Bonaventure Cemetery: A History
Bonaventure is an Italian word meaning “good luck” or “good fortune.” The original land that would become Bonaventure Cemetery began as a plantation in the mid-1700s. English colonel John Mullryne and his son-in-law, Josiah Tatnall, would acquire around 9,000 acres on the Georgia coast to grow cotton, rice, and timber. Thousands of slaves would work …