There’s no shortage of interesting things in the old cemeteries. Below are a few stones that caught my attention on our last walk around.

Because Charleston is at or near sea level you can find a number of ‘above ground’ burial sites. None are as elaborate as New Orleans but they all have carvings on large slabs of slate that serve as the ‘top’ of the grave.

Off near the old Umbra Plantation house there is an area where broken or worn out headstones have been placed flat on the ground. There were several I wanted to photograph, later read the long inscriptions. To get above them meant walking on the other stones. Well, it just felt wrong walking on these headstones like a pathway. I left them there undisturbed.

Last here, a few full gravesite markers. No names or dates. Just the short curbs outlining the grave. A large urn that one day probably had flowers growing inside.

This is a common graveyard marker here. The outline of the individual burial plot in small curbstones with some type of simple group monument. I rather like this. Plain and respectful.

All the above were photographed at Magnolia Cemetery and St. Lawrence Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina.