Remembering From The Past to Present

Born the 12th of November 1805 Michael Patrick Walsh was born in Charleston SC and was the son of a poor farmer. When we went to the library I wasn't able to discover much on him and later I found out why. Upon seeing the death card at the Charleston Library which was almost impossible to find Walsh died of consumption which was tuberculosis at that time. What I found to be interesting is that Walsh had a pervious condition which weakened him and his immune system. On his stone it is said he fought along time for many years to survive and he ended up dying. Walsh was never a land owner and was never married although he had a companion for many years.

The plaque on Walsh's stone was why I found him so interesting. It seemed that near death he had a complete turn around in life and accepted his faith and began to turn his life towards God. Also on his stone it mentions his companion which I could not find anywhere because he was never married. The library nor find a grave had anything about him having a wife. He also had a twin brother who became a preacher less than a year after his brothers death.

I have came to the conclusion that Michael Patrick Walsh could have possibly been mentally handicapped or could have had some form of birth defect that caused him to contract diseases way easier than most normal people. In the 1800s especially being from a poor family twin births were way more rare than today and if twins did happen one would usually not make it or be born with some kind of defect. Healthy twins were almost unheard of in this time period. I believe that Walsh was sickly and near death turned his life around and became a lot closer to God near his end days and his companion was either a very close friend or a girlfriend at the time of death.

I was going to try to contact Jerry J. Walsh which was a descendant in some way to Walsh but he had very recently died in Lancaster. Not much information could be found but what i could find helped me to draw an outline of Walsh's life and it was interesting learning about a man that completely turned his life around at death and affected so many people. He died June 3rd 1836 at the age of 31.

Old Chalestonian Proposal

For my Old Charlestonian project I would like to do Michael Patrick Walsh. He is buried at my church graveyard Second Presbyterian and died June 3rd 1836. I want to do this man because of one of the quotes on his grave marker. The entire thing made him sound truly interesting.

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

We traveled to our groups church one more time to investigate our graveyard. Check it out on Maddie's blog.

Amazing Rural Graveyard

As I walked through the black iron gates of Magnolia cemetery I would have never imagined what it was like. Beautiful gravestones covered every inch other than the driving and walking trails. As soon as you walk in if you walk 15 of so steps you will see a beautiful pond overlooking the rest of the cemetery and a marsh close behind it. I was taken aback seeing all new types of gravestones and trying to pick 3 favorite from the many amazing stones found there.

Magnolia is huge spending 150 acres it has many curving walking trails and driving trials and has 2 ponds and a marsh area with birds and stone everywhere. Just imagine being in a cemetery where 35,000 people are buried in one place. People from past and present are buried together in plots separated by the trails. The cemetery also has 7 confederate generals that we learned about in class. There was also some Hunley servicemen which died on the first confederate submarine of the civil war!

The stone showed above is one of my 3 favorites I was able to see. its a beautiful marble cross with flowers in the shape of a cross on it. The name on the stone was Marino but there was no dates or even a first name that i could find on the stone. I just thought it was a very cool and beautiful stone.

This is my next favorite stone and this one is probably my favorite stone of all its so beautiful and has an amazing back drop behind the first pond when you come in. Its the Pinckney gravesite where Thomas Pinckney and his wife are buried.

Lastly the Lipinski mausoleum would be my third favorite it is so beautiful and modern and is so well taken care of with trimming and all sorts of watering. It is also really cool that Tara Lipinski an olympic ice skater would want to be buried around here. It is truly beautiful.