How Will You Be Remembered?

         It was a very interesting day, Nov 18th, 2018. It was on this day that I went to two of some of the oldest cemeteries of Charleston, South Carolina. We went to both the first "Unitarian Church" in the south and the "Second Presbyterian Church" to study the graves that lie there and read the history that they provided especially the epitaphs which provides the last words that the departed would be remembered by. Usually these words of remembrance have a religious tie depicting how much they were loved by God or they can be completely non religious much like Marry Elizabeth Brown's epitaph that quotes a poem instead of the bible . 

Unitarian 

Name: James R. McFarland (1828-1859)

Cemetery: Unitarian Church

    Grave Marker: Die on Base

    Epitaph: "He did that which was right in the sight of the lord"

    Source: Chronicles 25:2 

Name: Sarah Hutchinson (1754-1839)

    Cemetery: Unitarian Church

    Grave Marker: Tombstone 

    Epitaph: "This mortal must put on immortality"

    Source: Corinthians 15:53

                                             

Name: Joseph Walker (1818-1893)

Cemetery: Unitarian Church

Grave Marker: Die on Base

    Epitaph: "He giveth his beloved sleep"

    Source: Psalm 127:2

Second Presbyterian

Name: Sarah M. Smith (1861-1941)

Cemetery: Second Presbyterian 

Grave Marker: Die on Base

Epitaph: "She shall walk and not grow weary"

Source: Isaiah 40:31 

Name: Joseph Ellison Adger (1824-1898)

Cemetery: Second Presbyterian 

Grave Marker: Die on Base 

Epitaph: "We shall see his face in the city of everlasting strength"

Source: Psalm 119:142

Name: Marry Elizabeth Brown (1828-1857)

Cemetery: Second Presbyterian 

Grave Marker: Die on Base

Epitaph: "Tis but the casket that lie here; the gem that filled it sparkles yet"

Source: Belle Starr "A Sparkling Gem"