Bay St. Louis Mississippi

This morning mom and I got up early and headed for the casino.  It was a very good day for us.  On top of winning a few extra dollars we lucked into a seafood buffet for 9.99 a piece.  There are days I am so happy to be over 50…   Tomorrow we are planning on spending the night near Baton Rouge. 

While we were in Apalachicola Florida, mom and I stopped at Chestnut Street Cemetery, a historical cemetery .  Dr. Alvin Wentworth Chapman, Botanist, is buried there.  Dr. Chapman was the author of "Flora of the Southern United States", first published in 1860 with several later editions by the author. For nearly fifty years this was the only manual of flowering plants in the southeastern states. An 1830 graduate of Amherst College, he moved to the south in 1831 and to Apalachicola, Florida in 1847 where he practiced medicine. He collected rare plants throughout the southeast and stayed in contact with northern botanists including Asa Gray. The genus Chapmania was named in his honor

Some of the stones in the cemetery showed signs of repair but other than that, it was in poor shape.  Which is distressing to me because there is so much history there.

A few pictures I took of the cemetery. 

	Epitaph Found At at Chestnut Street Cemetery Jesus, while our hearts are bleeding O’er the spoils that death has won, We would at this solemn meeting Calmly say, “Thy will be done.” Moravian melody written by Thomas Hastings
	Epitaph Found At at Chestnut Street Cemetery When I am dead and all will soon forgot My words and face and ways I somehow think I'll walk beside thee yet Adorn thy afterdays. I die first and you will see my grave But children you must not cry For my dead hand will brightest blessing wave O'er you from yonder sky.
	Epitaph Found At at Chestnut Street Cemetery All that which pleases only for a moment All that troubles us is but for a moment That only is important which is eternal.
Epitaph Found At at Chestnut Street Cemetery Clarence Goet Tinger closed his eyes in death, and flesh and spirit severed When earth and father-land and home With all their beauty Sank in gloom say was it to be forever No not forever
	Epitaph Found At at Chestnut Street Cemetery While we weep as Jesus wept Thou shalt sleep as Jesus slept With they Saviour thou shalt rest Crowned and glorified and blest