St. Philip's has two graveyards...one that surrounds the church on Church Street. The West Cemetery is located across the street. The church was established in 1680 and it the oldest congregational south of Virgina.
This cemetery is very well maintain and is beautiful with all the azaleas that had bloomed a couple of weeks earlier.
There are more slate headstones here...
and portraiture's...
This is Mary Owens...
A winged angel with the inscription, "Sacred to the Memory of..."
Another depiction of a winged angel...
Little Lillie...
A touching epitaph of Maynard Marshall Canfield taken too early in life...
"Doomed to know not Winter, only Spring a being
trod the flowery April blithely for awhile.
Took his fill of life, joy of thought and seeing,
Came and stayed and went, nor ever ceased to smile.
Ah that life contains of torture, toil and treason.
Shame, dishonour, death to him but were a name,
Here he dwelt through all the singing season
And ere the day of sorrow departed as he came."
There is also this disclaimer because of a famous picture that was taken here in 1987...
It depicts the ghost of Susan Howard Hardy...watch this video.
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