Astin Family Cemetery

The Astin Family Cemetery is located on Jones Ferry Rd, approximately 0.5 mile south of Barns Rd on the west side of the road. The cemetery is on top of the small hill to the south.

There are six graves on the site: two box slab tombs and four head & foot stones inside of a brick rectangular border. There is also a small circular border of rocks near the box tombs, but no other evidence of rock markers.

The Astin tombstones are all inscribed with two initials, the last name, and the dob and dod. There are several references to the name Astin in the book “Palmetto: A Town and Its People”; however, none of the initials or dates match.
An Internet search did not turn up any matches for these initials or dates either.

The two box tombs are of the Dean Family. They do not have a dob or dod but are inscribed as follows:

• Scared to the memory of Mary Dean
• Scared to the memory of Edward Dean

There was no reference to the Dean Family in the Palmetto book or on the Internet.

The property owner was aware of the cemetery and said that before he had the land, it was referred to as the Old Astin place, but he did not know the history of the cemetery.