Grave of Joseph Reese

Grave of Joseph Reese is a South Carolina historical marker in Horrell Hill vicinity, Richland County, dedicated 1976.

Richland County · dedicated 1976 · Garner’s Ferry Rd. (U.S. Hwy. 378/76) at Trotter Rd. (S.C. Sec. Rd. 40-222), Horrell Hill vicinity, Horrell Hill vicinity

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Joseph Reese, pioneer Baptist minister and Revolutionary patriot who died in 1795, is buried 2 mi. SW of here. Born in Pennsylvania, he came to the Congarees in 1745, became a Baptist as a result of Philip Mulkey's preaching and was ordained by Oliver Hart and Evan Pugh. Reese won Richard Furman to the Baptists and was the first pastor of Congaree Baptist Church.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by S.C. Baptist Historical Society

Grave of Joseph Reese

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