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SAULDAM BAPTIST CHURCH & CEMETERY

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CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS OF DORCHESTER COUNTY, SC
Compiled by Lillian H. Harley, Pattie W. Heaton, Lillian D. Kizer
Location: On Hwy. S-18-317, known as County Line Road, between Charleston and Dorchester Counties, southeast of Delemars.
The exact date that Sauldam was organized is not known, but information available points to the period between 1823-1830. An old Bible presented to the Baptist Church of St. Paul's Parish in 1841, organizing of Stono in 1841 and Ravenel in 1842, gives evidence that Sauldam was an established church. There were 100 white and 77 colored members in 1856, and 81 white and 100 colored in 1861. In the year 1868 letters of dismissal were given the colored members to join a church of the same faith. The year the church moved to the present area has not been established. The land, the present cemetery, was given by Mr. George H. Postell. The Associational minutes state that the wooden church was built in 1880. It remained at this site until the mid-thirties when it was moved across the road. A block Sunday School building was built in the late forties. Plans began in 1952 to build a new sanctuary on land given by Mrs. Docia Martin. On the third Sunday in February, 1955, the sanctuary was dedicated. A fire destroyed this building on a Saturday night, January 9, 1960. Preparation began immediately to replace the building, with cornerstone being laid July 9, 1961. During the early seventies, an educational wing, the GEORGE H. NEWTON building, was built and renovation of the block building, MARTIN HALL, was completed. Some men that served the church as pastors were: Reverends J. W. Hill, William Fox, James W. Elsey, J. R. Hyatt, William Dodd, G. W. Ackerman, J. A. Tuten, F. M. Droze, T. C. M. Gollands, J. M. Craven, R. D. Meyer, G. H. Newton, Mervein Brown, Leonard B. Belcher, and the present Arthur H. Smith, Jr. Some of the church clerks were: Messrs. Benjamin Sauls, J. S. Jones, J. R. P. Fox, D. B. Platt, T. A. Elsey, J. H. Davis, Mike Fox, Barney Fox, Ms. Maude Postell, Mr. H. B. Benton, Mrs. H. B. Benton, and Ms. Agatha P. Dukes. The church has been in several associations namely Colleton, Sauldam, and Charleston. Sauldam Association was organized in 1916 from a division of Colleton. These churches were listed: Shepherd, Limestone, Hopewell, Jedburg, Ridgeville, Piney Grove, Bethlehem, Ridge, and Doctor's Creek. The association apparently disbanned in 1928-29. Sarah W. Newton Evelyn M. Hughes reports, also, that the church was at another location which could be First Baptist Church of St. Paul's Parish (1840 - in minutes). Mr. McCants said there was a cemetery on the first location, and he knows part of it was destroyed. The old burying ground is bounded by Westvaco. The copyists met a group of very informative ladies who arrived for a meeting at Sauldam educational Hall. They were: Mesdames Mary Fox, Connie Mae Fox (formerly Blewer of St. George), Gertie Thompson, Annie Newton, and Eloise Caddin. They stated the Church is in Charleston County and the Cemetery is in Dorchester County.
Copyists: Evelyn M. Hughes, Clara H. Myers, Pattie W. Heaton, Lillian D. Kizer, Lillian H. Harley.

Date: January 30, 1979.
 
 
 
 
 

