Colleton County, South Carolina Cemeteries
- Main article: Colleton County, South Carolina
Colleton is an old county. Cemeteries date back to 1788.
Getting Started[edit | edit source]
Two of the best resources for Colleton County cemetery searches are:
- Bryan, Evelyn McDaniel Frazier and Gibson Howard Bryan. Cemeteries of Upper Colleton County, South Carolina. Jacksonville, Fla.: Florentine Press, 1974. FS Library Book 975.795 V22b
- South Carolina Genealogical Society. Old St. Bartholomew Chapter. Cemetery Inscriptions of Lower Colleton County, South Carolina. Waterboro, S.C.: Old St. Bartholomew Genealogical Chapter, 2000. FS Library Book 975.795 V3c
Online Resources[edit | edit source]
The South Carolina Cemeteries page provides explanations of the following online resources:
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To be thorough, search online and printed versions of a cemetery's gravestones. For those who have the opportunity to visit the cemetery in person, important clues can be learned from how graves are spaced. Relatives were often buried near one another.
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Macedonia [AA] [1980] Magwood [AA] [1929] Mannerack Cemetery [1999] Maple Cane Baptist Church Cemetery [1879] Martin Cemetery [1860] May Family Cemetery McCants Cemetery [AA] [1925]McCune Branch Baptist Church Cemetery [1915] McDonald Family Cemetery [1838] McMillan, John Family Cemetery [1863] Medlin Cemetery [2000] Meeting House Family Cemetery [White Meeting?] [1882] Middleton Cemetery [AA] [1898] Minus-Conner Family Cemetery Mitchell Cemetery [AA] [1986] Montgomery Family Cemetery [1997] Mt. Carmel Rose Garden Cemetery [1958] Mt. Carmel Southern Methodist Church Cemetery [1941] Mt. Carmel United Methodist Church Cemetery [1884] Mt. Olive AME Church [AA] [1918] Mt. Nebo Baptist Church Cemetery [AA] Mt. Zion AME Church Cemetery [AA] [1925] Mt. Zion Baptist Church [1967] Mulberry [AA] [No markers remain] Munro Cemetery [179?] Murdaugh Family Cemetery [1855] Murray Cemetery [AA] [1907] Myrtle Grove Plantation [AA] [1892] Nazarene Baptist Church [AA] 1943] Neyle, Henry Farm Cemetery [1863] Newhouse Cemetery [AA] [1968] The Oaks Plantation Oakman Branch Memorial Gardens [AA] [1993] Old Cedar Cemetery [1855] Old Ebenezer Church at Ashepoo [AA] [1904] Old Field Creek Cemetery [@1859] Old House at Molcenia Plantation [AA] [1895] Old Macadonia [AA] [1920] Old Miss Cemetery Old Round O Baptist Cemetery [1857] Old St. Paul’s Stono Cemetery Orange Grove Plantation Cemetery [AA] [1885] Padgett Family Cemetery [1897] Padgett, Benton Family Cemetery [No markers remain] Padgett, Isham Family Cemetery [No markers remain] Patrick [Hucks, Liston] Family Cemetery (1849) Paul Cemetery [AA] [1940] Peniel Baptist Church Cemetery [1888] Peniel United Methodist Church Cemetery [1881] Perry Family Cemetery [1822] Pine Grove No. 1 Baptist Church Cemetery [1897] Pleasant Grove Baptist Church [1887] Poco Sabo Plantation / Bellinger Cemetery [1801] Polk Family Cemetery [1894] Pon Pon Chapel of Ease [1795] Postell Cemetery [1810] Preston [AA] [1933] Price Cemetery [AA] [1901] Pringle Cemetery [AA] [1930] Pringle Bend Cemetery [1769] Providence United Methodist Cemetery [1883] Pye Cemetery [1841] Pynes Cemetery [AA] [1898] Ramsey Family Cemetery [1878] Red Bank United Methodist Church [AA] [1906] Reeves Cemetery [1997] Rehoboth Methodist Church Cemetery [1892] Rentz- Campbell Cemetery [1833] Rice Path Christian Church Cemetery [1897] Rice Family Cemetery/Wiggins [1950] [No markers remain] Rice [Risher] Family Cemetery [1843] Richardson Family Cemetery [1990] Risher, Col. Joseph [Padgett] Family Cemetery [1857] Risher, Richard Family Cemetery [1827] Risher - Spell Cemetery [1897] River Cemetery [AA] [1911] Riverside Plantation Cemetery [1860] [No markers remain] Rizer Family Cemetery [1870] Robinson Family Cemetery [No markers remain] Rock Spring Rose Hill at Bluff Plantation [AA] [1886] Rose Hill at Laurel Springs [AA] [1909] Round O Baptist Cemetery [@1857] Ruffin Baptist Church Cemetery [1945] Salkehatchie Presbyterian Church Cemetery [1790] [State Marker] Salley-Warren Cemetery Samaritan Baptist Church Cemetery [AA] [1976] Sanders Cemetery #1 [AA] [1918] Sanders Cemetery –Round O [AA] [1875] Sanders Family Cemetery [1814] Sanders Hill Sandy Dam Methodist Cemetery [1854] Sandy Run [AA] [1953] Savannah Hill [AA] [1880] Scott Cemetery [AA] [1942] Setti Family Cemetery [1984] Shieder, Raysor, Risher Family Cemetery Sheridan Cemetery [1911] Sheridan Cemetery (Dr.) 1853] Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery [1893] Simmons Cemetery [AA] [1905] Smith, Getha E. Family Cemetery [1910] Smith, Jasper M. Family Cemetery [1853] Smith, J. W. Cemetery [Confederate Marker/No Dates] Smith, Sam Cemetery [AA] [1902] Smith, William H. [York] Family Cemetery [1891] Smoak Family Cemetery [1834] Smoaks Baptist Church Cemetery [1876] Smoaks Trinity Methodist Church Cemetery [1955] Smyly Family Cemetery [1853] Snipes Cemetery at Green Pond [AA] [1905] Spell, Paul W Cemetery [1857] Spell Cemetery [1843] Springhill [AA] [1901] Spring Hill Baptist Cemetery [1888] St. James Catholic Cemetery [1835] St. Mary Cemetery [AA] [1917] St. Paul CMC Church [AA] [1905] Stephens Family Cemetery 1845] Stock Cemetery [AA] [1899] Stock Cemetery [1784] Stokes Cemetery [1884]Stokes, Peter Family Cemetery (1817) Aka May, Peter Stokes, Raysor Family Cemetery Stokes - Connor - Williams Cemetery [1841] (Stokes) William Stokes and Henry Stokes Family Cemetery [1814] Aka Stokes-Tucker Family Cemetery Strickland Family Cemetery [1890] Sutton Cemetery [1996] Sycamore Tract Cemetery [AA] [1930] Sykes-Savannah United Methodist Church [AA] Tabernacle Methodist Church Cemetery (1876) Tabor Methodist Church Cemetery [1904] Thomas Family Cemetery [1866] Tillman Cemetery [AA] [1986] Toomer Cemetery [AA] Tomotly Slave Cemetery [AA] [1818] Tomotly Plantation Cemetery [1816] Trinity Methodist Church Cemetery Ulmer Family Cemetery [1875] Varn Family Cemetery [1860] Varn, Daniel D. Family Cemetery [no markers remain] Walker, George W. Family Cemetery [No markers remain] Walker, Isham Family Cemetery [1833] Walker, Dr. J. B. Grave [1848] Warren Family Cemetery [1799] Warren, Key Family Cemetery [1851] Welch Creek Baptist Church Cemetery [1975] Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery [1832] Wesley Grove UMC [AA] [1929] White Cemetery White Family Cemetery White Hall Cemetery [AA] [1904] White House Plantation/Bellinger [1848] White House Plantation [AA] [1911] White Meeting House Cemetery Whitmarsh Wiggins Cemetery [AA] Williams Cemetery [1879] Williams Family Cemetery Williams Cemetery [AA] [1973] Williams, Rev. B. W. [AA] [1918] Williams, J. B. (Butch) Family Cemetery (1900) Woodfoot Cemetery [AA] [1913] Zion AME Church [AA] [1904] Zion Baptist Church Cemetery [AA] [1963] Zion UMC Cemetery [AA] [1913]
