CAESAR, BROTHER (NEGRO) GRAVE, Anderson County, SC
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CEMETERY LOCATION:
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GPS = Latitude N x Longitude W 

Est. N34 37.133 x W82 28.717

CEMETERY HISTORY:
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One of the Big Creek Baptist church members named simply Caesar, was rather an 
unusual character.  He was a preacher of considerable influence.  He had been a 
Slave who saved enough to buy his own freedom and later bought his brother.  
The land just above the place where Rush and Vandiver's planning mill once 
stood, was owned by Caesar.  He was buried in a field just in the rear of the 
old Williamston Female College buildings.  In the records it is stated that 
"Brother Caesar made application to go about and exercise his gift."  Sometimes 
his request was granted, sometimes refused.  Caesar was once excluded from 
fellowship for persisting over the protest of the church in taking an 
additional wife.  Later he was restored to fellowship, what befell wife #2 is 
not stated.  He was admonished to preach "sound-doctrine" on his preaching 
expeditions.  Also he sometimes held services for the Big Creek congregation.  
Once "Brother Caesar" was up before the church for having knocked down with an 
axe a fellow servant.

A brother was declared out of fellowship for "voluntarily leaving and joining
 the Methodist Society

By: Louise Ayer Vandiver in 1928


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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