Liberty, Pickens County, S.C.
Comments: My great-great grandfather Israel Merck, private, Co. G, 12th SC Infantry
is buried at Six Mile Baptist Church in Six Mile, Pickens County, S.C. He was born in 1843
and died in 1928. He was wounded at Riddles Shop, Va. on 12 June 1864 and was captured at
Petersburg, Va. on 2 April 1865 and then held at Pt. Lookout, MD. He has a Confederate
Cross on his grave.
My 4th great-uncle Bloomer Merck, private, Co. C, 4th SC Cavalry and Co. K, 3rd SC
Reserves, is also buried at Six Mile Baptist Church in Six Mile, Pickens County, SC. He
was born in 1828 and died in 1905. He was captured at Haw's Shop, Va. and held at Elmira,
NY until the close of the war.
My 2nd great-grandfather Harvey Zimmerman Swords, private, Co. C, 4th SC Cavalry and
Bachman's "German" SC Light Artillery, is buried at the Old Stone Church
Cemetery between Pendleton and Clemson in Anderson County, SC. He was born in 1840 and
died in 1897. He was the only one of four brothers who were in the Confederate Army who
survived the war. He has a Confederate gravemarker.
My third great-grandfather John Perry Perritt, private, Co. C, 4th SC Cavalry, is
buried at Concord Baptist Church in Pickens, Pickens County, SC. He was born in 1830 and
died in 1895. My 2nd great-grandfather Joseph Warren Pace, private, Co. B, 1st SC State
Troops, is buried at Griffin Baptist Church between Pickens and Pumpkintown, Pickens
County, SC. He was born in 1847 and died in 1916.
My 4th great-uncle Benjamin Franklin Barton, Corporal, Co. F, 4th SC Infantry, is
buried at Tyger Baptist Church Cemetery in Tigerville, Greenville County, SC. He was
wounded in both thighs on 21 July 1861 at Manassas Junction, Va. and died of wounds on 12
Nov. 1861. He has a Confederate gravemarker. he was born in 1826
My 4th great-uncle Jefferson Barton, Captain, 1st Regt. SC Militia and Co. H, 22nd SC
Infantry is buried at Tyger Baptist Church Cemetery in Tigerville, Greenville County, SC.
He was born in 1821.
My 3rd great-uncle Alexander Lafayette Pace, private, Co. I, 3rd (Palmetto) Bn. SC
Light Artillery and Co. D, 16th SC Infantry, is buried at Enon Baptist Church Cemetery in
Liberty, Pickens County, SC. He was born in 1845 and died in 1917.
My 3rd great-grandfather James Adolphus Bagwell, private, Co. K, 62nd NC Infantry, is
buried in the Confederate Mound, Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois. He was captured
at the Cumberland Gap, Tennessee on Sept. 9, 1863 and died at Camp Douglas, Illinois of
fever on 20 Dec. 1864. He was born in 1826. He was born in SC in 1826.