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Memorializing the deeds, trials, tribulations and federal architect; the Washington Monument and the with a number of other Federalists, permitted the election US Treasury Building are his creations. Mills became of Thomas Jefferson. BULL STREET Christian faith of individuals buried here, the churchyard and church records reveal the early an elder of this church in 1824. 9. HENRY WILLIAM DESAUSSURE (1763-1839) 29 N 26 27 history of our city, state and nation. Early graves 4. GEN. ADLEY H. GLADDEN FAMILY As a Revolutionary soldier, defended Charleston reflect Columbia as anew immigrant city with Monument to the wife and daughter of Gen. A. H. against the siege of Sir Henry Clinton. Read law under the 28 25 settlers from England, Scotland, Ireland, Connecticut, Gladden, who himself was killed at the Battle of Shiloh noted Philadelphia lawyer Jared Ingesoll, in which city he Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia and in 1862 and is buried elsewhere; in the Mexican War, was first admitted to the Bar. Returned to South Carolina places within South Carolina. Many early residents following the death of senior officers, he commanded and became a member of the convention that framed the buried here were active in national political matters the Palmetto Regiment as major at Churubusco, South Carolina Constitution in 1789. Was President of and dealt with Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Chapaultepec and Mexico City; served as intendant the South Carolina Senate when it first met in Columbia Hamilton, Polk, Jackson, Webster and Calhoun. (mayor) of Columbia, 1851-1852. The bronze Palmetto in 1791; appointed Superintendent of the Mint in tree at the State House memorializes him and those Philadelphia by President Washington; a member of Tombstones record military service in the who died with him in Mexico. the First Board of Trustees of South Carolina College; American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the 5. DR. SAMUEL MACON SMITH (1851-1910) for 29 years, one of the Chancellors of S.C., and for 25 Mexican War (1846-1848) and the American Civil Son of a Presbyterian minister from Virginia and years a judge of the S.C. Court of Appeals; several times War (1861-1865). Markers memorialize one South president of the church corporation. 24 minister of this church from 1889-1910. Two of his 13 Carolina governor, two U.S. Senators, parents of brothers were Presbyterian ministers; another brother 10. WILLIAM FORD DESAUSSURE (1792-1870) one US President, two Presidents of the University 19 was President of Davidson College and then Washington Educated at Harvard, Class of 1810, was appointed 23 22 of South Carolina and five mayors of Columbia. & Lee; a fourth brother was Edgar Allen Poe, Professor of to the U.S. Senate to finish the term of Robert Barnwell 21 Records describe as well “free persons of color” English at the University of Virginia. Rhett. Signed the S.C. Ordinance of Secession for the and slaves as church members. One of the oldest Richland District; the family of his mother, Eliza Ford, LADY STREET LADY 6. JOHN CALVERT (1734-1803) 20 18 existing markers, that of the first minister, dates As a Revolutionary soldier, in 1766 he pledged at the provided their home to George Washington as his from 1804 (map, #29). Several unmarked graves Liberty Tree in Charleston to resist British taxation. headquarters during the Battle of Morristown, N.J. remain. 11. COL. WILLIAM DAVIE DESAUSSURE (1819-1863) 15 16 7. ROBERT LATTA (1783-1852) 17 This brochure lists a sample of those who rest here Merchant and benefactor. His home, Waverly Died at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 2, 1863, in 12 command of the 15th S.C. Regiment; served in the 14 11 and shows their approximate locations beginning at Plantation, was on the site now occupied by Benedict the Marion Street entrance. College and Allen University. Appointed 1851 as a Mexican War as a Capt, Co. H of the Palmetto Regiment 9 10 and on the plains as Capt., 1st U.S. Calvary until 1861. 8 member of the building committee and the donor of an elaborate carved Italian marble pulpit for the new church 12. ANN PAMELA CUNNINGHAM (1816-1875) (now in Smith Memorial chapel) at a cost of $3,000; his In 1853, initiated the movement to save Mount 30 1. CONFEDERATE COLUMN own impressive memorial is in the Egyptian Revival Vernon through her founding of the Mount Vernon 7 SANCTUARY Sold to the women of this church by the State D.A.R., style, popular at the time. Ladies Association of the Union which purchased that JACKSON HALL 6 this broken column from the great north portico of the home on February 22, 1860, after the United States and State House under construction in 1865 lists the names 8. JUDGE ABRAHAM NOTT (1767-1830) 3 A native of Saybrook, Connecticut, a descendent of Virginia declined to do