Some inscriptions from tombstones at the Old Concord Cemetery

       Allendale County,SC

 

 

Elvira Ann Hagood McPherson Estes  and Elliot Estes are buried at Concord Cemetery in Allendale County, S. C. Her tombstone has this inscription:

 

   FROM THE TOMBSTONE OF ELVIRA ANN ESTES

 

   THE REMAINS OF MRS. ELVIRA ANN ESTES

   RELICT OF REV. ELLIOTT ESTES

   ARE HERE DEPOSITED. 

   SHE WAS BORN SEPTEMBER, 1797,

   AND DIED MARCH 5, 1862,

   AGED 64 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AND 16 DAYS.

   SHE WAS A ZEALOUS MEMBER OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH

   AND LIVED A PIOUS AND USEFUL LIFE.

   WAS A TRUE AND SINCERE FRIEND EVER READY

   TO DO FOR OTHERS WHICH WAS HER GREATEST PLEASURE.

   WINNING THE LOVE AND ESTEEM OF ALL AS A PARENT

   THE MOST SACRIFICING AND DEVOTED.

   SHE LIVED THE LIFE OF THE RIGHTEOUS

   AND HER LAST END WAS LIKE HIS.

 

   MY MOTHER IS GONE HER WORK IS DONE AND SHE IS

   FULLY BLEST. SHE FOUGHT THE FIGHT, THE VICTORY

   WON AND ENTERED INTO REST.

 

   FROM THE TOMBSTONE OF REV. ELLIOTT ESTES:

 

   AFFECTIONS TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF REV. ELLIOTT ESTES,

   A NATIVE OF CAROLINE COUNTY, VA., BORN 23RD JULY 1795.

   DEPARTED THIS LIFE 9TH OF JUNE 1849 AT HIS OWN HOME

   IN BARNWELL DISTRICT, SO. CA.. AGED 53 YEARS, 10 MONTHS

   AND 14 DAYS.

   BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD, HE BEING

   DEAD YET SPEAKETH.

   HE WAS A GOOD MAN, AN AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND AND PARENT,

   A FRIEND INDEED. A BENEVOLENT AND LIBERAL CHRISTIAN

   RICH IN GOOD WORK, READY TO DISTRIBUTE, WILLING TO

   COMMUNICATE. HIS WORDS DO FOLLOW HIM. HE WAS A FAITHFUL

   CHRISTIAN MINISTER WHO SHUNNED NOT TO DECLINE THE WHOLE

   COUNSEL OF GOD. THE DIVINE SOVERIENTY WAS A DOCTRINE DEAR

   TO HIS HEART AND HE FAILED NOT TO TEACH THE DEPRAVITY AND

   RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN. WHO SHALL LAY ANYTHING TO THE

   CHARGE OF GOD'S ELECT, WHO WORKETH ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO 

   THE COUNSELS OF HIS OWN WILL, SHALL NOT THE JUDGE THE EARTH

   DO RIGHT.

 

   HE PREACHED THIRTY ONE YEARS AND WAS THE PASTOR OF ARNON AND

   BEECH BRANCH BAPTIST CHURCHES WHEN HE FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS.

   HIS BEREAVED WIDOW, SON AND DAUGHTER IN COMMITTING THE BODY

   OF THE LOVED ONE TO THE TOMB HAVE THE STRONGEST HOPE OF HIS

   BLESSED IMMORTALITY. HE WHO IS THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE

   WILL RAISE THIS FORM AGAIN THAT IS MAY BE FASHIONED LIKE HIS

   GLORIOUS BODY AND SO SHALL HE EVER BE WITH THE LORD.

 

   HUSBAND, THOU ART GONE TO REST

   THY TOIL AND CARES ARE O'RE.

   AND SORROW, PAIN AND SUFFERING NOW

   SHALL NEVER DISTURB THEE MORE.

 

   FATHER, THOU ART GONE TO REST

   AND  THIS SHALL BE OUR PRAYER

   THAT WHEN WE REACH OUR JOURNEY'S END

   THY GLORY WE MAY SHARE.

 

_________________________________________________________________

 

FROM THE GRAVE OF HARRIET SARAH ESTES BROOKS

 

HARRIET SARAH, WIFE OF WALKER IVESON BROOKS, ONLY

DAUGHTER OF REV. ELLIOTT ESTES, DEC.

B. JULY 5, 1835

D. OCT. 17, 1860

 

DEAR CHILD TIS PAINFUL THUS TO PART

BUT I'LL ENSHRINE THEE IN MY HEART

TILL WE SHALL MEET ABOVE

 

MY SISTER DEAR, FAREWELL, FAREWELL!

MY TEARS FOR THEE DO FLOW.

ERE LONG, I HOPE WITH THEE TO DWELL

WHERE PARTING IS NO MORE.

 

THE CHRISTIAN'S HOPE

PSALM XXIII

AFFECTIONS TRIBUTE

 

IN MEMORY OF A FONDLY ENDEARING WIFE,

A DAUGHTER DUTIFUL AND KIND, AN AFFECTIONATE

AND MUCH LOVED SISTER.

A MOTHER DEVOTED. OH!

HOW GENTLY, HOW LOVELY.

A WOMAN NOBLE, GENEROUS, BELOVED.

 

ERECTED BY MUCH BELOVED HUSBAND

WEEP NOT FOR HER!

SHE IS AN ANGEL NOW

AND TREADS THE SAPPHIRE FLOORS OF PARADISE.

ALL DARKNESS WIPED AWAY FROM HER REFULGENT BROW.

SIN, SORROW, SUFFERING BANISHED FROM HER EYES.

 

VICTORIOUS OVER DEATH,

TO HER APPEARS THE VISTA'D JOYS OF HEAVEN'S

ETERNAL YEARS.

WEEP NOT FOR HER.

 

_______________________________________________________________________

OTHER GRAVESTONES AT CONCORD CEMETERY

 

WALKER IVESON BROOKS

OCT. 26, 1826

JUNE 30, 1886

 

ELLIOT E. BROOKS

MARCH 13, 1854

FEB. 8, 1882

 

CAMILLE LAWTON CUNNINGHAM

OCT. 12, 1885

DEC. 17, 1928

 

SAMUEL WALKER LAWTON

DEC. 8, 1881

OCT. 2, 1882

 

SAMUEL GEORGE LAWTON

NOV. 21, 1838

AUG. 19, 1919

 

HARRIET BROOKS LAWTON

SEPT. 30, 1860

NOV. 13, 1927

 

 

REV. ANDREW BROADDUS ESTES

FEB. 17, 1832

MARCH 5, 1885

"I SHALL BE SATISFIED WHEN I AWAKE WITH THY LIKENESS.

 

ANNA CORNELIOUS, WIFE OF REV. A. B. ESTES.

JAN. 7, 1834

JAN. 15, 1909

ON MY HAND NO PRICE I BRING

STABLY TO THY CROSS I CLING.

 

There is also a grave of a Benj. Estes.                     

  

 

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