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I'm trying to confirm that the following LaBoon cemetery actually existed. Can you be of help?
LaBOON FAMILY CEMETERY
LATITUDE: N 34 degrees 45.462 minutes LONGITUDE: W 082 degrees 32.089 minutes
LOCATION: Private Property behind the Lloyd McGowen house
315 LaBoone Road, Anderson County, SC.
The LaBoon Cemetery was destroyed in the 1960’s before 1966 when the Rev. R.M. Smith and his wife documented most of the Anderson County Cemeteries in their book, "The Book Of The Dead". The older generation of LaBoon descendants recalls seeing the cemetery plus the Slave Cemetery and an Indian burial ground on the hill. There is no sign of any of them now. It had about 8 nice tombstones and a lot of graves with field stones. They were in a waist high, hog wire fence with a steel gate. The left corner of the house built on the property is probably on part of the old It was destroyed to make way for other uses by the land owner. There were no laws to prevent such irrational actions at that time.cemetery.
The land was part of a land grant given to Pierre LeBon III for his Revolutionary War service.
In a DAR article on 31 AUG 1952, two Revolutionary War soldiers were honored with DAR markers in the cemetery for their service:
Pierre LeBon III (later spelled Peter LaBoon)
Elisha Jarvis
Other persons known to be buried in the cemetery were:
Anne Gervais LeBon (wife of Pierre LeBon III)
Elizabeth TRIPP died 27 MAY 1872, wife of Joseph A. LaBOON, Sr.
It’s a good guess that Joseph A. LaBoon, Sr. is also buried in the cemetery since he was born in 1808 and died in 1871. He is not listed in any other cemetery.
Paul M Kankula - nn8nn
kankula1@innova.net
SC GenWeb Tri-County Coordinator
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