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Figure 149.  African American Cemetery

This cemetery on Francis Marion University campus probably dates back to the 1840s, possibly earlier.  Archie Waiters’s grandfather told him that Mariah Malinka was one of the first people buried there, but we do not know when she was buried.  (Photo 1997)
African
              American Cemetery

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Copyright Amelia Wallace Vernon. All rights reserved, 1998. Revised, 2007.