In 1862, John Divine Jones gave 37 acres of land for a new cemetery to St. John's Church. The original graveyard, laid out on a rugged hillside above the church, had proved increasingly difficult for horse-drawn hearses to negotiate. The new Memorial Cemetery of St. John's Church was located one mile west of the church and was transformed in 1918 by the famed Olmsted Brothers, true to the vision of their father Frederick Law Olmsted for America 's parklands. Recently, the cemetery was recognized for inclusion in the Archives of American Gardens of the Smithsonian Institution. Preserving and maintaining this unique cemetery, its historic chapel and grounds, is the responsibility of a superintendent and his six-member staff, under the guidance of a committee appointed by the Vestry.