Clarendon County, S.C.
Photographs donated to
the Clarendon County, S.C.
USGenWeb home page by
Cynthia R. Parker
These photographs were taken on a hot summer
day, July 10, 2003.
A digital Sony Mavica camera was used. A
few more photos were taken, but
they didn't turn out well, so were discarded.
It's really surprising at how well
most of the pictures look. The names and
dates can be easily read on most of them.
The James, Martha, and Hope Ridgeway stones
are the oldest in the cemetery.
There is room between those markers for
a number of other graves, so it is likely
that other Ridgeways are buried there without
markers or they had wooden
markers which have been lost to time.
My mother and I had decided to go to Richburg
Farms to pick tomatoes and then to
go by Oak Grove. We tended to the flowers
on the graves of her brothers and father,
(my uncles and grandfather). I wanted to
take pictures of the old Ridgeway graves and
then just decided to walk around a bit,
snapping other pictures until it was too hot to
be outdoors any longer. I skipped over many
tombstones that were very dark and would
need chalk for the writing to show up. The
graveyard is rather large. It would take
much time to take a photo of every stone
there.
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