LEOPARD CEMETERY


Location: Approximately five miles west of Pine Hill, between MF 840
and FM 2867, east of Hunt Cemetery

Number of graves: 3-5

Number of identifiable graves: 1

Number of non-identifiable marked graves: 2

Earliest known grave: 1883

Latest known grave: 1883

Race count: all white, presumably

Located on a fairly level ground in open country in a small grove of
sassafrass trees. The Leopard grave is enclosed by an old wooden picket
fence about four feet tall, surrounded by a newer galvanized chain-link
fence with a gate. The grave has fairly large trees growing directly on
top of it.

Just outside of the fence are two small footstones, one bearing readable
initials and the other broken in two just above the ground with no
lettering evident.

Many years ago, there was a church located at this site, called Pine
Springs Missionary Baptist Church, also nicknamed "Greasy Kitchen."

It is very possible that this is a forerunner to the Hunt Cemetery
located just a few hundred yards to the west. The location was
presumbale changed to higher ground because of watery graves, so there
could be more graves there than expected.

Identifiable graves:

Leopard, John
B 1800 in South Carolina
D July 19, 1883

Non-identifiable graves:

"C.V.K." - footstone with initials - no headstone evident
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Submitted by: Bonnie Palmer (bpalmer@bihs.net)

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