Watson Cemetery #1
Dillon County, South Carolina, USA
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There are no longer any markers and the cemetery was plowed over. The old Barnabas Watson Cemetery was somewhere in this field on Highway 917, across from the grain bin at Deerpatch Road near Temperance Hill. The cemetery disappeared and was plowed over sometime between the 1952 survey for the "Dillon County Cemetery Book" and 1984 when I first went looking for it. The memorial marker erected for Barnabas Watson (1758-1841) by his descendants was moved to Antioch Baptist Church sometime prior to the 1952 survey. It is not known if the remaining three markers were moved, fell over, or were vandalized.
The trees on the far left line an old mill creek - the old millpond is visible where the highway crosses the creek. Across the creek are lands that once belonged to Samuel Smith, and on which the Old Samuel Smth Cemetery is located. The line of trees in the right hand background mark the edge of Buck Swamp.
There is an old homesite on the right hand side of the field, visible in the other photo beyond the gated road. It is said by someone who lives nearby and remembers it from her childhood to have been a large old two-storey house, with unpainted siding. It is not known for certain if that was the home of Barnabas Watson or of one of his children, but it sat on lands overlooking the cemetery, on or adjoining lands that were surveyed for him in 1787 and granted about 1791 (South Carolina Plat Books volume 26 page 297, Marion County Deed Book E page 157).
There are no longer any markers and the cemetery was plowed over. The old Barnabas Watson Cemetery was somewhere in this field on Highway 917, across from the grain bin at Deerpatch Road near Temperance Hill. The cemetery disappeared and was plowed over sometime between the 1952 survey for the "Dillon County Cemetery Book" and 1984 when I first went looking for it. The memorial marker erected for Barnabas Watson (1758-1841) by his descendants was moved to Antioch Baptist Church sometime prior to the 1952 survey. It is not known if the remaining three markers were moved, fell over, or were vandalized.
The trees on the far left line an old mill creek - the old millpond is visible where the highway crosses the creek. Across the creek are lands that once belonged to Samuel Smith, and on which the Old Samuel Smth Cemetery is located. The line of trees in the right hand background mark the edge of Buck Swamp.
There is an old homesite on the right hand side of the field, visible in the other photo beyond the gated road. It is said by someone who lives nearby and remembers it from her childhood to have been a large old two-storey house, with unpainted siding. It is not known for certain if that was the home of Barnabas Watson or of one of his children, but it sat on lands overlooking the cemetery, on or adjoining lands that were surveyed for him in 1787 and granted about 1791 (South Carolina Plat Books volume 26 page 297, Marion County Deed Book E page 157).
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- Added: 1 Jan 2000
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 71611
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