  
Joseph Allen
Dec. 12, 1894
June 25, 1977


Colin, Infant Son of
F. C. & Henrietta
P. Baldwin
Died 1912

Franklin Colin Baldwin
May 24, 1862
Nov. 8, 1926

George Henry Baldwin
Feb. 11, 1905
Aug. 10, 1960

Gilbert B. Baldwin
Dec. 17, 1901
Feb. 26, 1976

*Gilbert Cordray Baldwin
Cpl   US Army
May 14, 1932
Sept. 13, 1974

Henrietta Postell 
Wife of F. C. Baldwin
Jan. 17, 1871
Apr. 9, 1917

Joseph Colon Baldwin
May 14, 1928
Feb. 29, 1932

Addie Carroll Bivens
(w. of William Bivens)
Oct. 23, 1892
May 28, 1955

Alice Martin Bivens
Oct. 4, 1861
Dec. 19, 1941

Benjamin B. Bivens
1850  -  1938

Catherine M. Bivens
Mother 
1889  -  1955



Thomas W. Bivens
Father
1884  -  1944

William Bivens
Nov. 23, 1888
Dec. 16, 1968

Jesse Leon Brownlee
Dec. 28, 1884
Sept. 3, 1951

Mary E. Elsey Brownlee
(w. of Jessie Leon 
Brownlee)
Jan. 20, 1893
______ 1971

Alberta Brownlee Burbage
Wife of Hubert Melvin
Burbage
Aug. 4, 1914
May 12, 19__

*Avery W. Burbage
South Carolina
PFC   BTRY B   
698 FLD ARMY BN
World War II    Ph
Aug. 3, 1919
Feb. 6, 1953

George Legree  -  Son 
of H. & M. Burbage
Jan. 28, 1933
July 18, 1934

Holman G. Burbage 
Father
1907  -  1974

Hubert M. Burbage, Jr.
"Sonny"
Jan. 8, 1932
Sept. 28, 1971

Hubert Melvin Burbage
June 2, 1904
Jan. 6, 1966
Julia Ann Burbage
Oct. 15, 1891
Mar. 18, 1925

Julia C. Burbage  -  (w.
of William A. Burbage
1884  -  1938

Lirlene T.  -  Dau of
W. B. & J. A. Burbage
Sept. 11, 1914
Nov. 8, 1919

Marie L. Burbage  -  Wife
of Holman G. Burbage
1911  -  1975

Pearl E.  -  Dau of
Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Burbage
Nov. 1, 1909
Mar. 11, 1926

Peter P.  -  Son of
Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Burbage
Mar. 15, 1910
Aug. 19, 1926

William A. Burbage
1883  -  1939

Fritz G. Caddin
Feb. 24, 1909
Jan. 6, 1973

Mildred K. Caddin
Wife of Fritz G. Caddin
Dec. 29, 1919
___________

Ervin L. Carroll
July 20, 1902
Aug. 27, 1968

Nettie M. Carroll
Wife of Irvin L. Carroll
Mar. 20, 1900
___________


John Walter Chaplin
Feb. 2, 1884
May 7, 1960

Julia Postell Chaplin
Wife of J. R. Chaplin
Dec. 28, 1902
___________

Julian R. (Sam) Chaplin
Feb. 10, 1899
Sept. 11, 1964
Aged 65 yrs. 7 mo. 1 day

Sarah Ann  -  Wife of
S. G. Chaplin
Sept. 19, 1861
Dec. 4, 1900

Martha A.  -  Wife 
of A. M. Cone
Dec. 5, 1831
Nov. 2, 1902

Belva Baldwin Cox
Aug. 12, 1903
Feb. 17, 1935

Alma Tumbleston Davis
Wife of James Alfred Davis
(no dates)

Aurie E. Davis
Mar. 29, 1879
July 23, 1905

Eleanor Newton Davis
May 18, 1853
Sept. 15, 1930

Frances Postell  -  Wife 
of Jesse W. Davis
Mar. 16, 1825
Oct. 26, 1905

George C. Davis
1885  -  1964


James Alfred Davis
July 8, 1888
Jan. 28, 1972

Jesse M. Davis
1874  -  1965

Jesse W. Davis
Apr. 9, 1827
Dec. 24, 1909

Lawrence P. Davis
Dec. 28, 1869
Oct. 18, 1918

Mary D. Davis
(w. of Jesse M. Davis)
1881  -  1940

William R. Dixon
1879  -  1959

Martha Ann Dukes
1874  -  1951

Valerie Lynn Dukes
Sept. 19, 1938
Dec. 30, 1959

Nancy Newton Edwards
Wife of William Thomas
Edwards
Feb. 28, 1889
Apr. 25, 1978

William Thomas Edwards
May 18, 1869
Aug. 13, 1929

Georgia Anna Davis Elsey
Dec. 19, 1887
Mar. 26, 1942

Izadora L.  -  Wife of
T. A. Elsey
July 14, 1868
June 7, 1906


Marker
(unreadable)

