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Data Description:Cedar Spring and Lower Long Cane Cemeteries
Compilation of Civil War Veterans
Submitter: Gloria
Date Posted: 26 August 2001

Compiled from research done by Wilma Copeland Kirkland and Lucille Loden Morrow.

Cedar Springs Cemetery Abbeville, South Carolina 

J. H. Drennan 
b. Apr. 11, 1833 
d. Mar. 14, 1925 Civil War Marker 

Geo. P Chiles 
b. June 16, 1842 
d. May 1, 1871 
Conf. marker 
Graduate of Erskine College 

Edmund G. Kennedy 
b. Mar. 28, 1829 
d. May 20, 1868 
husband, father CW marker 

W. W. Purdy 
b. July 26, 1846 
d. Nov. 3, 1933 
Civil war marker 1861-1865 

Joseph Lowry Pressly 
s.o. George W. & Isabella Hearst Pressly 
b. Aug 5, 1829 
d. July 6, 1900 
A beloved Physician. Conf. Marker asst. Surgeon C.S. A. 1862. 
First  Charleston Battn. Oct. 1863. 
Surgeon Major 27 SC Reg. hagood�s Brig. Lee�s Army. 
Seighe Petersburg Wilderness 
Compaign. Paroled Greensboro May 1, 1865. 

Gen. P. H. Bradley Father 
b. June 28, 1813 
d. Aug. 14, 1887 Conf. marker 
A ruling Elder in A.R. P. Church for 42 years. 
Member of the S.C. Legislature for 2 terms. 
Many years a trustee of Erskine College. 
He was elected a Col. before he was 25 ; 
Brig. General when 27 years old., 
entered Conf. Army as Capt. of Co. C 7th. S.C. V. 
The originator and first president of Augusta and Knoxville R.R. 

Thomas C. Bradley 
b. Feb. 2, 1841 
d. Oct. 21, 1861 
Killed in Skirmish at Ball�s Blurr, VA. Oct. 21, 1861. Conf. marker 

John L. Devlin 
b. Jan. 27, 1817 
d. Sept. 16, 1875 CW marker 

David W. Jay 
b. Mar. 1, 1843 
d. Feb. 15, 1898 
Conf. marker 

Thomas P Jordan 
s.o. Bartholomew & Margaret Jordan 
b. 31 Jan. 1828 d. 20 July 1862 
age 34 yrs. t mos. 20 days 
Orrs 2nd Rifles 

Dr. James Harvy McCrary 
b. July 22, 1823 
D. May 5, 1888 
Co. H. 19 SC Inf. CW marker 

George P. McFerrin 
b. 1839 
d. 1929 
Co. B. 1 SC Rifles CSA 

Robert Warren Lites 
b. Oct. 28, 1819 
d. May 20, 1894 
Deacon of Troy ARP Church CW marker 

William Gibson 
b. Feb. 14, 1814 
d. Dec. 4, 1862 
Elder of Cedar Spring Church CW marker 

R. H. Wilson 
b. Jan. 1, 1824 
d. Dec. 18, 1862 at Adams Run Hospital in the service of his country. 
Aged 38 yrs. 11 mon. & 18 days 

David R. Williams 
b. nov. 1, 1836 
d. June 3, 1895 
CW marker 

Lower Long Cane Cemetery McCormick Co., South Carolina 
(Formerly old Abbeville Co., South Carolina) 

Col. Archibald Kennedy Patton 
b. May 24, 1819 Fell at Shilow Apr. 6, 1862 and 
was buried on the battlefield. 

James C. Dowtin Tribute to husband 
b. Dec. 6, 1835 
d. June 22, 1871 A soldier and patriot of Co. H., 19th. Regt. S.C.V. 
Seriously wounded in the battle of Murfreesboro. 

Capt. Edmund Cowan DSA 
s.o. Samuel & Jane Britt Cowan 
1827 - 1894 Civil War marker 
Footstone - Co. G 14 SC Inf. 

John F. Creswell 
b. May 7, 1826 
d. Mov. 21, 1899 CW marker 

Robert Foster Bradley CW marker 
b. Sept. 22, 1846 
d. Mar. 7, 1931 

John edward Bradley 
b, Dec. 25, 1839 
d. Apr. 20, 1907 
Served through War of Sucession, Member of state legislature, 
Life member of Board of Trustees of Clemson College. 

David Morrah 
b. Sept. 21, 1821 
m. Rebecca Bradley July 16, 1846 
d. Sept. 6, 1890 1st. SC Cav. Co. A 

John H. Morrah Our Brother 
b. May 31, 1847 
d. June 9, 1899 
Early in life he connected himself with Long Cane. 
Entered Civil War at 16, 
Represented Abbeville Co. in South 

Asbury Tatom Wideman, M.D. 
b. Nov. 8, 1824 
d. Apr. 16, 1884 
Graduated at S. C. Medical College in 1846. 
Made a Ruling Elder in Cedar Spring & Long Cane in 1860. 
Husband, Father & Soldier 

Field Stone 
Thomas Van Creswell 
Co. G. 16 S.C. inf. C. S. A. 

William W. Weed 
b. mar. 24, 1845 
d. Mar. 22, 1904 CW marker 

Robert M. Brown CW marker 
b. Jan. 30, 1849 
d, Nov. 1, 1870 
aged 21 yrs. 9 mos. & 1 day 

James O. Spence 
Co. G. 14 S.C. Inf. CSA 

Andrew C. Brown 
b. Oct. 28, 1819 
d. June 19, 1899 CW marker 
(married 9 Jan 1851 Sarah (Sallie) McComb Young 
b: 22 Jan 1827 
d: 19 Feb 1912) 

David F. Dansby 
Co. K 1 engrs. TR CW marker 

James P. Martin CW marker 
b. Dec. 24, 1827 
d. July 3, 1890 

S. E. Brown CW marker 
b. Jan 13, 1829 
d. Jan. 29, 1880 

Benjamin G. Napier CW marker 
b. Oct. 11, 1829 
d. Mar. 17, 1872 

John Brown CW marker 
d. Feb. 26, 1891 
age 68 yrs. 1 mo. & 12 days 

S. E. Brown CW marker 
b. Jan 13, 1829 
d. Jan. 29, 1880 

John Bowick CW marker 
Co. H 19 S.C. inf. C.S.A. 


No markers on graves, but information from family of 5 more CW veterans 

Robin Wilson - Charlotte NC 
[email protected] 
researching - Young, Weed, Bickett, Brown, Creswell, Robinson Let me add 5 more. 
Two of which are also buried in LLC ARP Church cemetery, but their CW markers are missing. 
They are the 5 sons of John Young (2)and Mary Patterson Bickett Young. All members of 
Co.G 14th SCV. And all were long standing members of LLC ARP Church. 

George McComb Young 
b: 7 Nov 1822 
d: 27 Nov.1877,buried in LLC ARP, wounded, battle Gettysburg 

John Hamilton Young 
b: 9 Dec 1824 
d: 27 June 1862, killed Battle Gaines Mill, buried on battlefield(?) was 2nd 
Lt. of Co.G 

Abner Perrin Young 
b: 26 Apr 1829 
d: 29 Aug. 1862, killed battle of 2nd Manasses (2nd Bull Run) buried on 
battlefield(?) was Sgt. of  Co.G 

Samuel Oliver Young b: 5 Sept.1833 
d. 26 Feb.1902, buried in LLC ARP Church cemetery 

Alexander Franklin Young 
b: 18 Mar 1836 
d: 22 Mar 1901, buried in Lena Ms. 

Andrew C. Brown was their brother in-law married to their sister Sarah(Sallie) McComb Young