Memorials & Tributes

Click on an underlined name to read about the individual honored with verse.

MADISON'S FAVORITES

Tombstones often feature references from scripture offering comfort, hope, and assurance of eternal life and reflecting the faith of the deceased or their loved ones. Popular selections promise resurrection and eternal life, reference the afterlife, highlight a life well-lived in faith, and offer solace by promising an end to earthly pain and sorrows. Such verses often provide a sense of peace, making them fitting tributes on gravestones.

“A native of Georgia.” “The affection of his wife and children who knew him best, and valued him most places this stone to mark the spot of his resting place, which will ever be hallowed, by their love and gratitude.” “Peace to his ashes.”
Gen. Jeptha Vining Harris, Sr. [1782-1856]
Wingfield, Augustin S. [MM6][B-1] “Kind and generous hearted, he was loved by all who knew him.”
Augustin S. Wingfield [1819-1858]
“A friend.”
Charles Butler Markham [1859-1933]
“Of Northern birth yet a true Southern citizen and soldier.” Judge Sylvester Allen [1810-1886]
“A true citizen ever attentive and assisting the sick, the dying, and the dead.”
William W. Woods [1810-1876]

Brooks, Charles G. [B-2] “A model brother, an ideal citizen, A confederate soldier, a sincere generous Christian.”

“Charity, humility, and christian fortitude were her everyday virtues.”
Susan T. Reese Mann [1828-1852]
“Let the loved one with Jesus rest, a trophy of his grace, a Seraph in the presence of his glory.”
Anna Hill Wingfield [1846-1848]
“In this little grave world wide hopes are buried.” Carrie Ellen Alliston [1899-1914]

MADISON'S FAVORITES

Acts 13:36: “Having served their generation faithfully, by the will of God they fell asleep.” W.H. Collier [1837-1907]
1 Corinthians 15:54: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” Thomas B. Baldwin [1816-1855]
2 Corinthians 5:8: “Absent from the body - now present with the Lord.”
Robert Walter Trotter, Sr. [1931-1987]
Hebrews 4:9: "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. Rest weary pilgrims. How precious that rest promised to the good and faithful. Loved loved ones, strive to obtain this rest."
Elizabeth Shaw [1812-1882]
Dr. Seaborn Saffold [1789-1859]
Hebrews 11:4: “She being dead yet speaketh.”;
"Tho dead, she yet speaketh.”
Mary Morton Wingfield [1798-1851]
Julia A. Burney [1809-1844]
Hebrews 11:25: “She chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season.”
Frances Sturges Wingfield [1824-1846]
Isaiah 40:11: "He will carry the lambs in his bosom."
Job 14:12: “Rest, my child, in hope until the Heavens shall be no more.” Anna C. Arnold [1845-1860]
Job 16:18-19: “O earth, cover not thou my blood and let my cry have no place. My witness is in Heaven, and my record is on high.”
Augustus P. Rea [xx-1851]
Job 19:26: “In my flesh shall I see God.”
Alfred Eubanks [1799-1857]
2 Kings 4:26: “It is well with the child.”
Gazaway E Crawford [1850-1853]

Luke 8:52 / Matthew 9:24: “She was a faithful wife and kind mother and a devoted Christian, and died praising God and said let my epitaph be ‘Not dead but sleepeth’.”; “She is not dead, but sleepeth.”
Frances Shields [1794-1883]
Caroline M. C. Ray Burnett [1823-1864]
Mark 11:22: “Have faith in God.”
Lillie Ackerman [1856-1893]
Mark 14:8: “She hath done what she could.”
Numbers 23:10: "Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his.”
Charter Campbell {xxxx-xxxx]
Proverbs 4:18: “The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” Mary E. Baker [XXXX-1849], Adam G. Saffold [1784-1850]
Proverbs 16:31: “The hoary head is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.”
Susanna Taylor [1768-1846]
Psalm 116:15: “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints.”
Joice H. Wittich [1782-1826]
Dr. John Wingfield [1791-1857]
Cynthia Killian [1807-1875]
Hawesie Vickers Moore[1893-1920]
Psalm 127:2: "In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for he grants sleep to those he loves" or “He giveth his beloveth sleep.”
Julia S. Saffold [1799-1877]
Anna Mabel Hilsman [1868-1889]
2 Samuel 12:23: “We shall go to him but he will not return to us.”
Orrin H. Markham [1853-1853]