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332 Ebenezer Road, West Union, South Carolina 29696
Sunday School 10:00 am
Worship 11:00 am, 7:00 pm
Fairview Church and Cemetery
View Facing South The Current Fairview Church
View Facing North
Site of the Original Church
The Fairview Union church, located between present day
Walhalla and Seneca, was established with a gift of land from Mr. John A.
Cannon on August 10, 1857. The original building was built of logs,
heated with a fireplace and furnished with an organ and homemade long benches
without backs. It was located near the site of the current picnic
shelter. This building burned late one Sunday afternoon in 1893 after
a singing, and was replaced by the community with a one room building which
served as the beginnings of the current structure. Established as
a Union Church, Fairview was shared by Methodists and Presbyterians in
the community on alternating Sundays until 1918 when the Presbyterian services
were discontinued. Baptists shared the church with the Methodists
from 1922 until 1924. Methodists have used the church continuously
since it was established.
The Cemetery at Fairview Church
There are no surviving records of the Fairview cemetery.
The first recorded burial was in November of 1870 when Amanday Dodd was
buried, having died at on November 14 at age 52. The infant sons
of J.L. and M. A. Smith were buried in June of 1874, and Christan Frederick
Brucke was buried in 1875.
There are numerous stones in the cemetery which are either
unmarked or have had the markings worn away by weathering. Some of
these may pre-date 1870.
There are at least 20 Veterans of the Civil, First and
Second World Wars buried in the Fairview Church cemetery.
Wallace McMahan is the Church Cemetery Superintendent
This site is maintained by Gary McMahan
gmcmhn@yahoo.com
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