South Carolina Cemeteries

United States South Carolina  Cemeteries

The South Carolina Genealogical Society's S.C. Cemetery Project is a great starting point for cemetery research in the state. Their website includes lists of cemeteries in each county and names indexes to tombstones for select counties.

The Works Progress Administrations created one of the best collections of South Carolina cemetery inscriptions. These records are held at the South Caroliniana Library and have been microfilmed by FamilySearch. The cemeteries included in this collection are listed in Local and Family History in South Carolina: A Bibliography by Richard N. Côté. (N.p. Reprint. Originally published: 1981; Family History Library book .)

Other major manuscript collections include:


 * The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) collection contains tombstone inscriptions from South Carolina cemeteries. This collection and an every-name index to it are described in South Carolina Genealogy.
 * The Leonardo Andrea Collection (see South Carolina Genealogy) also includes inscriptions from numerous graveyards (Family History Library ). Another helpful collection is South Carolina Cemetery Records, Three Volumes. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society, 1941-54; Family History Library ).

Online Resources
Several important websites document gravestones in South Carolina. Some highlight libraries with cemetery books, others include transcriptions of the tombstones themselves, directions for finding cemeteries, and lists of local volunteers willing to snap photos of ancestral graves.

Online Gravestone Transcripts

 * S.C. Cemetery Project, courtesy: South Carolina Genealogical Society. This project encompasses all South Carolina counties. Lists of cemeteries are included for all counties, with personal name indexes for select counties.


 * Find A Grave can be searched by the name of a person or family to find where a person is buried. Usually gives birth and death dates often with a picture of the tombstone.  May give obituaries, names of family members and links to their information in Find A Grave.


 * Interment.net includes many South Carolina cemetery transcripts.


 * SCGenWeb Project includes cemetery information and transcripts. Search on individual county pages.


 * The South Carolina Tombstone Transcription Project. In USGenWeb Archives Digital Library [database on-line]. N.p.: USGenWeb Archives, 17 February 1999– [cited 15 July 1999]. This is a county-by-county list of cemeteries. The highlighted cemeteries on the web page include tombstone abstracts.

Cemetery Gazetteers

 * ePodunk is a gazetteer of South Carolina cemeteries.


 * Find A Grave also gives a list of cemeteries in many South Carolina counties linking to the information about individuals buried there.

Lookup Volunteers

 * Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness has located lookup volunteers who are willing to photograph tombstones for many South Carolina counties.