Old Greenville Graveyard
[Front]:
About 150 feet east of this point are buried some of Greenville's earliest settlers, including Elias Earle (1762-1823), State Representative and Senator and United States Congressman; George Washington Earle (1777-1821), wealthy planter and early Greenville Clerk of Court, and their immediate families.
[Reverse]:
Among the Earls descendants buried about 150 feet east of this point is George Early Yancey, infant son of William Lowndes Yancey, known as the "father of secession," and Sarah Caroline Early Yancey. In an unmarked grave is buried Elias Drayton Earle, South Carolina Superintendent of Public Works, 1847.
Marker is on Old Buncombe Road south of Morris Street, on the right when traveling north.
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