Saving
Graves is dedicated to providing leadership, education and advocacy in
preserving and restoring endangered and forgotten cemeteries worldwide.
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within this
website is provided as a public service and is sumitted by it's users.
Saving Graves makes no guarantee that the informaton is current or
accurate. Readers should make every attempt to verify the information
before acting on it.
Cemeteries have always been a big part of South Carolina's history.
Until recently they have been a feared place and have suffered a great
amount of neglect. Cemeteries are living lessons in history. The
practice of marking loved ones final resting places goes back thousands
of years. Since the beginning of time has been both feared and
worshipped. For this reason, our civilization had dreamed up countless
practices and rituals to deal with and perhaps understand it. We have
chosen to immortalize death with stones and markers that tell about the
people who are buried beneath them. We take the bodies of those whose
spirits have departed and place them in the ground, or in the enclosure
of the tomb, and place a monument over these remains that speaks of the
life once lived. It was believed in ancient times that to speak a
persons name was ever lasting life and when the walls of tombs of
ancient Egypt were built they were built with this in mind. When we see
a hand made tombstone, we speak that persons name in our mind. A burial
place is that persons final place and should be treated with the same
respect we give the living. Who are we to decide if they are
inappropriately placed! When families buried their dead, they believed
they were to stay buried where they were placed. Yes, our state needs
to grow, can't argue with that but at what cost. South Carolina has
become more and more involved with its history over the years but few
have come to realize that the people's history starts and ends with
cemeteries. Just knowing it was there and having a record of those
buried there does not protect history. A good majority of South
Carolina's cemeteries have been lost to growth, both development and
nature. Our goal here at South Carolina Saving Graves is to bring those
cemeteries back to life again. To make them as beautiful as they were
when they were being used, to stop the desecration of these wonderful
pieces of history.
Steven
Stymiest
South Carolina State Coordinator & York County Coordinator
William Roberts - South Carolina State Co-coordinator & York
County Co-coordinator This
Saving Graves county site for York County, South Carolina is hosted on
Rootsweb Freepages. Your webmasters are Steven Stymiest and William
Roberts.
We will be maintaining different county cemetery lists here: endangered
cemeteries; documented/partially documented on internet; and
undocumented cemeteries (those we can find no record of on the internet
or in other sources).
Endangered cemeteries are those that are known to be in need of repairs
or reclamation or in jeopardy from construction of roads, homes,
businesses. Documented/Partially documented cemeteries are those that
are known to have a list of some or all of the persons interned in the
cemetery. Undocumented cemeteries are those that we do not know of any
list of persons interred there.
Endangered
Cemeteries in York County, South Carolina
McConnells/Bullock
Creek, York County, South Carolina
Take 322
east to Burris Road-turn north on Burris- on left is pasture gate -
cemetery is at the top of the treed hill surrounded by a stone fence
with wrought iron gate
For those of you who want to be kept informed but don't want to sign up
for an internet mail list, we also have a snail mail version, please
send your name and address to the following address:
South Carolina Saving Graves
8 Cedarvilla Drive
Rock Hill, SC 29730
South
Carolina Cemetery Preservation Law -
Please let
us know about additional current
or pending South Carolina cemetery protection laws.
Title
6 Chapter 1 General Provisions
SECTION 6-1-35.
Preservation and protection of cemeteries.
Preservation and protection of cemeteries.
(A) Counties and municipalities are authorized to preserve and protect
any cemetery located within its jurisdiction which the county or
municipality determines has been abandoned or is not being maintained
and are further authorized to expend public funds and use county or
municipal inmate labor, in the manner authorized by law, in connection
with the cemetery.
(B) As used in this
section, the term "preserve and protect" means to keep safe from
destruction, peril, or other adversity and may include the placement of
signs, markers, fencing, or other appropriate features so as to
identify the site as a cemetery and so as to aid in the preservation
and protection of the abandoned cemetery.
SCIAA
Policy on Human Burial Remains
Read through the South Carolina Institute of Archeology and
Anthropology's policy on the steps taken after finding human burials
SC-CEMETERY
A mailing list to discuss the formation of a cemetery preservation
society for South Carolina. In addition, directions, history, and new
discoveries of cemeteries in South Carolina will be discussed. You must
be a subscriber to post to the list. To subscribe send the word
"subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a
message to
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(digest mode).
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