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(formerly Three Mile Creek Church)

St. Johns Church Rd (SC –S-5-93), Ehrhardt, SC 29081
(between Ehrhardt and Rivers Bridge State Historic Site)
Bamberg County, SC

St Johns Baptist Church & Cemetery

Submitted by Anne Gelwicks  AnnGelATcomcast.net.  Transcribed from photographs Anne took October 2006. 

There are over one hundred names in this list. Some information was covered by flowers or other stones in the photo, and some info would need to be read in person. I have included questionable information marked with “?”. There are more stones that were not photographed, and quite a few small stones that could have been footstones, or perhaps small markers with all the lettering worn away. This is adjacent to an active church, but I have not contacted them about any records yet.

There is an historical marker in front of the church:

St. Johns Baptist Church

   This church, established 1829-30, was first named Three Mile Creek Church and held early services in a brush arbor 4 mi. W. on the Salkehatchie River. In 1839 it was moved to this site donated by George Kinard, and was renamed St. Johns Baptist Church. A permanent sanctuary was soon built, some of which is till extant within the present sanctuary, renovated in 1865, 1938, and 1961.

Other names in cemetery which I didn’t transcribe: Barnes, Mears, Willis

Name of Deceased	Born	Died	Other wording
Anderson Eautsey K	1878	1958	Same stone w Toile
Anderson, Toile E	1886	1955	Same stone w Eautsey
Ayer, Lewis Greene	06-27-1892	01-26-1954	“Father” on same stone w Wilma Kinard Ayer
Ayer, Sonny	08-07-1931	06-28-1975	Same stone w ?
Ayer, Wilma Kinard	11-25-1897	09-20-1970	“Mother” on same stone w Lewis G Kinard
Bennett, Robert Marion	1879	1940	Wayne Co, GA
Bishop, Charles W	10-?-18?	11-?-19?	Husband of Lula
Bishop, George O	01-18-?	02-28-?	Same stone w Myrtis Kinard
Bishop, Lula Hiers	09-?	? ?	Wife of C W Bishop
Bishop, Myrtis Kinard	12-11-1914	05-06-1993	Same stone w George
Brant, Charlie L	11-19-1873	06-17-1925	Same stone as wife, Ida “Borne home by Angel’s hands.”
Brant, Ida M	03-13-1870	11-03-1937	Same stone w husband, Charlie
Brant, Joseph Robert	10-11-1925	10-28-1984	Same stone w Leonard Furman Brant
Brant, Leonard Furman	01-30-1929	02-04-1950	Same stone w Joseph Robert Brant
Breeland, ?	10-28-1898	04-02-1992
Breeland, Leila B	02-10-1905	03-16-1992	Adjacent to Claude Breland (only 1 e in name)
Breland, Claude V	1925	03-29-2003	US Navy, WWII, adjacent to Leila B Breeland
Brown, ?ler Bell	09-08-1904	03-13-1916	Dau. Of HL & Emma Brown, footstone HBB
Brown, Gertie	?-19-?	10-19-1987
Brown, Jasper L	01-25-1892	05-09-1955
Carter,  Henry W	12-25-18?	08-30-19?
Carter, Carolyn Kinard	06-28-1924	03-25-2002	Adjacent to Rev. CF Carter
Carter, Charles Franklin	12-02-1922	01-30-1980	US Army (Veteran stone)
Carter, Rev. Charles Franklin	12-02-1922	01-30-1980	A Minister of the Lord, adjacent to Carolyn Kinard Carter (also see adjacent veteran stone)
Chitty, Rosa Kinard	01-01-1866	02-05-1960	Wife of Henry W Chitty
Collins, Earl E	1904	1958	Same stone w Inez
Collins, Inez ?	1904?	1966	Same stone w Earl
Connelly, Bonnie?
Connelly, Joseph	02-27-1890	08-24-1984	Same stone w Bonnie?
Connelly, William Henry
Escoffier, Gaynell W	02-16-1915	07-16-1939	Adjacent to HB & RRR Warren
Folk, Sue C.	03-27-1887	04-29-1937	In Carter Plot
Garrett, Ray Edwin?			Son of WB & Mary Garrett
Henderson, Mary Henderson	02-04-1838	03-?-1915
Herndon, Anna L Kinard	09-23-1872	11-25-1933	Wife of GJ Herndon “She was a devoted wife and loving mother”
Herndon, G J	05-07-1873	08-18-1952	Adjacent to wife, Anna L Kinard
Herndon, Heber	02-041898	01-07-1916	Son of GJ & Anna L Herndon
Herndon, Little Cecil	05-06-1895	08-25-1896	Son of GJ & Anna L Herndon
Hiers, ?rie Houck	05-04-1891	11-17-1973	Same stone w Ernest
Hiers, Agnes Peters	12-07-1896	03-14-1978	Adjacent to Bradley; Hiers Plot
Hiers, Bradley C	10-26-1891	03-31-1948	Adjacent to Agnes; Hiers Plot
Hiers, C S	07-26-1866	10-23-1928	“In memory of” (concrete marker, may be and made) “Gone but not forgotten” “At rest”
Hiers, Carroll B	02-11-1917	01-05-1997	Same stone w Sarah (living)
Hiers, Catherine V.	05-12-1915	12-26-1931	Hiers Plot w pea gravel & new coping
Hiers, Clarence A	10-30-1912	10-23-1978
Hiers, Ernest L	05-21-1887	03-02-1960	Same stone w ?rie Houck
Hiers, Infant Daughter		04-03-1956	Infant Daughter of Mr & Mrs James E Hiers
Hiers, Infant Daughter		04-01-1957	Infant Daughter of Mr & Mrs James E Hiers
Hiers, J. Norwood	04-04-1916	02-02-1956
Hiers, Jacob Albert	07-21-1919	05-05-2000	Adjacent to Wilhelmina; Hiers Plot
Hiers, Jane Elizabeth Henderson	11-09-1875	05-20-1933	Wife of John Blanton Hiers
Hiers, John Blanton	07-16-1871	01-29-1940	Adjacent to wife Jane Elizabeth Henderson
Hiers, John Coleman	06-14-1905	06-29-1970
Hiers, Lou Fields	05-20-1873	02-20-1949	Wife of Charlie S Hiers
Hiers, Mary Elizabeth	09-22-1896	01-23-1919	God called her back to Heaven
Hiers, N. T.	07-16-1837	08-20-1916	Earth has no sorry that heaven cannot heal
Hiers, Samuel Perry	)1903	08-06-1949
Hiers, Wilhelmina C	12-04-1917	01-05-2001	Adjacent to Jacob Albert; Hiers Plot
Johnson, Janie H	12-19-1922	09-14-2001	Same stone w Dorsey (living), footstone says “Mother”
Kearse, ? Breeland	1880	1974
Kearse, Clara	08-29-1882	09-04-1901
Kinard, Aquilla Martin	10-04-1869	02-15-1927	“Great Love Lives On”
Kinard, Cordelia Ann	11-20-1845	04-02-1926	Wife of E M Kinard “Mother”
Kinard, Donree			Near Eloise Kinard
Kinard, E M	10-14-1832	12-30-1906	“At Rest”
Kinard, Ella Hiers	09-19-1897	03-15-1981	Same stone w Perry
Kinard, Eloise			There is a footstone EKA- is Kinard her maiden name? I did not notice a nearby stone with an “A” surname
Kinard, Gladys Marie	01-11-1919	07-06-1920	“Sweet babe Thy spirit now hath rest”
Kinard, Gus T	10-14-1880	07-29-1938