Snow Hill Cemetery: Pray where you walk
By Marcya A. Joseph Guest Columnist
Snow Hill Cemetery is located in the city of Apalachicola, and like all cemeteries it is a sacred place. A place where as you walk you should pray and be aware that you might be walking upon an unmarked grown-over grave. It is naturally quiet and peaceful, yet alive with the collective spiritual presence of its inhabitants.
It is the place where my maternal grandparents were laid to rest along with aunts, uncles and cousins who had their beginnings in this little town.
On my childhood visits to Apalachicola my mother would always bring me to the cemetery to show me where her parents were buried and to sweep off their graves and bring brand-new silk flowers. Then she would pray and she would talk to them. This was primarily how I learned to have reverence for the dead and their resting places where they reposed free of the labors of the aboveground world.