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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
BONAVENTURE, PICTURESQUE SAVANNAH CEMETERY 
One of the most picturesque and inter- 
esting cemeteries in the country is Bona- 
venture, in the historic city of Savannah, 
Ga. This remarkable burial ground is 
known the world over for its natural 
elude live oaks, cedars, hollies and water 
oaks. There are about two miles of paved 
roads and about two miles unpaved. 
The total number of interments is not 
known, but the yearly average is from 143 
ply. The superintendent has filled in a low 
place and made an entrance for the He- 
brew section. Cost, $1,000. It consists of 
gates, pillars and a section of gravel road. 
They have recently grubbed up and devel- 
INTERSECTION OF LIVE OAK AND PALMETTO AVENUES, LIVE OAK AVENUE, BONAVENTURE CEMETERY, SAVAN- 
BONAVENTURH CEMETERY. NAH, GA. 
beauty, for the avenues of live oaks, hang- 
ing with Spanish moss, the cedars and 
holly and palmettos. It was established in 
1850 and contains 92 acres, of which about 
40 are improved. It is traversed by St. 
Augustine Creek, and the native trees in- 
to 160. The cemetery is owned by the city 
and is in charge of Superintendent J. T. 
McCormick. 
Substantial improvements have been 
made within the past two years. A new 
artesian well has been dug for water sup- 
oped Section K, consisting of 631 lots, and 
Section P, 250 lots. 
Extensive planting of live oaks and mag- 
nolias has been done along the principal 
avenues. The soil is, of course, sandy, with 
a hard bottom six to eight feet below the 
surface in some places. 
SELLING CEMETERY LOTS ON CREDIT— IV 
We have never had a lot holder dis- 
continue payments before lot was fully 
paid for. The following contract note ex- 
plains our method of collection : 
$ 
Peoria, 111 190.. 
Received of 
Dollars 
on account of lot numbered in Springdale 
Cemetery, and hereby agree.... to pay 
Dollars in addition 
thereto, on or before which, if 
so paid with interest, will entitle the said 
to a deed for said lot; but if not so fully paid for 
as by these terms herein agreed upon, then this As- 
sociation shall thereby be released from all obliga- 
tions to make a deed for the same or any part 
thereof, except for so much of said lot as may be 
Symposium of Methods and Forms Used by 
Many Cemeteries in Lot Sales and Collections. 
then occupied by interments. But one interment al- 
lowed on this lot until paid for in full. 
SPRINGDALE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, 
by its 
No 
If paid within 90 days, without interest. 
SPRINGDALE CEMETERY 
Peoria, 111. 
* * JjC 
Relative to selling lots on time, we have 
sold lots in this manner in Pine Grove 
Cemetery for more than thirty-five years. 
We require an initial payment of 25 per 
cent of the purchase price of the lot at 
the time the first burial is made. At this 
time the purchaser signs an agreement to 
make monthly payments of 10 per cent of 
the purchase price until paid in full. For 
each additional burial another 25 per cent 
of the purchase price must have been paid. 
If the purchaser does not live up to his 
agreement we then have the authority to 
remove the body or bodies to a' single 
grave section at the owners’ expense, sell 
the lot and refund any balance there may 
be after so doing. 
Usually refusing to make further burials 
until the lot is paid for in full is all that 
is necessary, but we have had cases where 
we have been obliged to sell either a part 
of the lot or remove the bodies and sell 
the whole. I do not. think the Massachu- 
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