Tag: Cemeteries

  • African-American Graveyard

    Squire

    By state law, people of African ancestry had to worship and be buried apart from people of European ancestry. The little African-American Graveyard in front of St. Philips Church was neglected, but has been restored to its simple dignity. A few original stones remain: Squire, above, had a stone just like the ones in God’s Acre, because, African or European, slave or free, all are equal in death. Most of the unmarked graves have now been marked with square flat stones in the Moravian manner.

    Stone marked “Adult”
  • God’s Acre

    I know that my Redeemer liveth

    The burying-ground for the Moravians of Old Salem, laid out in 1771. All the gravestones are the same size and shape, because all are equal in death.

    Emory Lindsay Raker
    God’s Acre
    God’s Acre with 100 North Main Street
    Infant son of J. G. & Eunice M. McMichael
    Because I live, ye shall live also
    Because I live, ye shall live also

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