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OLD KIRKLAND CEMETERY 
Bamberg County, South Carolina
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Driving directions:  Drive south from Bamberg on route 301, after passing Mizpah Methodist Church on the left side of the road, turn left on route 64. Drive one mile and turn left onto a dirt road between pine trees.  Go two tenths of a mile and the cemetery is in a circle of oak and other trees that are located in the middle of the road.  Circle around the cemetery and park
behind it where the graves are more accessible.

Transcriber's Notes:  This cemetery is in desperate need of cleaning.  Note links to images of tombstones.

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Site of Rueben and Sarah Kirkland's Graves
 
Revolutionary marker for Reuben reads
Rueben Kirkland, Revolutionary Soldier, ca 1760    1822
Placed by Charles Pinckney Chapter  NSDAR
Monument reads
Reuben Kirkland S.C. REV. WAR


Grave of Sarah Mary Clarke is beside Reuben Kirkland and  reads:
Mary Clarke, Wife of Reuben

Infant grave of: Mary E. Kirkland, daughter of John Cornelius Kirkland and
Sarah Cornelia Barker, reads:
SACRED to the Memory of
MARY E,  infant daughter of  JC and SC Kirkland
Nov. 9th 1865      Oct.18th  1866

Joseph Brabham's monument reads:
Joseph Brabham son of Joseph & Flora McPhail Brabham Born  Mar 1, 1785  Died
NOV 3, 1875

Sarah Kirkland Brabham's monument reads:
Sarah Kirkland Brabham wife of Joseph Brabham Dau. of Reuben and Mary
Kirkland   Born  Nov 18, 1790    Died  June 7,  1844.

There is evidence of other graves at this location but there are no other
monuments.  There is also an open grave that appears as if a body was moved,
The open grave is lined with brick.

 
 
 
 
 

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