First Scots Presbyterian Church Grave Hunt

Here at the First Scots Presbyterian church grave site, there is roughly about 200 people buried here. This site is not very well kept, making some grave markers very hard to see and it is also old which makes a lot of the markers very hard to read.

My teammates Jaxon, Bryce, and I spent nearly two and a half hours trying to identify what most of the tombstones read and seeing which three was the oldest. To name a few markers here, there were headstones, footstones, plaque markers, obelisk, bedstead, die in socket, box tomb, government issue general type, die base and cap, table tomb, pedestal tomb-vaulted roof, ledger, and fussed top. Below, you will find examples of each.

Pedestal tomb vaulted roof
Buried here is Frances G. Carew wife of
John E. Carew (1820)

Table Tomb

Die. Base and Cap

Buried here is Caroline McDowell Welch 1849-1935

Samuel B. Welch 1819-1872

Eliza W. Welch 1815-1910

Fussed Top

Government issue general type
Buried here is Capt. John Morrison
1821-1852

Bedstead

Box tomb

Far left: Obelisk

Ledger

The most common grave markers found here were the ledgers or flat bed and footstones. Many of the flat beds here are very hard to read. Many of the footnotes don't have dates, just initials of the people who may be buried there.

Harriet Chisolm Wilson
June 9, 1908 - February 22, 1999

Gabrielle McCoil Wilson
March 9, 1911- April 4, 2009
Robert Wilson, M.D.
May 3, 1905-August 20, 1985
Robert Wilson VI, M.D.
April 27, 1936

The oldest grave site my teammates and I saw were from from the early to mid 1800's. We are sure that there are many older grave sites here, but with the graveyard not being well kept, grown in, and monuments being very old, it was hard to read some of the older markers. Also, we did't find many interesting except for the baby marker and the Lieutenant US Navy marker.

Many of the grave markers here that had epitaph's were very hard to read. However, it was one that was very clear which we found interesting.