ROBERT POOL FAMILY CEMETERY, Anderson County, SC A.K.A. Version 2.3, 10-May-04, A242.TXT, A242 **************************************************************** 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 May-2004 DATAFILE LAYOUT : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in May-2004 G.P.S. MAPPING . : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in May-2004 HISTORY WRITE-UP : Michael Kersmarki at Anderson Newspaper in 1985 IMAGES ......... : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in May-2004 LOCATION WRITE-UP: Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in May-2004 TRANSCRIPTION .. : John & Shirley Shamel **************************************************************** CEMETERY LOCATION: ------------------ Cemetery is to the left side of John Shamel's home at 115 Craft St, Anderson, SC 29621 Latitude N 34 32.214 x Longitude W 82 37.361 CHURCH/CEMETERY HISTORY: ------------------------ ANDERSON PLACE PROJECT UNCOVERS GRAVES FROM 1800's As John Shamel awoke earlier this week to the roar of a bulldozer knocking down trees near his back yard, he remembered that an old graveyard of half-buried markers lie in the machine's path. Enlisting the aid of bulldozer operator C.D, "Doc" Standard of Anderson, he uncovered one of the well-preserved granite stones Monday morning and discovered part of a family burial site dating back to the 19th Century. The graveyard, with most of its six to 12 stones covered by topsoil, borders a recently cleared 12-acre site that eventually will become the $7.2 million Anderson Place retirement village along Simpson Street off S.C. 81. Pieces from a gravestone uncovered by Shamel and Standard were placed on one of the few tree stumps that survived Standard's machine: "In memory of Robert Pool, born in the year of 1777, died Jan. 19,1840 in the 63rd year of his age." the well-preserved marker said, "He is not dead, but sleepeth," Speaking from atop the bulldozer as giant earthmovers lumbered behind him, Standard said he probably would have torn the markers up if Shamel, of 115 Craft Road. hadn't gone outside to warn him the graveyard was there. "There was no way to know unless somebody told you,'' said! Standard, who is co- owner of Standard Construction on McGee Hoad. J.D. Dyer, site superintendent with general contractor South General Construction Co. of Anderson, said the headstones probably will be preserved rather than moved since the graveyard is at the edge of the project's site. "We're going to do everything to protect the site," said Dyer, 55, of Hartwell, Ga. "We'll dress it all up and finish it up real nice." Shamel, 50, who said he has lived at his Craft Road home for 22 years, said he and his father cleared some debris from the graveyard about 15 years ago. While he figured then that the buried markers were old, he hadn't actually seen any dates until Monday. "That marker we uncovered starts a year after the Revolutionary War," said Shamel, who is a banquet manager at Richardson's in Anderson. "It would have had to be underground for 100 years to be in that good of shape." Dyer said when a worker told him about the graveyard Monday, the first thing that came to his mind was his grandfather, buried near Summerville, Ga., in the 1930s in a rural site now overgrown and untended. "The thing that stuck in my mind was that it could happen to him some day," Dyer said. Shamel said a representative for Anderson Place developer Leslie D. Parks removed the uncovered marker Tuesday afternoon, apparently to protect it from vandals. TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: ------------------------------ a. = age at death b. = date-of-birth d. = date-of-death h. = husband m. = married p. = parents w. = wife (12) Field Stone Markers POOL, Robert, b. 1777, d. 19-jan-1840, 63y