The Garden of Peace at Tennessee-Georgia Memorial Park was put up in memory of the people whose uncremated bodies were found at the Tri-State Crematory in Noble, Ga.Walker County, Ga., was thrust into the international media spotlight 11 years ago when hundreds of uncremated bodies turned up at the Tri-State Crematory in the unincorporated community of Noble.
The county put the final touches recently on the “Garden of Peace,” a monument, benches and flowering trees in a grassy spot at the Tennessee-Georgia Memorial Park Cemetery where many of the remains discovered at the crematorium were buried.
Walker County Sole Commissioner Bebe Heiskell hired the cemetery to finish the memorial, using $45,000 given for that purpose by the Georgia Assembly.
“They just decided, as a goodwill gesture, to provide this,” Heiskell said of the legislators’ funding.
The cemetery installed two stones flanking an arched centerpiece that was already there. One stone is inscribed with a poem, “The Healing Tree.” The other has Ecclesiates 3:1-8, the well-known verses that begin, “To everything there is a season.”