Laurel Grove Cemetery

Laurel Grove Cemetery
Details
Established	1853
Location	Savannah, Georgia, United States
Coordinates	32.06548°N 81.10833°W / 32.06548; -81.10833
Type	Public municipal
Owned by	City of Savannah
Find a Grave	Laurel Grove Cemetery

Laurel Grove Cemetery is a cemetery located in midtown Savannah, Georgia. It includes the original cemetery for whites (now known as Laurel Grove North) and a companion burial ground (called Laurel Grove South) that was reserved for slaves and free people of color. The original cemetery has countless graves of many of Savannah's Confederate veterans of the American Civil War. Laurel Grove South holds the graves of thousands of slaves and free blacks from coastal Georgia.

With lush plantings and beautifully carved stones, both sections of Laurel Grove Cemetery resemble more famous Victorian-era graveyards such as Green-Wood in New York City and Père Lachaise in Paris.

History

Although planned as early as 1818, Laurel Grove first opened for burials in 1853. Administrators of Laurel Grove have recently begun an ambitious plan to computerize the cemetery's burial records.

Notable interments

Name	Notability	References
Francis Stebbins Bartow	Confederate politician and Confederate States Army officer during the American Civil War
John M. Berrien	United States Senator from the state of Georgia
William Bellinger Bulloch	U.S. Senator from Georgia and relative of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
Robert Milledge Charlton	Senator representing Georgia (U.S. state)
Stephen Elliott	37th bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA)
William Bennett Fleming	United States Representative from Georgia
Jeremy F. Gilmer	Chief of Engineers for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
William Washington Gordon	politician and businessman, he co-founded and served as the first president of the Central Railroad and Banking Company (now the Central of Georgia Railroad)
George Paul Harrison, Sr.	Brigadier general (1861–1862) and colonel (1864–1865) in the Georgia (Confederate) militia; member of the Georgia House of Representatives
Julian Hartridge	United States Representative from Georgia
Juliette Gordon Low	founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA
Florence Martus	nicknamed "the Waving Girl", the unofficial greeter of all ships that entered and left the Port of Savannah
Lafayette McLaws	U.S. Army officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War
John Millen	United States Representative and lawyer from Georgia
John William Pearson	businessman and Confederate Captain of the Oklawaha Rangers
Phoebe Pember	Confederate nurse at Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War
Philip Phillips	lawyer, politician and U.S. Representative from Alabama
Moxley Sorrel	Confederate States Army officer and historian of the Confederacy
William Henry Stiles	United States Representative from Georgia.
Thomas Manson Norwood	United States Senator and Representative from Georgia
George Welshman Owens	United States Representative and lawyer from Georgia
James Lord Pierpont	writer and composer of the song Jingle Bells
Joseph Wasden	Confederate officer in the American Civil War
James Moore Wayne	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and a United States Representative from Georgia
Dr. Richard Wayne	mayor of Savannah, Georgia for four terms

References

• Laurel Grove Cemetery at Find A Grave