Find A Grave - Charleston

Courtenay, William Ashmead b. February 4, 1831 d. March 17, 1908
Served in the Confederate Army 1861-1865. Mayor of Charleston, S.C., 1880-1887. President of the Chamber of Commerce 1885-1888. In 1887 he was elected a Trustee of the Peabody Education Board.
Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Davis, Smn. Nicholas d. August 29, 1863
Civil War Figure. Seaman on the famed submarine H.L. Hunley. The first crew of the Hunley met their fate on August 29, 1863 at Fort Johnson. The Hunley sank when the wake of a passing ship flooded the sub's open hatches, allowing only four of the crewmembers to escape, while five men perished. The five men were quietly buried at a mariner's graveyard off the bank of the Ashley River. The graveyard had been Charleston's mariners' cemetery during the war. The site was mistakenly covered over when...[Read More] (Bio by: ¥ankêêBelle)
Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Dawson, Sarah Ida Fowler b. February 28, 1842 d. May 5, 1909
Civil War Figure. She was the wife of Frank Dawson, editor of the "News And Courier" in Charleston, South Carolina. Her diary, written from the age of 19 to just a few years before her death, has been published three times. The first, "A Confederate Girl's Diary", was published first in 1913, and again in 1960 (Civil War Centennial Edition) by the Indiana University Press. The second was "Sarah Morgan - The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman".
Saint Lawrence Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
De Saussure, Gen. Wilmot Gibbes b. July 23, 1822 d. February 1, 1886
General of South Carolina State Militia. He served as the Secretary of the South Carolina Treasury and as a Representative to the State Assembly. Appointed to Brigadier General of State Militia in 1861, De Saussure led the 4th Brigade throughout the Civil War. He served on South Carolina Governor Francis Pickens cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury. In 1862, he was elected State Adjutant General and Inspector General of Militia. Post Civil War saw De Saussure resuming his profession as a lawyer...[Read More] (Bio by: Stonewall)
Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
DeLarge, Robert Carlos b. March 15, 1842 d. February 14, 1874
US Congressman. Born in Aiken, South Carolina, he represented his state in Congress from 1871 to 1873. On January 24, 1873 the seat was declared vacant because the election was being contested by Christopher C. Bowen. He died in Charleston, South Carolina before the matter could be settled. (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Brown Fellowship Graveyard, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Dixon, George E. d. February 17, 1864
Civil War Confederate Army Officer. He was commander of the last crew of the Confederate submarine, "HL Hunley", when it sank 4 miles off the coast of Sullivans Island (Charleston), South Carolina, on February 17, 1864, after sinking the USS Housatonic. A native of Kentucky, he joined Company E of the 21st Alabama Volunteers. He soon met Miss Queenie Bennet of Mobile, Alabama, and proposed. They agreed to marry after the war. Queenie gifted the Lt. with a $20 gold piece which he carried...[Read More] (Bio by: ¥ankêêBelle)
Cause of death: Casualty of war
Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Drayton, John b. June 22, 1767 d. November 27, 1822
South Carolina Governor, Author. He was educated at the Nassau Grammar School and at Princeton. After Princeton he continued his education in England and then in Charleston where he read law in the office of Charles Cotesworthy Pinckney. He was admitted to the bar and established a law practice. Public service began for Drayton with his election to the South Carolina House in 1792. He represented St. Philip & St. Michael parishes in the Tenth, Eleventh and Thirteenth General Assemblies. On...[Read More] (Bio by: John Schneider)
Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Flagg, Josiah b. 1763 d. September 16, 1816
Medical Pioneer. The first American to make dentistry his life's work. He was a soldier in the American Revolution and a sailor in the war of 1812. He was the father of Josiah Foster Flagg, a Boston surgeon who opposed ether as anesthesia.
Circular Congregational Church Burying Ground, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Floyd, Edward b. February 21, 1850 d. January 16, 1923
Peacetime Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Boilermaker in the United States Navy. His citation reads "Serving on board the USS Iowa, for extraordinary heroism at the time of the blowing out of the manhole plate of boiler D on board that vessel, 25 January 1905."
