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<!-- EDIT BELOW THIS LINE -- Southview Cemetery (Augusta, Georgia)

Southview Cemetery which is located in Augusta, Georgia on Nellieville Rd and 15th Avenue in an area known as "The Avenues". The area became a cemetery in the 1???.

Features.

A unique feature of this cemetery is that people were placed in the ground by having the vault level to the surface of the ground, similar to Bayous of Louisiana and Mississippi.

Some of the areas have the vaults in tight rows that maximize space and minimize the landscaping needs. This part of the cemetery is from the 1950's* to the 1980's. People were buried in order of death and availability of row space, family members could have been separated by many other deceased persons.

Some deceased families were able to purchase headstones. While some were not able to do so, they would paint the tops of the vaults so they could find their family members. This is a feature seen throughout the entire cemetery. The practice of placing the vault at the surface of the ground has been discontinued since the late 1980's.

In other parts of the cemetery, families purchased entire family size plots. Some of the areas of this cemetery is in a non-perpetual care and the families take care of their burial sites. There is now a perpetual care area. The cemetery has been privately held since it's opening. Still to this day, people are being buried in the cemetery.


 * Willie Mays, gave oral history and features of Southview Cemetery. (24 - August - 2015) Willie Mays III is a third generation Funeral Director and owns W. H. Mays Mortuary on James Brown Boulevard (9th St).