>At 05:51 AM 8/2/2003 -0600, [email protected] wrote: >>The church pastor says their old burial records were lost in a church >>fire a long time ago. He didn't know when. >> >>This is a fair size cemetery and most all of their old markers are >>covered with black mold and very difficult to read. >> >>It's possible that President Roosevelt's WPA Project did a cemetery >>recording in the 1930's and the church gave something to work from. I >>assume the Columbia Archives would have a copy of such. Maybe the >>Anderson or Greenville libraries. >The South Caroliniana Library has microfilm of the actual survey. The >Anderson and Greenville libraries >probably have this as well -- if it was done. > >I remember someone telling me years ago that there weren't more WPA >cemetery surveys for two reasons -- >(1) not that many people had cars and (2) whoever was in charge of the WPA >budget for that county >had to allot money to pay for each survey and, if they didn't want to, no >one could force them. > >Elizabeth Whitaker >