Gracie Perry Watson (July 10, 1882 – April 22, 1889) was an American folk figure who became the subject of a notable statue by John Walz which has become a tourist attraction at Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.
[1] Watson died in 1889, aged six,[2] from "blood poisoning superinduced by a severe attack of pneumonia," having fallen ill a few days after Easter.
[3] W. J. Watson commissioned a sculpture of his daughter from local artist John Walz, who created it from a photograph.
The life-size marble sculpture, which was completed in 1890 and commonly referred to as Little Gracie Watson, was placed at her grave in Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery.
Her parents are buried elsewhere, having moved back to their native northeastern United States a few years later: her father in Fairview Cemetery in Wardsboro, Vermont, and her mother in Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York.