Zion Chapel of Ease Cemetery, Hilton Head Island, Beaufort, South Carolina

Date: About 1750 [unknown]
Location: Hilton Head Island, Beaufort, South Carolina

Zion Chapel of Ease Cemetery, also known as Baynard Tomb and Zion Chapel Cemetery.

Address: 574 William Hilton Parkway, Hilton Head Island, Beuafort County, South Carolina, USA

Coordinates: 32.20170, -80.70000

The cemetary is a 2.4 acre Plantation Owners' Cemetery owned and maintained by the Heritage Library. The cemetery includes the Baynard Mausoleum, built in 1846 - the oldest extant building on Hilton Head Island.

The cemetery Includes two Revolutionary War soldiers buried and two memorialized.

History

The cemetery was once the site of a chapel built of wood shortly after 1786 under the direction of Captain John Stoney and Isaac Fripp. It was consecrated in 1833. Members of the Barksdale, Baynard, Chaplin, Davant, Fripp, Kirk, Mathews, Pope, Stoney, and Webb families worshipped here. The chapel was destroyed by 1868.

Interments, Memorials

BALDWIN, ISAAC February 22, 1752 August, 1826 About 74 Years

BALDWIN, MARTHA PARMENTER December 25, 1771 August 1, 1826

BALDWIN, SARAH December 6, 1789 November 1, 1806 Almost 17 Years

BARKSDALE THOMAS HENRY November 9, 1795 August 22, 1832 Aged 36 Yrs., 9 Mo. & 4 Days

BAYNARD, KATHERINE ADELAID SCOTT December 18, 1812 May 29 1854

BAYNARD, WILLIAM Edings February 2, 1800 - 1849

BROWN, FLORIE November 6 1919 Unknown

DAVANT, Private CHARLES 1750 October 22, 1781 About 31 Years

DAVANT, JAMES September 9, 1744 January 13, 1803 Aged 59 Yrs., 4 Mo. & 4 Days

DAVANT, JOHN James. May 15, 1818 June 1, 1818 Aged 17 Days

DAVANT, LYDIA (Page) April 20, 1751 - January, 1755 Aged 40 Years & 4 Months

DAVANT, MARTHA June 4, 1781 June 6, 1818 Aged 37 Years & 2 Days

DAVANT, MARY (Whaley) June 1788 May 15, 1818 Aged 29 Years, 11 Months

DAVANT, SAMUEL Fickling February 18, 1808 March 26, 1808 Aged 1 Month & 8 Days

FLINN, JAMES B. January 22, 1784 March 30, 1812 About 28 Years

FORD, ABRAHAM January 19, 1943 February 4, 1944

FORD, ALBERTHA February 15, 1942 March 11, 1945

FORD, CHARLES HENRY May 10, 1919 July 12, 1946

FORD, CHAS.

FORD, CLARENCE FORD Jr February 17, 1948 April 20, 1999

FORD, CLARENCE E Sr June 15, 1917 October 17, 1993

FORD, EDDIE March 8, 1944 Sep 5, 1944

FORD, HENRY February 20, 1879 Unknown

FRAZIER, THOMAS April 25, 1891 September 1966

IRVINE, MARY ANN January 4 1798 October 17, 1798

IRVINE, MARY August 3 1762 August 3, 1821 Aged 59 Years

IRVINE, WILLIAM May 11 1796 October 18, 1798

IRVINE, Capt William September 1 1771 September 1 1817

JOHNSON III, VICTOR LEROY February 22, 1950 November 14, 1991 About 41 Years

KIRK, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN September, 1811 1815 About 4 Years

KIRK ELIZABETH OCTAVIA May 18, 1830 December, 1845 About 15 Years

KIRK, FLORENCE W October 16, 1852 August 5, 1853 Almost 1 Year

KIRK, INFANT Unknown - 1812

KIRK, INFANT Unknown - 1827

KIRK, JAMES Brown December 9, 1780 November 9, 1850 Almost 70 Years

KIRK, JAMES LYCURGUS October 22, 1817 1823 About 6 Years

KIRK, DR. JAMES Wood Sr January 10, 1825 July 31, 1858 About 33 Years

KIRK, MARY Elizabeth (Baldwin) December 9, 1793 October 31, 1851 Almost 58 Years

KIRK, OCTAVIA September 8, 1815 1821 About 6 Years

KIRK, ROLLIN H. 1828 December 2, 1854 About 26 Years

KIRK, WILLIAM ISAAC March 23, 1810 1812 About 2 Years

MORRISON, B

MORRISON, JOSEPH

ROBERTS, B. S. (Benjamin Stevens) May 24, 1819 October 17, 1890 About 71 Years

SCHWARZER, PAULSON December 27, 1853 December 22, 1905 52 Years

SEALY, JAMES S. May, 1818 October 22, 1819 Aged 18 Months

SMITH, JOHN M September, 1812 June 3, 1865 Almost 53 Years

STONEY, JAMES About 1772 February 10, 1827 About 55 Years

STONEY, CAPTAIN JOHN 1749 - 1821 About 72 Years

STONEY, JOHN STAFFORD 1807 - 1832

WAGNER, CHARLES 1840 - 1922 About 82 Years

WEBB, C. M. 1831 - August 3, 1834 Aged 2 Yrs., 9 Mo. & 17 Days

WEBB, T. S. October 17, 1818 - August 3, 1821

WEBB, THOMAS November 24, 1769 - February 24, 1816

WEBB, SAMUEL B. 1799 - March 2, 1836 Aged 37 Years

WILEY, CYRUS GILBERT April 6, 1937 - March 8, 2006

WILEY, MOSES H March 25, 1931 - November 8, 2007

Sources

• Chapel of Ease Cemetery, Heritate Library (https://heritagelib.org/zion-chapel-of-ease-cemetery)
• Zion Chapel of Ease Cemetery, also known as Baynard Tomb , Zion Chapel Cemetery