Oak Grove Methodist Cemetery
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.



 
 





Sacred to the Memory of James F. Ridgeway who departed this life

August 30, 1847

(James Ridgeway was a son of Hope and Martha Ridgeway.
He was born November 15, 1798 in Clarendon County.)



Sacred to the memory of Martha Ann Ridgeway
who departed this life on Nov. 10th, 1842 aged 10 years and 1 month.

(This is the oldest surviving tombstone in the cemetery. It is not known who Martha's parents were.)



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Peter Edward Ridgeway 1841-1920

A faithful member of the M.E. Church



Margaret Jane Barfield Ridgeway 1845-1923


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