Graniteville Cemetery, established about 1850, was closely associated with the Graniteville Mill, the largest and most successful textile mill in antebellum S.C. William Gregg (1800-1867), founder of the mill, laid out the mill village and helped plan the cemetery. Most of its early wooden grave markers do not survive, and burial records were not kept until 1892, when the Graniteville Cemetery Assn. was founded. Gregg was buried here in 1867, and an obelisk was erected over his grave, but his widow moved his grave and monument to Charleston in 1876. In 1926, a daughter returned the original monument to the cemetery. Those buried here include 83 Confederate soldiers and veterans and many employees of Graniteville Mill, among them James Wesley Rearden (1861-1959), who worked at the mill for 87 years, from 1872 to 1959.