Symbol Scavenger Hunt

This week our class visited the Bethel United Methodist Church graveyard and looked for ten different symbols on grave markers to later research and discover their meanings. The Bethel Methodist Church is distinguished as a National Historic Landmark and has been in established in Charleston for almost 220 years! On my scavenger hunt, this is what I found:

This is the headstone of Elizabeth Moore. The symbol
on the grave is an Angel lighting a candle which
represents protection on the journey to Heaven and a
life ended too soon. From the writing on the grave
I've determined Elizabeth was in good health when
she died at age 65 unexpectedly. 

This is the headstone of Catharine Frances who died
of Yellow Fever at age 3 years old. The leaves represent innocence of the child and the broken rose bud explains the death of a girl before blossoming into adulthood.