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Tombstone Tuesday: Seiler Monument & the Virtue Charity

Charles Seiler Born Aug 15, 1839 - Died Jan 9, 1912 -------------------------------------- Ernestine Beloved Wife of Charles Seiler Born Nov 9, 1839 - Died Jan 28, 1894 Bonaventure Cemetery Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia From Douglas Keister's Forever Dixie : "This statue of the virtue Charity, with her hand at her breast and offering a rose, marks the graves of Charles and Ernestine Seiler." Wikipedia states, "In Christian theology charity, or love, means an unlimited loving-kindness toward all others." Oftentimes, Charity is shown with children around her. This time, she stands alone. I Corinthians Chapter 13 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all m...