Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah Georgia: Part FOUR

Continuing on with the fabulous architectured headstones

from the

Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.

The statues and headstones were simply amazing.

Look at the shape of this little mausoleum....like a pyramid or Silo!:

I fell in love with this headstone. According to the history of the headstone, the woman who died had a lifesized statue made of her by her family for her headstone...three-dimensional. It as just amazing:

The detail was atonishing!:

It was so beautiful:

Look at the detail of her hair and the view from behind her.

She has been sitting on her headstone for a long time, looking out at the beautiful views

of this gorgeous cemetery:

Sunlight on her face.

I wondered if the family strategically placed her statue in that position?:

She was a beautiful woman in life and remains so in death with this statue:

Here is another one where the deceased has a statue of her likeness made and put

on her headstone. Look how sad she looks!:

It was more like an art museum than a cemetery. I wished I had more time there:

I am almost done with my series on Bonaventure Cemetery.

I hope you haven't found them too inappropriate, but I truly think

they are gorgeous headstones full of history and art.

Part Three: Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia

I know it sounds weird to love cemeteries and to equally love photographing them.

But I really do, on both counts.

Visiting a cemetery is like going to a park to me, and an obvious reminder

to live your life to the fullest while you are blessed to live on this earth.

And a reminder to honor those lives that were lost before ours.

I always wonder what the people were like under each headstone...

what their culture and home life was like.

Who they loved, who they lost, who they fought, what their hopes and dreams were.

So today, I am posting more pictures of the most awesome cemetery (Bonaventure Cemetery) I have ever seen. (If you missed Parts ONE and TWO, just drop below this post to see them).

The headstones were ornate and more like art.

The setting was gorgeous with huge, ancient oak trees hanging with Spanish moss.

We wished we had time to read each and every headstone, because they all told their own stories.

But most were so ornate!:

One of the most famous headstones and gravesites

was the one of

Little Gracie.

Please click on the link above to learn more about

this dear 6 yr. old little girl.

Many people leave flowers at her gravesite.

I loved the rod iron fence surrounding her gravesite:

And that GATE! I loved it.

The little pink ribbon some visitor left at her gravesite put a tear in my eyes:

Her headstone was made in her EXACT likeness.

Read about it HERE:

There were several HUGE mausoleums like this one. Gorgeous, ornate doors, some with stained glass!:

This gravesite was amazingly covered with a tree and moss:

 The way I love the giant oak trees and the Spanish moss, it is my dream cemetery plot.

But wait, I thought I wanted to be creamated when my time comes....

Now, after seeing this cemetery, I am having doubts.

Then again...they could bury ashes and put some huge angel on me, right?

Some people would find humor in that...

All the headstones were so different, so unique...

Another one of the gravesites covered in plants and moss and trees!:

What an honor for this Mother and Father. A beautiful tribute!:

Loved this angel:

You'd think about being in a museum, rather than a cemetery...it was wonderful:

As you probably would have guessed, I still have more photos of this wondrous

cemetery to share with you next time...

Part ONE: Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia

It may sound dark and depressing (if not a bit strange) to say that part of my trip to Savannah

this time was explicitly to see Bonaventure Cemetery.

But when you see the art there, combined with the gorgeous Spanish-moss draping

the ancient, huge oak trees, you will begin to understand.

It was actually another blogger who tipped me off to tell me to look into going there

when I mentioned I loved cemeteries in general, and that I was planning a trip to Savannah.

So join me today in seeing WHY I am so, so glad I did visit this amazing place.

To me, it was like a beautiful park full of nature and art.

There were SO many beautiful headstones, carved in granite and marble...they were gorgeous.

I especially loved the ones with angels on them:

You'd think you were in an art museum, rather than a cemetery:

Look at the detail in her wings:

There were many life-sized (or bigger) statues for headstones.

We learned that many of the statues were commissioned art pieces and were made to look exactly like the deceased person.  This is a man's headstone, so it isn't the case...but in future blogposts I will show you some:

Statues, carved stone embellishments and oak trees with Spanish moss. Wow:

Look at her angelic face:

Just amazing, detailed, architectural wonders here:

Another gorgeous angel. Can you see the sorrow in her face?:

It was a huge, huge cemetery...all sitting in the midst of sky high majestic moss-lined trees.

We hadn't even seen the oldest headstones yet.

We got there late in the afternoon (due to rain earlier in the day)...

and we only had time to see PART of this wondrous place.

More blogposts will be posted soon of the headstones and beauty here.

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