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Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Camden Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Camden Knights Hill Cemetery
Camden Quaker Cemetery
Liberty Hill Liberty Hill Presbyterian
Church Cemetery
Westville Bethany Baptist Church
Cemetery
Private or family
graveyard
Kershaw County, South Carolina
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John Kershaw (1765-1829) —
of Camden, Kershaw District (now Kershaw
County), S.C.
Born in Camden, Camden District (now Kershaw
County), S.C., September
12, 1765.
Democrat. Lawyer; planter; grain milling
business; delegate
to South Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1790;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1792; mayor of
Camden, S.C., 1798, 1801, 1811, 1822; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 9th District, 1813-15.
Slaveowner.
Died in Camden, Kershaw District (now Kershaw
County), S.C., August
4, 1829 (age 63 years, 326
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Forest Lawn
Memorial Park
Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina
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John Carl West (1922-2004) —
also known as John C. West —
of near Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C.
Born in Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C., August
27, 1922.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state senate from Kershaw County, 1955-66; Governor of
South Carolina, 1971-75; U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1977-81.
Presbyterian.
Member, Kiwanis;
Phi
Beta Kappa; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight.
Died March
21, 2004 (age 81 years, 207
days).
Interment at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
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Knights Hill
Cemetery
Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina
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James Chesnut Jr. (1815-1885) —
of Camden, Kershaw District (now Kershaw
County), S.C.
Born near Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C., January
18, 1815.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1842; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1854; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1858-60; delegate
to South Carolina secession convention from Kershaw, 1860-62; Delegate
from South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62; candidate for Senator
from South Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1861; general in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1868,
1872.
When the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his
seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861.
Slaveowner.
Died in Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C., February
1, 1885 (age 70 years, 14
days).
Interment at Knights Hill Cemetery.
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Quaker
Cemetery
Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina
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John Peter Richardson (1831-1899) —
of Clarendon
County, S.C.
Born in Clarendon District (now Clarendon
County), S.C., September
25, 1831.
Planter;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1856-61, 1865, 1878-80
(Clarendon 1856-61, 1865, Clarendon County 1878-80); served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention, 1865; member
of South
Carolina state senate from Clarendon, 1865-66; South
Carolina state treasurer, 1880-86; Governor of
South Carolina, 1886-90.
Episcopalian.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., July 6,
1899 (age 67 years, 284
days).
Interment at Quaker Cemetery.
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Joseph Brevard (1766-1821) —
of Camden, Kershaw District (now Kershaw
County), S.C.
Born in Iredell, Iredell
County, N.C., July 19,
1766.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1796-99; justice of
South Carolina state supreme court, 1801-15; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 9th District, 1819-21;
defeated, 1821.
Slaveowner.
Died in Camden, Kershaw District (now Kershaw
County), S.C., October
11, 1821 (age 55 years, 84
days).
Interment at Quaker Cemetery.
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Thomas Jefferson Withers (1804-1865) —
of Camden, Kershaw District (now Kershaw
County), S.C.
Born in Ebenezer (now part of Rock Hill), York
County, S.C., 1804.
Delegate
to South Carolina secession convention from Kershaw, 1860-61;
resigned 1861; Delegate
from South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861.
Died in Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C., November
7, 1865 (age about 61
years).
Interment at Quaker Cemetery.
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John Doby Kennedy (1840-1896) —
of Kershaw
County, S.C.
Born in Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C., January
5, 1840.
General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Kershaw County,
1878-80; candidate for Governor of
South Carolina, 1882.
Died April
14, 1896 (age 56 years, 100
days).
Interment at Quaker Cemetery.
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Joseph Brevard Kershaw (1822-1894) —
of Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C.
Born in Camden, Kershaw District (now Kershaw
County), S.C., January
5, 1822.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1856; delegate
to South Carolina secession convention from Kershaw, 1860-62;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1865; state court judge in South Carolina,
1877-93; postmaster at Camden,
S.C., 1894.
Quaker.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C., April
13, 1894 (age 72 years, 98
days).
Interment at Quaker Cemetery.
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William R. Taylor (c.1830-1867) —
of Camden, Kershaw District (now Kershaw
County), S.C.
Born about 1830.
Delegate
to South Carolina secession convention from Kershaw, 1861-62.
Died in Camden, Kershaw District (now Kershaw
County), S.C., September
15, 1867 (age about 37
years).
Interment at Quaker Cemetery.
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Thomas Ancrum (1888-1967) —
of Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C.
Born in Abbeville, Abbeville
County, S.C., August
4, 1888.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
South Carolina, 1944.
Died April
25, 1967 (age 78 years, 264
days).
Interment at Quaker Cemetery.
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Liberty Hill
Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Liberty Hill, Kershaw County, South Carolina
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John Gardiner Richards (1864-1941) —
also known as John G. Richards —
of South Carolina.
Born September
11, 1864.
Democrat. Governor of
South Carolina, 1927-31; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from South Carolina, 1928.
Presbyterian.
Died October
9, 1941 (age 77 years, 28
days).
Interment at Liberty Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
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James Prioleau Richards (1894-1979) —
also known as James P. Richards —
of Lancaster, Lancaster
County, S.C.
Born in Liberty Hill, Kershaw
County, S.C., August
31, 1894.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; probate judge
in South Carolina, 1923-33; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 5th District, 1933-57.
Died in Lancaster, Lancaster
County, S.C., February
21, 1979 (age 84 years, 174
days).
Interment at Liberty Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
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Bethany Baptist
Church Cemetery
3100 Youngs Park Drive
Westville, Kershaw County, South Carolina
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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Lewis Craig Clyburn (1871-1966) —
of Kershaw
County, S.C.
Born in Kershaw
County, S.C., October
6, 1871.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Kershaw County,
1936-40, 1942-46.
Died in Westville, Kershaw
County, S.C., January
15, 1966 (age 94 years, 101
days).
Interment at Bethany Baptist Church Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Lewis
Lee Clyburn and Mary Jane (Kelly) Clyburn; married, May 5,
1895, to Jane Brown Cunningham; married, October
4, 1944, to Daisy Cunninham; granduncle of William
Richard Clyburn; first cousin once removed of Benjamin
Rutledge Clyburn, Thomas
Franklin Clyburn, William
Uriah Clyburn (1857-1917), Thomas
Yancey Williams and David
Reece Williams; second cousin of Beckham
Hilton Clyburn, Charles
Frank Clyburn and Lewis
Marcellus Clyburn Jr.; second cousin once removed of William
Uriah Clyburn (1920-2007); third cousin once removed of Thornwell
Howard Clyburn. |
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family of South Carolina. |
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memorial |
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