Saint Lawrence Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Fraser, Charles b. August 20, 1782 d. October 5, 1860
Artist. When a small child of nine Fraser's parents died and he was raised by his older brother Frederick. In childhood his desire was to become a painter and it became his passion in life. But the profession, at that time was considered unworthy of a gentleman and no doubt his guardians felt it a sacrifice of money and time to allow the encouragements of talents in a questionable occupation. As a result he began the study of law and several years later in 1807 was admitted to the bar. He...[Read More] (Bio by: John Schneider)
Saint Michaels Church Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Fuller, John H. L. b. 1833 d. September 6, 1871
British Soldier. Nothing is known of the early life of Fuller, only that he was born in England and enlisted in the British army in the early 1850's. He would transfer to the British Calvary and was assigned to the Light Brigade. During the Crimean War the British Army traveled to Balaclava to engage the Russians. The British were accompanied by the French and Turks. The Light Brigade 4th and 13th Light Dragoons, 8th and 11th Hussars and 17th Lancers under Lord Cardigan was in the valley...[Read More] (Bio by: John Schneider)
Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Gadsden, Christopher b. February 16, 1723 d. August 15, 1805
Delegate to Stamp Act Congress in New York, 1765; Delegate from South Carolina to the First Continental Congress, 1774-1776; brigadier general, Continental Army; served in the defense of Charleston; elected Governor of South Carolina in 1781, but declined.
Saint Philip's Church Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Gadsden, Gen. James b. May 15, 1788 d. December 26, 1858
US Army General, Ambassador to Mexico. A graduate of Yale, he served in the War of 1812 and was appointed aide-de-camp to General Andrew Jackson. After the war he became a planter in Florida and was a member of the State Legislature. In 1853 Gadsden was appointed Ambassador to Mexico during the Franklin Pierce administration, and was directed by the President to negotiate a treaty to purchase a large portion of northern Mexico so a transcontinental railroad could be continued westward along a...[Read More] (Bio by: John Schneider)
Saint Philip's Church Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Plot: 442
Gaffney, Adm. John Jerome b. March 5, 1892 d. November 21, 1947
US Navy Admiral. Gaffney graduated from the College of Charleston in 1912. Immediately after graduation he was commissioned an Ensign in the Naval supply corps. For three years he served with a torpedo flotilla in Chinese waters and then returned to Charleston for duty in the Navy yard. Between 1918 and 1923 he served successively as personnel officer for the supply corps in Washington, Naval Secretary to the Governor of the Virgin Island and a supply officer in the New York Navy yard. In the...[Read More] (Bio by: John Schneider)
Saint Lawrence Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Gantt, Gen. James Lawrence b. December 26, 1888 d. November 30, 1962
US Army General. Gantt's early education was completed in 1904 at the Porter Military Academy in Charleston, South Carolina. He enlisted in the State National Guard in 1905 and was steadily promoted. In 1916 as captain in command of the Sumter Guards, he served on the Mexican border, returning to Charleston in 1917, when his company was inducted into federal service. He served in France and Belgium, with the famous 30th ("Old Hickory") division in World War I. On the reorganization of the...[Read More] (Bio by: John Schneider)
Old Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Geddes, John b. December 25, 1777 d. March 4, 1828
South Carolina Governor. He served as Governor of South Carolina from 1818 to 1820.
First Scots Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Gilbreth Jr., Frank B. b. March 17, 1911 d. February 18, 2001
Author. Born Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Junior in Plainfield, New Jersey the fifth child and eldest son of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, prominent management consultants and time-study experts. He grew up in Montclair, New Jersey with eleven brothers and sisters and was graduated from the University of Michigan, where he served as editor of the college newspaper, The Michigan Daily. He then worked as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1934, he moved to the news staff of The News and...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Gilman, Caroline b. October 8, 1794 d. September 15, 1888
Author, Poet. Caroline was the daughter of Boston shipwright Samuel Howard who was one of the original "Indians" in the Boston Tea Party. Her parents died young and she was raised and educated by her sister Ann Marie White. By 1810 she had begun writing and did it rather secretly since young girls of her age didn't express themselves outwardly. However the same year a Boston newspaper published "Jephthah's Rash Vow" a poem her family had secretly submitted. The sixteen year old later stated...[Read More] (Bio by: John Schneider)
Unitarian Church Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Gist, Mordecai b. February 22, 1742 d. August 2, 1792
Revolutionary War Continental Army Brigadier General. Born the son of Thomas and Susanna Gist in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1774, with his personal fortune, Gist established the Baltimore independent company, which became the Maryland 5th Infantry. In 1776 he was appointed major in the regular army and served in action in the north. In January, 1779, congress appointed him a brigadier-general in the continental army, and he took the command of the 2nd Maryland brigade. In 1779 he was transferred...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Saint Michaels Church Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Grantham Jr., Adm. Elonzo Bowden b. January 25, 1907 d. January 24, 1985
US Navy Rear Admiral. Grantham's early education was in the public school system in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He entered the United States Naval Academy in 1926 and graduated in 1930. His first assignment was aboard the aircraft carrier Saratoga. Later he was reassigned to the light cruiser USS St. Louis which was part of the Seventh Fleet docked at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the St. Louis was able to steam out of the harbor and begin it's...[Read More] (Bio by: John Schneider)
Saint Michaels Church Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA

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