NORRIS FAMILY CEMETERY #1, Anderson County, SC A.K.A. Version 2.3, 10-Feb-2004, A209.TXT, A209 ******************************************************************************** It's believed that the usage of any original work submittals contained within these webpages such as articles, compiling, photographs or graphics, conform to Fair Use Doctrine & Copyright Guidelines. COPYRIGHT NOTE: (1.) Works published before 1923, are considered to be public- domain. (2.) Works published 1923-1977 without a copyright notice, are considered to be public-domain. (3.) Unpublished non-copyrighted works will have Author permission for public-domain. Facts, names, dates, events, places & data can not be copyrighted. Narration, compilations and creative works can be copyrighted. Copyright law in the U.S. does not protect facts or data, just the presentation of this data. REPRODUCING NOTICE: These electronic pages may only be reproduced for personal or 501(c) Not-For-Profit Society use. Use the following names, if, you would like to give any author compiling credit. AUTHORS: Paul M. Kankula-NN8NN & Gary L. Flynn-KE8FD *********************************************************************** 05-01-15 HISTORY WRITE-UP : Lowry Wilson at sclowry@hotmail.com in Jan-2002 TRANSCRIPTION .. : Lowry Wilson at sclowry@hotmail.com in Jan-2002 CEMETERY LOCATION: ------------------ > Estimated Latitude N 34 45.925 x Longitude W 82 33.881 CHURCH/CEMETERY HISTORY: ------------------------ This Cemetery was destroyed when Highway 8 and 86 was made into a 4-way stop intersection in the late 1990s. Topsoil was removed from the field for use in re-routing the road for the 4-way stop. To them, it was just a bunch of piled up rocks. Several older residents, including Louise Tripp Hamilton and members of the Hunt Family who lived across the road from it, remembered the cemetery as about three graves marked with plies of Field Stones. The cemetery set on a small knoll before it was leveled. There is no sign of any of it now. A wagon train was passing through the area long before the Civil War (about 1826) when family members came down with Small Pox. The family stopped and made camp for a time until the disease was over. The dead was buried in the cemetery near the road. Taken from "The Book Of The Dead" by Rev. R.M. Smith on page 290 about the Norris #1 private Cemetery: "John E. Norris (27 March 1794 - 12 August 1826). Data taken from the Bible of John E. Clardy, who married Rebecca, a daughter of John E. Norris and his wife, Mary born 27 March 1797 died (?). Mary married the second time, McCoger Alexander. Also buried in this cemetery is Idaline Clardy 17 May 1854 - 16 January 1876, a grand-daughter of John E. Norris. There are no gravestone inscriptions. Another of John E. Norris's grand-daughter is Lucretia." Margarette Swank, a descendant of these people, has a copy of John B. Clardy, Junior's Bible and states that "The Book Of The Dead" should read: "John Edward Norris (27 March 1794 - 12 March 1827). John E. Norris manned the voting poll in the fall of 1926. Most of the data was taken from the Bible of John B. Clardy, Jr. (24 August 1816 - 6 August 1889) who married on 14 December 1837, Rebecca Elizabeth Norris (7 September 1819 - (?)), a daughter of John E. Norris and his wife, Mary Atkinson born 27 March 1797 & died (?). Mary married the second time, Macajah Alexander. Macajah's first wife was Elizabeth Lewis. Also buried in this cemetery is Addaline N. Clardy (17 May 1854 - 16 January 1876), a grand-daughter of John E. Norris. There are no gravestone inscriptions." Children of John Bradford Clardy Jr. and Rebecca Elizabeth Norris were: - James R., Robert H., Camelia E., Mary H., Frances A., Elizabeth T., Harriett M., John L., Amos B., Columbus Q., Addaline N., Sarrah A., Rebecca A., and Cornelia P. Clardy. Lowry Wilson, 29 JANUARY 2004 TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: ------------------------------ a. = age at death b. = date-of-birth d. = date-of-death h. = husband m. = married p. = parents w. = wife