Book Description

This coffee-table-size hardcover book contains cemetery plots and complete unabridged verbatim transcripts of inscriptions and epitaphs from all 112 cemeteries of European settlers and their descendants in McCormick County, South Carolina. Prefatory text includes (1) a history of the region, (2) list of decedents with past military service, (3) list of biblical quotations inscribed on tombstones, (4) list of causes of death inscribed on tombstones, and more. Names of all decedents are included in a Master Index. For each cemetery there is a map, plus step-by-step directions and GPS coordinates. The book is a scholarly research tool for genealogists and historians.