CARSWELL BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY (1876), Anderson County, SC
A.K.A.

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HISTORY WRITE-UP : Olin Padgett at Carswell Baptist Church 


CEMETERY LOCATION:
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Latitude N 34 20.833 x Longitude W 82 36.080


CHURCH/CEMETERY HISTORY:
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Carswell Baptist Church can trace its origin back to 1876 and the Carswell 
Institute. In 1875 the Rev. E.R. Carswell came to this area after graduating 
from the Baptist Seminary in Greenville. SC. Me was also a graduate of Mercer 
University. lie was a very successful preacher in this area.

In the autumn of 1875, a group of local citizens proposed that a school be built 
in the area and that Rev. Carswell be named the principal and operator of the 
facility. 

The following were appointed as trustees:

A. Rice, Jesse C.C. Milford, Absalom J. Hall, James McPhail, Robert Nance, 
Pickens Warnock, Rev, W.E. Walters. M.W. Spoon, James Smith, and E.R. Carswell.

Mr. Zachariah Hall donated two acres of land for the express purpose of erecting 
a two-story building. The first floor was to house a school and church. The 
second floor was to be a Masonic Lodge. The building was erected and the school 
and the church were opened in February 1876. The church was named Walters 
Baptist Church. At the meeting of the Saluda Baptist Association in August 1976, 
Walters Baptist Church was admitted to the fellowship. In 1883, the association 
reported the church dissolved.

For many years thereafter. Sunday School was held at this school as well as 
revivals and other meetings. Sometime before or after the turn of the century, 
the school became a public school. It was used until the school year of October 
1924. At that time Carswell was consolidated with three other schools and Bowen 
School opened. After the old school was moved, circa 1910-1920. another building 
was erected on this site. The building was "L" shaped.

In the 1930's a men's prayer group from Iva began meeting on Sunday afternoons. 
On August 18 1935 a church was organized and was named Carswell Baptist Church. 
Rev. J.C. Dyar Jr. was the pastor. The church joined the Saluda Baptist 
Association on August 2, 1938.

In 1944 the original brick building was built. It was remodeled in 1974-5. The 
first addition of the educational facilities was begun in April L985 and 
completed in July 1986.  Work was started in June 1989 to complete the 
educational facility and finished in the fall of 1989. A fellowship building was 
built in 1980 and enlarged in 1999, Other improvements were added to the 
building, also.


TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES:
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a. = age at death
b. = date-of-birth
d. = date-of-death
h. = husband
m. = married
p. = parents
w. = wife