Gorrell grave sites

Ralph and Mary Gorrell Grave Site

On September 22, 2002, we (Gwillim, Janice, and Evan Law) visited the graves of Ralph and Mary Gorrell, in the burial ground of Alamance Presbyterian Church near Greensboro, N.C. This is a view of the church, with the Gorrell plot at the lower left.

The Gorrells have three ledger stones placed side by side. Here are their pictures, from left to right:

The inscriptions, as nearly as I can tell, read as follows.

Right marker:
In memory of
RALPH GORRELL who
parted this Life Aprile the 16th
A.D. 1816 Aged 81 years
Come hither ye who walk around the tombs,
Draw nigh and see to what all glory comes
Once young and gay the pleasure of our eyes
Here deep in dust Ralph gorrell mouldering lies.
[Four more verses which I can't entirely make out]
DAVID SCOTT
sculpt
GREENSBORO

Center marker:
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY GORRELL,
CONSORT OF
RALPH GORRELL
who was born October 14th, AD 1745
and departed this Life
APRIL 25th, 1816
She was beloved in her Life
And Lamented At her Death

Left marker:
In                   | In
memory of            | memory of
CATHARINE DONNELL    | ANN THOM
consort of David     | consort of Samuel
Donnell who de-      | Thom who depar-
parted this life the | ted this life the
7th of October AD    | 22nd of november
1823 in the 50th     | 1821 in the 40th
year of her age.     | year of her age.
DAUGHTERS of RALPH and MARY GORRELL
Hark from the tombs a doleful sound
Mine ears attend the cries
Ye living men come view the ground
Where you must shortly lie.
D. SCOTT, sculpt
Greensboro, NC.

Note: the DeWees family history compiled by Martha DeWeese Wilkinson has the spelling Ann Thorn instead of Ann Thom. It's easy to confuse lowercase "rn" with "m," but the uppercase on the stone can't be confused with "RN."

In this picture, Evan is looking at all three markers.

We also stopped at Mount Hope United Church of Christ, a few miles to the east of Alamance Presbyterian Church, where we found some more Gorrell markers. Here is the church, seen from Mount Hope Church Road, and the markers I photographed.

The inscriptions are:
ROBERT C GORRELL
SOUTH CAROLINA
PVT CO G 119 INFANTRY
WORLD WAR I
NOV 4 1894   JUNE 11 1971

          GORRELL
"CHUCK"
G. CHARLIE      LILLIE SHAW
FEB. 12, 1898   JUNE 3, 1901
JUNE 3, 1976    NOV. 12, 1977