Dotting the landscape of eastern Virginia are historic churches with churchyards containing the mortal remains of their people. Epitaphs and funerary inscriptions abound in these cemeteries, and they offer a look into a variety of societal, economic, historic, and religious lives and times of the people they represent. During the colonial period (1607-1783), it was commonplace among individuals of certain classes to have tombstones with inscriptions and epitaphs. This paper will provide a case study in extant tombstone and grave inscriptions with a view towards the argument that one intent in churchyard epitaphs was to provide eschatological comfort. It is that eschatological comfort which will ultimately be the focus of this research. This paper will be limited in scope by region, date, and location to provide for research outcomes. Thus, this paper will be limited to Virginia, an epicenter of Colonial American life; to the period of 1607–1783, as it will survey extant gravestones from within that timeframe; and to a case study of three extant sites in colonial Virginia (Bruton Parish, Williamsburg, VA, St. Luke’s Church, Smithfield, VA and Abingdon Church, Gloucester County, VA). The paper will be structured in three elements. First, after providing a brief background survey of the research in the literature related to colonial epigraphy, it will document data collected from fieldwork and a detailed survey of all three church cemetery locations. Second, the paper will then be specifically streamlined to focus on the inscription data which points to a kind of Christian comfort and/or eschatological hope. Lastly, it will argue that one intent behind tombstone epitaphs was to provide Christian, theologically informed consolation in the face of death. This argument will be demonstrated from the data and not simply assumed. Thus, in the end, the paper will show that to this day, there are extant stones that “preach” a kind of Christian hope in the face of death.