Anderson County ScArchives Cemeteries.....Salem Baptist Church Cemetery (1798)
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File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Paul M Kankula http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/00013/0003039.html February 2005
Debbie Kellog    October 2006

Abstracted By: Gary F. Flynn, February 2005

Location:  5 miles NW of Anderson

Latitude N34 33.123 x Longitude W82 43.351 

Cemetery History gleaned from "Traditions & History of Anderson
County," by Louise Ayer Vandiver

Salem Church, an arm of Shockley Ferry, was organized in 1798.  
Rocky River Church, first called Wilson's Creek, was organized in 1790.  
Mountain Creek in 1796.  It, like Shockley Ferry, was probably organized 
by James Chastain.  Saluda Assocition was formed in that church.

KEY:

b. = date-of-birth
d. = date-of-death
m. = married

Information in brackets [ ] added, not on tombstone.

Name                  Birth Date    Death Date    Other Information

Gentry, Amos Baker    Dec  9, 1811  Oct 17, 1858  [m. 1st Elizabeth, 2nd Nancy Elizabeth Greer,
                                                   b. Apr 6, 1827, d. Jun 13, 1904]
Gentry, Arthur               1756/66        1851  Pater-Avus-Proavus [Father, grandfather, great-grandfather]
                                                  Who removed from Yadkin Valley of
                                                  North Carolina in 1787
                                                  
File located at:
  http://files.usgwarchives.net/sc/anderson/cemeteries/salem-baptist-1.txt