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Horsley Family Cemetery

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"The area of York County, SC where the Horsley families lived was about 10 miles east of present-day Clover, SC, in the far northeast corner of the county. Their land was only two miles or so from the North Carolina border, just south of Charlotte and today's Gastonia, NC.

James' son-in-law Samuel Matthews and son Valentine Horsley successively were "overseers" or coordinators of the crews of neighbors responsible to the county court for the upkeep of the road from the North Carolina border to the ford of Crowders Creek.66 This road was probably close to or along today's State Road 274. Mill Creek and Crowders Creek flow near each other as they join the Catawba River (at today's Lake Wylie) that divides York County, SC from Mecklenburg County, NC.

After James and Patience died and their land on Mill Creek was sold, subsequent deed records mention a one-acre grave yard on their property that was reserved with free access and "for the use of the former connection or any other of the neighbours that may wish to bury their dead in said grave yard."

"James and Patience probably were buried in or near what later became Mill Creek Cemetery. "
http://www.joanhorsley.org/reports/Horsley_James_Jr_Revised_09-15.pdf
"The area of York County, SC where the Horsley families lived was about 10 miles east of present-day Clover, SC, in the far northeast corner of the county. Their land was only two miles or so from the North Carolina border, just south of Charlotte and today's Gastonia, NC.

James' son-in-law Samuel Matthews and son Valentine Horsley successively were "overseers" or coordinators of the crews of neighbors responsible to the county court for the upkeep of the road from the North Carolina border to the ford of Crowders Creek.66 This road was probably close to or along today's State Road 274. Mill Creek and Crowders Creek flow near each other as they join the Catawba River (at today's Lake Wylie) that divides York County, SC from Mecklenburg County, NC.

After James and Patience died and their land on Mill Creek was sold, subsequent deed records mention a one-acre grave yard on their property that was reserved with free access and "for the use of the former connection or any other of the neighbours that may wish to bury their dead in said grave yard."

"James and Patience probably were buried in or near what later became Mill Creek Cemetery. "
http://www.joanhorsley.org/reports/Horsley_James_Jr_Revised_09-15.pdf

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  • Added: 6 Aug 2020
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2712079