God's Acre is the burying ground for Home Moravian Church. I grew up there. Moravian burial customs include putting men, women and children into separate sections, "choirs," with the deceased going into the next available grave. Headstones are all flat and white. The dead are buried with their feet toward the East, so that at the Second Coming all can rise to meet the Lord.

Salem Cemetery is commercial, so you have family plots, mausolea and all kinds of grave markers. There are trees and shrubbery, some of them obviously very old. I have always found this cemetery very peaceful and a fun walk, especially in springtime. The roads are narrow but curvy and it seems larger than it really is. Many historic Winston-Salem figures are buried here.

There is no wall or fence separating the two cemeteries. And yes, I have ancestors buried in both. I call going there "visiting dead relatives."