We visited Greenwood Cemetery in Columbia, Tennessee as some of my Polk cousins are buried there, including the parents and siblings of President James Knox Polk. What I got to first, though, were all these really terrific monuments with the ornate shapes and ‘shoulders’:
This monument from 1844 mentions that Martha Jennings departed this life age 76 years, 6 months, and 16 days:
from the 1820s:
1854, with weeping willow motif and the interesting flower shapes at the top:
1862, with the female and male clasped hands, inscription at the bottom: ‘There is no parting in Heaven’:
1849:
These next three monuments have been taken over by nature:
Symbols (Masonic? Someone please identify and let me know – thanks!) on both long sides of this one:
The Polk section:
Major Samuel Polk (War of 1812) and his wife, Jane, who were the parents of James (President), Jane, Marshall, Naomi, Ophelia, William, and Samuel:
