1796 Grave of Alexander Robertson
His tombstone & most of his estate papers & some descendants spells his name Robertson, while the land grants & other descendants spell his name Robinson. He signed his will with an X.
Sunday 27 Feb 1994, I (James W. Green III) went to the graveyard on the McMaster land about 3 miles NW of the center of Winnsboro, SC to photograph this stone. I picked up the top half of the stone which was lying flat on the ground & wiggled the bottom half out of its hole. It was still nearly vertical. Then I washed & cleaned the stones with a brush & water then set them on their side on a cemetery wall & turned them so the sun made shadows on the letters (but the sun was low & it was partly cloudy so there are little or no shawdows when shot). I waited for it to dry then photographed it with my Canon A-1 35mm camera on a tripod. Then I put the stone back flat in the depression in the ground where I found it lying flat & stuck the lower part that was nearly vertical back in its hole. In Feb. 1997, I gave Mrs. Nina Barrett prints. Then she scanned & emailed me at AOL, 3 bmp files Jan 1998. I rotated the photos 90° so that the lettering is rightside up. I converted them to jpegs & reduced the right photo to fit beside the left photo on an full screen browser & put them here on the web in Jan. 1998.
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This photo was shot centered on the problem spots -- death date & age -- because a camera lense is sharpest in the center. This is not a scan of a blow up or croped photo of the problem area but instead this frame was shot from closer to the stone in order to get more detail in the problem area.



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