African-American Cemeteries in Dillon County

• Bethel Hill Cemetery, Latta
  with photographs
• Catfish Creek Cemetery, Latta
• FORD Cemetery, Lake View
• HAMILTON Cemetery , Near South of the Border (Hamer)
• McClellan / Mason Family Cemetery, Fork
• Mill Branch Baptist Church Cemetery, Fork Community
• MILLER Cemetery, Pleasant Hill Community, at the North Carolina State line.
• New Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery
• Oakey Point Cemetery, Latta
• PAGE Cemetery
  (aka St. Paul A.M.E. Church Cemetery), Buck Swamp Road near Floydale Community
• Ramsey Cemetery, near Higgins Cross Roads
• ROBERTS Cemetery 3, Longstreet Road
  with photographs
• Sherwood Cemetery, near Little Rock
• Shiloh Cemetery, Fork Community
• Wallace Cemetery, NE of Little Rock

Dillon County Cemeteries Main page

Links of Interest

• Africans in America - PBS Series Main page
  For topics pertaining specifically to South Carolina, see:
  • Arthur Middleton
  • Harvesting the Rice
  • Ready for Harvest painting by South Carolina artist Alice Huger Smith
  • Fort Mose Carolina slaves brought to Florida
  • The Stone Rebellion - 1739
  • Slaves Plantation of James Joyner Smith, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862
  • Memorial to South Carolina Senate - 1791 for an interesting bit of history on "free blacks" in South Carolina
• African American Research
  A good place to start.
• How to Research African American Obituaries
  Helpful tutorial for beginners.
• The African-American Mosaic A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
  Wonderful online exhibit and resource
• Free African Americans of Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware
  Researcher Paul Heinegg lists numerous free slaves throughout various counties in North Carolina and Virginia. Excellent site, organized by surnames but please take the time to read the Foreward and Introduction. Slaves brought into Brunswick County, Virginia, from North and South Carolina, 1780 -1781

• African American Cemeteries Online
• African American Genealogy Ring
  This Web Ring is dedicated to genealogists who are researching African-American Family Histories.
• Afrigeneas
  Looks a bit more commercial than it did when it started a few years ago, but worth a visit.
• Black Genealogy Exchange - An MSN Community site
• Christine's African American Genealogy Site
  A bit confusing to navigate but the site has been around for a long time.
• African American Family History Research
  Deals with Missouri but an interesting site with some data pertaining to all states.
• African Native Genealogy Page
  Oklahoma's Black Indians
• Genealogy Forum: African American Resource Center
• First Person Narratives of the American South
  documents the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It focuses on the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans. The texts for this project come from the Academic Affairs Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Editorial Board for Documenting the American South guides its development.
• Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia
  Lists numerous free slaves throughout various counties in North Carolina and Virginia. Provides in-depth explanation of information.
• Freedman's Bureau Records - South Carolina
  (A Christine's Genealogy web site, NOT a government site)

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