Magnolia Cemetery: Older than The Virgin Mary?

Magnolia Cemetery is by far the most amazing graveyard I have visited in my life. The variety of different gravestones was amazing and the setting on the water just topped it off. The cemetery opened in 1850 and now contains more than 35,000 buried bodies, including seven confederate generals. I was stunned by the art and amount of time that was probably put in on a lot of these gravestones.

The layout of the cemetery was beautiful. Two decent sized ponds along with the marsh towards the back of the cemetery. There were many amazing trees including the giant oak towards the end of our tour. The walk ability was great, we were able to walk up to almost every grave and there was a defined walkway that went around the entire cemetery.

My favorite gravestone was Rosalie Raymond's. Raymond was only an infant when she passed away but the gravestone is very unique. The gravestone is the shape of stroller or crib and contains flowers as well as a painted picture of the infant. She was born January 27th 1887 and died September 5th 1889.

My second favorite gravestone was the mausoleum of the Lipinski family. The amazing little building was built by Tara Lipinski's parents, famous figure skater, and her parents plan to rest inside of it after life. Interestingly enough, I actually had the opportunity to visit her beautiful mansion on Kiawah Island this past summer.

The final gravestone that I was interested in was a pyramid tomb. The grave looked interesting but the inside is what was very intriguing to me. The inside had a giant hole it in where you could see at least 5 layers of concrete underground.