| Cemetery | Location | Online Transcript | Book |
| Adams Family | Interment.net | ||
| Baldwin Family | Interment.net | ||
| Buckhead | Interment.net | ||
| Canaan | Interment.net | ||
| Canadys | Interment.net | ||
| Cooks Hill | Interment.net | ||
| Ebenezer Baptist | Interment.net | ||
| Hickory Hill Baptist | Interment.net | ||
| J.B. Williams | Interment.net | ||
| Jones | Interment.net | ||
| Koger | Interment.net | ||
| Larisey | Interment.net | ||
| Lodge | Interment.net | ||
| Mount Carmel | Interment.net | ||
| Trinity Methodist | Interment.net | ||
| Abraham CME Church [AA] [1909] | Find a Grave | ||
| Ackerman Cemetery at Red Oak [1862] | Find a Grave | ||
| Ackerman Cemetery at Round O [1902] | Find a Grave | ||
| Adams-McMillan Cemetery [1916] | Find a Grave | ||
| Adnah Methodist Church Cemetery [1899] | Find a Grave | ||
| Aimwell Presbyterian Church Cemetery [AA] [1874] | Find a Grave | ||
| Amanda Brown Cemetery [AA] [1992] | Find a Grave | ||
| Antioch Memorial [AA] [1984] | Find a Grave | ||
| Ashepoo Fee Farm [AA] [1896] | Find a Grave | ||
| Ashton Cemetery [1920] | Find a Grave | ||
| Baldwin Family Cemetery [1998] | Find a Grave | ||
| Baptist Hill [AA] [1905] | Find a Grave | ||
| Barry Family Cemetery [1995] | Find a Grave | ||
| Battleham [AA] [1936] | Find a Grave | ||
| Bedon Baptist Church Cemetery [1864] | Find a Grave | ||
| Bennett Family Cemetery [1907] | Find a Grave | ||
| Bennett-Spell Cemetery [AA] [1946] | Find a Grave | ||
| Benton Family Cemetery [1882] | Find a Grave | ||
| Benton, Ulmer, Bowers Family Cemetery [1887] | Find a Grave | ||
| Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery [1970] | Find a Grave | ||
| Bethel Presbyterian Church Cemetery [1788] | Find a Grave | ||
| Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery [1844] | Find a Grave | ||
| Black Creek Baptist Church Cemetery [1917] | Find a Grave | ||
| Black Family Cemetery [1898] | Find a Grave | ||
| Blocker Family Cemetery [1855] [No markers remain] | Find a Grave | ||
| Blue House [AA] [1970] | Find a Grave | ||
| Blue House #2 [AA] | Find a Grave | ||
| Bluff Plantation [AA] | Find a Grave | ||
| Boatright Grave [1861] | Find a Grave | ||
| Breland Family Cemetery [1850] | Find a Grave | ||
| Brick Band Cemetery [AA] [1904] | Find a Grave | ||
| Bridge Cemetery [1918] | Find a Grave | ||
| Buckhead Cemetery Buckhead Advent Christian Church Cemetery [1909] | Find a Grave | ||
| Buncomb [AA] [1957] | Find a Grave | ||
| Burr Hill Cemetery [AA] [1946] | Find a Grave | ||
| Buzzard’s Roost [AA] [1904] | Find a Grave | ||
| Camp Buddy [AA] [1935] | Find a Grave | ||
| Campbell [AA] [1906] | Find a Grave | ||
| Canaan Baptist Church Cemetery [1930] | Find a Grave | ||
| Canaday’s Cemetery [1890] | Find a Grave | ||
| Canady Family Cemetery [1893] | Find a Grave | ||
| Carson Family Cemetery [1915] | Find a Grave | ||
| Carter-Gatch Family Cemetery [No markers remain] | Find a Grave | ||
| Carter’s Ford Baptist Church Cemetery [1862] | Find a Grave | ||
| Carter Family Cemetery [1853] [Bamberg County] | Find a Grave | ||
| Carter, Philip Cemetery [1882] | Find a Grave | ||
| Carter’s Ford Baptist Church Cemetery [1863] | Find a Grave | ||
| Cattles Cemetery [No dates] | Find a Grave | ||
| Charlie Brown [AA] [No markers remain] | Find a Grave | ||
| Cherokee Plantation [AA] [1906] | Find a Grave | ||
| Chisolm [AA] [1967] | Find a Grave | ||
