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Photo contributed by Helen King. Please click on the photo for a larger view of the cemetery and the gravestone location of Josiah and Tabitha Hatchett. Josiah was the original owner of Walnut Grove Plantation.

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Hatchett Family Gravestones

Photo contributed by Helen King. Please click on the photo for a larger view of the gravestones of Josiah and Tabitha Hatchett.

Josiah Hatchett
Born 1750
Died 27 March 1825

Tabitha Hatchett
Born 1750
Died 1827
 

Ott Shoals Cemetery Survey
Contributed by William Keepers
10 Aug 2004

Otts Shoals Road Cemetery near Roebuck, SC

Take I-26 to exit 28 in Roebuck, SC. Follow the signs to Walnut Grove Plantation. When you arrive at the entrance to the plantation you will be at the intersection of Otts Shoals Road and Harrison Grove Road. Continue straight on Otts Shoals road for 1.2 miles (.8 miles of single lane asphalt and .4 miles gravel. The cemetery will be in a grove of trees on the left.

Permission of the property owner was obtained to conduct this survey.

Underline characters (_) indicate missing letters or letters that cannot be
read with certainty. Dates are recorded as they appear.

Surnames: Cathcart, Fleming, Hatchett

1. Richard Dixon Cathcart 5/14/1862 8/26/1915

2. _arrie Fleming Aug. 11, 1862 Apr, 8, 1905
Wife of _. R. Cathcart
She hath done all she could

1 and 2 are adjacent.


3. Holy Bible Ashmore Fleming Our Love One
FS Uncle

4. Holy Bible Candaza Fleming Our Love One
FS Grandma

5. Holy Bible Cordenia A. Fleming Our Love One

6. Holy Bible F. Maedora Fleming Our Love One
FS Mother

7. Holy Bible Alberry T. Fleming Our Love One
FS Father

8. Holy Bible Beetter C. Fleming Our Love One
FS Daughter

9. Holy Bible Carrie I. Fleming Our Love One
FS Daughter

The seven Fleming headstones appear to be much more recent than all of the others and
are adjacent.

10. Sacred to the Memory of __siah Hatchett
Other inscription - too worn to read. HS broken.

11. Sacr__ to the Me_______ Tabitha H______
Other inscription - too worn to read. HS broken.

10 and 11 are adjacent.

There are 30+ other stones and broken markers in orderly rows, with no inscriptions,
that appear to be marking graves. This appears to be a private cemetery.
On my first visit the grounds were overgrown but on my second visit the grass,
shrubs, tree limbs etc. were cleared.