Magnolia Cemetery Trust

It was a great place to hangout and walk around. Lot’s of history within the grounds.
The grounds needed some serious work, they looked like they hadn’t been mowed or trim in years. This made it very hard to appreciate the cemetery to it’s fullest.

This place is absolutely stunning! Pretty odd to say when you consider 1 — It’s a cemetery and 2 — when you think about the sheer number of souls buried here. This place is massive and majestic and magnificent all rolled in to one. Your allowed to walk the grounds free of charge. Just be respectful of the dead please. One notable comment, Magnolia is the final resting place for the remains of the confederate soldiers that were pulled from the Hunley. I highly encourage you to seek them out to check out their burial plot. The place is super old and has tombstones dating all the back to the 1700’s. It’s just odd to see what people would erect as a grave marker back then, compared to today’s standards. If or, when, you visit, don’t rush it. Slow down. Park the car and get out and walk among the tombstones. Get lost in the slower times. I promise you want be disappointed.

We walked around even though it was a little warm. There’s not many places to park so it looks like the most people are driving through. Either way it’s a beautiful place.
We enjoyed seeing the beautiful memorials to loved ones. I saw a few that I liked personally. They were just unusual.
I don’t know if it was because of Father’s Day or a Sunday but this place had quite a few more people than I expected.
There’s the Horace Hunley crew that is memorialized here and their spot is very noticeable especially with all the flags on the plot.

This place was a bit tough to find. I mistakingly went through a neighborhood that I was glad to get out of.
I went here solely to see the graves of the Hunley crews (that craft killed three seperate crews). But I stopped by a larger group of confederate graves (called the confederate grounds on their map) which included a fair number of CSN (confederate navy) tombstones. Some were killed in various battles of 1861 – 1863 and some in the defence of Charleston.
Then I went to the office at about noon to ask about any famous people who are buried at this cemetery. The lady gave me a map which had a list of some famous people. It had a list of people but since I didn’t recognize any of them I asked the lady she could perhaps point to any specially famous people. She annoyling pointed to the list and said that I could go see the grave of any one on the list. I asked one more time and got a gruffier rebuff. So I gave up and went on my way.
As I was walking out, I heard the outside door of the office open and I saw that same gruffy lady put out a sign that said ‘The office will be closed until 1pm and then she locked the door.
I guess that I was interrupting their very rigourously scheduled lunch hour.
So I went on to see the graves of the three Hunley crews. They are very well kept with lots of confederate flags next to them. It is fascinating to see the graves and to think that they were able to find a second crew after the first crew had been killed and that they had then found a third crew after the second crew had been killed.
There was also the grave of a guy in the USAAF killed over England in 1943. I would assume coming back from a B-​17 raid over occupied Europe. And of a Major Gen from World War Two.