Category: Concord Presbyterian Cemetery

  • Jenny O’Neal Tombstone, Concord Presbyterian Cemetery

    One of the early settlers of the Carrick area. We are not absolutely sure of the first name, since the first letter of it is obliterated. “Jenny” is by far the most likely possibility. Here is Father Pitt’s transcription, which is partly speculative:

    IN MEMORY OF
    JENNY O’NEAL
    who departed this life
    —— 20th, A.D. 1836
    [Aged — years and —] months

    Below, a black-and-white picture with a different camera.

  • Grace I. Bell Monument, Concord Presbyterian Cemetery

    Grace Bell monument

    Father Pitt is not entirely sure of the middle initial; the best he can say is that it looks more like an I than like any other letter he can think of. Here is a lavishly romantic monument typical of the taste of the middle 1800s, when Carrick was a country settlement along the road to Brownsville.

    Here is Father Pitt’s attempt at a transcription, but he would be delighted to be corrected, since the stone has eroded to the point where some parts are not easily legible.

    In memory of
    Grace I. Bell
    Wife of Samuel Wallace
    Died Aug. 27, 1862.
    In the 66. year of her age

    Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord,
    From henceforth, yea, saith the Spirit,
    That they may rest from their labors.

    The epitaph is from Revelation 14:13. It leaves out the last words of the verse: “and their works do follow them.”

    To improve the chance of legibility, we reproduce the monument in both color and black and white.