Wife of Robert Williams, Esquire, and daughter of Peter Turley, both of Kershaw County, South Carolina. Both her husband and father were soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Her husband was 20 years her senior, so it would be possible that it was a second marriage for him.
Mary Turley Williams and son James Turley Williams are thought to have been buried in the family cemetery on or near the plantation they owned east and west of Knight's Creek. Most of the Williams property is now part of Hugh White State Park. The Williams estate passed to descendants, the Mayhew, Perry, and Rosamond families, relatives. The Perry plantation, called "Pleasant Retreat," was the site of this cemetery, adjoining the Rosamond plantation, and adjoined the south border of Weir Springs Plantation.
It is possible there was a Mt. Zion church located at this site in the 1840s. In his will dated 24 December 1844, James Turley Williams provided for "an outside shed" to be built at Mt. Zion Church, and he then instructed his executors to "superintend and appropriate part of my means...for walling in and covering over in a neat and substantial manner my mother's and my brother's graves."
These three are believed to have been buried together at Mt. Zion Church, a Baptist Church thought to have stood near the site of the little community cemetery that was also known as the Williams-Perry-Rosamond family cemetery and sometimes called the Pleasant Retreat Plantation Cemetery, the name of the Perry plantation.
This was about a mile south of the forks of the rivers (now under the lake) where the Weir Springs Baptist Church stood 70 years later, into the 1930s, but there was no known cemetery at the Weir Springs Church.
In the 1940s-50s the Pleasant Retreat Cemetery was still in beautiful though neglected condition. The cemetery was distinctive for the ornate monuments showing marked sophistication and wealth. By the 1970s vandals had destroyed most of the monuments. It is located east of and parallel to the Weir Springs Road, now called Wildlife League Road. The old plantation road is now a trail running southward from the site of the Perry and Rosamond homes and is sometimes referred to as Perry Cemetery #2, the Perry Cemetery #1 being the much larger negro Perry cemetery further south off Wildlife League. The largest negro cemetery on this road is the Weir Springs Plantation Cemetery, also called Perry Cemetery #3 which lies at the far north end of the road on the shore of the lake.
Mary Turley Williams and son James Turley Williams are thought to have been buried in the family cemetery on or near the plantation they owned east and west of Knight's Creek. Most of the Williams property is now part of Hugh White State Park. The Williams estate passed to descendants, the Mayhew, Perry, and Rosamond families, relatives. The Perry plantation, called "Pleasant Retreat," was the site of this cemetery, adjoining the Rosamond plantation, and adjoined the south border of Weir Springs Plantation.
It is possible there was a Mt. Zion church located at this site in the 1840s. In his will dated 24 December 1844, James Turley Williams provided for "an outside shed" to be built at Mt. Zion Church, and he then instructed his executors to "superintend and appropriate part of my means...for walling in and covering over in a neat and substantial manner my mother's and my brother's graves."
These three are believed to have been buried together at Mt. Zion Church, a Baptist Church thought to have stood near the site of the little community cemetery that was also known as the Williams-Perry-Rosamond family cemetery and sometimes called the Pleasant Retreat Plantation Cemetery, the name of the Perry plantation.
This was about a mile south of the forks of the rivers (now under the lake) where the Weir Springs Baptist Church stood 70 years later, into the 1930s, but there was no known cemetery at the Weir Springs Church.
In the 1940s-50s the Pleasant Retreat Cemetery was still in beautiful though neglected condition. The cemetery was distinctive for the ornate monuments showing marked sophistication and wealth. By the 1970s vandals had destroyed most of the monuments. It is located east of and parallel to the Weir Springs Road, now called Wildlife League Road. The old plantation road is now a trail running southward from the site of the Perry and Rosamond homes and is sometimes referred to as Perry Cemetery #2, the Perry Cemetery #1 being the much larger negro Perry cemetery further south off Wildlife League. The largest negro cemetery on this road is the Weir Springs Plantation Cemetery, also called Perry Cemetery #3 which lies at the far north end of the road on the shore of the lake.
