He wasn't buried at Big Creek, and like many preachers, he preached at many other places, including Hopewell Baptist and unk. places in GA. Big Creek church is near present-day Williamston. >I don't know if this will help or not. This Book with the cemeteries I have >on film gives the longitude and latitude of the cemetery. So here are the >coordinates for Big Creek Baptist: 82 degrees 26 minutes west longitude and >34 degrees 36 minutes north latitude. I think these measurements appear on >maps and this might place you near Vandiver, etc. >> Vandiver, _History of Anderson County_, p. 42: >> "One of the negro members [of Big Creek Baptist church] named Caesar was >> rather an unusual character. He was a preacher of considerable influence. >> He had been a slave who saved enough to buy his own freedom, and later >> bought his brother. The land just above the place where Rush and >Vandiver's >> planing mill once stood, was owned by Caesar. He was buried in a field >just >> in the rear of the old Williamston Female College buildings." >> ------- >> 1) Does anyone know where the old Rush and Vandiver's planing mill once >stood? >> 2) Is Caesar's grave marked behind the old Williamston Female College >buildings? >> 3) Does anyone know which surname Caesar took, or the name of his brother? >> Thank you, Kim >> >> >> >> ==== SCANDERS Mailing List ==== >> Anderson County, South Carolina SCGenWeb >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~scanders/anderson.html >> >> >> ============================== >> Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! >> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >> > > >==== SCANDERS Mailing List ==== >Anderson County, South Carolina SCGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~scanders/anderson.html > > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > >

Williamston Town Hall, now sits on the property that was once The female college. To my knowledge there are no markings of a cemetery close by. There is a New Prospect Church and Cemetery in Williamston, about a mile from the old college site. J.C. Rush and C.J. Vandiver established the Williamston Lumber and Planing Mill in 1895. I have a sketch of the old mill and it shows it by the railroad tracks. The mill later added a flour mill and ginnery. There was an old gin, now torn down, where the Williamston shopping center now stands, just behind city hall. Caesar applied for a permit to preach in Georgia. According to the book "A town Springs Forth", he was buried in the field in the rear of Williamston Female College, now City Hall. Land he once owned. Good luck, ----- Original Message ----- From: Kim Wilson <kimwilson@mail.utexas.edu> To: <SCANDERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 6:54 PM Subject: Re: [SCANDERS] Caesar, black preacher of Big Creek > He wasn't buried at Big Creek, and like many preachers, he preached at many > other places, including Hopewell Baptist and unk. places in GA. Big Creek > church is near present-day Williamston. > > > >I don't know if this will help or not. This Book with the cemeteries I have > >on film gives the longitude and latitude of the cemetery. So here are the > >coordinates for Big Creek Baptist: 82 degrees 26 minutes west longitude and > >34 degrees 36 minutes north latitude. I think these measurements appear on > >maps and this might place you near Vandiver, etc. > > >> Vandiver, _History of Anderson County_, p. 42: > >> "One of the negro members [of Big Creek Baptist church] named Caesar was > >> rather an unusual character. He was a preacher of considerable influence. > >> He had been a slave who saved enough to buy his own freedom, and later > >> bought his brother. The land just above the place where Rush and > >Vandiver's > >> planing mill once stood, was owned by Caesar. He was buried in a field > >just > >> in the rear of the old Williamston Female College buildings." > >> ------- > >> 1) Does anyone know where the old Rush and Vandiver's planing mill once > >stood? > >> 2) Is Caesar's grave marked behind the old Williamston Female College > >buildings? > >> 3) Does anyone know which surname Caesar took, or the name of his brother? > >> Thank you, Kim > >> > >> > >> > >> ==== SCANDERS Mailing List ==== > >> Anderson County, South Carolina SCGenWeb > >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~scanders/anderson.html > >> > >> > >> ============================== > >> Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! > >> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >> > > > > > >==== SCANDERS Mailing List ==== > >Anderson County, South Carolina SCGenWeb > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~scanders/anderson.html > > > > > >============================== > >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > > > > > > > ==== SCANDERS Mailing List ==== > Anderson County, South Carolina SCGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~scanders/anderson.html > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >