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Rockhill Cemetery served the farming community of Rockhill, which was settled after the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. The era’s high childhood mortality accounts for many graves here. The earliest known burial was Mary Hitchens, who died about 1875 at age 12. The oldest dated stone marks the grave of two-year-old Willie Terrell, who died in 1881. Of the 148 known graves, 90 are unmarked. A cemetery committee bought the site in 1919, and like many rural settlements, Rockhill began to decline in the 1930s depression. The community’s churches and school vanished, but the cemetery remains a link to its past.
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