William Burroughs (Burrows) Smith was one of the wealthiest men in Charleston. He built his fortune as a cotton trader. When he died, he stayed in the receiving vault for two years while the pyramid designed by Edward Jones was built.
The Georgia School of Technology built the doors. During this time, Georgia Tech ran a contract shop where they would build items to specifications. These doors cost $300 to build. This shop only lasted until 1896.
The entryway illustrates several different symbols. The upside-down torches represent a “life extinguished. The hourglass at the top of the door represents time is ending. The wings combined with an hourglass means that our time is fleeting.
The stained glass window that can be seen through the windows in the doorAnother view of the sideThe view of the back side
The Historic American Building Survey was commissioned to create the architectural drawings of the Mausoleum.
The Archdale House was featured in the 1895 book, Examples of colonial architecture in South Carolina and Georgia: Charleston, S. C., and Savannah, Ga. by Edward Crane and E. E. Soderholtz. Lambs, South Carolina, is now considered a part of Dorchester, and the ruins of the home can still be seen. It is believed the home was built in the early 1700s. It stood until the 1886 Charleston earthquake. The land and home stayed in the Richard Baker family for decades. A full description of the house’s history and the family is available here.
Rosalie Raymond White, who died at seven months old in 1882, was one of seven children of Blake and Rosalie White. Only two of their children lived to see adulthood.
Rosalie was the White’s first child. Her likeness is carved in relief on a bassinet. Some suggest this is a death mask, which is a likeness created directly from a mold of the person’s face. At any point of the year, different flowers are planted in the bassinet.
The Victorians often used symbols and words to indicate someone “sleeping.” The bassinet represents this concept.
I visited Charleston in 2019 to visit the cemeteries there. If you’ve visited Magnolia Cemetery, you will know there are several cemeteries in the area. As I was leaving Magnolia, I was driving down the side roads around the other cemeteries when I noticed Ethel Lance’s marker.
The grounds were being tended to, so I had to wait until the mowers moved away from the marker. Once I got out, I noticed that she was buried near several other members of the Mother Emanuel mass murders.
Cynthia HurdSusie JacksonTywanza Sanders
The other victims are buried in different cemeteries around Charleston and South Carolina.
Founded in 1681, the Circular Congregational Church is one of the oldest churches in continual use in Charleston. The burial ground, also known as graveyard since it is next to the church, is the oldest one in the city. The first burial occurred in 1695.
George Hesket, 1690-1847
Many of the grave markers are made of slate and carved in New England. The tympanic markers illustrate the evolution of grave symbolism. Skull and crossbones were part of the earlier designs, but they evolved to angels and portraiture. The graveyard contains the most slate markers in a Southern state.
Reverend Guliemi Hutson, 1720-1761Solomon Milner, 1727-1757David Stoddard, d. 1769
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