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The cemetery on Georgiana Drive, which is on the left off of Pinewood Road, was once on the property of Richard Bradford. Richard and his wife, Elizabeth Singleton, died c1826 and c1829. I have been told that a deed to the one half acre lot known as the Bradford Burial Ground is recorded in Book RR, Sumter, page 532 and 533, recorded 30th of June, 1868. I have also been told that Richard and Elizabeth Bradford were buried in the Singleton Cemetery in Sumter County - I do not know where this is. Perhaps it is the cemetery called LEWIS-SINGLETON, p. 308, The Cemetery Surveys of Old Sumter District, S.C.; Volume I, Part I, Sumter County, S.C. Their son, Robert Bradford who married Nancy Singleton, is buried there.
 
 

The Georgiana Drive Cemetery is listed as Cemetery #27, p. 310 of the Cemetery Surveys Book. The cemetery survey book was not used for the following list of graves. I have used comments of Cassie Nichols as printed in a newspaper article, a survey of the cemetery made in 1967 by Mr. and Mrs. W. Loring Lee [my parents], and pictures that I took in 1995.
 
 

"The grave bearing the oldest marker", according to an article by Cassie Nicholes entitled "Graveyard Survives Time's Ravage," "is that of Harriet Angelina Mellett, who died on December 27, 1849, at the age of four years, one month and ten days. She is said to have been the baby daughter of William Eldridge and Mary Louise Bradford Mellett." This article was reprinted in Historical Sketches of Sumter County, Vol. II, 1981. The newspaper article was written by Miss Nicholes for The Sumter News some time between 1967 and 1980. Mary Louise Bradford Mellett was the daughter of Matthew and Harriet Dingle Bradford Mary Louise Bradford Mellett was a granddaughter of Richard Bradford. Her husband's grave is marked in the cemetery with a stone that reads :

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Matthew Bradford, born 19 June 1789, died 1846; Harriet Bradford, born 29 Sept.1799, died 17 Aug. 1835. Their grave sites are not known but one would think that they were both buried in this cemetery.

Robert Dingle Bradford was the son of Matthew and Harriet Bradford and his tombstone reads: (I have a picture taken in 1995)
 
 

Sarah Bradford, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Elizabeth Bradford No stone has been found for Sarah Bradford Brown but her obituary , c1870, states "interred at the Old Bradford Cemetery". She married Ervin Adam Brown, thought to be a son of William Brown, Sr. He died in 1817 and was probably buried in the cemetery. Richard, one of the sons of Sarah and Ervin Brown [married Caroline M. ___] who died around 1853, had a tombstone still in the graveyard in 1995:

Four infant children of M.M. and L.P. Loring have one marker. This marker was taken from the graveyard by someone and was then returned to Mr. W. Loring Lee, Jr. where it remains in his yard. The children were: