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OLD BROWNLEE BURIAL GROUND

from
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS OF DORCHESTER COUNTY, SC
Compiled by Lillian H. Harley, Pattie W. Heaton, Lillian D. Kizer

Location: Turn left off S-18-28 just south of I-26 on dirt road, travel about two miles to the site of the old Brownlee home site, then woods road about four-tenths mile.

Copyists: Mr. Mark Fowler, Mrs. "Bunt" Simpson, Mrs. Evelyn M. Hughes. Shown by Earl Zeigler.

Date: February 15, 1979

On 15 February 1979 Mr. Mark Fowler, Mrs. "Bunt" Simpson, and Mrs. Evelyn M. Hughes set out in a jeep to find the Old Brownlee Cemetery. They had no direct directions, Mr. Fowler remembering discovering the old Burial Ground about twenty years ago, and he recalled the Old Brownlee house standing about ten years ago. They searched in all directions with no success, when about to give up, they found Earl Zeigler who lived in a small house and he seemed to know everything, the family of Brownlees he had worked for when younger, and said he plowed the field next the cemetery and would go there to rest during the noon, but had not been there in many years. The searchers persuaded Zeigler to help them find this cemetery and he went with them back almost to Walnut Swamp, after separating and hunting, finally they found the stones of two graves.


  
George Wesley, Son of
T. W. & E. E. Brownlee
Aug. 15, 1845
Age 3 yrs 5 mo.

Sacred to the Memory of
Capt. Thomas W. Brownlee
4th Sept. 1848 in the 
48th yr of his age
There are two depressions nearby.
We were told that Mrs. Eliza Brownlee was buried here, who was a Bowman 
- no marker remaining.

Recorded in Book 1, page 131 of Colleton County Transcripts to Dorchester County 1897, housed in Clerk of Court's vault

for said county is the following: C. B. Farmer, C. E. to John Brownlee - . . . whereas John Brownlee on or about the 17th

day of February 1855 did exhibit his petition in the Court of Equity at Walterborough. . . against Andrew D. Way, Guardian

 ad Litem setting forth inter alla that George Brownlee died intestate many years ago leaving as his estate a certain Tract

of Land Called Walnut Tract in St. George's Parish, which was bequeathed to him by his late Father John Brownlee, Senr,

and further that John Brownlee, Senr. also left a small Tract of Pine land undisposed of by his will situate also in St.

Georges Parish. All which he prayed should be sold. . . And the cause being at issue before the Honorable Court aforesaid

 came to be heard at February setting 1855. . . order, adjudge, and decree that the lands. . . should be sold at public

Auction. . . by public Outcry. . . and according to the custom of auction sell and dispose of the said lands below described

 unto John Brownlee for the sum of "Two thousand 666 dollars & 69 cents" being. . . the highest bidder. All of the said

Tract except one acre the Burial Ground which with the right of ingress and egress is hereby expressly reserved to the

family of the John Brownlee, Senr. and is not intended to be conveyed by these presents, so as to interfere with the right

of burial of the said family as heretofore enjoyed by them. . . . . . and by virtue of the said Decretal Order have hereunto set

my hand and seal at Walterborough this seventh day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty

five, and in the 79th year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. Witnessed by (Signed) C.

B. Farmer (L.S.) Com. In Equity C. D. Robert T. Banting Recorded in Book U, page 583, May 29, 1855. J. K. Linder Now

Recorded Nov. 22, 1866. Delivered to Wm. S. Mims Also Recorded in Book A, Page 251 Colleton Jan. 28, 1867 [Recorded

on page below plat] Pursuant to request of John Brownlee Esqr acting executor of the Estate of John Brownlee Senr decd

I have resurveyed a plantation or tract of Land belonging to Mrs. Levina Brownlee widow of John Brownlee Senr decd

containing Two hundred and forty acres situated in Colleton District & Parish of St. Georges Dorchester on Walnut Creek

waters of Four holes, and hath such courses and distances Shapes and Marks Buttings and Boundings as are represented

in the above plat. Resurveyed the eleventh day of December 1841 By Thomas J. Mellard Dep Surveyor Recorded Novr 22

1866 I hereby certify the above to be a true copy of Plat as recorded in Book "H" 262. H D Padgett Clerk of Court By Lillian

H. Harley .Charles B. Farmer was commissioner of the Honorable Court of Equity for the District of Colleton, SC.


 
 

CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS OF DORCHESTER COUNTY, SC:
© 1979 Lillian H. Harley, Pattie W. Heaton, Lillian D. Kizer

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