MOUNTAIN VIEW MEMORIAL CEMETERY, Oconee County, SC
A.K.A. Seneca, SC

Version 2.3, 31-Mar--2003, C129.TXT, C129


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WALL WITH CRIMINAL PAST GETS EXPOSED
By: Chris Day
    Seneca Daily Journal
    March 2004

SENECA - Twenty-year old shrubs and overgrown bushes were removed from the 
entrance of a historic Seneca cemetery, exposing a stone wall built from the 
ruins of Seneca's first jail.

Last week, workers from the city of Seneca spent the day removing the overgrown 
plants from in front of the stone wall of the Mountain View Cemetery, on 
Fairplay Street.

Once the plants were removed, the workers planted new low-growing shrubs and 
laid fresh bark, all to be fed by a new irrigation system also installed.

Louise Bell, a lifetime Seneca resident and informal town historian, said the 
wall was built in 1933 under the guidance of the Greys of Oconee Chapter United 
Daughters of the Confederacy.

Bell explained that the rocks used to construct the stone wall came from the 
ruins of the town's first jail, a feat made possible by the work of the local 
UDC.

Inside the cemetery, said Bell, are buried several of Seneca's founding fathers 
and many veterans of the Civil War.

A plaque that's typically posted on the right column entering the gate is 
removed for now and being refurbished, Bell said.

However, she said, the plaque reads: "Memorial Gateway, dedicated to the men of 
the Confederacy who gallantly defended the Southland during the war between the 
states."

Many of the plants that the city carried away last week were those that Bell 
planted in 1981 when she was serving as chair to the Oconee UDC, she said.

"I've been very moved by what they'd done out there," Bell said, of the work 
done by the city's employees at the cemetery.


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a. = age at death
b. = date-of-birth
d. = date-of-death
h. = husband
m. = married
p. = parents
w. = wife


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