Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Chest tombs which were common in 19th Century American graveyards were also referred to as false crypts because the coffin was not inside the chest tomb, but buried underneath underground. This chest tomb is not in the traditional box-shaped false crypt but an oval. As the chest tombs to the right show, they were constructed of many different materials, shapes, and sizes.
Sacred to Friendship
This tomb is erected to
the memory of
KATHERINE INGLIS
Who departed this life
July the 10th 1821
Aged 71 years.
And to
MARGARET McCALL
Who departed this life
March 22nd 1824
Aged seventy years.
United through life. United in the grave.
Gravely Speaking 