Citizens Cemetery

Citizens Cemetery is located on Hamar Street in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States. Sited adjacent to Beaufort National Cemetery, Citizens Cemetery is the "garden" referred to in the title of John Berendt's 1994 novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In the subsequent movie, directed by Clint Eastwood, Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia, was used to represent "the colored cemetery down the road", as described by Kevin Spacey's character, John Kelso.
Minerva, the root doctor in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, is based on Valerie Boles. Boles's common-law partner Percy Washington is interred in Citizens Cemetery. Also a root doctor, he was known as Dr. Eagle. Boles and Washington lived at 1408 Congress Street in Beaufort, two blocks east of the cemetery. After Washington's death in 1973, his widow married Edward Boles.