Eliza Daniel was born 5 May 1799. She married Thomas W. Williams 18 March 1824. About two years later, both became Methodists. She and her husband lived in M OUNT A RIEL , later called Cokesbury, in Abbeville District. He died there 28 January 1846; she died there 12 October 1861. None of their children survived them. Rev. W.H. Lawton, organizing pastor of Greenwood Methodist Church, preached Eliza’s burial service at Cokesbury Methodist Church and she was interred at Tabernacle Cemetery, near Cokesbury. 49 However, her grave marker is missing from the most recent comprehensive census of county cemeteries. C. Ann and Thomas’s oldest child, Alfred Belle Turpin Ann and Annie saw to Alfred’s grave marker making sure the inscription had his full name. He died a few weeks after his 25 th birthday. His dates of birth and death are 27 March 1834 and 17 April 1859. He had had asthma since childhood and died of pneumonia in Cokesbury where he taught at the Methodist preparatory school for boys. 50 D. Tabernacle Cemetery Alfred was buried at Tabernacle Cemetery where his grandmother Martha (Daniel) Daniel was buried. Today’s visitors to the Cemetery may not know that numerous Daniel family members are interred there because Martha’s grave marker, inscribed Martha Daniel, is the only one bearing that surname. In addition to Martha and Alfred, these are Daniel family members who have grave markers at the Cemetery: daughter Eliza’s husband Thomas W. Williams and their children, Thomas Walker Williams, Rebecca Frances Williams and Ann Eliza Williams; daughter Jane Beverly’s son Brigadier General Nathan George Evans, daughter-in-law Ann Victoria (Gary) Evans and their children, Nathan George Evans and Mary Martin Evans. 51 Counting Eliza’s missing grave marker, a total of 11 members of the Daniel extended family are buried at Tabernacle Cemetery. 49 “Sister Eliza Thomas Williams,” obituary, p. 4, col. 4. Also, “Thomas W. Williams,” obituary, p. 148, col. 1. 50 Greenwood Co., S.C. Cemetery Records , 2:155. Also, “Alfred B. Turpin,” obituary, Southern Christian Advocate (Charleston, South Carolina) , 5 May 1859, p. 196, col. 5; microfilm, South Carolina United Methodist Collection, Wofford College, Spartanburg. 51 Greenwood Co., S.C., Cemetery Records , 2:153, 2:155. Also, Evans, History of Nathaniel Evans , 39. Also, Dewitt Boyd Stone, Jr., editor, Wandering to Glory: Confederate Veterans remember Evans’ Brigade (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002), 1, 6.
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