"I am to be gathered to my people;
bury me with my fathers..."
Genesis
49:29
Many of the ancestors who were among the founding
members of The Old Pickens Presbyterian Church are laid to rest on the
church grounds, and in the adjacent Craig Memorial Cemetery. The Craig
family cemetery was moved two and a half miles up the river from its
original location at the time the Craig farm land was flooded to form
Lake Keowee.
The Craig Memorial Cemetery is a privately endowed
cemetery for the descendants of the three sons of Robert Craig and
Rachel Speed Craig: William Speed Craig (who had thirteen children),
John Craig (who had eleven children), and Arthur Craig (who had three
children.) Some of these descendants were among the members of the Old
Pickens Presbyterian Church when it last had an active congregation.
