LEXINGTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - Bates/Bond Cemetary


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    			  Bates/Bond Cemetary
		(Lexington County, Batesburg, South Carolina)

Travel approx. 1 mile from the Batesburg police station (towards Lexington), 
and turn right at the intersection of Highway 1 and S-32-150. On the right 
is a brick building labeled BATESBURG LEESVILLE SCHOOLS.

To the right of the school, across S-32-150, is a small circle of three (3) 
trees and a slowly disintegrating granite stone wall. Within this circle 
reside several gravestones, all in growing disrepair. These are either not 
marked, faded to be undiscernable, or broken. 

Starting from what once was a stone opening to this cemetery, and working 
clockwise:

(Entrance, then moving left)
1. Flat marker - no discernable markings

2. Stone with "X" marking

3. Stone with "X" marking

4. Stone with "X" marking

5. Broken bricks  - marking a plot

6. unreadable footstone(?)

7. Moses Grant Bond*
   (see Note)

8. Miss A.T. Bates
   March 1, 1798
   March 1, 1866

9. FPB (in front of #8)

10. To the memory of Ella Bates
    who died the 2d of October, 1858
    "Come unto me Ye that are weak
    and heavy laden, and I will give 
    you rest"

11. (broken in two pieces)
    a. Sacred to the memory of John Bates
    b. ___14th, 1855  (unreadable)

13. F. Bates (unreadable)

14. Flat marker - no discernable markings

*This monument is erected to the memory of Moses Grant Bond son of 
John P. Bond and larissa his second wife who departed on the 29th 
of January, 1826. Aged 8 years 2 months leaving but one full brother, 
Theodore Stanmore BOND and several half brothers and sisters to lament 
his loss.

Note: Outside a house on Highway 1, and across the street from the 
cemetery, a historical marker has been erected. The marker reads as 
follows:

			"HARTLEY HOUSE"
This house was built before 1800 for John Pearson Bond, according to 
local tradition it later came into possession of John Bates of the 
family from whom Batesburg derives its name, and has been owned for 
over a century by Lodwick Hartley and his family. It was the first 
meeting place of the Batesville Masonic lodge and was a stagecoach 
mail stop.  Lexington Historical Society - 1970

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