ABRAHAM BOLT CEMETERY

 

Go about 10 miles west of Laurens on Highway 76.  Turn left on the county road 3/8 mile west of South Raburn Creek.  About 1/2 mile turn left again.  The cemetery is a little north of the road 1/2 mile from your last turn.

R. (Robertson?) Emens, died Dec. 24, 1856, age 23

M. (Mary?) J. Emens, died 1852 (or 1857)

A. (Abraham) Bolt 3rd, died Aug. 1849, age 37

A. (Abraham) Bolt Jr., died Sept. 14?, 1855

M. (or N.) Bolt

3 unreadable stones. One is -

Abraham Bolt*, born Fauquier County, Va., 24 Aug. 1764 - died Laurens County, S.C. 1839

He was a Revolutionary soldier and owned this land

S. Mc (extremely old)

Lewvicy Mahon, consort of B. (Bailey) Mahon, died age 57 years.  She was a Methodist.

M., died 1801

Anna Tollison, died Dec. 18, 1850, age 3 years, 6 months

Mary Tollison, died Feb. 10, 1866?

Elizabeth Lindley, died June 30, 1847, age 1 year, 14 days

E. L. (Lindley?), died July 1847

John C. Calhoun, S.C. Militia Revolutionary War, died Dec. 28, 1842?, age 81 years

There is also a large unreadable cradle tomb and other field stone markers on graves

 

Richard S., James L. and M.E. Bolt                                            April 30, 1955

This cemetery was transcribed by Col. James Leland Bolt, his wife, Margaret "Peggy" Eltinge Bolt, and his cousin, Richard Simpson Bolt in 1955 and published in the book, "Family Burying Grounds Laurens County S.C."

The Abraham Bolt Cemetery is located on private land, the Tollison farm in Hickory Tavern, Laurens County, South Carolina. Each year before the Bolt Family Reunion, Bolt cousins gather at the cemetery to clean out the briars, weeds, et.al.  These before and after photos were taken in 2001.
Several cousins have installed replacement grave markers.  A U.S. Government marker has been installed for Abraham, and a new marker has been installed for his wife, which lists her name as "Mary Jane".
If you'd like to contribute to the maintenance and restoration of grave markers for our ancestors' final resting place, please contact us.  

Cemetery photos by MWB -2001
*Old Abraham Bolt headstone photo on Virtual Cemetery taken by Tony Bolt
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