HENDRICK-PRATER FAMILY CEMETERY, Pickens County, SC A.K.A. Herbert Hendrick Family Cemetery Version 2.3, 23-Jan-2007, P066.TXT, P066 ******************************************************************************** It's believed that the usage of any original work submittals contained within these webpages such as articles, compiling, photographs or graphics, conform to Fair Use Doctrine & Copyright Guidelines. COPYRIGHT NOTE: (1.) Works published before 1923, are considered to be public- domain. (2.) Works published 1923-1977 without a copyright notice, are considered to be public-domain. (3.) Unpublished non-copyrighted works will have Author permission for public-domain. Facts, names, dates, events, places & data can not be copyrighted. Narration, compilations and creative works can be copyrighted. Copyright law in the U.S. does not protect facts or data, just the presentation of this data. REPRODUCING NOTICE: These electronic pages may only be reproduced for personal or 501(c) Not-For-Profit Society use. Use the following names, if, you would like to give any author compiling credit. AUTHORS: Paul M. Kankula-NN8NN & Gary L. Flynn-KE8FD *********************************************************************** 05-01-15 TRANSCRIPTION .. : Era Davis at eradavis@bellsouth.net in Jan-2003 CEMETERY LOCATION: ------------------ Locate intersection of Highway 137 & N. Norris Rd in Town of Norris. Drive (N) on S Norris Rd. In 0.1 miles bear right (NE) on S Norris Rd. In 1.8 miles turn left (NE) onto Liberty Drive. In 0.2 miles turn right (SE) onto Old Norris Rd. In 0.6 miles stop at entrance to Champion Plant. Drive over RR tracks and make a very fast left. Follow dirt road that runs parallel to RR tracks. Drive 200 yards beyond back edge of plant. Cemetery is on the right of dirt road and is marked with ribbon. Dirt road cuts into a 10' knoll and cemetery can not be seen from road. Latitude N 34 46.353 x Longitude W 82 43.437 CHURCH/CEMETERY HISTORY: ------------------------ There is a write up on this cemetery by someone from Liberty that lived on Main Street. I will try to look up her name. It was surveyed back in the 1960s where there was still some grave markers but they have been stolen since then. From my memory the funeral director surveyed the place with a long iron rod and said there were over 40 graves there. There are numerous foot stones and head stones in the cemetery which I visited in the 1980s. It was part of the old Champion Sparkplug Company that was located about 200 yards west of the gravesite. From what I know: This is on land owned by Henry Hendricks Sr. m Nancy Major. Henry Sr. moved into Old Pendleton, Now Liberty and Pickens Co., SC around 1803. His land deeds are of record in Pickens Co. and Old Pendleton Co. A transfer of the land is make in 1829 to Henry Hendricks Jr who married Margaret Couch. His son James Franklin Hendricks CSA is buried in the Liberty Cemetery in the western part of Liberty. James Franklin married Mary Catherine Caroline Richardson and farmed the land until he died in 1921. Who got the property after that I have not investigated. The family was connected with the Praters, Neighbors, Pickens, Martins, Bartons, Sargents, Couch, Welborns, Griffins, Major and etc. families. Henry Hendricks Sr's brother David Hendricks Sr. who we have talked about in the Bibles records on the Pickens Co. Web site lived nearby. There is a land deed in about 1825+? that David Hendricks is selling land to the board of Deacons of Fairview Methodist Church in which Henry Hendricks is one of the deacons listed. In the old review it lists the lady in Liberty's thoughts on who is buried there. She was one of the local family genealogist. I have read the review but don't have a copy. James Hendricks b. Indian Creek, SC Newberry Co., SC and wife Jane are also probably buried there. Herb Hendricks o----------o This is in reference to the OPD Newsletter (12/2006) article on finding cemeteries. "22 Feb 1877. Mr. Van Buren Hendricks a citizen of the couonty was shot and killed about 15 miles from Greenville Court House by Hubbard Garmany on Monday the 12th instant. He was buried at the family burying ground at Liberty Station. Mr. Hendricks had been wounded by Redmond a few weeks ago (Details)." The is Van Buren Hendricks son of Henry Hendricks Jr. m Margaret Couch. Van Buren Hendricks was some type of agent for alcohol control (I never sought the whole story). He was shot by a bootlegger which Van Buren Hendricks was apparently trying to get the goods on for making whiskey. He was taken home in a wagon to his mother Margaret Couch Hendricks. Van Buren Hendricks was buried in the old Henry Hendricks (later owned by Henry Hendricks Jr., his son, and James Franklin Hendricks (CSA), his grandson. The cemetery is just east of the old Champion Sparkplug plant next to the Southern Railroad west of Liberty. This cemetery has been previously identified by Herbert D. Hendricks and you have the GPS coordinates. I don't know how you currently identify it, by name. Mrs. Woodson of Liberty showed me my great great great great grandfather's cemetery back in the 1980s. She had it surveyed by an undertaken in Liberty and his statement was that it contained over 40 bodies. Below are probably some of the people buried there: 1. Henry Hendricks Sr. and wife Nancy Major 2. Sarah Major Hendricks first wife of David Hendricks Sr. 3. Sarah Mullinax second wife of David Hendricks Sr. 3. Henry Hendricks Jr. 4. Moses Hendricks and wife Ruth Odell 5. William Hendricks and more than likely a lot of their children and their wives and husbands. This group of Hendricks was associated with the old Fairview Methodist Church- see land deed 1820 old Pendleton District where David Hendricks Sr. sells land to elders, ( Henry Hendricks, Moses Hendricks, Whitten,,,,) of Fairview Methodist Church. Herb Hendricks Retired NASA Physicist 2418 Lebanon Road Pendleton, SC 29670 864 2616636 Group Administrator Hendricks DNA Project Secretary Hendricks Family Association Current Research Families; Major, Smith, Craig, Hendricks, Eskew, Rochester TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: ------------------------------ a. = age at death b. = date-of-birth d. = date-of-death h. = husband m. = married p. = parents w. = wife HENDRICKS, Eliz Bessie, b. 5-jul-1893, d. 13-mar-1972 HENDRICKS, Charles Jefferson, b. 11-aug-1877, d. 30-may-1956