True Blue Cemetery
True Blue Cemetery

Survey done June 2002 by Nancy Rogers and Janet Wright

Picture of Historical Marker at True Blue Cemetery

Last Name Name DOB DOD Notes
Gordon Mrs. Mary     No marker in cemetery, but burial record:  Mrs. Mary Gordon, 1822, True Blue (All Saints Church registers published in Bull 1968)
Hort Robert S.    

Marker: “TO THE MEMORY / of /ROBERT S. HORT / and his infant Son /WILLIAM HADRELL /This memorial is erected by / the Widow and the Mother  / who in her last moments /  remembered her early love” [see note 2 below, Will of Sarah Mary Hort]

Nesbit Robert     No marker in cemetery, but burial record:  Robert Nesbit, 1821, True Blue (All Saints Church registers published in Bull 1968)
Vaux Ann Morrall Jan. 12, 1812 Sept. 6, 1814 FM - Sarah Vaux
Vaux Anna Eliza Jan. 1, 1817 Sept. 11, 1820 FM - Sarah Vaux
Vaux Edward Joseph Mar. 26, 1814 Sept. 14, 1820 FM - Sarah Vaux
Vaux Perceval E.     No marker in cemetery, but burial record:  Perceval E. Vaux, age 58 years, buried Sept 20, 1840, True Blue (All Saints Church registers published in Bull 1968) [There is an unmarked vault in the “husband position” to the left of Sarah Vaux’s grave]
Vaux Robert Withers Dec. 1, 1822 Sept. 21, 1849

Marker: “SACRED / to the memory of / ROBERT WITHERS VAUX / Born December 1st 1822 / Died September 21, 1849 / Aged 26 Years 11 Months / and 21 Days” [Burial record:  Robert Withers Vaux buried Sept 22, 1849, True Blue --All Saints Church Registers published in Bull 1968]

Vaux Sarah Jan. 7, 1783 July 21, 1823

Marker: “SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF /MRS. SARAH VAUX /DAUGHTER OF JAMES L & ELIZABETH RICHARDS /WHO WAS BORN AT STONO JANUARY 7 1783 /DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 21, 1823 /THIS AMIABLE LADY, REMARKED HER EARLY PIETY, /EXEMPLARY FULFILLED THE DUTIES OF WIFE, MOTHER & MISTRESS /SHE LIVED BELOVED AND DIED REGRETTED - ALSO TO THE MEMORY /OF HER FOUR CHILDREN /WHOSE REMAINS ARE HERE DEPOSITED / SUSAN MARIA BORN OCTOBER 21 1808 DIED 26TH OCTOBER 1813 / ANN MORRALL BORN JANUARY 12 1812 DIED 6TH SEPTEMBER 1814 / ANNA ELIZA BORN JANUARY 1 1817 DIED 11 SEPTEMBER 1820 / EDWARD JOSEPH VAUX born March 26TH 1814 died 14 September 1820 This Memorial is placed by her Affectionate Husband PERCIVAL E. VAUX” [Note: Burial record,  Mrs. Sarah Vaux, 1823, True Blue (All Saints Church registers published in Bull 1968)]

Vaux Susan Maria Oct. 21, 1808 Oct. 26, 1813 FM - Sarah Vaux

Notes:

(1) Bull, H. D. 1968.  All Saints’ Church, Waccamaw:  The Parish, the Place, the People 1739-1968.  3rd ed. Winyah Press, Georgetown, SC.

(2) Will of Sarah Mary Hort:  “I direct that…tomb stones be placed over the remains of my husband and of my child…at the True Blue burial ground on Waccamaw River.”

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