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Springwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Greenville, South Carolina, listed on the (National Register of Historic Places ). It is the oldest municipal cemetery in the state and has approximately 7,700 marked, and 2,600 unmarked, graves.〔The cemetery has also been known as Elford Cemetery, the Old Graveyard, and the Old Village Burial Ground. The cemetery's interment locator lists more than 300 "unknown" markers, many of them Confederate soldiers but also some stones so weathered as to be unreadable. Poignantly, one stone reads "Two little children names unknown found in old vault 1912." By the 21st century not only were the children's names unknown but also the identity of the vault or who might have removed them from it. Amy Clarke Burns,"Q&Amy: Children's Grave is a cemetery mystery," ''Greenville News'', July 3, 2015, 3A.〕 The first burial in what today is Springwood Cemetery occurred in July 1812, after Elizabeth Blackburn Williams (1752-1812), the mother-in-law of prominent early Greenvillian Chancellor Waddy Thompson, expressed a desire to be buried in the family garden. Many other burials occurred in the area after Thompson sold 60 acres of his property to one Francis H. McLeod in 1817. In 1829 McLeod opened the private graveyard to the public, and in 1833, he conveyed a tract of land to the city for use as a cemetery. The city acquired additional acres during the 1870s, and the last five acres of the cemetery were purchased before 1944.〔Ward, 29-30. There is no evidence that Francis McLeod was buried in the cemetery. It is also unclear why at a time when most families had cemetery plots of their own and the nearly adjoining churchyard of Christ Episcopal Church was "remarkably ecumenical" in its burial practices that "a village of 750 people needed two cemeteries within a tenth of a mile of each other." Judith Bainbridge, "Churchyard abounds in curious mysteries," ''Greenville News'', City People, September 24, 2014, 2-3.〕 Presumably the cemetery was named for a spring that was once included in, or was just beyond, its boundaries.〔NRHP Registration Form, 6. Today the spring, nicknamed the "Thank God for Water Spring," is outside the cemetery.〕 The 200-year-old cemetery includes "a comprehensive collection of gravemarker types," including field stones, raised masonry tombs topped with stone ledgers, Victorian monoliths, and Veterans Administration markers. Eighty unknown Confederate soldiers are buried near the entrance, presumably soldiers who died of wounds or disease after being removed to one of the two Greenville buildings used for hospitals during the Civil War.〔Ward, 35; Archie Vernon Huff, ''Greenville: The History of the City and County in the South Carolina Piedmont'' (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995), 139.〕 Springwood retains its rural cemetery design elements and the 1876 landscape planning of prominent New South architect G. L. Norrman. The entrance gate, built of Indiana limestone, was completed in 1914.〔NRHP Registration Form, 11-12.〕 Just outside the Main Street entrance, in its own pocket park, is a Confederate monument that from 1891 to 1923 stood in the middle of Main Street.〔Ward, 7-10. Veterans objected to moving the monument, and not until after a ruling by the state Supreme Court in July 1924 was the statue itself relocated.〕 The northeast corner of the cemetery, which was used as a potter's field for African Americans and indigent whites has perhaps only a dozen remaining headstones, although the area is believed to contain hundreds of graves. In 1969 the City of Greenville extended Academy Street through this section and removed the remains of approximately 250 to 275 people.〔Ward, 80. The remains were moved to Pinedale Memorial Park in Piedmont, South Carolina.〕 Although burials continue, no new plots have been sold since the 1970s. The city of Greenville contributes to the maintenance of the cemetery, but there is no perpetual care fund, and the graves themselves remain private property. A "Friends of Springwood Cemetery" was formed in 2002 to raise awareness of cemetery needs.〔("Downtown's Springwood, Richland cemeteries face challenges with little money,"''Greenville News'', May 26, 2013 ).〕 ==Notable Interments== *Martin Frederick Ansel, 89th Governor of South Carolina. *Charles R. Attwood, pediatrician, promoter of vegetarianism. *Charles E. Daniel, construction company executive and interim U. S. Senator. *Butch Lindley, NASCAR driver. *Basil Manly, Sr., Baptist clergyman and educator. *John J. McSwain, U. S. Representative. *Roger C. Peace, newspaper publisher and interim U. S. Senator. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Springwood Cemetery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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