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Zion Chapel of Ease and Cemetery

Zion Chapel of Ease and Cemetery is a South Carolina historical marker in Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, dedicated 1973.

Beaufort County · dedicated 1973 · William Hilton Parkway (U.S. Hwy. 278) at Matthews Dr., Hilton Head Island

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A chapel of St. Luke's Parish, established May 23, 1767, built of wood shortly after 1786 under the direction of Captain John Stoney and Isaac Fripp, was consecrated in 1833. Members of the Barksdale, Baynard, Chaplin, Davant, Fripp, Kirk, Mathews, Pope, Stoney and Webb families worshipped here. By 1868 the chapel was destroyed.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Hilton Head Island Historical Society

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