MOUNTAIN VIEW MEMORIAL CEMETERY, Oconee County, SC A.K.A. Seneca, SC Version 2.3, 31-Mar--2003, C129.TXT, C129 **************************************************************** REPRODUCING NOTICE: ------------------- These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, or presentation by any other organization, or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Paul M Kankula - nn8nn Seneca, SC, USA Oconee County SC GenWeb Coordinator **************************************************************** DATAFILE INPUT . : Paul M. Kankula at (visit above website) in Nov-2003 G.P.S. MAPPING . : Gary Flynn ay (visit above website) in Nov-2003 HISTORY WRITE-UP : ____________ at ____________ in _______ IMAGES ......... : Gary Flynn ay (visit above website) in Nov-2003 TRANSCRIPTION .. : ____________ at ____________ in _______ CEMETERY LOCATION: ------------------ > Latitude N x Longitude W CHURCH/CEMETERY HISTORY: ------------------------ WALL WITH CRIMINAL PAST GETS EXPOSED By: Chris Day Seneca Daily Journal March 2004 SENECA - Twenty-year old shrubs and overgrown bushes were removed from the entrance of a historic Seneca cemetery, exposing a stone wall built from the ruins of Seneca's first jail. Last week, workers from the city of Seneca spent the day removing the overgrown plants from in front of the stone wall of the Mountain View Cemetery, on Fairplay Street. Once the plants were removed, the workers planted new low-growing shrubs and laid fresh bark, all to be fed by a new irrigation system also installed. Louise Bell, a lifetime Seneca resident and informal town historian, said the wall was built in 1933 under the guidance of the Greys of Oconee Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy. Bell explained that the rocks used to construct the stone wall came from the ruins of the town's first jail, a feat made possible by the work of the local UDC. Inside the cemetery, said Bell, are buried several of Seneca's founding fathers and many veterans of the Civil War. A plaque that's typically posted on the right column entering the gate is removed for now and being refurbished, Bell said. However, she said, the plaque reads: "Memorial Gateway, dedicated to the men of the Confederacy who gallantly defended the Southland during the war between the states." Many of the plants that the city carried away last week were those that Bell planted in 1981 when she was serving as chair to the Oconee UDC, she said. "I've been very moved by what they'd done out there," Bell said, of the work done by the city's employees at the cemetery. TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: ------------------------------ a. = age at death b. = date-of-birth d. = date-of-death h. = husband m. = married p. = parents w. = wife >