CAESAR, BROTHER (NEGRO) GRAVE, Anderson County, SC a.k.a. > Version: 3.5 Effective: 30-Jul-2009 Text File: A405.TXT Image Folder: 405 ******************************************************************************** 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 recording contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the following USGenWeb coordinator with proof of this consent. Paul M Kankula - nn8nn SCGenWeb Anderson County Project Coordinator DATAFILE INPUT . : Paul M. Kankula at (visit GenWeb website) in Jul-2009 GPS MAPPING .... : Gary L. Flynn at (visit GenWeb website) in -2009 HISTORY ........ : ____________ at ____________ in _______ IMAGES ......... : Paul M. Kankula at (visit GenWeb website) in -2009 RECORDING ...... : ____________ at ____________ in _______ ******************************************************************************** CEMETERY LOCATION: ------------------ > GPS = Latitude N x Longitude W Est. N34 37.133 x W82 28.717 CEMETERY HISTORY: ------------------------ One of the Big Creek Baptist church members named simply Caesar, was rather an unusual character. He was a preacher of considerable influence. He had been a Slave who saved enough to buy his own freedom and later bought his brother. The land just above the place where Rush and Vandiver’s planning mill once stood, was owned by Caesar. He was buried in a field just in the rear of the old Williamston Female College buildings. In the records it is stated that “Brother Caesar made application to go about and exercise his gift.” Sometimes his request was granted, sometimes refused. Caesar was once excluded from fellowship for persisting over the protest of the church in taking an additional wife. Later he was restored to fellowship, what befell wife #2 is not stated. He was admonished to preach “sound-doctrine” on his preaching expeditions. Also he sometimes held services for the Big Creek congregation. Once “Brother Caesar” was up before the church for having knocked down with an axe a fellow servant. A brother was declared out of fellowship for “voluntarily leaving and joining the Methodist Society By: Louise Ayer Vandiver in 1928 TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES: ------------------------------ a. = age at death b. = date-of-birth d. = date-of-death h. = husband m. = married p. = parents w. = wife >