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Grave of Major Majoribanks
Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: August 15, 2009
Caption: Grave of Major Majoribanks
Additional Description: Slab reads : John Marjoribanks Esq. late Major to the 19th Regt, Inf.
and commanding a Flank Bat:
of His Majesty's Army- Obiit
22d. of Oct,r. 1781-
This slab is placed over the grave of
Major John Majoribanks,
In substitution of the original head board
from which the above inscription was copied.
June 1842
from Cemetery Records of Lake Marion and Moultrie; Thanks John
Note by JRC: This is the grave stone inscription. This stone was placed over the grave by Ravenel family when the original wooden head board decayed. It was was moved from Wantoot Plantation in Berkeley County when the area was cleared for Lake Moultrie.
Submitted: December 19, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p185393
File Size: 0.318 Megabytes

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