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/DgB.2ACI/879.1 Message Board Post: Please don't take this as any kind of insult, but the town of Clemson did not exist in 1857. This person may have lived in the area but at that time the nearest towns were Pendleton and Seneca. The area where Clemson is was the plantation of John C. CALHOUN, VP of the United States. At his death is passed to his son-in-law, Thomas Green CLEMSON. When he died he willed the entire farm to the state of SC for the establishment of an agricultural and mechanical engineering college, hence the present day Clemson University which began as a military men's college. Women were not admitted until the mid-60s. There was a train depot where the cadets caught the train nearby, and this area was called CALHOUN Corners. Today that is a part of the town of Clemson, SC. The town only grew into a town quite a while aft. the founding of Clemson in 1889. There were churches fairly near that have served the folks living in the area, and your Hannah REESE may certainly be buried at a church that currently has a Clemson, SC, address. I checked the cemetery books for Pickens Co. (where Clemson, SC, is) and found no REESEs except one, and it was not Hannah. Also checked for REECE and REAVES/REEVES; nothing there either. You may want to check the Oconee Co. website (SCGenweb) to see if there is a burial on there. There is also a chance that the burial took place in Anderson Co. Clemson is located at the juncture of these three counties. Back in the 1950s the town voted to become a part of Pickens Co. rather than continue being split into three counties. I got curious and checked the 1850 census for Pickens and Oconee Co. (Eastern and Western Pickens Dist. then) and found no one spelled REECE but found several named REESE w/ no Hannah. Sorry this does not help you at all, but I will be happy to look further if you can give me any more info. Please let me hear from you. You can write me at dmpringle@sc.rr.com Dolores M. Pringle