Zion Lutheran Church Pre-1792
Lexington County, South Carolina, USA
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Before the early 1800s, it was more common for the deceased to be buried in a family cemetery on the home place. Examples: (1) the Kleckley family. Or (2), as with Jacob Drafts, there may be a known marker as to his death but uncertainty if the body is actually under the more modern marker.
Exactly across Corley Mill Road to the west is the site of Corley Grist Mill. Eastward of the church marker is the residual of old sawdust mounds from the old sawmill. And just to the east of those mounds is the east-facing bluff on which stood colonial "Fort Dreher" which began as a stockade around the home of Godfrey Dreher and maybe the Zion Church. I think the immigrant and his wife are likely buried near the home, essentially at this first Zion Church. A hundred or so yards east of this bluff, eastward of the power-lines open area, is the second site of Zion Lutheran Church (1792-1922). Some depressions in the general area of that cemetery attest to the 1970s-80s transfer of some graves to the modern, present-day ZLC cemetery back up Corley Mill Road toward highway #378.
Before the early 1800s, it was more common for the deceased to be buried in a family cemetery on the home place. Examples: (1) the Kleckley family. Or (2), as with Jacob Drafts, there may be a known marker as to his death but uncertainty if the body is actually under the more modern marker.
Exactly across Corley Mill Road to the west is the site of Corley Grist Mill. Eastward of the church marker is the residual of old sawdust mounds from the old sawmill. And just to the east of those mounds is the east-facing bluff on which stood colonial "Fort Dreher" which began as a stockade around the home of Godfrey Dreher and maybe the Zion Church. I think the immigrant and his wife are likely buried near the home, essentially at this first Zion Church. A hundred or so yards east of this bluff, eastward of the power-lines open area, is the second site of Zion Lutheran Church (1792-1922). Some depressions in the general area of that cemetery attest to the 1970s-80s transfer of some graves to the modern, present-day ZLC cemetery back up Corley Mill Road toward highway #378.
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- Added: 8 Jun 2012
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2452545
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