James A. Elsey, Sr.
1889  -  1959

John James Elsey
Sept. 18, 1887
Aug. 8, 1903

Louisa Davis   
Wife of T. A. Elsey
June 23, 1882
Oct. 21, 1936

Marion E. Elsey
Sept. 20, 1921
Sept. __  1965

Martha  -  Wife  
of R. L. Elsey
Apr. 1, 1870
Jan. 2, 1898

Mary Ann Selena
Davis Elsey
Feb. 5, 1901
Oct. 18, 1965

R. L. Elsey
Feb. 11, 1873
Oct. 22, 1922

Robert Elsey
Aug. 9, 1900
Dec. 24, 1917

Tillman A. Elsey
Aug. 8, 1864
Nov. 17, 1925

Caroline Davis Evans
Feb. 15, 1909
Aug. 10, 1937

Jess Willard Fabre
Nov. 7, 1917
Nov. 20, 1963

Louise Fabre  -  (w. 
of Jess Willard Fabre)
Sept. 27, 1924
June 6, 1971

Cuby (?) Fox 
Son of Perry Fox
Sept. 12, 1884
Dec. 27, 1903

Stone Marker

Delilah  -  Wife 
of Perry Fox
Mar. 14, 1888
Aged 26 yrs. 5 mo.

Stone Marker

Fannie  -  Wife 
of Perry Fox
Nov. 16, 1867
May 21, 1909

Frances Elsey  -  Wife of
Michael McGinnis Fox
Nov. 23, 1879
Mar. 29, 1965

Harrie Fox
Jan. 20, 1905
Jan. 10, 1926

*John Foster Fox
PFC   US Marine Corp
World War II
1914  -  1976

Mable Hoover Fox
Wife of John Foster Fox
Jan. 23, 1921
__________

Michael McGinnis Fox
Mar. 23, 1874
May 11, 1945



R. Perry Fox
Sept. 9, 1854
Apr. 9, 1935

Elliott William Garvin
July 11, 1918
Sept. 27, 1963

Angela Marie Hiott
1970  -  1970

Carie E. Johnson
Jan. 17, 1910
Aug. 13, 1910

Daniel H. Johnson
Nov. 7, 1896
Jan. 9, 1897

John K. Johnson
Mar. 12, 1871
Nov. 14, 1920

Julie E.  -  Wife 
of J. K. Johnson
Mar. 14, 1878
Dec. 30, 1917

Marsel M. Johnson
July 12, 1905
Nov. 14, 1907

David R. Kennedy
Apr. 30, 1907
Dec. 24, 1955

David O. Knight
Feb. 27, 1865
June 17, 1940

Eulalie Timms  
Wife of H. W. Knight
Mar. 28, 1895
Nov. 25, 1976

Harvey Walter Knight
Dec. 17, 1890
Nov. 22, 1961

Julia I. Knight
Nov. 22, 1863
Dec. 24, 1940

J. A. L. 

LACEY

Baby Boy Lacey
1928

Florence R. Lacey
(w. of Jacob L. Lacey)
June 27, 1887
Aug. 16, 1934

Infant Daughter of
J. L. & F. Lacy
Feb. 2, 1910
Mar. 22, 1914

Infant Son of
J. L. & F. Lacy
Aug. 11, 1908
Sept. 1, 1908

Jacob L. Lacey
July 3, 1880
Aug. 13, 1936

Rachel  -  Wife 
of P. W. Lacey
May 12, 1852
Jan. 3, 1925

Eiust Lemack
July 27, 1904
June 3, 1905

Ariel E. Martin
(w. of George P. Martin)
1869  -  1912

George P. Martin
1869  -  1946




*Harry E. Martin
South Carolina
Cook     19 INF
March 11, 1933

Grady Turman Mathis
1912  -  1973

Lillian McCoy Mathis
