Assertion: cemetery | /r/HasProperty | the first
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text: Simri Rose, Ambrose Baber, Levi Eckley, and R. W. Willis were commissioned in 1836 to find a place for what would become Macon's third cemetery (Fort Hill Cemetery and a cemetery on Seventh Street were the first and second, respectively.)
text: On this was placed the deceased in a narrow wood coffin (plain or freshly painted) with his or her name or initials on its lid in brass tacks or later metal letters when they became locally available for purchase in Mr. Henry Phelp’s store ( in 1824 he was also appointed the cemetery’s first sexton).
text: Set among rolling hills, forests, and ponds, the cemetery was one of the first in the United States to be laid out with a park-like setting.
text: It was the first to open after World War I, the first to have lawn level grave markers, and the first to implement the policy that all future care was included in the cost of the grave.