Cemetery Stroll-Part 3-Memories in Stone

As we stroll through the cemetery today we will look at the unique stone memorials, a tribute to those who have gone on before us.

Brick walkways meander through the stone gardens.
For more than two centuries footsteps have echoed along these brick pathways. The shadows of ancient oaks and cedar trees dapple the walkway.

There is a mystique in this old graveyard of history and family, of God and country.

Some monuments tower above those around them.

Sunshine lights the way through this corner of the cemetery.

A delicately carved rose bedecks this headstone.

Some graves are surrounded by walls worn by time, weather, and war.

This gravesite sits beneath an age old crepe myrtle.

Supposedly when the church served as a hospital during the Civil War some of the horizontal gravestones were used as operating tables.

Time washed headstones,

oranately carved gravestones,

headstones of families grouped together,

even tiny tombstones.

A section of tabby wall still remains.

This mosoleum looks like a sunken house with a grass roof.

Some of the gravesites in this churchyard date back to the early 18th century inscribed with the history of the person buried below. Thanks for spending the past few days strolling through my favorite cemetery.
Do you have a favorite cemetery?