I may not have read all the postings lately, but just in case this has not been brought up. Paul Kankula has gone all over this state, coumenting our churchyards and other burial grounds. He and his associate have done an excellent job, even to the point of trying to track graves that were moved before the flooding of Lakes Keowee, Jocassee, and Harwell in Oconee and Pickens Counties, He and I have conversed serveral time concernng some of the graves of my GG and GGG-grandparents that a church has paved over and removed the markers (rocks and rough-hewn stones). He has so much knowledge and such a caring spirit about the preservation of these things that, if you have not worked with him already, I would strongly suggest that you try to reach him. You can find his email on almost any county page where the cemetery surveys are listed. In many of the counties he has gone back and found old cemeteries that were essentially already "lost." Now, they are easily found and most you can walk into now. He has done more for the graves in this state than anyone I know, and it has been a particular interest of mine since I started genealogy many, many years ago. I do believe that he might be able to get the particular tools in there to determine where all the actual graves are. My primary family in Newberry were the PARKINS family (Daniel, his sons, a nephew). They came to Newberry with the earliest Friends in the 1700s and are supposed to be buried in the area SW of Prosperity. If anyone could give me exact directions, I would be more grateful than you can imagine! Daniel and most of his family died in some sort of epidemic but his nephew (name unknown) was sent some money by his uncle, Daniel, just before he died. This nephew married Mary PETERSON, dau of Thos., Mary and her husband, UNK PARKINS, died betw/1815-1817, leaving several children: Cassandra, Elizabeth, Milton and Sutley/Sutton. Cassandra PARKINS was my GGG-g'mother, and I would love to know more about her PARKINS ancestors. BTW, these PARKINS came from Winchester, VA to Newberry. I hope the above will help the group with the cemetery, and again, I would love to know anything about the PARKINS family and their ancestry. Many thanks and blessings to all, Dolores M. Pringle On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Judith F. Russell <jrussell2@charter.net>wrote: > As per our conversation about radar: Just a reminder, on our Cemetery > Survey Day we found and mapped many sink holes which we didn't have time to > investigate and which might well be good targets for ground penetrating > radar assessment. > > Map is at: > > http://askgrannyus.posterous.com/bush-river-flyer-and-map > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SC-BUSHRIVERQUAKERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >