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Saving Graves is dediated to
providing leadership, education and advocacy in preserving and
restoring endangered and forgotten cemeteries worldwide.
The information contained
within this website is provided as a public service and is sumitted by
it's users. Saving Graves makes no guarantee that the informaton is
current or accurate. Readers should make every attempt to verify the
information before acting on it.
Cemeteries have always been a big part of South Carolina's history.
Until recently they have been a feared place and have suffered a great
amount of neglect. Cemeteries are living lessons in history. The
practice of marking loved ones final resting places goes back thousands
of years. Since the beginning of time has been both feared and
worshipped. For this reason, our civilization had dreamed up countless
practices and rituals to deal with and perhaps understand it. We have
chosen to immortalize death with stones and markers that tell about the
people who are buried beneath them. We take the bodies of those whose
spirits have departed and place them in the ground, or in the enclosure
of the tomb, and place a monument over these remains that speaks of the
life once lived. It was believed in ancient times that to speak a
persons name was ever lasting life and when the walls of tombs of
ancient Egypt were built they were built with this in mind. When we see
a hand made tombstone, we speak that persons name in our mind. A burial
place is that persons final place and should be treated with the same
respect we give the living. Who are we to decide if they are
inappropriately placed! When families buried their dead, they believed
they were to stay buried where they were placed. Yes, our state needs
to grow, can't argue with that but at what cost. South Carolina has
become more and more involved with its history over the years but few
have come to realize that the people's history starts and ends with
cemeteries. Just knowing it was there and having a record of those
buried there does not protect history. A good majority of South
Carolina's cemeteries have been lost to growth, both development and
nature. Our goal here at South Carolina Saving Graves is to bring those
cemeteries back to life again. To make them as beautiful as they were
when they were being used, to stop the desecration of these wonderful
pieces of history.
Steven
Stymiest
South Carolina State Coordinator
William Roberts - South Carolina State Co-coordinator
South
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New cemeteries have been added to the following counties: Allendale,
Berkeley, Chester, Florence, Laurens, Richland, Sumter, Union, and
York. Please go to the South Carolina counties pages to view these new
cemeteries.
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Saving Graves Mailing List
For those of you who want to be kept informed but don't want to sign up
for an internet mail list, we also have a snail mail version, please
send your name and address to the following address:
South Carolina Saving Graves
8 Cedarvilla Drive
Rock Hill, SC 29730
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Carolina Saving Graves Room of Honor 
For those projects that deserve a place of honor in our quest to save
our cemeteries.
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Carolina Cemetery Preservation Law - Please let
us know about additional current or pending South Carolina cemetery
protection laws.
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