Enoch Cantrell was the son of Reverend Isaac and Mary Linder Cantrell. Reverend Cantrell established Cantrell's Meeting House, later known as Wolf Island Primitive Baptist Church, on his farm outside Rockingham County, North Carolina, in 1777. After serving that church for twenty years, Reverend Cantrell moved most of the members of his large family to upper Spartanburg District, South Carolina, where his brother, John, settled around 1782. There, he and his brother, John, established a new church, Buck Creek Baptist Church, in Chesnee, SC. Their descendants still attend the church.

In 1812, Enoch Cantrell married Nancy Dempsey in Spartanburg County and established his family. They were recorded there on the 1820, 1830 and 1840 census. Their children were:

Elizabeth Cantrell
Margret Margaret Cantrell
Mary Ann Cantrell
John Dillard Cantrell
Enoch Cantrell
Nancy Cantrell

Enoch Cantrell died in 1844 and William Parris was appointed executor of the estate. After the death of his widow, Nancy, their son, John, was still trying to clear titles to some of the land. Daughter Margaret had married John Parris. She had died but they had two living children when this deed was made;

SPARTANBURG COUNTY,
SOUTH CAROLINA
Deed book GG page 504,
8 Oct 1852

John Parris Sr to John Cantrell all my right and claim etc 220 acres in the estate of Enoch Cantrell deceased. Bounded by R. Berry, John Kimbrell, John Cooly, James Horton. My intrest in land being 2 shares.

Wit:
Henry H. Turner
John Parris Jr.

Addendum:

From Find a Grave contributor CDparr7:

The Cantrell cemetery is the Williams Cemetery #1. (2636893 and 2278724). The account on the Cantrell cemetery page matches what I have been told. I visited where I was told the cemetery was and located it in a housing development under construction. Another contributor on here has visited it as well and has photos of the Jemima Williams, AJ Williams, Bedie Williams grave that is in it's center which matches the accounts on the Cantrell Graveyard page as well.

It is surrounded by field stones which are listed as unknowns in Williams #1 roster but have all the names in the Cantrell Graveyard roster. (Ex. Enoch Cantrell)

John S. Parris (father of Jemima Williams) and his wives (3 different Cantrells) are buried here as well. I was told they had stones here at one time but from my observation they no longer do. These may be the ones had initials and dates that was described on the Cantrell Graveyard page. Somebody has erected a fence around some of the graves but it appears as if there are many more outside of it.

I am requesting that these two be merged as this appears to have the same fate as the Parris Gilbert, where one family establishes it but another family adopts it later and the names create confusion.

Thank you Lela Parris Koch for creating this memorial, your hard work on Find a Grave, and your dedication to genealogy.