A couple of weeks ago, I did a post on lovely Victorian bas relief cemetery monuments in Alabama. There are so many in this category, and truly so pretty, so interesting, that they deserve another set.
Here, from Hopewell Baptist Church Cemetery in Danville:
Magnolia Cemetery in Mobile:
At Oakview Cemetery in Lowndesboro:
Church Street Graveyard in Mobile:
And I have to mention this one, from Old Aberdeen Historical Cemetery in Mississippi.
It’s for Mary Points, who passed away in 1852 when her skirts caught fire. This pic of mine was used in the Association for Gravestone Studies quarterly a few years ago. One interesting thing is that in this same cemetery, there’s a person buried sitting in their rocking chair.
It’s Alice Whitfield, and the story is that she passed away in her favorite rocking chair, knitting, so it was decided — well, it was her request obviously beforehand — to bury her in that same fashion. Et voila. And if you’re thinking of others, there’s the story of Mary Chambers Bibb at Maple Hill in Huntsville AL, and Grancer the Dancer, said to be buried in his feather bed in Kinston AL:
