Old Quaker Cemetery

South Carolina's oldest inland city has a colonial cemetery where a Revolutionary War camp follower still searches for her British soldier lover, decades after the war ended.

Camden, founded in 1732, is the oldest inland city in South Carolina and saw significant action during the Revolutionary War. The Old Quaker Cemetery, also known as the Camden Presbyterian Cemetery, dates to the colonial period. According to local tradition, a woman followed her lover in the British Army during the Revolution, searching through the wilderness to Camden. She died before finding him and was buried under cover of darkness by King Haigler's men — an American Catawba Indian chief who befriended European settlers. Her ghost can be seen walking the streets and roads in and near Camden, still searching for her lost soldier. The cemetery itself, with its weathered colonial-era headstones, produces feelings of unease after dark. Visitors have reported seeing a woman in period dress walking between the graves and along nearby streets, vanishing when approached.