History of
Fairview Church Buildings

Early Church Records

Fairview's Ministers
 

Veterans in the
Fairview Cemetery

Cemetery Listings
by last name:

A-B-C   

D-E-F 

G-H-I   

 J-K-L 

 M-N-O  

P-Q-R 

S-T-U-Y 

W-X-Y-Z

The Fairview
Cemetery Fund

Acknowledgements

332 Ebenezer Road, West Union, South Carolina 29696
 
Sunday School 10:00 am
Worship 11:00 am, 7:00 pm
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Fairview Church and Cemetery
 

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 Christian 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 War and the First and Second World Wars buried in the Fairview Church cemetery. 
 

Wallace McMahan is the Church Cemetery Superintendent