Cemetery-Facing Southwest	Cemetery-Facing Northeast	Cemetery-Facing Northeast	Gravestone Cornelius Kieth (d. 1805)	Gravestone Tyre Lewis Roper (d. 1877)
Gravestones Nathaniel Reid (d.1819) L Nath Reid (d. 1798) R	Gravestones Thomas J. Kieth (d. 1862) L John R. Kieth (d. 1862) R

The Oolenoy Baptist Church Cemetery was established ca. 1798 in the Pumpkintown community of Pendleton (later Pickens) District. Its significance is derived from its age, its association with the early settlement and growth of the South Carolina upcountry, and as a cemetery containing the graves of persons of transcendent local importance. It is also significant for its association with Oolenoy Baptist Church, of which it is adjacent to, founded in 1795 and the first church established in the Pumpkintown community. The cemetery is an excellent example of a typical early nineteenth century to mid-twentieth century church cemetery illustrating vernacular burial customs and gravestone art of the period. The cemetery contains 839 marked graves, with headstones, footstones, and a few plot enclosures of granite, marble, fieldstone, or soapstone. Most gravestones are marble or granite tablets, though ledgers, box-tombs, tomb-tables, obelisks, and pedestal-tombs are also present. The earliest marked grave dates from 1798, and occasional burials still occur. Listed in the National Register October 14, 2003.

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