so. Lived at Mount Vernon for 1 4 of 86 Confederate veterans from the congregation, 24 of 2 5 Congregational ministers, and a Yale graduate, Class of four years, directing its restoration. Influenced by the whom were killed in the war. preaching of Dr. Benjamin Palmer and requested burial MARION STREET 1787. Arrived in South Carolina in 1789 and was elected 2. JONATHAN MAXCY (1768-1820) to Congress as a Federalist in 1799. Became a resident of in the churchyard because she wanted to be buried in the First President of South Carolina College (now the Columbia in 1804, intendant of the city in 1807; elected shadow of the church where she had heard the gospel; University of South Carolina) from 1805-1820; a native a law judge in 1810 and President of the S.C. Court ivy was brought from the tomb of General Washington stablished in 1798 on the edge of town as of Rhode Island and a noted scholar and orator; at of Appeals in 1824. Participated as a Federalist to decorate her grave. Columbia’s first public burial ground, the age 23, was minister of the First Baptist Church of Congressman in the Presidential election of 1800, which 13. DR. ROBERT LEWELYN SUMWALT (1895-1977) Providence (Roger Williams’ church) and in 1792 at age peaceful cemetery in the city center now is was decided in the House of Representatives on the 36th President of the University of South Carolina, 24 President of Rhode Island College, now Brown, until ballot; his withdrawal of support for Aaron Burr, along 1956-1962. known as the First Presbyterian churchyard. 1802, when he accepted the same position at Union Dating from 1795 and the oldest in Columbia, College in Schenectady, New York, after which he came the congregation was incorporated in 1813 as to Columbia. “First Presbyterian Church of the Town of 3. AINSLEY HALL (1783-1823) Columbia” by the South Carolina legislature A native of England (Bambrough Castle, with half of the burial ground to be conveyed to Northumberland) and a successful merchant. Was it and the other half to the Protestant Episcopal patron of the architect Robert Mills from whom he commissioned the Robert Mills Historic House and Church. First Presbyterian Church purchased the the Hampton-Preston mansion (both now historic house Episcopalians’ interest and dedicated in 1814 its museums in Columbia). Mills probably designed this first church on the property. Greek Revival monument. Mills later became the June 2012 brochure Van Metre Funeral Home procession about 1923 14. CATHARINE McFIE (1807-1895) 22. JOHN HOOKER (1774-1815) students “ stricken by the bitter death;” known for Born in New Castle on Tyne, England. One of the first A Yale graduate, class of 1797, and a native of his piety and “zealous” application to his studies. women to answer hospital calls for nurses on Virginia Connecticut, was descended from a noted Puritan 28. DR. SAMUEL FAIR (1804-1872) battlefields; first President of the Ladies Memorial family whose progenitor Thomas Hooker was the founder Established first hospital in Columbia on Washington Association, laying out the Confederate Plat in Elmwood of Hartford; his brother Edward, also a Yale graduate, Street, between Barnwell and Gregg Streets; studied Cemetery and serving in Columbia’s Wayside Hospital came to Columbia and served as the first tutor at S.C. medicine in Paris. for Confederate soldiers. College, from which he received the college’s first M.A. 29. REV. DAVID DUNLAP (1772-1804) in 1807. His nephew and namesake married Harriet 15. DR. JAMES DAVIS (1821-1848) Upon a call signed by Col. Thomas Taylor and others, Beecher Stowe’s sister Isabelle, an early woman’s rights Surgeon of the Palmetto Regiment, returned from the and following two days of examination by the Presbytery, advocate. An eminent lawyer, was intendant of Columbia Mexican War in a weakened condition and died soon after. was installed as the first minister of this church on June in 1808. His friend Henry William DeSaussure authored 16. DR. JAMES DAVIS (1775-1838) 4, 1795; services during his pastorate were held in the his epitaph; the tombstone was brought from Middlebury, One of the first commissioners of Columbia’s “lunatic State House; member of the Board of Trustees of South Vermont in 1817. asylum,” and its first physician. Carolina College; he and his wife died on the same day, 23. GRESHAM CHAPMAN (1763-1835) 17. FRANKLIN HARPER ELMORE (1799-1850) September 10, 1804, probably of diphtheria. A native of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, from A lawyer, was elected to Congress in 1834. President 30. JOHN HUGH MEANS (1812-1862) which he came in 1785. Among the original petitioners to of the Bank of South Carolina from 1839 until 1850 when Governor of South Carolina, 1850; member of incorporate the congregation in 1813 and father-in-law of appointed to the Senate upon John C.
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