SALEM 7th-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH CEMETERY, Oconee County, SC
A.K.A. Salem, SC

Version 2.2, 16-May-2002, C180.TXT, C180


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HISTORY WRITE-UP : Nell Redman of Salem SC


CEMETERY LOCATION:
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On Highway 130, just north of Salem.

Latitude N 34 53.930 x Longitude W 82 59.068


CHURCH/CEMETERY HISTORY:
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In the 1920s, Leonard Nations from Pickens county set up a tent near Salem at 
the Junction of Shallowford and Nimmons Bridge Roads. He was a lay preacher and 
knew the Bible well. Several people became members of the Seventh-Day Adventist 
faith and a company was formed.

Needing a place to worship, and it being hard times then, an open-air building 
was erected. This was used as a meeting place ten to twelve years until it 
deteriorated and was not usable. For eighteen years, there was no church 
building.

In the early 1950s, Earl Jeys, a Seventh-Day Adventist from Tennessee retired to 
the Salem area. He found some members living in Oconee County and began planning 
for a church. Many helped with materials, money, and labor. A simple frame 
building took shape. In 1956, it was dedicated with a charter membership of 
eighteen.

During the years that followed, additions were made, including a fellowship 
hall.

In the 1980s, this building became too small for the congregation and plans were 
made to build a larger church. The sanctuary was moved to one side and still 
used while the new church was being built. When the new church was completed, 
the old building became a church school.

The new church was dedicated in 1986. The membership in 1995 is 102.

After sharing a pastor with the Greenville Seventh-Day Adventist Church for many 
years, the Salem church got its own pastor in 1977. The present pastor is Glen 
Garver.

The Salem Seventh-Day Adventist Church is located on Highway 130 north of Salem, 
half a mile from Highway 11.

Submitted by: Nell Redman, 586 Meadow Ridge Drive, Salem, SC 29676.


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


BOMBARDIER, Gregory Paul, b. 1-sep-1906, d. 20-june-1996, w. rose wilson 
bombardier
CHASTAIN, Janie, b. 1896, d. 1972
CISCO, Jessica Michelle, b. 1987, d. 8-jan-1988, p. james & robin foote 
COOPER, Jane Elenor, b. 15-nov-1901, d. 21-jun-1996
COOPER, Orlow, b. 18-dec-1892, d. 28-dec-1988, w. jane eleanor wilson loudermilk 
cooper, f. robert cooper
CROWE, Curtis Edward, b. 6-apr-1951, d. 15-jul-1992, w. judy dora smith crowe, 
p. james wesley crowe & martha lorine phillips crowe owens
DUNCAN, Karen Leigh, b. 9-apr-1972, d. 8-mar-1987
HARDY, Louise D., b. 28-aug-1921, d. 26-mar-1997, h. dr. winfield hardy
HARDY, Winfield, b. 24-feb-1920
HIGHT, Kenneth Carl, b. 14-aug-1934, d. 29-nov-1995, p. johnny lancing & alpha 
violet canfield hight, w. kante hight
HOSTETLER, E.W., b. 1914, d. 1975
JEYS, Areene M., b. 21-nov-1894, d. 12-feb-1972, beside earl e. jeys
JEYS, Earl E., b. 10-mar-1894, d. 12-oct-1973, military marker: sc phm 2 usn 
WWI, beside alleene m. jeys
JEYS, George H., b. 4-nov-1890, d. 11-june-1973
JEYS, Nellah Harrison, b. 17-dec-1891, d. 11-apr-1985, p. richard terrill & 
nellah pope harrison, h. george h. jeys
McWHORTER, Arthur M. (Sr), b. 1907C, d. 29-jan-1983, p. zachary taylor & amanda 
pruitt mcwhorter
MEDLICOTT, Winifred, b. 1895, d. 1992
PEARMAN, Grace I., b. 10-oct-1907, d. 1-jan-1993
RAMEY, J.D., b. 4-july-1914, d. 26-aug-1981, p. wesley & maudie cannon ramey, w. 
etta mae harper ramey
REDMAN, Marshall L., b. 16-mar-1943, d. 21-dec-1973
RIMA, Harold H., b. 14-jun-1895, d. 28-apr-1985, p. john & hattie huff rima, w. 
irene beatrice lawrence rima
RIMA, Irene B., b. 16-july-1896, d. 6-jan-1982
SHANKO, George, b. 27-july-1903, d. 29-oct-1971
SMITH, J.B., b. 1921, d. 2002
SWITZER, Gerald Albert, b. 20-july-1906, d. 30-dec-1983, p. leander & eva lea 
hernnon switzer, w. ruth jeys switzer
SWITZER, Robert Jay, b. 20-may-1928, d. 25-may-1998, p. ruth adeline jeys & 
gerald albert switzer
SWITZER, Ruth J., b. 12-sep-1909, d. 3-nov-1998
TUCKER, Arthur L., b. 21-dec-1911
TUCKER, Grace Ellen Clark, b. 1910C, d. 28-nov-1988, p. percy & rose crist 
clark, h. arthur l. tucker