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Lindsay Cemetery, Abbeville County (Lindsay Cemetery Rd, Due West Vicinity)
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Overview Main Gate
with Arch
Right Front
Quadrant
Right Rear
Quadrant
Left Rear
Quadrant
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Left Center
Overview
Left Center
Monument
John Murphy, Sr.
Gravestone
Joseph Pratt
Gravestone
Sophrina C. Pratt
Gravestone
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Rock Marked
Graves
John J. Simpson
Gravestones

Lindsay Cemetery, established ca. 1820, is significant as the first cemetery in the Due West vicinity of what was then Abbeville District, and for its association with seventeen prominent early families of Abbeville District (later Abbeville County), from the early through the late nineteenth centuries. It is also an excellent intact example of an early-nineteenth through early-twentieth century cemetery reflecting typical burial customs and gravestones of the period. Lindsay Cemetery contains approximately 107 graves with inscriptions, approximately sixty graves marked with stones or rocks, and an unknown number of unmarked graves. The marked graves are predominantly headstones and footstones, most of them marble tablets although obelisks and table-top tombs are also present. The earliest marked grave is from 1820 and the most recent marked grave is from 1927, but most graves date from 1829 to 1892. The stones are arranged for the most part by nuclear or extended family units within the cemetery boundaries, but without formal stone, brick, or iron plot enclosures. The cemetery is enclosed by an elaborate four-foot high cast iron fence featuring Gothic pointed arches, spearpointed top rail, and large floral finials decorating its four corners. Listed in the National Register May 27, 2009.

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