LIBERTY BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY #_?, Anderson County, SC
A.K.A.

Version 2.3, 31-Mar-2003, A296.TXT, A296


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HISTORY WRITE-UP : E.E. Vaughn at Pastense2@aol.com 


CEMETERY LOCATION:
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0.75 miles south of Honea Path

Latitude N34 26.470 x Longitude W82 22.843 


CHURCH/CEMETERY HISTORY:
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USGS map shows a cemetery at the above GPS location.  However, a large apartment
complex has been built in this area.  No one seems to know anything about the
cemetery and what happened to its graves.  Mayor Earl Meyers at
elmeyers2004@yahoo.com was contacted - he was the first owner of the complex.  
He tried contacting his builder while we were visiting him, but he couldn't be 
found.  It's assumed that someone, unknowingly, bulldozed over these graves 
and that grass might have been planted on top of them.

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In the Carolina Room, you will find bits and pieces of information collected by 
me, in my travels in different Counties in South Carolina. Visit http://members.aol.com/pastense2/scroom.htm

In the Carolina Room, I have stored many documents that pertain to the State of 
South Carolina, however, I do have some records that I have acquired from other 
States, as well. Here you will find a little bit of my Family History, South 
Carolina Misc. Records extracted, from (wills, deeds, marriage records, deaths 
records, probate records) Penitentiary Records, Coroner Inquisitions, Church 
Cemetery transcriptions where to get copies of these books, pictures, census 
information, surname connections, Mortality records, Slave records and Mortgage 
Records. 
 
Many of the items in my possession, were copied from the original document and 
later compiled and placed in one of my many databases, for future reference. 

Keep in mind, that a lot of hard work has been placed in the years of research 
that I have done. Most of what you will find here I freely share, with the 
understanding that it is copyrighted material, published either by me or someone 
else, that I have acknowledged.  

The following history information was taken from the Inventory of Church 
Archives of Churches 1935.  

By: E.E. Vaughn

Liberty Baptist 
East Greer Street
Organized 1868

1st log building 1868 - 1871 

2nd wooden slabs 1871 - 1877 

3rd wooden frame 1877 - 1893 

4th wooden frame 1893 - 1910

Liberty Baptist Church, 600 E Greer St, Honea Path, SC 29654, 864-369-0478 

Built 1910 remodeled 1918 & 1955 and Sunday School rooms added. Wooden frame, 
bell, belfry, vestibule entrance, size of building 56 X 60, capacity 375, size 
of lot 3/4 acre. Value of building $12,500, value of lot $225, total value of 
all church property $17,750.00. Church has plain square windows & doors. First 
settled clergy Rev. Samuel Sampson, tenure 1868 - 1871. Educated by white in 
this community. These were the Brooks & the Shirley's mostly. Present membership 
450, charter members 14. Liberty Church got it's name because of the Liberty 
given the colored just after the war. These people formerly worshipped as slaves 
in the galleries in the white churches of Honea Path & Broadmouth churches.


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


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