SHADY GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY, Pickens County, SC a.k.a. > Version: 3.0 Effective: 31-Jul-2006 Text File: P137.TXT Image Folder: P137 ******************************************************************************** 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 Unpublished non-copyrighted works will have Author permission for public-domain.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 CEMETERY LOCATION: ------------------ > GPS = Latitude N x Longitude W CEMETERY HISTORY: ------------------------ SHADY GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH The "Revival Fires" that swept the battlefields and Southland during the Civil War, and the return of weary, tattered husbands, fathers, and sons to the devastated home fronts, resulted in many "cottage" Bible studies, prayer services, and "brush arbor" meetings held by a group of dedicated Christians in the Northwestern corner of S.C. during 1865. At this time they selected a secluded spot of virgin forest to pray, worship, and honor their God and were inspired to establish a church off the Crow Creek Road (approximately 3 mi. from its present location) on the "Old Martin or Childress place", original homestead of Alien Riggins. Twenty-eight charter members organized Shady Grove Baptist Church in their newly built one-room building on August 26, 1865. (It may well be this is how the "third week in August" revivals began)! On September 22 and 23, 1865, the Twelve Mile River Baptist Association met with the Salem Church, Pickens District, and offered to receive new churches. Shady Grove Baptist Church was presented by its delegates and unanimously accepted and added to the 1st Union District. Rev. Charles Roper was pastor. As was customary at that time, during the week the setting inside the "meeting house" became the educational system, often with the minister doing the instructing (One wonders when education would have begun for rural children had it not been for these dedicated "trailblazers!") The original building burned, and Mrs. Lacena Riggins conducted Bible studies in a corn crib until a new building could be constructed on a tract of land donated by Isaac Rice's heirs: M.C. Winchester, Nancy Jane Winchester, J.D. Rice, M.E. Rice, M.A. Rice, James Alexander, M.E. Alexander, and J.T. Rice. It was completed and dedicated in 1883 with Rev. T.W. Tollison as pastor. By: Pickens County SC Heritage Book 1995 TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: ------------------------------ a. = age at death b. = date-of-birth d. = date-of-death h. = husband m. = married p. = parents w. = wife