Epic epitaphs

Yesterday the class went on a field trip to  Unitarian Church in Charleston and also went to second presbyterian church in Charleston.  Even though I could not make it because I was out of town I went on Saturday. 



We went to these graveyards to see what the family member choose to put on their grave.  That is what a epitaphs is. It is a way on how to family can remember there loved one.They are mostly bible versus that mean something important to the family. 

Their name was: Augustine Thomas Smyth and Nancy Conner Smyth
Second Presbyterian Church
It is a die on base 
Epitaph: "For him honesty was the nurtrient which gave him the rare strength to be right with God, to be right with himself, to be right with his family and to be true to his fellows."
I do not know the source 

I cant read the name
At the second second Presbyterian church 
die on base
My beloved is gone, down into his garden into the beds of spices to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies."
it is a bible verse in salmon 

Name: Andrew Moffett Adger
it is at the second presbyterian church 
box tomb 
"I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day."

bible verse 

Name: Rev. Samuel Gilman, D.D., Eliza Webb Lippitt , and Caroline Howard Gilman 
this is at Unitarian Church of Charleston
this is a pedestal grave marker
"And now I rest with thee my home." "They were lovely and pleasant in their lives together." "He giveth his beloved sleep."
this is a bible verse 





Melvin Hasell
this is at the Presbyterian church 
grave marker is a tomb stone 
"In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me." 
not sure where this one is from


Lt col charles Irvin
this is atUnitarian Church
" "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. 
john bible verse 

Ancestor project

I'm doing my research project on my great grandma Virginia Watts Richardson.  She is from Prosperity South Carolina which is a small town right outside of Newberry South Carolina. She was 96 years old when she passed away.  She was born on April fifth nineteen fourteen. And she passed away on March twenty second two thousand  eleven.  And when she passed away she had Demetria and died of old age.  She was buried at the church she went to her whole life, Saint Paul Lutheran Church Cemetery.

This is her grave marker.  It is a grass flush with a cross on it to symbolize her religion. 


 When she was active in the community she worked at  Kendal company Oakland plant in Newberry South Carolina.  Which is a textile mill.  She was a quilter and made all of her great grandchildren a quilt when they where born.  She hand one child which is my grandma  Shelby Sheely.  She was apart of the Newberry RSVP which is retired senior volunteer service that do community projects.  They volunteer at schools, day cares, police departments, hospitals and other nonprofit public organizations.  She was a Sunday School teacher for over twenty years at Saint Paul Lutheran Church. Her husband worked at home because they had a large farm.  When she retired she was a gardener and grew there own vegetables and sold them at there general store.  The store sold everything from gas, snacks, some tools, drinks and a few grocery items.  After the grocery store closed they opened up a small women's clothing store with two of her nieces.  She also helped her husband butcher the animals that they raised and sold at there grocery store. She was a cook at a restaurant when she retired. She would cook for the church after every Sunday with the things that she got from her garden or the meat that they had.  And then after that she would host a family dinner every other weekend when everyone from our family would go and have a cook out at her house.  My grandma keep that tradition going by cooking for our family every Sunday after church. 
 
I got my information through my grandma which lives in my great grandmas old house, my mom which spent a lot of time with my great grandma and also through Find a grave.  I got the information about her church from Saint Paul Lutheran church website. 

Magnolia Cemetery

My first impressions on the Magnolia cemetery is that it is massive.  It is very old and historic. I did not see one recent grave.  They have all types of markers and symbols.  There are over 35,000 people buried there and they can be all different types of religion.   There are several civil war veterans and generals buried there. 
  Magnolia Cemetery Picture
Magnolia Cemetery

The layout of the cemetery is 150 acres.  Family's back then could buy there own plot to burry there family. There is also a military section with cannons.  And there is another cemetery right next to it with people from a church in it. 

This grave belonged to C. Lanney Meyer, M.D . They where born in January 17, 1827 and died on December 31 1895.  

This is Sarah Calhoun Simmons. She was born January 19 1839 and she died on February 9 1908.  She Shares this grave with her husband and he was born March 24 1821 and he died on June 12 1889.  

The Special thing about this one is that it is not a grave it is a monument with a lot of different people.  This side has on it Edward Courtney Bullogn, Alexander Black Courtney,Charels Courtney Tew.    

This side has Wiliam Ashmead Courtney. He is the only person on this side.  He was the mayor of Charleston, he got LLD from South Carolina and university of Tennessee .  

This side has Edward courtney,  Edward Smith Courtney and Elizebeth Storer Wade.  

This side shows who the whole monument is for.  It is for Julia Anna Francis. wife of William Ashmead Courtney.

The Magnolia Cemetery was a fun trip.  I saw a lot of different things you would not see at a church grave yard like the big monuments a military grave site and much more.  The most interesting  thing in my opinion was how big some of the graves where and how much detail they put in to them.  They just dont make them like that anymore.