| Church Hill Cemetery [1916] | Find a Grave | ||
| Cockfield (or Riceland?) [AA] [1921] | Find a Grave | ||
| Colleton Mill Cemetery [1847] | Find a Grave | ||
| Combahee on Chee Haw Cemetery [AA] [1897] | Find a Grave | ||
| Combahee Landing [AA] [1941] | Find a Grave | ||
| Community Cemetery [AA] [1971] | Find a Grave | ||
| Conner Cemetery Cooks Hill [AA] [1912] | Find a Grave | ||
| Cottageville Cemetery [1833] | Find a Grave | ||
| Cottageville Baptist Church Cross Swamp Methodist Church Cemetery [1855] | Find a Grave | ||
| Cumberland United Methodist Church [AA] [1913] | Find a Grave | ||
| Cypress [AA] [1909] | Find a Grave | ||
| Dawn of Hope Cemetery Davis | Find a Grave | ||
| Capt. John Nicholas Grave [1852] | Find a Grave | ||
| Davis Cemetery [1889] | Find a Grave | ||
| Deal Family Cemetery [2001] | Find a Grave | ||
| Doctor’s Creek Baptist Church [1873] | Find a Grave | ||
| Drayton [1926] | Find a Grave | ||
| DuBois Family [1876] | Find a Grave | ||
| Dunham at Spring Hill [1880] | Find a Grave | ||
| Ebenezer Baptist Church [1961] | Find a Grave | ||
| Ebenezer Church @ Ashepoo | Find a Grave | ||
| Ebenezer Methodist Church [1892] | Find a Grave | ||
| Edash | Find a Grave | ||
| Edmundsbury Chapel [1773] | Find a Grave | ||
| Evergreen Christian Church [1878] | Find a Grave | ||
| Fee Farm | Find a Grave | ||
| Fender/Avant Family [1905] | Find a Grave | ||
| Fennicks | Find a Grave | ||
| Fenwick Island | Find a Grave | ||
| Ferguson | Find a Grave | ||
| Fields Billy Family Cemetery [1896] | Find a Grave | ||
| Fish-Broxton Family | Find a Grave | ||
| Fishburne | Round O | Find a Grave | |
| Fishburne Family [1991] | Find a Grave | ||
| Fishburne Hill [1917] | Find a Grave | ||
| Fish Creek | Find a Grave | ||
| Fisk, Jacob C. Grave [1936] | Find a Grave | ||
| Fist Creek | Find a Grave | ||
| Folly Creek [1908] | Find a Grave | ||
| Fox [1903] | Find a Grave | ||
| Fox [1862] | Find a Grave | ||
| Fraiser [1913] | Find a Grave | ||
| Galilee Baptist Church [1954] | Find a Grave | ||
| Gallows Hill [1888] | Find a Grave | ||
| Garrett [1962] | Find a Grave | ||
| Garris Family [1900] | Find a Grave | ||
| Garris, J. W. Grave [1922] | Find a Grave | ||
| Gatch, Franklin | Find a Grave | ||
| Glendale Memorial [1941] | Walterboro | Find a Grave | |
| Glover Family [1838] | Find a Grave | ||
| Goff [1924] | Find a Grave | ||
| Goodwin Family [@1870] | Find a Grave | ||
| Goodwin, Padgett Family [1884] | Find a Grave | ||
| Grace Advent Christian Church [1885] | Find a Grave | ||
| Grant [1908] | Find a Grave | ||
| Greater Mt. Olive AME Church [1929] | Find a Grave | ||
| Great Swamp Baptist Church [1991] | Find a Grave | ||
| Green | Find a Grave | ||
| Green Pond Baptist [1960] | Find a Grave | ||
| Green Pond Memorial Cemetery [1918] | Find a Grave | ||
| Green Pond United Methodist Church [1902] | Find a Grave | ||
| Greenlawn Memorial Gardens [1915] | Find a Grave | ||
| Grover Memorial Baptist Church [1962] | Find a Grave | ||
| Gruber [1790] | Find a Grave | ||
| Hagan Family [1876] | Find a Grave | ||
| Hamilton [1881] | Find a Grave | ||
| Hayne, Isaac and Hayne Family [1718] | Find a Grave | ||
| Heavenly Rest [1975] | Find a Grave | ||
| Heyward [1890] | Find a Grave | ||
| Herndon, John [1884] | Find a Grave | ||
| Hickory Hill Baptist Church [1895] | Find a Grave | ||
| Hiers Family [1886] | Find a Grave | ||
| Hiott [1911] | Find a Grave | ||
| Holden [1931] | Find a Grave | ||
