Forest Hill Cemetery in Eau Claire is one of the oldest urban cemeteries in Wisconsin. Rest in Nature is a comprehensive guide to this historic and beautiful feature of the city's landscape. Short essay by the book's authors, Robert J. Gough and Gregory Kocken, position the cemetery in the context of the nineteenth-century County Cemetery Movement and describe the iconographic features that are common to its grave markers. The book also contains profiles of over 83 individuals, both prominent and ordinary, who are buried here and it locates and describes their grave markers. Readers of Rest in Nature can use it as a guide for walking or bicycling in the cemetery and identifying some of its most interesting grave markers.
