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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 Ninety Six (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 Ninety Six. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 south 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.

Ninety Six is located in Greenwood 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 Greenwood County: Abbeville, Edgefield, Laurens, McCormick, Newberry & Saluda.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Ninety Six ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ninety Six.

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 Ninety Six covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Marshall Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Bethlehem Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethlehem Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bethlehem Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Save All Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Save All Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Save All Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Sauls Chapel Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sauls Chapel Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sauls Chapel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bethabara Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fairview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Magnolia Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Mathews Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mathews Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mathews Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Old Pine Grove Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Pine Grove Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Pine Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bozeman - Scurry Graveyard
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bozeman - Scurry Graveyard
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bozeman - Scurry Graveyard have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Cross Roads Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cross Roads Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cross Roads Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Edgewood Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Edgewood Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Edgewood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (276 more) ...

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.<5>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Ninety Six had a population of 445 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Ninety Six had a population of 2,043 people.

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

  • Vaughanville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vaughanville have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vaughanville
    • Vaughanville is located in Newberry County
  • Greenwood
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Chappells
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Cross Hill
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Waterloo
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Mountville
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Milton
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Milton have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milton
    • Milton is located in Laurens County
  • Hodges
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Cana ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cana have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cana
    • Cana is located in Abbeville County
  • Bradley
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Pleasant Lane
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant Lane have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Lane
    • Pleasant Lane is located in Edgefield County
  • Meeting Street
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meeting Street have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meeting Street
    • Meeting Street is located in Edgefield County
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Ninety Six ...

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 22 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ninety Six.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Ninety Six. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Ninety Six and those printed in the larger area surrounding Ninety Six.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<6> of Ninety Six.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites 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 Ninety Six:

The official website for Ninety Six: www.townofninetysixsc.com/

The official website for Greenwood County: www.co.greenwood.sc.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>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.
<5>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 Ninety Six, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<6>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Ninety Six) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ninety Six. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.1751, Longitude: -82.0238    









 

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