MOUNTAIN SPRINGS CEMETERY, Pickens County, SC
A.K.A. Mountain Grove Baptist Church

Version 2.3, 30-Jan-2007, P184.TXT, P184


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CEMETERY LOCATION:
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Cemetery is located on private land.
Access to the cemetery is blocked by a locked metal gate.  
Call Curt or Elizabeth Fields at 864-878-4647 to obtain key to gate.  
Cemetery is located 0.5 miles beyond the gate.  
The dirt access road is not being maintained and is in nasty condition.
Paint scratching raspberry bushes block the road in many areas. 
You should not drive down this road using anything but an old truck.

Latitude N 34 55.221 x Longitude W 82 44.473


CHURCH/CEMETERY HISTORY:
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Per Oconee County Historical Society Book Review by Fred Holder in Dec 1993

Twin Springs and A Grove of Trees: 
A History of the Congregations by Effie A. Porter and Blanche B. Hannah 

Secona Baptist Body establishes P??? New Hope Baptist/1797-1818 leg

P??? New Hope changes their name to P185 New Hope Independent Baptist/1818-1828  

Antioch Body establishes P106 Mountain Springs Baptist/1830-1842 leg

Antioch Baptist changes their name to Antioch Independent Baptist/1842-
1852

P106 Mountain Grove Baptist was the Union of New Hope Baptist and 
P184 Mountain Springs Baptist 

(It's unknown what the above dates actually represent)

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There is a granite marker in the front of the cemetery that says it was 
established in 1842 and that the Mountain Grove Baptist church erected the 
marker in 1990.  There are 6 cement post that outline the boundary of the 
cemetery.

It's unknown if this cemetery was the original Mountain Grove Baptist church 
location. 


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


No readable or field-stone grave markers