POPLAR SPRINGS METHODIST CHURCH CEMETERY, Pickens County, SC a.k.a. > Version: 3.0 Effective: 3-Aug-2006 Text File: P169.TXT Image Folder: P169 ******************************************************************************** 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 recording contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the following USGenWeb coordinator with proof of this consent. Paul M Kankula - nn8nn (visit above website) SCGenWeb "Golden Corner" Project Coordinator Anderson: http://www.rootsweb.com/~scandrsn/ Oconee: http://www.rootsweb.com/~scoconee/oconee.html Pickens: http://www.rootsweb.com/~scpicke2/ DATAFILE INPUT . : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Aug-2006 GPS MAPPING .... : Gary Flynn at (visit above website) in -2006 HISTORY ........ : ____________ at ____________ in _______ IMAGES ......... : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in -2006 RECORDING ...... : ____________ at ____________ in _______ ******************************************************************************** CEMETERY LOCATION: ------------------ > GPS = Latitude N x Longitude W CEMETERY HISTORY: ------------------------ "Poplar Spring, a small pole house, about six miles from Antioch, over George's Creek was the next appointment. After some years it was abandoned and a better house was built near Pickensville and called Mt. Olivet It is now within the corporation of the town of Easley's Station, on the R & D Railroad. The church is now a good structure with bell and steeple." Source: An Historical Outline of Greenville Circuit, South Carolina Conference M. E. Church, South by Samuel M. Green At the Request of the 2nd Quarterly Conference 1884 George L. Thomason of Mauldin, South Carolina has taken the materials of Rev. Samuel M. Green and printed his circuit notes of 1884. In the Tabor Methodist Church history, it tells about Poplar Springs. It reports that the "old church was on the old Alex Robinson place, now owned by George Cox and adjoining lands of Joel Miller and others. There is still an old cemetery there. It had a log seats, hand drawn, with slab for backs - a very crude structure. One of the members of church Mrs. Adeline Hitt, widow of George Hitt, remembers as a child in 1887 or 1888 attending a funeral service and burial at the old church and cemetery." Abstracted by Melanie Reagan. Article in 1930. It was known as Poplar Springs, and was situated about one half mile northwest of Arial Mountain. It was a Methodist Episcopal church and was probably located there soon after the Revolutionary War. There is no sign at present to show the exact spot where the building stood but there are a number of graves, several of them marked with head and foot stones, showing that there was a cemetery connected with the church. There is a tradition that some of the citizens of Old Pickensville were members of this church, as were others who resided on the headwaters of Wolf Creek and in the vicinity of Cedar Rock. It is also stated that sometime between the years 1835 and 1840, there was a division in this church and some of the members organized Mt. Olivet Church. Others organized Mt. Tabor near Cedar Rock. It is also stated that the late Mrs. Scynthia Ellis, whose maiden name was Duncan, was a charter member of this church. Mr. Elias Day of this city had an uncle who is as buried in the Poplar Springs graveyard, and his father, the late Baswell Day, was one of the moving spirits in the organization of Mt. Olivet Church on land donated by Joshua Mansell. Source: Easley Progress, 1930. TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: ------------------------------ a. = age at death b. = date-of-birth d. = date-of-death h. = husband m. = married p. = parents w. = wife