(w. of Grady Turman Mathis)
1913  -  1964

Effie Williams McCants
Sept. 20, 1893
Jan. 21, 1977

William Nathaniel McCants
Mar. 11, 1896
July 9, 1972

Linda Kay McCallister
Jan. 31, 1961
June 30, 1978

Daisy C. Messervy
(w. of John H. Messervy)
Sept. 18, 1906
___________

John H. Messervy
Sept. 22, 1900
Aug. 26, 1973

Lucius Leroy Messervy
Mar. 12, 1883
July 26, 1904

Robert G. Messervy
Sept. 6, 1888
Oct. 21, 1889

Roland James Messervy
Died in Charleston
March 6, _____
Aged 1 yr. 7 days




Susan E. Platt  -  Wife
of P. H. Messervy
d. Dec. 13, 1925
Aged 62 years

*Albert Judson Moore
Virginia
OM 3    US Navy
WW I
May 27, 1900
Aug. 15, 1952

Allan R. Morris
Nov. 2, 1941
Jan. 1, 1967

Janie  -  Wife of 
T. D. Muckenfuss
Mar. 3, 1891
Sept. 10, 1920

Joanna Bivens Muckenfuss
(w. of Thomas D. 
Muckenfuss)
Dec. 21, 1887
Feb. 3, 1978

Thomas D. Muckenfuss
Dec. 11, 1886
Jan. 31, 1961

My Baby Boy

My Baby

Veronica Eugene Myers
May 10, 1945
Dec. 9, 1961

Flossie Lee Stanaland
Wife of George Henry
Newton
Nov. 10, 1893
Mar. 30, 1932

George Donald Newton
Feb. 24, 1949
Aug. 12, 1965

George Henry Newton
Feb. 24, 1887
Jan. 12, 1976
Pastor of Sauldam
Baptist Church
1925  -  1958

Georgina A.  -  Wife 
of W. J. Newton
Nov. 27, 1862
Mar. 6, 1915

Jan McLauren Newton
Sept. 21, 1926
Jan. 24, 1929

John E. Newton
Jan. 27, 1910
Nov. 1, 1966

Joseph A. Newton
Jan. 22, 1922
May 31, 1969

Leonard E. Newton
May 13, 1919
May 18, 1972

Lucas S. Newton, Sr.
1900  -  1972

Lucia B. Newton, R.N.
Aug. 11, 1892
June 1, 1939

Otey W. Newton
Aug. 23, 1894
June 15, 1934

William F. Newton
Feb. 6, 1891
Sept. 29, 1949

William J. Newton
May 22, 1855
Apr. 7, 1933



Admiral Peeples
Mar. 3, 1916
May 4, 1978

Infant Son of
J. A. & N. A. Peeples
Sept. 13, 1908
Sept. 17, 1908

J. A. Peeples, Jr.
Sept. 4, 1901
Jan. 14, 1975

John Ashley Peeples
Mar. 31, 1876
Aug. 15, 1968

Mary M. Peeples
Mar. 10, 1879
Aug. 25, 1956

Mary W. Peeples
(w. of J. A. Peeples, Jr.)
June 19, 1909
___________

Nancy A. Postell  
Wife of J. A. Peeples
Oct. 3, 1880
Mar. 14, 1912

Nathan B. Peeples
Oct. 13, 1903
Nov. 13, 1967

Pearl Cribbs Peeples
(w. of Nathan B. Peeples)
Oct. 29, 1911
___________

Wilma Peeples
(w. of Admiral Peeples)
Mar. 3, 1916
May 4, 1978

Franklin Benjamin Peters, Sr.
Jan. 4, 1911
Dec. 18, 1976

Gladys Jenkins  -  Wife 
of Franklin B. Peters, Sr.

