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Entrance to Boulware Walls Cemetery – Image courtesy of Smith Collection
Boulware Grave at Cemetery

Boulware Grave at Cemetery

 Boulware Grave at Cemetery

Boulware Grave at Cemetery

Eagle House – Muscoe Boulware Property

City Directories and History:  Muscoe Boulware (1758-1825) and Nancy Pickett Boulware (1762-1836) came to Fairfield County shortly after the Revolutionary War. Muscoe established a plantation around where the old Boulware Walls Cemetery is located. His plantation house, known as “Eagle House,” was near the cemetery. (Boulware Walls Cemetery located off of Durham Place Road.) According to a Boulware Family history, written by James Richmond Boulware II in 1948, “Eagle House” was burned by Sherman’s army. 

Muscoe and Nancy’s son, Benjamin J. Boulware (1793-1860) married Sarah Barber Richmond (1812-1858). Sarah’s mother, Eliza Barber Richmond Wilmore Brown (1792-1872) was a daughter of James Barber, who owned the land around the present day Mt. Olivet Presbyterian Church (formerly known as Wateree Church). James Barber died in 1821, and his land passed to his only son, Robert Gunning Barber. In addition to Eliza, James was also the father of another daughter, Jane Barber. When Robert died, in 1829, the land passed to the two Barber sisters. Benjamin J. Boulware and Sarah Barber Richmond were married in 1828.
Benjamin purchased the land around Wateree Church from his mother-in-law and her sister, and he established his plantation, which was known as “Elbow Hill.” All of this is covered in the attached PDF file on Benjamin and Sarah’s family. I got the family history from the Fairfield Archives and History. I think it was prepared by James Richmond Boulware II, a grandson of Benjamin and Sarah Boulware. “Elbow Hill” plantation house was also burned by Sherman’s army.
 
For some unknown reason, Benjamin is buried at Boulware Walls Cemetery, while his wife Sarah is buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Nathaniel Barber Hall’s maternal grandfather, John L. Barber, also owned land near the church. He and James Barber were half-brothers. John and his family moved to Chambers County, Alabama in the 1830s. (Contribution to R&R by Ricky Smith – 2017)
BE SURE TO OPEN THE PDFs RELATED TO FAMILY HISTORY AND THE CIVIL WAR DIARY OF DR. J.R. BOULWARE

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