Birth: 1849 - Oconee, United States
Death: 1926 - Oconee, South Carolina, United States
Parents: Elijah Deaton, Mary Dayton
The bodies of white patients during the
antebellum found their way to the various
church lots or into Elmwood. In the postbellum,
as the number of indigent white patients
increased, it became
increasing difficult for
even whites to afford the
costs of claiming a body
and the State began to
assume more
responsibility. Beginning
ca. 1856 and continuing to
about 1879, the state first
used individual grave
sites in Square 80 – today
part of Randolph
Cemetery. Within a very
few years this practice
ceased and individual
graves were purchased at
Square 41. These graves
were likely marked only
with head boards – wood
planks that quickly rotted
away. There is no
indication that any plan
or map was prepared of
these graves. In addition,
the square was no
intensively used it is likely that a great many
graves intrude upon earlier ones, so that
individual plots are likely no longer
recognizable
Death: 1926 - Oconee, South Carolina, United States
Parents: Elijah Deaton, Mary Dayton
The bodies of white patients during the
antebellum found their way to the various
church lots or into Elmwood. In the postbellum,
as the number of indigent white patients
increased, it became
increasing difficult for
even whites to afford the
costs of claiming a body
and the State began to
assume more
responsibility. Beginning
ca. 1856 and continuing to
about 1879, the state first
used individual grave
sites in Square 80 – today
part of Randolph
Cemetery. Within a very
few years this practice
ceased and individual
graves were purchased at
Square 41. These graves
were likely marked only
with head boards – wood
planks that quickly rotted
away. There is no
indication that any plan
or map was prepared of
these graves. In addition,
the square was no
intensively used it is likely that a great many
graves intrude upon earlier ones, so that
individual plots are likely no longer
recognizable
Birth: 1849 - Oconee, United States
Death: 1926 - Oconee, South Carolina, United States
Parents: Elijah Deaton, Mary Dayton
The bodies of white patients during the
antebellum found their way to the various
church lots or into Elmwood. In the postbellum,
as the number of indigent white patients
increased, it became
increasing difficult for
even whites to afford the
costs of claiming a body
and the State began to
assume more
responsibility. Beginning
ca. 1856 and continuing to
about 1879, the state first
used individual grave
sites in Square 80 – today
part of Randolph
Cemetery. Within a very
few years this practice
ceased and individual
graves were purchased at
Square 41. These graves
were likely marked only
with head boards – wood
planks that quickly rotted
away. There is no
indication that any plan
or map was prepared of
these graves. In addition,
the square was no
intensively used it is likely that a great many
graves intrude upon earlier ones, so that
individual plots are likely no longer
recognizable
Death: 1926 - Oconee, South Carolina, United States
Parents: Elijah Deaton, Mary Dayton
The bodies of white patients during the
antebellum found their way to the various
church lots or into Elmwood. In the postbellum,
as the number of indigent white patients
increased, it became
increasing difficult for
even whites to afford the
costs of claiming a body
and the State began to
assume more
responsibility. Beginning
ca. 1856 and continuing to
about 1879, the state first
used individual grave
sites in Square 80 – today
part of Randolph
Cemetery. Within a very
few years this practice
ceased and individual
graves were purchased at
Square 41. These graves
were likely marked only
with head boards – wood
planks that quickly rotted
away. There is no
indication that any plan
or map was prepared of
these graves. In addition,
the square was no
intensively used it is likely that a great many
graves intrude upon earlier ones, so that
individual plots are likely no longer
recognizable
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