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Leslie Alwiel / For Savannah Morning News Sculptor John Walz is probably best known in Savannah for his “Little Gracie” statue created in 1890, memorializing Gracie Watson in Bonaventure Cemetery.  He has over 70 sculptures in Bonaventure Cemetery and others in local cemeteries, as well as in Savannah. His own marker is another story in itself. Walz was born in Germany in 1844. He came to the United States as a young boy, originally to live with family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after the death of his parents. He returned to Europe to study his craft and eventually settled in Savannah in 1890. He married a local widow, Sarah Bell Gilmore, in 1907 when he was 63.  When Walz died Nov. 27, 1922, he was buried two days later in Bonaventure Cemetery in a plot originally purchased by Charles Gilmore, Waltz’s wife’s first husband.  His wife died in 1931 and was interred between her two husbands.  Walz however didn’t receive a marker until April 30, 2015, when the Bona

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