When I shot this it was a quick photo in passing. I was out with family and just a little walk through St. Philip’s (1723) since they are from out of town and it’s a special place.

Later on I looked a little closer. These stones are almost stacked on top of each other. This is in the ‘west’ graveyard, the church has two.

Most of the stones date from the 1760’s. View the image large for details.

The idea of two graveyards was to have the main yard around the church for Charleston residents only. The west site was for ‘lesser’ individuals. That’s funny since on the west side you find John Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the US. He is not considered ‘enough’ for the main site LOL. (he really was a pretty bad human)