DACUS FAMILY CEMETERY, Pickens County, SC a.k.a. Aiken-Dacus-Smith Family Version: 3.0 Effective: 29-Oct-2006 Text File: P287.TXT Image Folder: P287 ******************************************************************************** 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 Oct-2006 GPS MAPPING .... : Gary Flynn at (visit above website) in Oct-2006 HISTORY ........ : ____________ at ____________ in _______ IMAGES ......... : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Oct-2006 RECORDING ...... : Gary Flynn at (visit above website) in Oct-2006 ******************************************************************************** CEMETERY LOCATION: ------------------ 3 miles SSE of Dacusville GPS = Latitude N34 54.207 x Longitude W82 32.642 CEMETERY HISTORY: ------------------------ Dacus Family Dacusville Named for Archibald Dacus Archibald Daces was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia in 1869, to John and Mara Dacus. In the late seventeen hundreds, he moved with several of his family to Upper State South Carolina. He ran a trading post on the old Indian Road that ran from Virginia through North and South Carolina into Georgia territory, at what soon came to be called Dacusville, to trade with the Indians and passers-by, as well as local people. It is said that this was first called "The Trap." This was also a stage coach stop. History relates there had been a post office in this vicinity since Revolutionary War days which had been operated from more than one location by various people. Archibald Dacus began to operate the Post Office from his trading post (Store) and the place was called "Dacusville" after him. I have heard my grandfather Thomas Anthony Dacus, a grandson of Archibald (who moved to Upshur County, East Texas in 1888) relate this many times, and I loved to listen to him and his brother Robert talk of when they lived in Pickens County, South Carolina (They both married and had children in Pickens County). Their oldest brother, Archie, also moved to East Texas, but he died in 1928. I was too young to remember him personally. Thomas Anthony wrote about Dacusville being named after his grandfather Archibald Dacus in a letter to H.E. Dacus in Easley, dated February 6, 1938. Many of Archibald's descendants remain in Pickens and Greenville Counties. Archibald Dacus's wife was Susannah Church Dacus. Their children were William Henry, Sr., Arter. Mary Dacus Mauldin, and Elizabeth Dacus Camron. After Susannah died, he married a Cleveland, Anna Arkansas Cleveland(?). Thomas Anthony L. Dacus was born to this union. He has descendants in Greenville and Simpsonville. Later, Archibald bought a farm on the Reedy River in Greenville County near Simpsonville, and he and several members of the Dacus family are buried there in a family cemetery. There has been a marker erected there on Dacus Drive off Standing Springs Road, with the inscription "Dacus Family Cemetery." There is a Dacus Reunion for all descendants of this family held at Paris Mountain State Park the last Sunday in July. Mrs. Lois Dacus Elmore has been very active in both of these endeavors. Many of Archibald Dacus's descendants visit Dacusville every year from across the United States. It seems to add to being a Dacus descendant to have been there. In talking with some that have visited there, some just drive by, others take pictures of the highway sign and the sign on the store. Some get drinks and snacks at the store and linger, wishing there were someone there to tell them more. Some ask questions of the store keeper and customers and are disappointed when many times they have never heard the story of how Dacusville got its name. Then we awake to the reality that it has been about two hundred years how. Places have changed hands. New names have come, many of which may not know how the name came to be, but we leave rewarded for having been there and are glad that it is still DACUSVILLE. (This article was submitted by Mrs. James Poole, Route 7, Box 546, Gilmer, Texas 75644. She cites the following references: "Far away and Long Ago" by James and Anne Dacus; "Six Generations of Dacuses" by Mrs. Dean C. Edens; "The History of the Dacus Family in America" by Rufus Dacus; and various other family papers) TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: ------------------------------ a. = age at death b. = date-of-birth d. = date-of-death h. = husband m. = married p. = parents w. = wife AIKEN, Baby, b. 1992, d. 1992 AIKEN, Sam, d. 2006 DACUS, Daughter, b. 13-apr-1861, d. 1864, p. w.h. dacus DACUS, John A., b. 13-jul-1856, d. 28-mar-1878 DACUS, Margaret, b. 16-aug-1804, d. 24-jun-1890 DACUS, Marion L., b. 6-sep-1853, d. 5-apr-1862 DACUS, Thomas, b. 8-dec-1839, d. 15-aug-1850, p. w.m. & l.a. dacus DACUS, W.H., 13-oct-1826, d. 31-dec-1883 N.K. N.S. R.K., d. 1860