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| This Cemetery is located in West Chester County, South Carolina,
on the Broad River, near the Woods Ferry area of the Sumpter national Forest.
of Belle Waters and William Wade.
Cemetery was abandoned, though you could see traces of many unmarked graves beneath the trees.
the 1800's and many of the families that had used it up until that time began using the Brushy Fork Creek Baptist Church and Cemetery. The day we were there, there were only three stones that could be found of the four that had been there when Louise Crowder compiled it for her book of old family and abandoned cemeteries in April of 1957. (Tombstone Records Of Chester County , South Carolina And Vicinity") Marcus said that it was he who took her there that day. Still there was the lone grave with a standing stone. It was that of my great great grandfather, David Pendergrass Jr., born 20 December 1802, died 2 July 1880. He is listed in the Chester Census of 1880 as having passed away of dropsey. The stone appears to date to back to the time of his death.
. The other stones are standing, but the tops are gone, and there's nothing to be read. I'm assuming that one of those next to him may have been his first wife Mary Ingram, but have no way of knowing. His mother and father may also be in this cemetery. David Sr., his father died when he was just two years old, and his mother Susannah passed away ca 1849. David Jr's other two wives are both buried in the Brushy Fork Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. Selena Kitchens Pendergrass was buried many years before he died, so it is just a speculation that he was buried at Shaw by the children from his first wife, and may have been placed there next to her, though he left his third wife, Rebecca Kitchens Worthy Pendergrass a widow at the time. Rebecca is buried near Selena , who was her younger sister, and next to her first husband Preston Worthy. Another stone found was that of Pleasant Pendergrass,
brother of David Jr. It is a natural stone, that has been roughly engraved. All it says is P.P. 1841 at what appeared to us to say 47 years.....Pleasant's Estate is listed in the Chester Court Records. The third gravestone that we found was that of William Hill's widow, Armonel Hill. She is my great great great grandmother, mother of Mrs. Nancy Hill Worthy, wife of Henry Worthy. This stone was one that had been professionally inscribed, but was in several pieces on the ground, parts of it missing. It said born Dec 1773 died 18 June, 1858 at 84 years , 8 months, 13 days.
not to be found that day, although the leaves were so deep that I'm sure that it, plus others might be found and read by a soul less fearful of running into forest creatures that bite. Her compilation said that it was William Hill, died 4 Dec 1843 at age 72. He was my GGG grandfather, and husband to Armonel Hill. There was no description of his stone. An interesting sidelight regarding these people is that David Pendergrass was the father by his first wife of Watus Pendergrass, my great grandfather. Watus married Mary Belle Worthy, the daughter of David's third wife Rebecca, by her first husband Preston Worthy. Preston was the brother of Henry Worthy. So I have two brothers who are both my great great grandfathers. Henry Worthy and Nancy Hill Worthy were the parents of Nancy Josephine Worthy, who married John Alston Waters. They had a daughter , Nancy Elizabeth Waters Pendergrass who married William Preston Pendergrass, the son of Watus and Mary Belle Worthy Pendergrass. They were second cousins, their respective mothers being first cousins. Preston and Elizabeth are my grandparents. All of which makes it impossible for me to be my own grandpa, but dangerously close to being a closer cousin to myself than I would choose. |
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