Comments on: Magnolia Cemetery

By: Jan Siever

Jan Siever — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:09:08 +0000

Interested in Meiburg burials.

By: Chip

Chip — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:49:43 +0000

Individual information about deceased South Carolinians can often be paired up with the companion memorial on FindAGrave.com.

By: Franklin Clark Sheen

Franklin Clark Sheen — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:58:48 +0000

I have a death notice with picture that says:
” Sybil Amelia
Wife of
E. W. Gurley
Died at Charleston, So. Ca.
March 21, 1908
A True Wife. A Loving Mother. A Good Woman”

By: SCIWAY

SCIWAY — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:46:44 +0000

Hi Kim! Thank you so much for your kind words. We believe that the best place to find this information would be the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Even if they don't have exactly what you're looking for, they will be able to steer you in the right direction. Good Luck! - SCIWAY

By: Kim Porter

Kim Porter — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:11:08 +0000

Thanks so much for your work on this site. Is there a list of those buried in this cemetery? I’m hoping to locate my great grandamother who is reportedly buried there. Her name was Sybil Amelia Gurley and she possibly married a man by the last name of Bicaise before she died. Any ideas how to find her grave?

By: James D Payne

James D Payne — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:12:27 +0000

I was looking for Capt Thomas Paine, Sr who was a harbor master in Charleston. He died 1828 and was buried in cemetery of Second Presbyterian Church at 342 Meeting Street in Charleston. Captain Thomas Paine was buried with sons Stephen Paine, who died in 1811, and Joseph Bridgham Paine, who died in 1827. They are all three buried in the cemetery at Second Presbyterian Church, Charleston, Lot 72, Square 3, Stone # 8. Was it customary to be buried stacked on top of each casket?

I also am trying to find Nathaniel Russell Paine’s grave in Magnolia Cemetery. He was buried about 1863-1865.

Thanks,
James Payne
paynejd@bellsouth.net
Alabama

By: Chip

Chip — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:15:02 +0000

William Burrows Smith, was an industrious man, leaving school at the age of 15 to seek his fortune in the cotton factorage business (a sort of business agent for the cotton planters to use to sell their cotton harvests to the various milling interests.) The pyramid was erected by his family after his death, and his remains entombed. His crypt is behind the marble panel at the center back wall, under the stain glass window. His wife Frances Susan Jones Smith is entombed directly under his crypt.

To the left of the door, are three kin: Daughter Helen Smith Whaley (wife of William Baynard Whaley, Jr), Her son, Rep Richard Smith Whaley, who also was appointed by the president to the bench as a Federal Judge, and Lillian Heyward Nylander, a daughter of Frances ‘Fannie’ Smith Heyward (Helen’s older sister). To the right of the front door, is another of Helen’s sons and daughter-in-law. Dr Thomas Prioleau Whaley and his wife Henrietta, and on the bottom right, Heyward Champion, who died young, was a manager at Worthington Arms Co. He was the grandson of Fannie Smith Heyward, and the brother to the famous naval aviator, Carleton Cole Champion, Jr. All these names are documented and have memorials on the web at Find A Grave. They are a fascinating and very accomplished family. The pyramid mausoleum is featured on Ted Phillip’s book about Magnolia, ‘City of the Silent’.

By: susan thomas

susan thomas — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:05:28 +0000

Spent a very scary Halloween night walking thru Magnolia cemetary with friends back in the teenage years. Beautiful cemetary and several family friends and family members are buried there.

By: sharon shisler

sharon shisler — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:34:54 +0000

My great grandparents are buried here.

By: Dee Woods

Dee Woods — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:07:22 +0000

Spent many peaceful hours visiting those who had given their lives for what they believed to be right. I will always cherish those memories.