This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ncB.2ACE/1450.1.3 Message Board Post: Besides the lost graves of a number of Williamses, the grave sites of a number of Rishers including Benjamin Risher, Sr. and his wife Mary Fontaine Risher are not known. (Back in 1977, memorial markers were placed in the Joseph Koger Risher Cemetery, Williams, SC in rememberance of them) Libby Brissie a Risher descendant who lives near Hendersonville, NC may have discovered an answer. Libby is descended from Robert Oliver Jacques and Elizabeth Risher. A daughter of Richard Risher, Jr. and Mary Huff Risher had married Fred Jacques, Bob's brother. In the 1850 census, Mary Huff Risher is shown head of a household in St. Bartholomew's Parish, Colleton District, SC. There were two other people in the household, Francis B. Risher, and Elizabeth Risher. Generally it is agreed that Francis was Mary's son. Some indicate that Elizabeth was Francis' wife. More than likely they were brother and sister. Libby learnt form "The Southern Christian Advocate" that on 11 May 1854, Robert Oliver Jacques and Elizabeth R. Risher were married. Both resided in St. Bartholomew's Parish, Colleton District, SC. Robert Oliver Jacques passed away in August 1863 while serving with Company G, 4th SC Cavalry. The 1870 and 1880 census shows Elizabeth as a head of household. Mary Huff Risher passed away on 25 Sept. 1889, sixty two years after the death of her husband. Over a year later, Paul W. Risher purchased what was once Mary's land. Libby found the land transfer: Land Transfer....Title Real Estate.... Colleton County Volume 15, Pages 314 to 315. JANIE C. SPELL ET AL TO P. W. RISHER "The state of South Carolina, Colleton County Know all men by these presents that we undersigned heirs at law of the estate lands of Mrs. Mary Risher deceased in the state above said in consideration of the sum of Eight Hundred dollars ($800.00) paid by P. W. Risher....all that tract of land known as the Risher place containing four hundred acres more of less one acre, excepted being the old Family burial ground being lying and situated in the State and County afore said West of the water of Edisto River and traversed by the Augusta Road with buildings and bounderies more fully shown in a general survey made by Henry F. Spell on the nineteenth of January in the year of eighteen hundred and forty-six...... Dated 19 Dec 1890. Signers: Janie C. Spell J. R. Risher W.L. or F. Jacques E.E. Ackerman R. N. Ackerman P.M. Jacques A.C.Jacques H. Dandridge (husband of Agnes Jacques) Agnes S. Danridge (daughter of Robert Jacues and Elizabeth Risher Jacques) Mary R. Jacques Julia A. Jacques (daughter of Robert Oliver Jacques) Amelia E. Risher R. F. Risher F. E. Spell F. B. Risher, Sr. Witness: J. B. Williams Recorded by Jno. Black, notary, Dec 14 1893" The small Richard Risher Family Cemetery is about a quarter of a mile east of where I 95 and SC 61 intersect. Today, There are only three known graves; Ricahrd Risher, Sr, Mary Huff Risher, and Harriet Jacques; in a small fenced in area. In the land transfer quoted above it indicates that the old Family burial ground was one acre more or less. Somepeople have said that they had noticed indentations in the ground near the fenced in area, an inciation of more graves.