Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Horry County, South Carolina. Official Website Horry County (pronounced O'Ree) was created from Georgetown District in 1801. At this time, the county had an estimated population of 550. Isolated by the many rivers and swamps typical of the South Carolina Lowcountry, the area essentially was surrounded by water, forcing its inhabitan...
Wikipedia =Coastal Carolina University, commonly referred to as CCU or Coastal, is a public, state-supported, liberal arts university in Conway, South Carolina, United States. The campus is located eight miles (13 km) west of the oceanfront resort town of Myrtle Beach. Founded in 1954, Coastal became an independent university in 1993. The university is a national sea-grant institution and owns ...
Established in 1892 by Moses Newton Blanton and his wife Avy Jane Alford Blanton, Blanton Cemetery is located in Floyds Township on Highway 19 between Floyds Crossroads and Pleasant View. The cemetery is private to the family and connected families by marriage. Family names associated with this cemetery include: Blanton, Alford, Roberts, Floyd, Walker, Shelley, etc.
Also known as "Dog Bluff Cemetery." 1292 Ridge RoadGalivants Ferry, Horry County, South Carolina, USA from community had grown large enough by the 1870s that it was decided to form a church which would serve the needs of the Dimery Settlement. On March 25, 1878, Sara Desda Turner, whose son Hugh G. Turner would later become one of the most successful farmers in the area, sold two acres of land ...
Also known as Mad-Wise Cemetery, Soles Cemetery and Soles Burying Ground (as indicated on some death certificates and obituaries). Located in Floyds Township near Floyds Crossroads, Horry County, South Carolina, Wise Cemetery has been a racially integrated cemetery in the rural South since 1880. Families with white, African - American, and/or Native American lines or connections have found th...