BENTON FREEMAN FAMILY CEMETERY, Pickens County, SC A.K.A. Dacusville, SC Version 2.3, 11-Oct-2004, P226.TXT, P226 **************************************************************** 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 Sep-2003 DATAFILE LAYOUT : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Sep-2003 G.P.S. MAPPING . : Gary Flynn at (visit above website) in Sep-2003 HISTORY WRITE-UP : ____________ at ____________ in _______ IMAGES ......... : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Sep-2003 LOCATION WRITE-UP: Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Sep-2003 TRANSCRIPTION .. : Gary Flynn at (visit above website) in Sep-2003 **************************************************************** CEMETERY LOCATION: ------------------ Locate intersection of Highways 8 and 186 (NW) of Pickens. Drive (NE) on Highway 186 (Earles Bridge Rd) In 1.7 miles stop. Latitude N 34 55.933 x Longitude W 82 38.710 CHURCH/CEMETERY HISTORY: ------------------------ This cemetery shows in V. 2 of the Pickens Co. cemetery book as the Benton Freeman Cemetery.. It actually does not tell one much, unless you belong to the family. I was there once with my mother and father. My mother made the remark that no matter when, or how often they visited, the cemetery was always clean. Having an empty jar with a lid and some paper in the car, I wrote a note with my name and address, asking the person keeping it clean to write me. I screwed the lid tight and laid it at the tombstone. A short while later I had a letter!! He was a nice gentleman and seems he and another man had been cleaning this cemetery regularly. I took the letter to my mother and somehow she lost it and I never got to write and thank the gentlemen. We probably also lost the names of two relatives. My mother and I were there a few years back, but I don't think we ever found the right road as I could not find the cemetery. Benton Freeman is listed as just B. F. on the footstone. Jane Ferguson Freeman is listed as J. F. There is a child buried there, Janie Freeman and her stone has her name and says she is the d/o Benton S. Freeman. Benton S. Freeman is my great-grandfather. His daughter, Zelia Agnes Freeman, is my grandmother. Zelie, as she was called, married Charles Theodore Burdine Hughes and came to Laurens Co. when my mother was around six or seven. Their daughter, Mary India Hughes, who married Luther Leonard Copeland of Laurens Co., is my mother, now age 94. Benton Strain Freeman got the Strain in his name because his mother, Nancy Ferguson, was the daughter of James Ferguson and Nancy Strain, with Nancy being the daughter of James Strain and wife Jane of Laurens Co., SC. The cemetery is on #186 near Dacusville Community, according to the book, and I have made the notation that it is on Glassy Mt. Rd. at the foot of Langley Mountain. The homeplace is on the right, now the 2nd house past the cemetery which is on the side of the roadway, enclosed in a little fence. That house is now brick and I think the old one burned. My mother and her family at one time lived in the original house with her grandfather Benton Strain Freeman. She fell from a high porch and broke her arm. Benton S. Freeman later moved to Greenville, died there and is buried in the big Graceland Cemetery. My mother has always said that Benton Freeman owned part of this mountain and she has a rock that came from the mountain. She also said the name of the mountain had been changed and is no longer Langley. Wilma C. Kirkland, weck@simpledsl.com 145 Rutledge Rd. Greenwood, SC 29649 TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: ------------------------------ a. = age at death b. = date-of-birth d. = date-of-death h. = husband m. = married p. = parents w. = wife FREEMAN, Benton FREEMAN, Jane FREEMAN, Janie, father benton freeman