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WARING CEMETERY

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


Location: The Waring Plantation, "Pine Hill" Tract, southwest of Summerville.

Established in 1749 or before as the earliest monument bears the date of Nov. 21, 1749.

Mrs. Elizabeth Waring Bailey of Summerville, SC wrote a brief history of the Waring Cemetery, which is quoted below: "The Warings were owners of these plantations from the first Grant from King of England until 1947 when the heirs sold to West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company after the death of my father. The Tract contained Clayfield and Pine Hill. When the land was sold we retained the land surrounding the two cemeteries, one for slaves and their descendants and one for whites."
Reported by Mrs. Elizabeth Waring Bailey, who states that her first cousin, Mrs. Rosa Wilson Waring Thornton of Columbia, SC copied the inscriptions in the Cemetery Jan. 14, 1962. Mrs. Thornton has researched and written a lot about the Waring Family History.
#1.  Richard George Waring 
       Died May 11, 1819
       Age 34 years 1 month
             and his wife
       Jane Ladson Waring 
       Died 1858
       Age 68 years, 2 months
       25 days

#2.  One slab to their three
       Children
       Susan Hayne Waring
       Sarah Freer Waring
       Joseph Hall Waring

#3.  Richard George Waring
       Born 1843
       Died 1862



#4.  James Miller A. M.
       Student at Law
       Youngest son of the late Rev. John
       Miller of Dover, State of Delaware.
       Died under the hospitable roof of 
       Doctor Richard Waring on 15th April 
       1795   age 22.  Affected with 
       pulmonary consumption.  He left his
       relatives and native home and was
       travelling for the recovery of health
       when he was arrested by death in a
       land of strangers whose sympathetic 
       tenderness embraced all the duties of 
       kindred and friends.  This stone was
       erected by his brothers and sisters 
       not only to point out the spot where 
       his ashes repose and to commemorate 
       the virtues and talents of an amiable 
       young man and the loss of a beloved
       brother, but also to express their
       affectionate gratitude for the 
       kindness and friendship with which 
       he was treated in South Carolina.

#5.  Dr. Richard Waring
       d. 8 Feb. 1814
       in 54th year of age

#6.  John Waring, Esq.
       youngest son of 
       Richard Waring Senr. of Pine Hill
       d. Feb. 1796   age 63 years

#7.  Mr. Joseph Waring
       who died Sept 12, 1761
       aged 35 years 6 months
       Here all my suffrings cease
       Here all my griefs are o'er
       The prisoner is at peace
       The mourner weeps no more
       Joined to my better friends above
       And rest in my Redeemer's Love



#8.  (Broken stone under fallen tree)
       Sacred to the Memory of
       Mrs. Susan M. H. Boone
       Relict of the late James Boone, Esq.
       and daughter of Thomas Waring of
       Pine Hill  -  died Feb. 26, 1838
       aged 58 years 8 months  

#9.  James Boone Esq.
       of Saint Pauls Parish
       died Jan. 8, 1808  
       Age about 46 years

#10. Isaac Perry Waring
       Son of Joseph J. and Mary E. Waring
       Died in Summerville June 24, 1833
       Age 10 years 7 months 10 days

#11. Here lyes interred the Body of 
       Mrs. Sarah Elliott who departed 
       this life Nov 21, 1749 Aetatis 19
       (at the age of 19)
       Come hither Mortal Cast an eye
       Then go thy way prepare to die
       Here read thy doom for died thou must
       One day like me, be turned to dust.

#12. Thomas W. Boone
        Born June 4, 1800
        Died Oct. 16, 1846

#13. Mrs. Mary E. Waring  -  Wife of
       Joseph J. Waring
       Died Feb 10, 1848
       Age 48 years

#14. (broken stone)
       Sarah D. Boone

#15. Susan Mary
       and Infant Son
       Consort of Robert A. Garden
       and daughter of Thomas W. Boone
       born March 24, 1824
       died Jan. 18, 1848

#16. Joseph Joor Waring
       died Dec. 1852
       Age 56 years 10 months 28 days
#17. Mary Joseph Waring
       b. Sept. 1, 1851
       Nov. 4, 1947

#18. Martha Waring   -  Dau of
       Joseph J. and Mary S. Waring
       died 8th August 1853
       Age 3 years 3 days

#19. Low cornerstone post 
        of brick & concrete 

#20. Low cornerstone post  
        of brick & concrete

#21. Mrs. Harriett E. Waring
       Wife of Thomas Waring, Jr.
       died 22 Dec. 1846
       Age 24 years 1 month 16 days
       And  -  Their Infant Son,
       John Jennings Waring
       died 28 May 1846  -  Age 7 months

#22. Thomas Waring, Jr.
       d. 16 August 1848
       Aged 26 yrs. 1 mo. 11 days

#23. Joseph Hall Waring
       d. 27 Dec 1841
       Aged 57 yrs. 10 mos. 

#24. Low cornerstone post
        of brick & concrete 

#25. Lucia Bellinger Waring  -  Wife of
       Joseph Hall Waring 
       of Saint Pauls Parish
       born July 1823  -  died 1856
       Dau. of Thomas P. & Mary S. 
       Lockwood of Charleston.
       (Joseph Hall Waring's 1st wife)

#26. Low cornerstone post
        of brick & concrete

#27. Colonel W. B. Ioor**
       born 25 April 1809
       died 21st June 1853
       leaving a widow
 #28. Mrs. Cornelia H. Ioor**
       born 26 Nov. 1813
       obit 19th June 1854


Note:   #19, #20, #24, and #26 are corner markers for a 
plot where 4 adults and 5 children are buried.  The adults are 
Joseph Hall Waring, Mrs. Rosa Wilson Schulz Waring (the second wife of 
Joseph Hall Waring), Miss Cornelia Carolina Waring, their daughter, and 
Joseph Hall Waring, their son.  Wilson Waring (infant twin brother of
Hampton Waring) is one of the 5 children buried here.

      
**Postscript on these transcriptions

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

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