Upper Long Cane Cemetery is a historic cemetery in

Abbeville, South Carolina Abbeville is a city and county seat of Abbeville County, in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is located west of Columbia and south of Greenville. Its population was 5,237 at the 2010 census. Settled by French Huguenot settlers, it was n ...

, founded c. 1760. Over 2,500 marked graves and numerous unmarked graves cover the cemetery's approximately 25 acres. It was listed on the

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in 2010. The cemetery helps document the history of many prominent families in the area, from its founding into the 20th century. Many gravestones were carved by three generations of master craftsmen from Charleston, including over fifty signed or attributable to stonecutters Rowe and White, John White, William T. White, Robert D. White, and Edwin R. White. The markers include marble, granite, sandstone, and slate headstones, as well as footstones, obelisks, pedestal-tombs, box tombs, table-top tombs, and tablets. Art on the markers and tombs includes simple engraving and ledgers with motifs of angels, doves, lambs, open Bibles, weeping willows, palmettos, flowers, wreaths, and ivy.

Notable burials

* Maj. John Bowie (1740–1827), soldier in the

American Revolution The American Revolution (1765–1783) was a colonial rebellion and war of independence in which the Thirteen Colonies broke from British America, British rule to form the United States of America. The revolution culminated in the American ...

* James Sproull Cothran (1830–1897), U.S. congressman * Pvt. Ezekiel Evans (1737–1806), soldier in the American Revolution * Pvt. James Evans (1761–1822), soldier in the American Revolution * Lt. Gov. Eugene Blackburn Gary (1854–1926) *

Frank B. Gary Frank Boyd Gary (March 9, 1860December 7, 1922) was a United States senator from South Carolina. Born in Cokesbury, South Carolina, he attended the Cokesbury Conference School and Union College (Schenectady, New York). He studied law, was admi ...

(1860–1922), U.S. Senator * Maj. Andrew Hamilton (1738–1835), officer in the American Revolution * Samuel McGowan (1819–1897), Confederate general

References

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