Cemetery and Butterfly

Yesterday morning Linda and I drove out to Grovetown, Georgia, which is on the outskirt of Augusta, to Bellevue Cemetery to locate her mother's Aunt Ruby and Uncle Tom Toole's graves. They came to see us one time when we were living in Miami. Their graves are at the bottom of the picture. They loved cats, too, and had several that we remembered when we visited them. Notice the Christmas Tree that someone has placed by a grave of a loved one.


This is the home of Butterfly McQueen that she owned but actually lived behind this house in a cottage in which she lost her life when it burned. That is a school in the back of her property and it explains how she was known to walk around the grounds of the school picking up all the trash and litters she could find to help keep the area clean. She was also doing the same thing up and down her street. I spoke to a gentleman across the street and couple houses up who told me yesterday morning that his wife and Butterfly were close friends and when his wife went out to ride her three wheel bicycle around the block, Butterfly always joined her but walked instead. He said she could easily afford a bike, too, but preferred to walk. He said she always wore long dresses down to the ground. It was so neat to be talking to someone who actually knew someone in GWTW.


This picture of her house as taken from the school grounds shows where her cottage was located possibly where the trampoline is (far right). This house is truly on top of the highest hill in this area and the views were quite impressive, possibly why she selected this to be her home.









Needless to say I am a fan of Gone With The Wind and anything connected with it. I also found out yesterday from the office to the black cemetery in town that she is not buried in Augusta but that her ashes were sent to New York. The gentleman I spoke to in the office said he was going to find out for me where in New York she is buried and will call me back. That would be information that NOONE knows about, not even on the internet.