Old Quaker Cemetery, founded in 1759, is a cemetery located in

Camden, South Carolina Camden is the largest city and county seat of Kershaw County, South Carolina. The population was 7,764 in the 2020 census. It is part of the Columbia, South Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area. Camden is the oldest inland city in South Caro ...

, in

Kershaw County Kershaw County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 65,403. The county seat and largest city is Camden. The county was created in 1791 from parts of Claremont, Lancaster, Fairfie ...

. It dates back to the earliest days of Camden, which was first settled in 1730, and is the oldest inland city in

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. The cemetery is notable in that it maintains the gravesites of numerous famous people, to include three

Civil War A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...

Confederate Army The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting ...

generals, two

Medal of Honor The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor. ...

recipients, and one South Carolina Governor.

Notable gravesites

Joseph Brevard Joseph Brevard (July 19, 1766October 11, 1821) was an American Revolutionary War patriot. He was born in Rowan County (in the portion which later became Iredell County) in the Province of North Carolina. He served on the South Carolina Suprem ...

(1766–1821) – Revolutionary War figure, US Representative, and Supreme Court jurist * Richmond Hobson Hilton (1898–1933) – World War I

recipient *

John Doby Kennedy John Doby Kennedy (January 5, 1840 – April 14, 1896) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, as well as a post-war planter, attorney, politician, and the 57th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina serving ...

(1840–1896) – Confederate Army general, and later Lieutenant Governor *

Joseph Brevard Kershaw Joseph Brevard Kershaw (January 5, 1822 – April 13, 1894) was a prominent South Carolina planter and slaveholder. He was also a lawyer, judge, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Early life Kershaw was born on January 5, 1822 ...

(1822–1894) – Confederate Army general, president of the State Senate, and for whose forebearers Kershaw County was named *

Richard Rowland Kirkland Richard Rowland Kirkland (August 1843 – September 20, 1863), known as "The Angel of Marye's Heights", was a Confederate Army, Confederate soldier during the American Civil War, noted by both sides for his bravery and the story of his humanit ...

(1843–1863) – Civil War Confederate soldier and hero at the

Battle of Fredericksburg The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. The combat, between the Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnsi ...

John Peter Richardson III John Peter Richardson III (September 25, 1831 – July 6, 1899) was the 83rd governor of South Carolina from 1886 to 1890. Richardson was born in Clarendon County, South Carolina to John Peter Richardson II, a former Governor of South Carol ...

(1829–1899) – Governor * Donald Leroy Truesdell (1906–1993) –

for action in the

Occupation of Nicaragua The United States occupation of Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933 was part of the Banana Wars, when the US military invaded various Latin American countries from 1898 to 1934. The formal occupation began in 1912, even though there were various other ...

(

cenotaph A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been reinterred elsewhere. Although the vast majority of cenot ...

) *

John Bordenave Villepigue John Bordenave Villepigue (July 2, 1830 – November 9, 1862) was a career U.S. Army officer who served on the Western Frontier and became a Confederate general in the American Civil War. One of his descendants would later be World War I Meda ...

(1830–1862) – Confederate Civil War general, and ancestor to John Canty Villepigue * John Canty Villepigue (1896–1943) – World War I

recipient

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* * History of South Carolina Quaker cemeteries 1730 establishments in South Carolina Cemeteries in South Carolina {{US-cemetery-stub