| Hudson [1881] | Find a Grave | ||
| Hudson [1909] | Find a Grave | ||
| Hughes [1935] | Find a Grave | ||
| Hughes, Baby Girl Grave [1881] | Find a Grave | ||
| Hunter Gate [1994] | Find a Grave | ||
| Hunters Chapel Baptist Church, Hutchinson Island [1962] | Find a Grave | ||
| Hutchinson Island [1894] | Find a Grave | ||
| Island Creek [1860] | Find a Grave | ||
| Island Creek [1911] | Find a Grave | ||
| Jacksonboro Baptist [1958] | Find a Grave | ||
| Jacques/Jaques [1821] | Find a Grave | ||
| Johns, Richardson Family [1851] | Find a Grave | ||
| Jones Family [1875] | Find a Grave | ||
| Jones, English Family [1910] | Find a Grave | ||
| Jones, Isham Family [called Hickory Cemetery by locals] [Pre 1894] | Find a Grave | ||
| Jonesville [1874] | Find a Grave | ||
| Jones Swamp Pentecostal Holiness Church [1944] | Find a Grave | ||
| Jordan [1896] | Find a Grave | ||
| Judge [1925] | Find a Grave | ||
| Key Family [1851] | Find a Grave | ||
| Kicklighter Family [1893] | Find a Grave | ||
| Kinard Family [1910] | Find a Grave | ||
| Kinsey [1902] | Find a Grave | ||
| Koger Family [1874] | Find a Grave | ||
| Larisey [1844] | Find a Grave | ||
| Laurel Springs Plantation [1906] | Find a Grave | ||
| Lemack’s Family Cemetery Linder [No markers remain] | Find a Grave | ||
| Little Rock Holiness Church [1921] | Find a Grave | ||
| Little Swamp Methodist Church | Find a Grave | ||
| Live Oak [1806] | Find a Grave | ||
| Live Oak [AA] | Find a Grave | ||
| Live Oak Hill [1828] | Find a Grave | ||
| Lodge Methodist Church [1910] | Find a Grave | ||
| Longfield [1892] | Find a Grave | ||
| Lovely Hill Baptist Church [1918] | Find a Grave | ||
| Lynah [1881] | Find a Grave | ||
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Bibliography[edit | edit source]
- Bryan, Evelyn McDaniel Frazier and Gibson Howard Bryan. Cemeteries of Upper Colleton County, South Carolina. Jacksonville, Fla.: Florentine Press, 1974. FS Library Book 975.795 V22b
- Cawley, Henry Hughes. Inscriptions from Tombstones, Cypress Camp Grounds, Colleton County, South Carolina Located near Ridgeville, Just Off the Charleston to Orangeburg Highway. Microfilmed 1972. FS Library Book 975.7 A1 no. 4
- Glover, Beulah. "Tombstone Inscriptions, Colleton County," The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Jan., 1939), pp. 36-39. Digital version at JSTOR ($).
- Harley, Lillian H., Pattie W. Heaton, and Lillian D. Kizer. Cemetery Inscriptions of Colleton and Dorchester Counties, South Carolina. St. George, S.C.: Dorchester Eagle-Record Pub. Co., 1978-1980. FS Library Book 975.794 V3h v. 3 [Volume 3 includes Colleton County.]
- "J.B. Williams Cemetery," Rice Planter, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer 2003).
- "James Allen Williams Cemetery," Rice Planter, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer 2003).
- "John Butcher J.B. Butch Williams Cemetery and Family Records, 1900+," Rice Planter, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Jan. 2005).
- "Old White Church Cemetery," Rice Planter, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Summer 1994).
- South Carolina Genealogical Society. Old St. Bartholomew Chapter. Cemetery Inscriptions of Lower Colleton County, South Carolina. Waterboro, S.C.: Old St. Bartholomew Genealogical Chapter, 2000. FS Library Book 975.795 V3c
- "Tombstones, near Round O," The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Jul. 1937).