Kingston Presbyterian Church Cemetery - Conway, South Carolina - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

"The Kingston Presbyterian Church Cemetery contains fine examples of Victorian gravestone art of a quality not generally found in South Carolina. Portions of the cemetery site were first the old Kingston “burying ground” and the Beaty family cemetery; few gravestones from the town graveyard survive but the Beaty family plot, which contains the artistically significant stones, is intact. The most outstanding examples of mid-nineteenth century gravestone art in the cemetery are the tombstones of the Beaty, Buck, and Graham children. The stones seem to have been sculpted by one artist, and those of Clara and Mary Beaty, Frederick Buck, and Florence Graham are particularly significant. These three tombs are marble table-type tombs, so called for the low flat slab on top that often served as a table for vases. These children’s stones have top slabs with an inscription, supporting end slabs, and open sides. The most remarkable features of these stones, rare in table tombs, are the delicately sculpted figures that lie in the space under the top slab and between the end slabs. These figures represent children either sleeping or in death. Listed in the National Register August 5, 1986." ~ South Carolina Department of Archives and History website

Street address: 800 Third Ave. Conway, South Carolina County / Borough / Parish: Horry County Year listed: 1986 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Architecture/Engineering Periods of significance: 1700-1749, 1750-1799, 1800-1824, 1825-1849, 1850-1874, 1875-1899, 1900-1924 Historic function: Funerary - Cemetery Current function: Funerary - Cemetery Privately owned?: yes Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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