Platt Stone

Charles D.  -  Son of
C. H. & M. E. Platt
Oct. 20, 1897
Oct. 11, 1918

Charles Henry Platt
1862  -  1944

Charlie P. Platt
Nov. 30, 1883
Dec. 18, 1935

Daughter of
C. H. & M. E. Platt
Sept. 9, 1909
Sept. 29, 1909

D. P.

Daniel B. Platt
Feb. 21, 1833
Feb. 4, 1904

Daniel E. Platt, Jr.
Jan. 27, 1864
Aug. 20, 1893

David  -  Son of
C. H. & S. A. Platt
Feb. 2, 1893
Feb. 18, 1893

E. B. Platt
Feb. 20, 1872
Dec. 24, 1903

Elias Pinckney Platt
June 8, 1878
Oct. 22, 1970

Ella Platt
Our Mother
Jan. 4, 1891
June 3, 1932
H. W. Platt
Nov. 18, 1868
Oct. 30, 1891

Infant Son of
J. D. Platt
d. July 3, 1910

Janie C.  -  Dau of
C. H. & S. A. Platt
June 21, 1891
July 28, 1893

Joseph D. Platt
Aug. 27, 1859
Sept. 4, 1912

Julia  -  Wife of
J. D. Platt
Mar. 16, 1866
Jan. 10, 1893

Julia M.  -  Dau of
J. D. & Lilla E. Platt
Sept. 3, 1903
Feb. 17, 1904

Julian E. Platt
1905  -  1946

Leland M. Platt
Nov. 23, 1906
Apr. 9, 1907

Lilla Eola  -  Wife 
of J. D. Platt
Nov. 8, 1880
July 7, 1910

Lucius B.  -  Son of
J. D. & L. E. Platt
Sept. 15, 1901
Sept. 10, 1904

Martha C.  -  Wife 
of D. B. Platt
Mar. 3, 1837
June 12, 1916

Mary Elizabeth Tuten
Wife of C. H. Platt
1873  -  1947

Sarah A. Platt
Dec. 24, 1870
Feb. 28, 1893

Sarah E.  -  Dau of
C. H. & M. E. Platt
Dec. 24, 1903
Feb. 3, 1904

Sarah U. Platt
Wife of E. P. Platt
Feb. 27, 1882
Dec. 1, 1903

My Baby

Sussan S. Platt
Jan. 30, 1855
Oct. 11, 1929

William Platt
Oct. 3, 1857
Nov. 8, 1896
Erected by his son
L. E. Platt

Annie Bivens  -  Wife 
of Samuel L. Postell
May 10, 1882
Feb. 17, 1973

Beatrice Moore Postell
Jan. 12, 1903
Sept. 30, 1952

Caroline E. Postell
Mar. 25, 1874
June 10, 1951

Clyde Postell
(no dates)




Dora E.  -  Dau of
R. A. & C. E. Postell
Dec. 3, 1893
July 29, 1898

Elizabeth  -  Dau of
G. H. & S. A. Postell
Feb. 5, 1908
Oct. 18, 1919

Eugene Postell
Sept. 22, 1899
Aug. 13, 1972

Eugenia White Postell  -  (w.
of William Thomas Postell)
May 11, 1872
Feb. 19, 1939

G. H. Postell
Jan. 8, 1834
Mar. 15, 1910

George Elliott  -  Son of
Mr. & Mrs. G. H. Postell
Aug. 29, 1921
Sept. 22, 1922

*George H. Postell
South Carolina
PFC   CO K
324 Infantry
WWI       PH
Nov. 19, 1894
Oct. 26, 1964

*Heurity E. Postell
South Carolina
PVT   US ARMY
World War II
Aug. 14, 1925
June 5, 1967