Wife of Robert Williams, Esquire, and daughter of Peter Turley, both of Kershaw County, South Carolina. Both her husband and father were soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Her husband was 20 years her senior, so it would be possible that it was a second marriage for him.
Mary Turley Williams and son James Turley Williams are thought to have been buried in the family cemetery on or near the plantation they owned east and west of Knight's Creek. Most of the Williams property is now part of Hugh White State Park. The Williams estate passed to descendants, the Mayhew, Perry, and Rosamond families, relatives. The Perry plantation, called "Pleasant Retreat," was the site of this cemetery, adjoining the Rosamond plantation, and adjoined the south border of Weir Springs Plantation.
It is possible there was a Mt. Zion church located at this site in the 1840s. In his will dated 24 December 1844, James Turley Williams provided for "an outside shed" to be built at Mt. Zion Church, and he then instructed his executors to "superintend and appropriate part of my means...for walling in and covering over in a neat and substantial manner my mother's and my brother's graves."
These three are believed to have been buried together at Mt. Zion Church, a Baptist Church thought to have stood near the site of the little community cemetery that was also known as the Williams-Perry-Rosamond family cemetery and sometimes called the Pleasant Retreat Plantation Cemetery, the name of the Perry plantation.
This was about a mile south of the forks of the rivers (now under the lake) where the Weir Springs Baptist Church stood 70 years later, into the 1930s, but there was no known cemetery at the Weir Springs Church.
In the 1940s-50s the Pleasant Retreat Cemetery was still in beautiful though neglected condition. The cemetery was distinctive for the ornate monuments showing marked sophistication and wealth. By the 1970s vandals had destroyed most of the monuments. It is located east of and parallel to the Weir Springs Road, now called Wildlife League Road. The old plantation road is now a trail running southward from the site of the Perry and Rosamond homes and is sometimes referred to as Perry Cemetery #2, the Perry Cemetery #1 being the much larger negro Perry cemetery further south off Wildlife League. The largest negro cemetery on this road is the Weir Springs Plantation Cemetery, also called Perry Cemetery #3 which lies at the far north end of the road on the shore of the lake.
Mary Turley Williams and son James Turley Williams are thought to have been buried in the family cemetery on or near the plantation they owned east and west of Knight's Creek. Most of the Williams property is now part of Hugh White State Park. The Williams estate passed to descendants, the Mayhew, Perry, and Rosamond families, relatives. The Perry plantation, called "Pleasant Retreat," was the site of this cemetery, adjoining the Rosamond plantation, and adjoined the south border of Weir Springs Plantation.
It is possible there was a Mt. Zion church located at this site in the 1840s. In his will dated 24 December 1844, James Turley Williams provided for "an outside shed" to be built at Mt. Zion Church, and he then instructed his executors to "superintend and appropriate part of my means...for walling in and covering over in a neat and substantial manner my mother's and my brother's graves."
These three are believed to have been buried together at Mt. Zion Church, a Baptist Church thought to have stood near the site of the little community cemetery that was also known as the Williams-Perry-Rosamond family cemetery and sometimes called the Pleasant Retreat Plantation Cemetery, the name of the Perry plantation.
This was about a mile south of the forks of the rivers (now under the lake) where the Weir Springs Baptist Church stood 70 years later, into the 1930s, but there was no known cemetery at the Weir Springs Church.
In the 1940s-50s the Pleasant Retreat Cemetery was still in beautiful though neglected condition. The cemetery was distinctive for the ornate monuments showing marked sophistication and wealth. By the 1970s vandals had destroyed most of the monuments. It is located east of and parallel to the Weir Springs Road, now called Wildlife League Road. The old plantation road is now a trail running southward from the site of the Perry and Rosamond homes and is sometimes referred to as Perry Cemetery #2, the Perry Cemetery #1 being the much larger negro Perry cemetery further south off Wildlife League. The largest negro cemetery on this road is the Weir Springs Plantation Cemetery, also called Perry Cemetery #3 which lies at the far north end of the road on the shore of the lake.
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