This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RAYSOR, RISHER, STOKES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ncB.2ACE/1456.1 Message Board Post: Wow. Did you know anything about the death of Leonidas M. Risher before you found this? Thanks for the info on the Raysor cemetery. I have the Stokes genealogy and Dr. Stokes' address, assuming he's still there and living. One of my first cousins from NY/PA found it on her last trip to SC, but nobody else in her party would venture past the road! David Bryan took a couple of pictures 10 or so years ago, and they are posted here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raysor/MayStokesRaysorCem.html I know that some Stokes family members (or at least one) is buried in the Old Zion Methodist Church Cemetery - in the Hunters Chapel area of Bamberg Co, just over the line from Colleton. The cemetery is now in a pine forest, and I believe that many graves are buried under decades of debris. The few graves that are well marked and fenced are William Moss Raysor and Annie Gavin Raysor (my g-grandparents), and also a Black family. Older and not so well maintained are Rhoad family graves. There's no visible sign that there ever was a church there, but the terrain is rolling and covered with pine straw and limbs.