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.