Chatham County GaArchives Photo place.....Colonial Park Sign, Savannah, Georgia June 2003
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Vicki Shaffer wire@shaffer.com November 21, 2004, 10:42 pm

Source: Colonial Park Cemetery
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The sign at the DAR cemetery, Colonial Park, in downtown Savannah, Georgia

                          Georgia 1776
This cemetery, second in colonial Savannah, was the burying ground for the 
city from about 1750 until it was closed against burials in 1853.

Among the distinguished dead who rest here are Archibald Bulloch, first 
President of Georgia, James Habersham, acting royal Governor of the Province, 
1771 - 1773; Joseph Habersham, Postmaster General under three Presidents; 
Lachlin McIntosh, Major General Contintental Army; Samuel Elbert, 
Revolutionary Soldier and Governor of Georgia; Capt. Denis L. Cortineau de 
Kerloguen who aided John Paul Jones in the engagement between "The Bon Homme 
Richard" and the "Scrapis"; Hugh McCall, early historian of Georgia; Edward 
Greene Malbone, the noted miniturist and Colonel John S. McIntosh, a hero of 
the war with Mexico.

The remains of Major General Nathanael Greene who died in 1786 reposed in the 
Graham vault until they were reinterred in 1901 in Johnson Square.

The cemetery became a city park in 1896.

Additional Comments:
We were told by a lady in Savannah that during the Civil War, the Yankees used 
the cemetery for a camp ground.  Out of boredom the Union soldiers would 
change dates on some of the tombstones.  We did find some tombstones with 
nonsense dates.  (mother being 4 years when child was born, etc.)

Much of the cemetery was destroyed, tombstones toppled and graves robbed 
during the war.

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