census Bureau. Accessed February 2, 2023. https://www.census.gov/data/software/x13as/genhol/easter-dates.html
- Edenfield, Enocha. “Boo Business: Little Gracie Watson is a small figure with a big story in Bonaventure Cemetery.” Savannah Now. April 25, 2022. https://www.savannahnow.com/story/entertainment/2022/04/25/bonaventure-cemetery-savannah-ga-little-gracie-watson-grave-statue/9516302002
- “The Ghost of Gracie Watson.” Nightly Spirits. March 17, 2020. https://nightlyspirits.com/the-ghost-of-gracie-watson
- Goldsmith, Oliver. “The Deserted Village.” Poetry Foundation. Accessed February 2, 2023. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44292/the-deserted-village
- “Gracie Perry Watson.” Find a Grave. Accessed February 2, 2023. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5743256/gracie-watson
- “Grave of Corinne Elliott Lawton.” Atlas Obscura. March 21, 2013. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-of-corinne-elliot-lawton
- “Grave of Gracie Watson.” Atlas Obscura. May 8, 2020. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-of-gracie-watson
- Grey, Orrin. “Ghosts in the Graveyard: The Haunted History of Savannah’s Colonial Park Cemetery.” The Lineup. September 2, 2016. https://the-line-up.com/colonial-park-cemetery
- Hallberg, Mary. “The strange history of Bonaventure Cemetery.” Mary Hallberg. November 27, 2019. https://www.maryhallbergmedia.com/post/2019/11/27/the-strange-history-of-bonaventure-cemetery
- Hancock, Daniel. “Bonaventure: From Plantation to Monument.” January 18, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoIJY39rxlo
- “The Haunted Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah.” Nightly Spirits. April 29, 2020. https://nightlyspirits.com/the-haunted-colonial-park-cemetery-in-savannah
- “Haunted History of Bonaventure Cemetery.” Ghosts & Gravestones. Accessed February 2, 2023. https://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/savannah/bonaventure-cemetery
- “Jack Leigh.” Find a Grave. Accessed February 2, 2023. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15088115/jack-leigh
- Jones, Melanie K. “Bird Girl: Savannah’s Famous Statue from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” Go South! Savannah. Accessed February 2, 2023. https://gosouthsavannah.com/history/film/bird-girl.html
- Kiernan, Kat. “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: The Story of the Bird Girl.” Don’t Take Pictures. June 28, 2018. https://www.donttakepictures.com/dtp-blog/2018/6/28/midnight-in-the-garden-of-good-and-evil-the-story-of-the-bird-girl
- Lamkin, Virginia. “Savannah’s Bonaventure Cemetery.” Seeks Ghosts. July 24, 2015. https://seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2015/07/savannahs-bonaventure-cemetery.html
- Leroux, Charles. “Born in Chicago.” Chicago Tribune. August 25, 1999. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-08-25-9908250060-story.html
- “Little Grace Watson’s Death.” Savannah Morning News. April 23, 1889. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5743256/gracie-perry-watson/photo
- “Little Gracie, Bonaventure's most visitied [sic] Gravesite.” Gallivanter Tours. Accessed February 2, 2023. https://gallivantertours.com/savannah/historic-cemeteries/bonaventure-cemetery/little-gracie
- “Lorraine Ethel Ganz.” Shalom Memorial. Accessed February 2, 2023. https://www.shalommemorial.org/in-memorial/2022/II%20Makhpela/Lorraine_Ganz
- Maltenfort, Lee. “Little Gracie Watson.” Bonaventure Historical Society. April 12, 2016. https://www.bonaventurehistorical.org/little-gracie-watson
- “The Most Haunted Cemeteries in Savannah.” Ghosts & Gravestones. Accessed February 2, 2023. https://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/savannah/haunted-cemeteries
- Muir, John. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (Houghton Mifflin, 1916).
- “Pulaski House menu and unidentified letter.” Georgia Historical Society. Accessed February 2, 2023. http://ghs.galileo.usg.edu/ghs/view?docId=ead/MS%201723-ead.xml
- Randolph, Eleanor. “With ‘Midnight,” garden becomes even more evil.” Tallahassee Democrat. January 24, 1997. https://www.newspapers.com/image/247314574
- Rawls, Ruth. “Sarah Alexander Cunningham Helps Me Solve A Mystery.” Ruthrawl’s Blog. June 28, 2013. https://ruthrawls.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/sarah-alexander-cunningham-helps-me-solve-a-mystery
- “Rene Rondolier in Savannah.” Cobblestone Tours. February 14, 2017. https://www.ghostsavannah.com/2017/02/rene-rondolier-in-savannah
- Rubin, Anne Sarah. Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory (University of North Carolina Press, 2014).
- Rubio, J’aime. Stories Of The Forgotten: Infamous, Famous & Unremembered (CreateSpace, 2016).
- Stollznow, Karen. “The Haunted (Pseudo) History of Bonaventure Cemetery.” Skeptical Inquirer. August 3, 2009. https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-haunted-pseudo-history-of-bonaventure-cemetery
- “To Get The Old Cemetery.” The Morning News. April 11, 1895. https://www.newspapers.com/image/852574242
- Wilson, Amie Marie & Mandi Dale Johnson. Historic Bonaventure Cemetery (Arcadia Publishing, 1998).
- Woods, Mark. “The 150th anniversary of John Muir's Florida-Georgia experience.” Florida Times-Union. October 26, 2017. https://www.jacksonville.com/story/opinion/columns/mike-clark/2017/10/26/mark-woods-150th-anniversary-john-muir-s-florida-georgia-experience/15381103007
- Zepke, Terrance. Ghosts of Savannah (Pineapple Press, 2016).
Comments
Mallory Fox
People throw stones at her?! What kind of person does that.