James A. Postell
Mar. 3, 1928
July 2, 1934



James Abraham Postell
Aug. 25, 1875
Mar. 26, 1961

Janie C. Chaplin
Wife of James A. Postell
Aug. 2, 1881
Aug. 17, 1971

John D. Postell, Sr.
May 10, 1900
Mar. 25, 1964

Joseph H. Postell  -  Son
of S. E. & A. E. Postell
Jan. 6, 1907
May 16, 1908

Julia S. Postell  
Wife of Luther Postell
1906  -  _____

Cypress Marker

Lula N. Postell  - Wife
of Eugene Postell
Dec. 4, 1895
Aug. 18, 1976

Luther Postell
1903  -  1969

Mack Postell
Jan. 4, 1909
June 20, 1978

Marvin  -  Son of
R. A. & C. E. Postell
Dec. 25, 1896
Jan. 29, 1897

Maude Padgett Postell
(w. of John D. Postell, Sr.)
Nov. 30, 1897
Nov. 18, 1958

Melvin L. Postell
June 5, 1941
Dec. 13, 1941
Nancy A.  -  Wife 
of George H. Postell
June 18, 1838
Dec. 15, 1897

Nina Hazell Postell
Sept. 20, 1907
___________

*Padgett Postell
South Carolina
SGT   504 ABN 
INFANTRY
May 27, 1931
July 30, 1954

Richard A. Postell
Jan. 1, 1866
Dec. 20, 1946

Richard A. Postell
1904  -  1962

Ruth O. T.  -  Wife
of Mack Postell
Jan. 2, 1926
Mar. 21, 1960

Samuel E. Postell
Jan. 11, 1873
Sept. 30, 1932

Sarah A.  -  Wife
of S. E. Postell
Apr. 13, 1886
Sept. 30, 1904

Susan V. Stevens
Wife of George Henry
Postell
Aug. 22, 1869
Oct. 4, 1955

Tommy Postell

Thomas T. Postell
Mar. 29, 1905
Mar. 10, 1968

William Allen Postell
May 26, 1894
Nov. 7, 1939

William Thomas Postell
Mar. 3, 1864
May 3, 1936

William Wilson  -  Son of
Mr. & Mrs. G. H. Postell
Nov. 14, 1918
Feb. 11, 1924

Nelson Owen Pye
Nov. 10, 1942
July 31, 1948

Richard E. Reeves
1963  -  1968

Allan P. Rice, Sr.
Oct. 5, 1902
Aug. 27, 1948

Richard L. Humph
(Rumph ?)
1970  -  1970

Major Smith
1892  -  1962

James M. Saulisbury
Sept. 1, 1889
Nov. 8, 1965

Lylie Elsey  -  Wife
of J. M. Saulisbury
Nov. 26, 1900
Nov. 8, 1955

Ann J. Peoples  
Wife of Benjamin Sauls
June 24, 1903
Aged 86 years

Captain Benjamin Sauls
Aug. 12, 1819
Sept. 7, 1890

Lovie Postell Taylor
July 30, 1901
Oct. 25, 1935

James A. Tumbleston
1882  -  1930

Julia F. Tuten
Wife of G. Tumbleston
Mar. 31, 1893
Sept. 4, 1916

Lillie B. Pearson  -  Wife  
of James A. Tumbleston
1898  -  1970

Virgil  -  Son of
J. W. & M. E. Tumbleston
Feb. 18, 1908
Nov. 9, 1915

Rev. J. A. Tuten
Mov. 14, 1835
May 1, 1914

Kate V. Tuten
Wife
1902  -  1935

Sarah J. Platt
Wife of J. A. Tuten
Jan. 7, 1841
Oct. 22, 1888

W. L. Tuten  -  Son
of J. A. Tuten
Oct. 23, 1863
Mar. 16, 1885

Richard V. Whitnauer
Mar. 19, 1917
May 11, 1962

Margaret C. White
Mother
1878  -  1902



*Frank W. Williams
South Carolina
PVT 10 CO COAST ARTY
Jan. 23, 1941
Mar. 28, 1977

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

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