You can take it with you

Conventional wisdom states that you can't take it with you. Visiting the Beaufort, North Carolina burial ground of "the really dead people place" proved this to be an old wives tale. The marker is the Old English symbol for the dollar. OK it looks like a dollar sign doesn't it? At any rate this is a real old grave marker with a symbol that looks like a early version of the dollar sign, what does it mean? I am to tired to google for the question, I axe you smart person scholar, what does it mean?