Hopkins Family Cemetery
This cemetery was established about 1775 when John Hopkins (1739-1775) was buried here, in what was the garden of his Back Swamp Plantation. Hopkins, a native of Va., arrived in S.C. in 1762. He received a grant of 250 acres here in 1764, built his house on this site, and increased his holdings to 2,950 acres. He was a delegate to the First Provincial Congress in 1775 but died that fall.
Other prominent members of the family buried here include Hopkins’s son John (1765-1832), lt. governor of S.C. 1806-08, and grandson William (1805-1863), delegate to the Secession Convention. The cemetery is also notable for its ca. 1836-37 stile, or stone steps over a wall, a feature which is quite rare in S.C. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
Where it stands. just off Back Swamp Rd., Hopkins vicinity, Hopkins vicinity