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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Kline (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Kline. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Kline is located in Barnwell County.

To see how the shape of South Carolina's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Barnwell County: Burke (GA), Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg & Orangeburg.

Below are the counties that are near Kline. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Kline:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Kline, see our County-by-County Page for Kline.

Cemeteries Near Kline ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kline.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Kline covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kline, with the one closest to Kline listed first.

  • Mt. Calvary Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Calvary Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Calvary Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Holmes Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holmes Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Holmes Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Mt. Lebanon Christian Church Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Great Saltkehatchie Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Salkehatchie Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Salkehatchie Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Salkehatchie Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Swallow Savannah Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Allen Chapel Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Allen Chapel Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Allen Chapel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Woods Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Woods Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Woods Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Furse Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Furse Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Furse Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Concord Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Concord Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Concord Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • New Home Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Home Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the New Home Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Miller Creek Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Miller Creek Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Miller Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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    • Kirkland Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kirkland Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kirkland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Starr Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Starr Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Starr Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • County Memory Gardens
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the County Memory Gardens
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the County Memory Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<6>

While we didn't find Kline in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Kline.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Kline, with the one closest to Kline listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Kline. See our List of 1890's Communities around Kline.

Newspapers Published in Kline ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kline.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kline, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<7>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kline.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Kline:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Kline. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of South Carolina: https://sc.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
<5>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<6>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Kline, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<7>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Kline) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kline. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.1262, Longitude: -81.3426    









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 22 Apr 2025