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ANDERSON CO.,

SOUTH CAROLINA

 

 

Introduction

Family Surnames

Ancestral Gen-Site(s)

List of Localities

Gen-Info Websites

Image Gallery

 

Contact Information

 

INTRODUCTION

Source: Wikipedia

  

  Anderson County is located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of 2005, the population is 175,514. Its county seat is Anderson. It is included in the Anderson, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.

     Anderson County and its county seat, Anderson, were named for Revolutionary War general Robert Anderson (1741-1812). This region was occupied by the Cherokee Indians until 1777, when it was ceded by treaty to the state. Part of the "Indian Land"

 

 

became Pendleton District (also called Washington District at one time.) The area was given its present name in 1826, when Pendleton District was split into Anderson and Pickens. Most of the early settlers of this area were Scotch-Irish farmers who moved south from Pennsylvania and Virginia in the eighteenth century. The oldest town in the county is Pendleton, which was founded around 1790; it became a popular summer resort for low-country planters in the nineteenth century.

Anderson County, SC

Family Surnames

The following are surnames of persons, found within our data bases, who were either born, married or died in this county.

 

 

McVicker; Moreland; Pinnell; Scruggs and allied families

Bennett;   Bishop;   Dickson;   Henderson;   Mayfield;   McAllister;    Todd;   Warnock

Bozarth; Peiffer; Quigley; Rhubart and allied families

 

Dellinger; Knecht; Pfeffer; Silar and allied families

 

To find out more about each family listed here click on the appropriate LINK(s).

Anderson County, SC

Ancestral Gen-Site(s)

 

SITE NAME:

Pickens Chapel & Cemetery

Pickens Chapel

Photo by Reavis Dixon

LOCATION:

Anderson County, South Carolina

COORDINATES:

34.44.210 N    082.35.280 W

DIRECTIONS;

Located on the east side of Three and Twenty road, (county road 485) in the northeastern quadrant of the county. About two miles North of SC Rt. 88. Three and Twenty road departs SC 88 at Old Slabtown, SC, (now only a name on a little country restaurant.)  The old cemetery is some distance behind the present “Pickens Chapel” building.

HISTORY / DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION:

Pickens Cemetery, once served as the initial burial ground, for the present day Carmel Presbyterian Church that is located about three miles away in Pickens county.  The Pickens Chapel and Cemetery are situated about seven miles south of Easley in Anderson County.   They are surrounded by a wooded area located behind a white frame church building once known as Wesley Methodist Chapel.  The first log meetinghouse originally known as Richmond-Carmel church once stood between the Pickens Cemetery and present-day Pickens Chapel.      The graves of at least twenty-eight Revolutionary War soldiers can be found in this burial ground.  Michael and John Dickson were among the first elders of the church organized in 1787.

Headstone of Major Michael Dickson

Photo by Reavis Dixon

ANCESTRY:

Michael Dickson, Revolutionary War veteran and one of the first elders of the church, and wife Sarah Neeley Dickson are buried here.  Elder John Dickson, brother of Michael, and Hugh Dickson son of Michael  were also members of this church.

WEB LINKS:

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/sc/pickens/cemeteries/p026.txt

 

 

Anderson County, SC

List of Localities

 

The list below will assist in your research

 regarding the matching of your ancestors birth,

 marriage, death dates and in what locality of this

county these events may have occurred.

Source:  Wikipedia

 

Cities and Towns that make up Anderson County. They are:

Anderson ;   Belton ;   Centerville (Unincorporated) ;   Clemson (Anderson/Pickens County) ;   Homeland Park (Unincorporated) ;   Honea Path ;   Iva ;   Northlake (Unincorporated) ;   Pelzer ;   Pendleton ;   Piedmont (Anderson/Greenville Counties) (Unincoporated) ;   Powdersville (Unincorporated) ;   Sandy Springs ;   Starr ;   West Pelzer ;   Williamston

 

 

Anderson County, SC

Gen-Info Websites

 

The following are links to websites that will provide you with specific

genealogical  information to assist with your research for this county.

 

 

 

 

Use the following LINKS to find more information that may pertain to this location.

 

 

 

Anderson County, SC

Image Gallery

 

During our research we have collected and images and photographs that are of general interest to a variety of localities.  Some of them are presented on this website because we believe they tend to provide the reader with additional information which may aid in the understanding of our ancestors past lives.

New Anderson County Courthouse,

 Anderson, South Carolina

 

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location we would greatly appreciate hearing from you.

 

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ANCESTRAL LOCATION PHOTOGRAPHS and IMAGES

 

Contact Information

 

Email

Pony Express:

Tom
27 Christopher Dr.
Burton, NB E2V3H4
Canada

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Snail mail:

Fred
889 Dante Ct.
Mantua, NJ 08051

USA

 

 

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