HIRAM REEVES FAMILY CEMETERY, Pickens County, SC A.K.A. Rocky Bottom, SC Version 2.3, 09-Mar-2008, P191.TXT, P191 **************************************************************** 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 Pickens County SC GenWeb Coordinator Jennie Boggs Central, SC, USA Co-Pickens County SC GenWeb Coordinator Pickens County SC GenWeb Homestead http://www.rootsweb.com/~scpicke2/ **************************************************************** DATAFILE INPUT . : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Oct-2003 DATAFILE LAYOUT : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Oct-2003 G.P.S. MAPPING . : Gary Flynn at (visit above website) in Oct-2003 HISTORY WRITE-UP : ____________ at ____________ in _______ IMAGES ......... : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Oct-2003 LOCATION WRITE-UP: Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Oct-2003 TRANSCRIPTION .. : ____________ at ____________ in _______ **************************************************************** CEMETERY LOCATION: ------------------ Locate intersection of Highways 11 and 178. Drive (NW) on Highway 178 (Moorefield Memorial Hwy). In 4.9 miles stop & park at intersection of Sugar Likker Rd. From this intersection: Walk (SE) to 1st utility pole on your left. Cemetery is located 100' in back of pole. Steep hill climb. -or- Walk to 1st driveway on your left. Walk up gated driveway until you come to house on your right. 100' from gate. To your left will be a small path that leads to the cemetery. Latitude N 35 01.076 x Longitude W 82 47.547 CHURCH/CEMETERY HISTORY: ------------------------ Mr. Kankula, Helen Hockwalt has given me your name in response to my inquiry as to who might have some information on the history of the grave yard which is located on my Beasley Gap property. The property is on Hwy 178 just before Sugar Licker road. There are a good many graves and the grave yard is noted on the survey of the property and that being the case I hope that there is a history of it available somewhere. All except for one of the grave stones are either undressed or barley so. The one dressed stone is the type issued by the VA. It is for Confederate veteran Hiram K. Reeves of the 4th SC Calvary. It you have any information on that grave yard that you would be willing to share with me or alternatively know of somebody else who might have such information, please send an e-mail or give me a call at 843-744-2863 or 843-514- 0845. Walter Carr at carrwd@aol.com, 26-Dec-2006 o----------o Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:53:45 -0500 From: "Barbara Nelson" distler5@charter.net Yes - Hiram Reaves (Reeves) was my GGF. He lived on the land with the burial ground. The log house was built by a man from Charleston, I believe..(is this you?). My niece met him last year and found him very interested in the Civil War burial as well as the stones that are grave markers. Buried beside Hiram is Emmaline Youngblood Reaves - b:? - died 1866 in childbirth. Hiram's #2 spouse was Lydia Powell who lived on SUGAR LIKKER ROAD....prior to her marriage to Hiram (very near each other). Lydia's father was Harrison Powell - his spouse was also Cherokee (Lydia's mother). She died and he remarried; but, continued to live on Sugar Likker Road. The children of Hiram and Lydia that died as babies are buried there as well as some of Hiram's siblings. In the oval shaped rock fenced area at the very end of the burial ground lies Hiram's parents: ASA and CLARINDA REAVES. The space also contains several of their children. We are unable to locate burial information for that era; however, the Pickens Sentinel has articles of the deaths of ASA (1881) and Hiram (1887). As a matter of information, one of Asa's sons, Asa, Jr., died at Rappahannock, VA in 1862 and Hiram's son, Asa, was killed on what is now Hwy 178 as he was coming from a Federal Liquor trial in Pickens and a fight ensued between Asa, his brother, Dock, and neighbor Youngblood with the folks that were bring tried. He was literally beaten to death. This article was also in the Pickens Sentinel. The REAVES homeplace was the land where the burial ground is and when Hiram died, the judge settling the estate "bought" the land for a pittance and moved Lydia and several small children out. They lived with the son of Hiram and Lydia, John H., for several years. Lydia is not buried there. She is buried at Mountain Creek Baptist Church in Pelzer, SC as she was, at the time of her death, living with her son, Homer Richard, in Piedmont. A Civil War marker is on the grave beside her - that grave is Hiram's brother, John Harrison Reaves. Four of the Reaves boys were in the Civil War. As stated, Asa, Jr. was killed; Levia was killed; John H. was hospitalized; and Hiram made it home to raise a family. o----------o Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:04:34 -0500 From: Brenda Shelton sshelton@mindspring.com I'd be interested in what you find out from John Reeve. We've been in contact before about these Reeves - my ancestors too. I'm the ggg granddaughter of Rebecca, the daughter of Asel and Clarinda Reeves. Her daughter, Charity Clarinda Reeves Malone (named for both of her grandmothers) is my gg grandmother. o----------o Author: haydens1joseph > Surnames: Reeves > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.southcarolina.counties.pickens/1755.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > Just that the land that the cemetery is on used to be my family's land. > Hyram Reeves was my GGGrandfather through his wife Lydia Powel (his second > wife). Here is how it goes as far as I can find. There is Me, my Mother, > Her Mother(Lela Reeves Bailey), Her Father (John Harrison Reeves) His Dad > (the Hyram in question) then His Dad (Asel Reeves). My family still lives > very near to the cemetery, they mostly live off of Gear Hwy near Punkin > Town. > > If anyone else has any documentation or information on the Reeves line it > would be great! > > Thanks, Joe o----------o TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: ------------------------------ a. = age at death b. = date-of-birth d. = date-of-death h. = husband m. = married p. = parents w. = wife >