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"BURYING GROUNDS, GRAVEYARDS AND CEMETERIES"                
 Laurens County, South Carolina  -- Volume One                  

Compiled by Laurens District Chapter, SCGS, it includes 88 Church
and Family Cemeteries, some of them dating back to the 1700's.
There are approximaCemeteriestely 7,000 names in the full name index. 
It has
288 pages bound in hard cover 8 1/2" x 11" on acid-free long-life
paper with County Map included. 
Cost is $35.00 plus 
$3.50 Shipping & Handling.

CHURCH CEMETERIES

Baptist:
Langston, Mt. Pleasant, Beaverdam, Bellview, Holly Grove, New
Prospect, Cross Hill 1st, Warrior Creek, Chestnut Ridge & Henderson

Methodist:
Old Bethlehem, New Zion, Leesville Southern, Owings, Sandy Springs,
Sardius, & O'Dells's Chapel

Presbyterian:
Duncan Creek, Lisbon, Owings, Rock Bridge, Mountville, Rocky
Springs, & Liberty Springs
 

FAMILY CEMETERIES

Madden, Henderson, Milner, Nickles, Wright, Holmes, Baldwin,
Simpson, Saxon, Cleveland, McDaniel, Dial, Cunningham, Walker,
Coleman, Davis, Williamson, Culbertson, Elledge, Cheek, Jones,
Meadors, Williams, Moore, McPherson, Fowler, Young, Crocker, Pyles,
Holland, Langston, Mahon, Martin, Abercrombie, Sims, Bolt, Mauldin,
Vance, Hitch-Hutchinson, Fuller-Ligon, Young-Wright, Leak, Nabers,
Bramlett, Garner, Meredith, & Franks-Simmons

COMMUNITY CEMETERIES

Rose Hill Cemetery, located in the Watts Mill (Wattsville) section
of Laurens County, which originally was a textile village.  First
burials were just after 1900.  This cemetery mainly serves Lucas
Avenue Baptist, St. James Methodist & Grace Covenant Presbyterian
Churches

Waterloo Cemetery, located in the Waterloo community, is so multi-
denominational. The earliest marked grave was in 1825.
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The Laurens District Chapter originally published this Volume One
in 1990.
 

 
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