Anthony Hampton Cemetery
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Anthony Hampton Cemetery

Greer, Greenville County, South Carolina, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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The unmarked cemetery was on the homestead of Capt. Anthony Harrison in the South Tyger River valley. This property passed out of the family. In 1827, over 50 years after the Hampton Massacre, Roddy Smith settled on the land. He was visited by a Hampton descendant who showed Smith the spot where the graves were located and asked him not to clear or plant the area. Smith agreed and left the graves untouched.

In 1897, over 120 years after the massacre, a group of South Carolina historians visited the site and opened the graves. Landrum says that they verified the hasty first burial and reburied the bones. They cleared the ground, placed head and foot stones over the graves, and covered the mound with white sand. At that time a dirt road gave access to the cemetery, which was surrounded by a grove of huge oak trees. In later years, the DAR placed a historical marker on the spot, but when the dirt road was closed, the marker was moved to the South Tyger River bridge on Highway 29, a few miles east of Greer, S.C. The graves are still there today, undisturbed.

Sources:

"The Venturers - the Hampton, Harrison, and Earle Families of Virginia, South Carolina, and Texas" by Virginia G. Meynard, Southern Historical Press, 1981.

"Colonial and Revolutionary History of Upper South Carolina" by J.B.O. Landrum.







The unmarked cemetery was on the homestead of Capt. Anthony Harrison in the South Tyger River valley. This property passed out of the family. In 1827, over 50 years after the Hampton Massacre, Roddy Smith settled on the land. He was visited by a Hampton descendant who showed Smith the spot where the graves were located and asked him not to clear or plant the area. Smith agreed and left the graves untouched.

In 1897, over 120 years after the massacre, a group of South Carolina historians visited the site and opened the graves. Landrum says that they verified the hasty first burial and reburied the bones. They cleared the ground, placed head and foot stones over the graves, and covered the mound with white sand. At that time a dirt road gave access to the cemetery, which was surrounded by a grove of huge oak trees. In later years, the DAR placed a historical marker on the spot, but when the dirt road was closed, the marker was moved to the South Tyger River bridge on Highway 29, a few miles east of Greer, S.C. The graves are still there today, undisturbed.

Sources:

"The Venturers - the Hampton, Harrison, and Earle Families of Virginia, South Carolina, and Texas" by Virginia G. Meynard, Southern Historical Press, 1981.

"Colonial and Revolutionary History of Upper South Carolina" by J.B.O. Landrum.







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  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2588292