NORRIS FAMILY CEMETERY #1, Anderson County, SC A.K.A. Version 2.3, 10-Feb-2004, A209.TXT, A209 **************************************************************** REPRODUCING NOTICE: ------------------- These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, or presentation by any other organization, or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Paul M Kankula Seneca, SC, USA Anderson County SC GenWeb Coordinator Anderson County SC GenWeb Homestead http://www.rootsweb.com/~scandrsn/ **************************************************************** DATAFILE INPUT . : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Jan-2004 DATAFILE LAYOUT : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Jan-2004 G.P.S. MAPPING . : Gary L. Flynn at (visit above website) in Jan-2004 HISTORY WRITE-UP : Lowry Wilson at sclowry@hotmail.com in Jan-2002 IMAGES ......... : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Jan-2004 LOCATION WRITE-UP: ____________ at ____________ in _______ TRANSCRIPTION .. : Lowry Wilson at sclowry@hotmail.com in Jan-2002 **************************************************************** CEMETERY LOCATION: ------------------ > Estimated Latitude N 34 45.925 x Longitude W 82 33.881 CHURCH/CEMETERY HISTORY: ------------------------ This Cemetery was destroyed when Highway 8 and 86 was made into a 4-way stop intersection in the late 1990s. Topsoil was removed from the field for use in re-routing the road for the 4-way stop. To them, it was just a bunch of piled up rocks. Several older residents, including Louise Tripp Hamilton and members of the Hunt Family who lived across the road from it, remembered the cemetery as about three graves marked with plies of Field Stones. The cemetery set on a small knoll before it was leveled. There is no sign of any of it now. A wagon train was passing through the area long before the Civil War (about 1826) when family members came down with Small Pox. The family stopped and made camp for a time until the disease was over. The dead was buried in the cemetery near the road. Taken from "The Book Of The Dead" by Rev. R.M. Smith on page 290 about the Norris #1 private Cemetery: "John E. Norris (27 March 1794 - 12 August 1826). Data taken from the Bible of John E. Clardy, who married Rebecca, a daughter of John E. Norris and his wife, Mary born 27 March 1797 died (?). Mary married the second time, McCoger Alexander. Also buried in this cemetery is Idaline Clardy 17 May 1854 - 16 January 1876, a grand-daughter of John E. Norris. There are no gravestone inscriptions. Another of John E. Norris's grand-daughter is Lucretia." Margarette Swank, a descendant of these people, has a copy of John B. Clardy, Junior's Bible and states that "The Book Of The Dead" should read: "John Edward Norris (27 March 1794 - 12 March 1827). John E. Norris manned the voting poll in the fall of 1926. Most of the data was taken from the Bible of John B. Clardy, Jr. (24 August 1816 - 6 August 1889) who married on 14 December 1837, Rebecca Elizabeth Norris (7 September 1819 - (?)), a daughter of John E. Norris and his wife, Mary Atkinson born 27 March 1797 & died (?). Mary married the second time, Macajah Alexander. Macajah's first wife was Elizabeth Lewis. Also buried in this cemetery is Addaline N. Clardy (17 May 1854 - 16 January 1876), a grand-daughter of John E. Norris. There are no gravestone inscriptions." Children of John Bradford Clardy Jr. and Rebecca Elizabeth Norris were: - James R., Robert H., Camelia E., Mary H., Frances A., Elizabeth T., Harriett M., John L., Amos B., Columbus Q., Addaline N., Sarrah A., Rebecca A., and Cornelia P. Clardy. Lowry Wilson, 29 JANUARY 2004 TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: ------------------------------ a. = age at death b. = date-of-birth d. = date-of-death h. = husband m. = married p. = parents w. = wife