On the way to Green’s Shell Enclosure Heritage Preserve, you pass a graveyard. This is called the Stoney Cemetery, Amelia White Cemetery or the Graham Cemetery.
The Stoney family is one of the families mentioned on the historical marker for the Zion Chapel of Ease. It just says they worshiped there.
Many of the graves are decorated with lawn art, plastic flamingos, pinwheels and spinners.
It is right by the water, overhung with live oak and spanish moss. People have planted bulbs and holly. There were silk and plastic flowers and lawn art left to decorate the graves.
Mrs. Pleasen Drayton
Born Jan 16 1866
Died May 31 1937
Age 71 At Rest
In Memory of Edward Matthews
Born Mar 15, 1875
Died Aut 10, 1941
In Memory of Stephen Bryan
Nov. 22 1877 – Nov 13, 1956
At Peace
In Memory of My. Edward Jones
Was Born 1887 June 20
Died Auges 20 3 1960
In Memory of Ceilia Powell
Born June 20, 1893
Died June 30, 1947
The earliest graves are from the 1800s.
Memorial of Nettie A. Chisolm
Born Sept 28, 1901
Died Nov 25, 1971
Memorial of Abraham Drayton
Oct. 15, 1922
Oct. 9, 1961
In Memory of Hoover Driessen
Dec 25, 1932 – May 5, 1950
Green’s Shell Enclosure and the Stoney Cemetery, Amelia White Cemetery or the Graham Cemetery are at 95 Squire Pope Road.
There is a list of those buried here compiled from the book, Hilton Head Island Cemeteries by Karen Marsh Gobrecht and John Griffin. However the names on this list do not quite match the names on the graves I saw. Some are missing. Some are not the same. For example, Mr. Pleasant Drayton has the same birth and death dates as on the grave marker for Mrs. Pleasen Drayton.
You can read it here: List of those buried in the Stoney Cemetery, Amelia White Cemetery or the Graham Cemetery >
