"A visit to a graveyard should do the heart as much good as the best sermon ever delivered," … "We love to visit this sacred spot. We love to see it look as if those resting within it were not forgotten by those whom they loved in life." ~ Charles W. Hancock Editor THE SUMTER REPUBLICAN

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This Is a Cemetery…

Lives are commemorated – deaths are recorded – families are reunited – memories are made tangible – and love is undisguised.

This is a cemetery.

Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.

Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life – not death – of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.

A cemetery is a history of people – a perpetual record of yesterday and a sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because every life is worth loving and remembering – always.

copyright: Mary Lou Brannon - Certified Memorialist

Brannon Monument Co.

Your tombstone stands among the rest;

Neglected and alone.

The name and date are chiseled out

On polished, marbled stone.

It reaches out to all who care.

It's much too late to mourn.

You did not know that I exist

You died, and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you

In flesh, in blood, in bone.

Our blood contracts and beats a pulse

Entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled

So many years ago

Spreads out among the ones you left

Who would have loved you so.

I wonder how you lived and loved,

I wonder if you knew,

That someday I would find this spot,

And come to visit you.

...Author Unknown....