Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery
Columbia, South Carolina
Trinity Episcopal Church
Parish organized 1812. Original church
dedicated 1814. Present church 1848.
In the churchyard lie buried the three
Wade Hamptons; Thomas Cooper, Educator;
Henry Timrod, Poet; W. C. Preston, U.S.
Senator; Five governors of S.C.: Three
Mannings, Hampton, and Thompson;
Soldiers of the Revolutionary and later
American wars; including Colonel Peter
Horry, Generals Ellison Capers, John S.
Preston, and States Rights Gist.