Letter of 28 Jan 1998 Announcing
that these Grave Photos are on the Web

This letter tells more about the graves.

Marjoribankses,
You might want to see this old Fairfield Co SC grave on the web because its death date may be in a strange script that we should all know. The grave is from the pre-marble era.

Bankses & Robertsons,
This is the grave of your immigrant Sam Banks' wife's dad (Alexander Robinson/Robertson) who died 1796. So this stone seems to be over 200 years old. A Robertson cousin, Sam Boyd of TX found a reference to the stone in a book on the Texas Robinsons saying it was in the Moore cemetery. Prior to that, all I had was Alexander's will which said he wanted to be buried in the Robertson cemetery on Jackson Creek -- a valley about 9 miles long & 3 to 4 miles wide. Once I knew it was now called Moore, I went to it & found the stone. It probably only became the Moore cemetery after 1796. Prior to that it was Robertson. All the old stones were Alexander & his kids. No doubt his house was within a 100 yards. The rest of the story is on the web page. Also thanks go to Nina Barrett.

All,
Please tell me if you have special knowledge about how to read the day of the month or why a book that I have records "th" in dates as "jh". Is it Latin?

I really think that age 60 is more likely than age 80 due to the apparent age of his wife & kids at his death. I think it was within the last 20 years that this cemetery was vandalized, so I arrived too late to read his age.

Go to either of my web sites below & click on
14.ROBERTSON-CAMERON Pages
4.Alexander ROBERTSON/ROBINSON's Grave stone photos
then the left photo.

I have removed the Cameron Pages, combining it with Robertson & putting the joint page where Robertson falls alphabetically.