SAMUEL DEAN FAMILY CEMETERY, Anderson County, SC

Version 3.0, 30-Apr-2006, A052.TXT, A052


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DATAFILE INPUT . : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Dec-2003 

GPS MAPPING .... : Gary F. Flynn at (visit above website) in Apr-2006

HISTORY WRITE-UP : Beverly Peoples at bpeoples@mindspring.com Apr-2006

IMAGES ......... : Gary F. Flynn at (visit above website) in Apr-2006

TRANSCRIPTION .. : Beverly Peoples at bpeoples@mindspring.com Apr-2006

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CEMETERY LOCATION:

Latitude N34 24.674 x Longitude W82 42.264 

Dean Cemetery 2 miles north of Starr, SC

While there is right of access to this cemetery no one should go there 
without getting permission of the landowners who maintain it as a hunting 
preserve.

Just north of Starr, SC on SC Hwy 81, turn West on Agnew Rd. Go about 
1.4 miles to Mountain Creek Church Road and turn right. Go about .2 
miles, about 100 yards past first pipeline and go thru gate on right 
side of the road. There are some old travel trailers in the clearing 
just inside the gate. Follow the rough washed out drive down a hill and 
cross the creek and halfway up the hill bear left at the deer stand 
which is in the fork of the road.  Go about another 1/4 mile and the 
cemetery is in the tall trees on the right. There is a small clearing 
on the left side of the road at the cemetery. The distance from Mt. 
Creek Road along this path/road is about 1 mile.

The cemetery has at least 40 worn fieldstones or grave depressions. No 
stones are readable. References are made in the Dean family histories 
regarding burials of various members and their spouses in this cemetery. 
Believed buried at this location are:
 
DEAN, Samuel, b. 1751 in Maryland, d. May 22, 1826 at Dean, SC

DEAN, Gwendolyn James, wife of Samuel Dean, b. abt. 1754, Chester Co., 
PA, d. Aug. 1835 at Dean, SC

For more information on visiting the cemetery or further details on the 
Dean family, contact Beverly Dean Peoples. 

By:  Beverly Dean Peoples, bpeoples@mindspring.com, 30-Apr-2006

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SC Historical Marker on Hwy. 81

DEAN:

Dean is named for the Dean family, whose cemetery is located about a 
mile west. Samuel Dean came to South Carolina from Maryland in 1786 and 
settled here in the Mountain Creek area along with the Cummins and 
James families. Dean and wife Gwendolyn James raised a large family and 
his descendants have lived here for more than two hundred years.

DEAN'S STATION:

A depot was built at Dean in 1886 by the Savannah Valley Railroad 
(later the Charleston and Western Carolina Railroad). Described by the 
Anderson Intelligencer in 1896 as "a very pretty little town," this 
rural community included the depot, a post office, several stores, a 
gristmill and sawmill, a blacksmith shop, a school, churches, and 
several residences. 

By: Anderson County Historical Society, 2002

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By:  Anderson Independent Newspaper July 17, 1967.

Some years after the death of Samuel Dean his descendants decided to 
move his remains to the Baptist Church in Starr.  But when they dug 
into the grave, the only thing found was a lightwood knot, presumably a 
part of the coffin.  The grave was closed over again, and there Samuel 
Dean's remains still lie.  His children were Aaron, Moses, Thomas, 
Miriam McGregor, Joseph, Samuel, Mary Hillhouse and John.  John died 
prior to the death of Samuel Sr.  In the Dean Cemetery are buried 
Samuel Dean (1751-1826); his wife Gwenny (James?), married 
1773.  Their oldest son was born in 1774.  They came from PA.

(correction: the above 1967 info omits sons Griffith and Richard from 
the children list ... the family migrated from Maryland to SC about 1787)

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