Find A Grave - Darlington County

Benton, Lemuel b. 1754 d. May 18, 1818
US Congressman. A native of Granville County, North Carolina, he served as a Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Elected to represent South Carolina's 3rd District and as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1793 to 1799. He was defeated in 1798. He also served as a Member of the South Carolina State House of Representatives from 1782 to 1788, County Justice from 1785 to 1791, and as a Delegate to the South Carlina State House of...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Benton Family Burial Ground, Darlington, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA
Brasington, Harold Witherspoon b. May 10, 1909 d. February 4, 1996
Builder of the Darlington Motor Speedway and home to the Darlington 500, he helped give birth to NASCAR. He also built North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina. He was inducted into the NMPA Stock Car Hall of Fame in 1992.
Grove Hill Cemetery, Darlington, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA
Byrd, Harry b. February 3, 1925 d. May 15, 1985
Major League Baseball Player. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound right-hander was the American League's Rookie of the Year in 1952, but he was involved in an 11-player trade and later an 18-player swap. He appeared briefly with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1950 but came back to win rookie honors with them when he posted a 15-15 record, a 3.31 earned run average for 228 innings and 15 complete games. The following year, 1953, he was 11-20, the losses leading the AL, and his ERA ballooned to 5.51. He was...[Read More] (Bio by: Ron Coons)
Darlington Memory Gardens, Hartsville, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA
Culpepper, John b. April 10, 1765 d. January, 1841
US Congressman. Elected to represent North Carolina's 7th District and as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1807 to 1808, 1808 to 1809, 1813 to 1817, 1819 to 1821, 1823 to 1825, and 1827 to 1829.
Welsh Neck Baptist Church Cemetery, Society Hill, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA
Dargan, George William b. May 11, 1841 d. June 29, 1898
US Congressman. Elected to represent South Carolina's 6th District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1883 to 1891.
First Baptist Churchyard, Darlington, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA
Ervin, James b. October 17, 1778 d. July 6, 1841
US Congressman. He was admitted to the bar in 1800 and commenced law practice in Peedee, South Carolina. From 1800 to 1804 and in 1811, he was a member of the State House of Representatives and solicitor of the northern judicial circuit, 1804 to 1816. In 1817, he was elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses, serving until 1821. He declined to be a candidate for re-nomination and engaged in agricultural pursuits on his estate. From 1826 to 1829, he was a member of the...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Ervin Home and Estate, Darlington, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA
Evans, Josiah James b. November 27, 1786 d. May 6, 1858
US Senator, Jurist. Born in the Marlborough District of South Carolina, he graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1808 and was admitted to the bar in 1811. In 1816 he settled permanently in the Darlington District. Evans served as a State Solicitor from 1816 to 1829, a judge of the Circuit Court from 1829 to 1835, and a Justice of the State Supreme Court from 1829 to 1852. Apart from three early terms in the State House of Representatives (1812 to 1813, 1816) he avoided...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Trinity Cemetery, Society Hill, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA
McQueen, John b. February 9, 1804 d. August 30, 1867
US Congressman. Elected to represent South Carolina's 1st and 4th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1849 to 1861. He also served as a Representative from South Carolina in the Confederate Congressman from 1862 to 1864.
Trinity Cemetery, Society Hill, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA
Newsom, Louis Norman 'Bobo' b. August 11, 1907 d. December 7, 1962
Major League Baseball Player. He toured the major leagues for 20 years, playing for eight different clubs, but played for Washington five times, Brooklyn three times, and the Athletics twice. He got the nickname Bobo, because that was what he called everyone else; it is said he was rarely around long enough to learn their names. Talkative and swelling with confidence, he could usually back up his talk, but for all his gruffness and posturing, he was a sentimental and kind-hearted guy who just...[Read More] (Bio by: Edgewater)
Cause of death: Cirrhosis of the liver
Magnolia Cemetery, Hartsville, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA
Sims, Alexander Dromgoole b. June 12, 1803 d. November 22, 1848
US Congressman. Elected as a Democrat to represent South Carolina's 4th District in the Twenty-Ninth and Thirtieth Congresses, he served from 1845 until his death. The nephew of US Congressman George Coke Dromgoole, Sims was born near Randals Ordinary, Virginia. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 1823 graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York. In 1826 he moved to Darlington, South Carolina, where he headed the Academy for two years before...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
First Baptist Churchyard, Darlington, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA
Williams, David Rogerson b. March 8, 1776 d. November 17, 1830
South Carolina Governor, US Congressman. He engaged in cotton planting and manufacturing until his death and built the first cottonseed-oil mill in South Carolina. From 1801 to 1803, he was editor and proprietor of the "City Gazette" and "Weekly Carolina Gazette of Charleston". He was elected as a Republican to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses, 1805 to 1809 and elected to the Twelfth Congress, 1811 to 1813. During the War of 1812 he was appointed by President James Madison as a Brigadier General...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Governor Williams Cemetery, Society Hill, Darlington County, South Carolina, USA

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