Post-LawtonFest 2015: The Stoney Creek Cemetery

While we were heading to the 2015 Lawton and Allied Families Reunion at Edisto, we tootled past a sign we’d never seen before. 

We both gasped. Was that for real? Why had we never seen it? True, it was on a remote section of highway, but we’d both had reason to travel that way, and it was new to us. Perhaps it was new to everyone. 

The sign was a road sign for Stoney Creek Cemetery Road. This was important to us because it marks the final resting place for Sarah Jaudon Robert’s busband Jacques. She’s buried in the Robert Cemetery near Mulberry Grove. 

This is not a place to go alone. It’s not dangerous, just remote. And possibly snake-y. 

Seeing how we wouldn’t have time to turn around and stop, we hoped we’d have time to stop the following day on the way home. 

Y’all already know that we did. The grounds are beautifully kept, the turf dense and green like a golf course. The old bricks are like the ones at the Lawton-Seabrook cemetery on Edisto. 

The church was burned during the Civil War. Some of the  graves are on findagrave. There are actually two listings for the same cemetery, although  the location is clearly Beaufort County, not Hampton. Just ask your friend, Ms. G.P. Ess.

   
    
  

Jacques Robert

  
    
    
    
    

Don’t you want to visit?