The work you'll find on the Tombstone Project pages is very important.  Every day another cemetery is destroyed by development or lost to neglect.  Even without human interference, some of these grave markers are getting old and we soon won't be able to read them at all.

For those interested in cemetery preservation, there are a number of publications and organizations actively involved in that work.  It is truly sad the number of monuments damaged by well meaning conservators who lack the requisite knowledge to actually preserve the monuments.

Browse around the Tombstone Project and other cemetery pages a bit and see if there is a cemetery out there that you might be willing to tackle the transcription of.  If you do find useful information in one of these transcriptions, take a minute to thank the transcriber.  Their continued dedication to cemetery transcriptions is what provides many of us with that single clue that "cracks the case open..." 

Note that we do not maintain any of these archives.  They are the generous donations of time from others working in the provision of free genealogical information...

The Tombstone Transcription Project has placed a great resource page of Cherokee County cemeteries at:  http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/southcarolina/cherokee.html

Bill Floyd has created a great resource online called The Cemeteries of the area that was Old Tryon County NC and Upper SC which lists many cemeteries of interest to Cherokee County researchers.  Don't miss his page!

Cherokee County Cemeteries

The following are some Cemeteries located in Cherokee County. Any correction or additions would be appreciated!  This is a table compiled by Paul Sarratt and edited by Victoria Proctor prior to 1999 with some additions since then as we are made aware of them.

We've added a few which were found through GIS and web searches as well as researcher contributions.  Very few of these transcriptions are maintained on this server but instead, links are provided to the external source.

Those in hyperlink have been transcribed and have data listed online.  Do you have a transcription of one of these cemeteries that isn't already online? 

Cemetery Name	Location
Abingdon Cemetery	Wilkinsville
Antioch Baptist Cemetery	near Grover
Antioch 3 Cemetery	Grover
Asbury Cemetery	Pacolet
Austell Cemetery Austell Cemetery	Gaffney
Berry Memorial Baptist Church	Gaffney
Beulah Cemetery
Old Blacksburg Cemetery	Blacksburg
Blalock Cemetery
Bridges Cemetery
Buffalo Baptist Church Cemetery	Gaffney
Burns Cemetery
Byars 1 Cemetery
Byars 2 Cemetery
Byars 3 Cemetery
Camp 1 Cemetery
Camp 2 Cemetery
Canaan Cemetery
Cherokee Creek Baptist Cemetery
Christian Fellowship
Clary Cemetery
Clingham Memorial Cemetery
Concord Cemetery
Corinth Cemetery
Crestview Cemetery
Deal Cemetery
Divine True Holiness Cemetery
Dye Cemetery
Ellis 2 Cemetery
Etter Cemetery	East of Blacksburg
Fairview Cemetery
Frederick Memorial Gardens
Furnace Place Cemetery
Gaffney Memorial Park
Galilee Cemetery
Goode Cemetery
Gordon 1 Cemetery
Gordon 2 Cemetery
Green Bethel Cemetery
Heathcock Cemetery
Holt Cemetery	Blacksburg
Hopewell Cemetery
Horton Cemetery	Chesnee
Horton Cemetery # 2	Chesnee
Howser Cemetery
Huskey Cemetery	near Gaffney
Huskins Cemetery
Island Creek Cemetery
Johnson Cemetery	Chesnee
Jolly Cemetery
Jones 1 Cemetery
Jones 2 Cemetery
Limestone Cemetery
Linder Cemetery	near Gaffney
Lipscomb Cemetery
Little Memorial Cemetery
Love Springs Cemetery	Cowpens
Macedonia Cemetery	Cowpens
Robert Martin Cemetery	near Cowpens National Battlefield
Midway Baptist Church
Mikes Creek Cemetery	Boiling
Mount Paran Cemetery	Blacksburg
Mount Sinai 2 Cemetery	Gaffney
Mount View Cemetery	Blacksburg
Mount View Cemetery	Cowpens
Mount Zion Cemetery	Pacolet
Mullinax Cemetery	Kings
New Pleasant Baptist Cemetery	Cowpens
Oak Grove Cemetery	Kings
Oakland Cemetery	Gaffney
Painter Cemetery	Chesnee
Parker Cemetery	Abingdon Creek
Pine Grove Cemetery	Blacksburg
Pleasant Grove 1 Cemetery	Hickory
Providence Cemetery	Gaffney
Robbs Cemetery	Boiling
Rock Springs Cemetery	Blacksburg
Ross Cemetery	Blacksburg
St Peters Baptist Church Cemetery	Grover
Sandpit Cemetery	Boiling
Sarratt 1 Cemetery	Blacksburg
Sarratt 2 Cemetery	Boiling
Sarratt 3 Cemetery	Boiling
Shady Grove Cemetery	Cowpens
Smith Cemetery
Smith 2 Cemetery	Gaffney
Smith 3 Cemetery	Grover
State Line Baptist Cemetery	Chesnee
Stewart Cemetery	Grover
Suck Creek Cemetery	Chesnee
Watkins Cemetery	Cowpens
Whig Hill Cemetery	Pacolet
White Plains Cemetery
Williams Cemetery	near Cowpens National Battlefield
Willis Cemetery	Pacolet
Wisher Cemetery	near Blacksburg
Youngs Grove Cemetery	Blacksburg